Tonight on American Rifleman Television, we head to the Trijicon factory in Michigan to give you a behind-the-scenes look at how the firm makes the ACOG—Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight. Used by the U.S. military, more than 1 million ACOGs have been produced, and in this web exclusive, Brian Sheetz goes into detail about the construction of this ultra tough platform.
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.