If you spend five minutes talking to anyone who has served in an Armored Brigade Combat Team, they’ll tell you that the tanks and infantry fighting vehicles usually get all the glory. The public fixates on the 120mm smoothbore cannons and 25mm Bushmaster chainguns punching holes in targets across the horizon, but any seasoned veteran knows an unavoidable truth: if ...
Editor’s Note: For this Check-Mate UHC 9mm magazine review, the author received samples for testing from the company. The handgun used was a 1911 DS Prodigy that was loaned to the author by Springfield Armory. The 1911 is clearly a solid design — it would have to be to still be kicking here more than a century after its introduction. ...
Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. You can see this mini-magazine itself, which starts on page 89, within ...
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez wades into the striker-fired vs. hammer-fired pistol debate. In the article, he uses two pistols to demonstrate the different systems: the Springfield Armory Echelon and the Springfield Armory 1911 DS Prodigy. Both guns were provided on loan to the author for use in this article. A different firearm crosses my bench just about ...
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster Monday over diesel prices. In the same stretch, at least 16 trucking companies landed in bankruptcy court, Iowa farmers started saying out loud that they might lose family farms, and on Tuesday the Conference Board reported that Americans’ confidence in the economy fell to its lowest level since 2014. Any one of ...
For most of this year the AI companies have been telling everyone their technology is dangerous. We covered every step of it. The agents that broke out of testing and hit Hugging Face, the CEOs who suddenly all agreed the industry needed to slow down, and the request for Washington to step in and oversee the whole thing. On September ...
When I plucked the September-October issue of Smithsonian magazine out of my P.O. Box, the first article I turned to was “The Secret Life of Cormac McCarthy” by Richard Grant. As I skimmed it, a pull-quote leaped out at me: “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.” ...
On September 22, AAA recorded the highest U.S. diesel average ever, $6.53 a gallon, and on Friday it was still sitting around $6.50. A year ago Americans were paying $3.69. Ten days ago, in Are We Headed for a Global Recession, , we wrote that this had stopped being a crude oil story and that the real problem was refined ...
Editor’s Note: The author was provided the product for this article by Vortex Optics and Silencer Central, and creates content for both companies. The rifle was provided by Springfield Armory. As a professional photographer in the hunting and shooting industry, I spend over 100 days a year in the field — either behind a rifle or behind a lens. That ...
The Brief: An Elbert County property owner shot an unauthorized intruder after being physically assaulted inside a vacant home in Bowman, Georgia. The wounded suspect fled the scene on foot but was quickly apprehended nearby by law enforcement deputies. After receiving medical treatment for non-life-threatening injuries, the suspect was booked into the Elbert County Detention Center on pending burglary and ...