The question of whether 22 LR is a good idea for self-defense used has more than one answer. Let’s break it down one piece at a time.

Plastic pistols are nothing new—the first was made by Heckler & Koch in the 1970s—and you’d be right to say there’s a glut of them on the market. Just because there are a lot of options doesn’t mean they’re all the same, though. It’s even become increasingly common for polymer pistols to be sub-$500 guns—new. [...]

Ideally, you’ll set up your gun with a quality dot sight and iron sights designed to co-witness with the dot as needed.

Several quality gun academies are located across the country, each with pros and cons for attendance.

On the MAG website, MAG-40 is rightly described as an immersion class. When you take MAG-40 it’s like drinking from a fire hose—information comes at you nonstop and it’s impossible to hold onto it all.

With the way constitutional—or permitless—carry is getting so common, it’s understandable that you might believe reciprocity doesn’t matter anymore.

One manufacturer you might be unfamiliar with is Acme Machine, and we’re going to fix that by filling you in on the Acme Machine AM-15 25-216.

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes There was a time when shotguns were considered the end-all, be-all of home defense, but the gun world’s moved on. That doesn’t mean there’s not a good place for your 12-gauge anymore, just that horizons have broadened to include handguns and AR-15s. When it comes to defending your castle, it’s [...]

It might come as a surprise, but there are specific tools for the many intricacies of gunsmithing.