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We all know the statistics that guns don’t make us safer.

And that’s when you spot him: a man in hi-tops, baggy jeans and a light blue hoodie about 25 yards down the sidewalk, staring at your group.

CZ Custom is rolling out two new and updated pistols for the U.S. market this Spring, the Shadow 2 for competition and the Semi-Compact everyday carry.

The Auguson bucket I cover here that I found in my local Walmart is 2x to 3x better in calories per dollar than most of the stuff out there, so that is why I figured it might be a good candidate to compare to what I can really get for the same money, right on the same shelves at Walmart. The bucket and food, at $19.99, work out to 545 calories per dollar. My example bucket comes to 2,000 calories per dollar.

Hollywood legend has it that the gun that “Won the West” was the Winchester Model 1873 Jimmy Stewart struggled to keep in the movie Winchester ’73. In fact, it was the U.S. Model 1873 .45-70 Springfield, better known to modern day collectors and shooters as the “.45-70 Trapdoor” for its top-opening breech block, that truly “Won the West.”

RIA is showcasing two amazing revolvers, a Smith & Wesson Model 19-2 and a Colt Python commissioned by none other than music legend Elvis Presley.

When selling guns, remember, everything is negotiable!  We’ll get to that in a moment, but first some backstory. When I was in college more than a decade ago, I was majoring in English.  Why English?  Well, that’s what everyone asked me at the time.  My parents, my friends, my coworkers would all grill me about [...]

Taking the idea of “light and fast” model to new levels, the Civil Defense projectiles weigh in at well under half that same caliber traditional bullets. For example, the 9mm projectile weighs just 50 grains. Compare that to 115 or 124 grains for common 9mm defense rounds. The .45 ACP bullets weigh in at 78 grains as compared to a more traditional weight range of 185 to 230 grains. The result is blistering speed.

“Stay on the line with me,” the dispatcher says. “We have officers en route to your location.”