It is interesting to look into the development of a tool. It begins with its purpose and is then refined in design, materials, and manufacture to produce a thing of performance. Occasionally, these processes fall short. The Navy Mark 3 Modification 0 knife would teeter on the brink of this premise. Although it has an aggressive appearance, the U.S. Navy’s ...

Texas-based Bond Arms is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. Greg Bond, a longtime tool-and-die maker, founded the company in 1995. His brother, Gordon Bond, purchased the company from his brother in 2007 and has built the firm into one of the premier gun manufacturers today. Derringer-style pistols stayed the same basic design between the 1860s and the mid-1990s until ...

Big-bore carry guns are trending larger now, although Charter Arms’ compact Bulldog remains in production. I’m at a point in my long association with firearms where I don’t have a favorite type of handgun or a favorite cartridge anymore. I’d like to say that it’s because I’m jaded and sophisticated and generally too cool for such things, but the reality ...

In Patrol Rifle classes, it wasn’t uncommon for officers to have a match trigger in their AR-15, and a factory-stock trigger in their Glock. That can lead to problems. When it comes to the guns you use to defend yourself, is it smart to modify them with competition triggers? Before we get to making mockery of those who insist on ...

Southern New Mexico is home to a little-known museum that many mistakenly think is in El Paso, Texas, rather than New Mexico. While it’s close to El Paso, the airport at Santa Theresa, New Mexico, is home to a world-class aviation collection, the War Eagles Air Museum.  This museum is the brainchild of John and Betty MacGuire who founded it ...

Premier Body Armor has just announced its expansion of the Level III A protective lightweight ballistic-panel line, in collaboration with Vertx. These panels are designed to fit inside of Vertx’s latest backpack products from the new Siege Collection including the Vertx Siege Slong and Siege Pack. Premier Body Armor’s newest Vertx-compatible ballistic panels are rated to protect the wearer from ...

Kimber, Mfg. Inc. is expanding the lineup of its new double-stack 1911 pistol, the Kimber 2K11, to include variants that can be purchased in restrictive states such as Vermont, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Washington, Oregon, Hawaii, Connecticut and Delaware. These new state-compliant models, which are based on the Kimber 2K11 Stainless model, will ship with three 10-round ...

So, you’ve taken the plunge. Some guy at work or a buddy someplace invited you out to shoot and made the pitch about joining the ranks of responsible armed Americans. Now you are the proud owner of a sparkly new Springfield Armory SAINT rifle. Springfield Armory designed the SAINT line of rifles to be compatible with rifle-rated sound suppressors. They ...

The 2025 NRA Annual Meeting is winding down, and as with annual meetings of the past, there was a huge exhibition floor filled with booths from manufacturers big and small. Unlike SHOT Show, which is aimed towards the people who manufacture and sell firearms, the exhibits at the Annual Meeting are wide open to anyone who owns or is interested ...

Two options for aiming pistol sights are a combat hold, where the sights cover the target and a 6-o’clock hold, where sights are just below the bullseye. The ProblemYou are a student of the handgun, diversified in many directions. You have shot Precision Pistol, Steel Challenge, IDPA, Bowling Pins and a few other informal disciplines. You are familiar with the ...