Gun Reviews
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Best gun safes for a first-time owner
Last Tuesday a guy came into the shop holding his phone with a Facebook Marketplace listing for a “fireproof gun…
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Ruger LCP Max review: pocket 9mm done right
Sat behind a guy at a gun shop counter on Route 9 outside Poughkeepsie a few months back while he…
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NY SAFE Act in 2026: what still applies now
I was in an Albany County pistol permit office back in March, waiting on a friend’s amendment paperwork, and the…
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Thermal vs night vision for hogs: what the data says
Last February, on a lease outside Comfort, Texas, I sat a feeder for four hours running a thermal monocular in…
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The M1 Garand: America’s WWII Battle Rifle
There’s a table at a gun show in Ohio I still think about, a beat-up M1 Garand with a Springfield…
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CZ 75 SP-01 review: the double-stack that started it
I had a range officer at a Wisconsin indoor range tell me last winter that the CZ 75 SP-01 on…
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Traveling with firearms across state lines, explained
I got a call last month from a reader in Ohio who’d driven through three states on his way to…
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How the AK-47 became the world’s most produced rifle
There’s a photo I keep coming back to, taken sometime in the late 1950s at the Izhevsk Machine-Building Plant, rows…
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Ruger American Predator review: a working rifle
There’s a spot off a two-track outside Ennis, Montana, where the coulee drops away and you can glass three miles…
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