Feature Articles

In this edition, we explore the Browning M1910, used in some of the more sordid assassinations that shaped our modern world.

Spanish steel. For those with more than a passing acquaintance with history, those words conjure up images of flashing swords, booming muskets and roaring cannons from an era of exploration, conquest, and piracy. For today’s shooters and hunters, those words are more likely to call to mind a brand that takes its name, Bergara, from a town in the gun-making Basque Country in the north of Spain.

“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Okay, so the quote is actually (and incorrectly) attributed to Mark Twain, author of Huck Finn and many other novels. But it could as easily apply to the .40 Smith and Wesson as a self-defense caliber since reports of the caliber’s death were breathlessly hyped a couple years ago when the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced it was switching its duty sidearms from the .40 S&W to 9mm.

Sometimes men commit premeditated mass murder based upon pure unfiltered greed. This is the sort of killing we’re investigating today.

California Democratic Senator and presidential front-runner Kamala Harris told a CNN town hall in Des Moines on Monday that Congressmen in 2012 should have been placed in “a locked room, no press, no one, nobody else” and required to examine “the autopsy photographs of those babies” killed in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Stoeger’s STR-9 breaks the ice into the striker fired pistol market at a price point that’s likely to get it some attention.

The Aimpoint Acro P-1 is basically a miniaturized/squared version of the Aimpoint Micro.  It was developed specifically for pistols or other weapons platforms requiring a fully enclosed small footprint red dot optic.  And it does just that.

Genesis Arms has introduced both a full production Gen-12 Shotgun, as well as Gen-12 upper receivers that can be swapped with any DPMS Pattern Gen 1 lower receiver.  Pop out the two takedown pins on your AR-10, throw the new Gen-12 upper on and you are ready to rock.

SIG’s new MCX Rattler Canebrake, so named because it’s the smallest of their Rattler family, is the suppressor-ready version of the MCX.