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*When he was awakened by his home security system, NRA Endowment member Steve Bason prepared for the worst—he got his Benelli M1 12-ga. shotgun, while his wife, Beth, an NRA Life member, grabbed her Glock 9 mm pistol. "At first we figured it was just another false alarm," Bason told the editor of the "Armed Citizen." "Then a light came on in our barn and I thought, 'My goodness, this is real!'" Police say the couple cautiously approached the barn. They peered inside and found a man standing next to Bason's truck with the door open. "There was some yelling and we probably said some words that aren't fit for print," Bason recalled. The suspect quickly found himself staring down the barrels of two different guns and waited patiently for police. (The Express, Lock Haven, PA, 02/02/10)
April 14, 2010
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Austrian gunmaker Peter Hofer creates a digital double rifle.
April 10, 2010
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We may be missing a bet with the new .327 Federal Magnum cartridge. It is being touted as a defense revolver round. OK, I'll concede that it whips up a fair amount of energy, but in my book, no cartridge that uses a 100-grain bullet is ever going to have enough smack 'em to stop fights.
April 09, 2010
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One of the great breakthroughs in modern revolvers of power is the S&W X-frame in.500 S&W Magnum. This monster of a gun throws huge, half-inch bullets that weigh as much as 450 grains. That's just over an ounce. When you consider that the extended length of the case permits a veritable sugar scoop of powder, you get lots of velocity and recoil in the extreme.
April 06, 2010
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News in the gun business doesn’t always come in big gulps. Sometimes there are small tid-bits of interesting developments that don’t warrant a full story, but are nonetheless interesting.
March 30, 2010
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Smith & Wesson, the legendary gunmaker, experienced a wave of innovation in the 1950s. Basically, it was adapt to modern methods and models or die a commercial death.
March 26, 2010
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While two parties squabble over the name, Butch Searcy builds an actual Rigby "rising bite."
March 19, 2010
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This term applies to revolvers and is used to describe the bridge of metal running along the top of the main frame from the vicinity of the rear sight forward to the threaded portion of the frame that accepts the barrel.
March 19, 2010
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*NRA member Robert Cole and his wife, Pam, had just started to doze off one evening when they heard breaking glass and their motion detector alarm as it went off. Then Cole heard someone in the living room. “I woke my wife up and told her we had someone in the house, and she told me to grab the shotgun,” he remembered. Police said he peered out the bedroom door and saw a man in the living room holding a fire extinguisher. “I was worried he was going to hurt me or my wife so I [fired] one round of No. 6 shot,” Cole said. Police arrested the wounded suspect and an alleged accomplice nearby. This wasn’t Cole’s first act of armed citizenry. He was involved in an incident that appeared in this column in December 2004. (North Channel Sentinel, Pasadena, Texas, 01/07/10)
March 17, 2010
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By Cameron Hopkins, Industry Insider
March 16, 2010
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A customer-listening expert answers an array of questions.
March 15, 2010
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Just a silly millimeter—that's all that spells the difference in these three successively longer auto pistol cartridges.
March 15, 2010
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European shooting and hunting show is a canvas of fine guns.
March 12, 2010
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When Colt cast about for a name for their latest big revolver and came up with “New Service,” it was just before the turn of the 19th Century.
March 11, 2010
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Occasionally I get questions about handgun terminology such as: “Where is the forcing cone in a revolver? Answering these questions is useful to the readers and often fun.
March 08, 2010
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