In Part 1 of IWI, American Rifleman TV looked at the Tavor and X95 bullpups from Israel Weapon Industries. Senior Executive Editor Brian Sheetz is back at IWI for part 2, and he heads to the range with theUzi Propistol and the Galil ACE carbine, both of which are brought into the United States as semi-auto-only guns. Then he gets down behind the Negev belt-fed, light machine guns used by the Israeli Defense Force in both 5.56 mm and 7.62 mm.Check out this segmentfrom a recent episode ofAmerican Rifleman TV to learn more about the guns from IWI.
Any survey of military firearms isn’t complete without also discussing the development of ammunition across this past quarter-millennium. From a conceptual standpoint, very little has changed.
Initially introduced in 2019 to the international military market in a select-fire format, the IWI Carmel is a modular, durable and thoroughly modern sporting rifle.
Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. became the first Blue Diamond level sponsor of the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) in 2024 by supporting the youth shooting sports program with more than $75,000 a year.
KelTec has brought the stripper clip back with the thoroughly unconventional PR57—a carry pistol with an uncommon chambering, an unusual action and no box magazine.
A number of states in the western U.S. have opened or are planning to open large, versatile ranges to serve the growing need for publicly accessible shooting spaces.