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There is not a lot of glamour to be had cleaning and maintaining firearms, but such tasks are critical to ensure our tools perform as intended, when needed. The engineering minds at Real Avid have always found creative ways to update and improve the common tools and supplies needed for gun care, and the recently introduced Smart Mat and Bore Boss are great examples of the company’s ingenuity.
Joe Kurtenbach gets hands on with these modern renditions of time-proven products in this week's NRA Gun Gear of the Week video.
Despite being early adopters of several semi-automatic rifles for military use, the French army took several decades to work out a standardized semi-automatic rifle for general service use. The rifle that finally came to being was the MAS-49.
"An armed society is a polite society," goes the famous quote, which is also the inspiration behind Polite Society Industries, a new suppressor manufacturer that now has a complete line available to consumers.
The 2026 National Firearms Survey conducted by William English of Georgetown University estimates that armed citizens in America use their guns 2.2 million to defend themselves or others.
America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider, Patriot Mobile, will keep the tour connected as the NRA-ILA team takes the Second Amendment fight on the road.