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The .308 Winchester hits about twice as hard as the .223 Remington and is the better choice for deer and larger game. The .223 is lighter, cheaper, softer shooting and holds more rounds, which makes it the better choice for practice, varmints and home defense. Those are the trades in one line. A typical 55 [...]

Based on an MKS Supply M1 Carbine, the semi-automatic Scout Carbine has been updated with a polymerized stock and equipped with a rail for scopes.

Last Friday, city leaders in the Big Easy announced five new measures designed to crackdown on gun-related violence.

Three lonely protestors stood outside Five Star Firearms in Zion, Il., last Saturday, holding “Renounce violence, Reject guns” signs and blaming the firearm industry for crimes committed with guns in the United States.

“So it matters to me that my mom is the only person running for president who not only constantly makes that connection but also has a strong record on gun control and standing up to the NRA,” said Chelsea Clinton.

This week I’m returning to the subject of beekeeping, because the last one didn’t go as I had planned. If you watched the videos for that article, it turned out that one of my hives had gotten extremely aggressive, and I’m sure it turned a lot of people off to beekeeping. In this video I am rewinding to the beginning, where most people start, by “installing” package bees into a brood box. As you can see, I am bare armed in the video, and up until I discovered that one of my hives had become aggressive, I had worked my bees exclusively with bare arms. And that includes removing frames and extracting honey.

The Thompson. This is an epic and storied gun. So how does it handle on the range? Exceptionally well. In a world of high-speed black rifles, it is a privileged to take a Thompson to the range. And Auto-Ordnance, celebrating the 100th year of the Thompson, is giving this one away (along with a matched 1911A1). Read our review and enter to win.

Gun cleaning is an art that most of us prefer to ignore. Yet it is a necessity. So when I find effective and inexpensive ways to get the job done, I tend to geek out a bit–as I’m about to do about GunGenics….

We’ve reviewed the Heizer Pocket AR and Pocket AK and are back with the results from the ballistic testing. How well does the pocket rocket run? Check out what it does to gel.