My career is completely separate from my political and ideological beliefs because they don’t necessarily align. Since I work in the military-industrial complex, the people I mostly come in contact with are generally religious and conservative. They’re mainly right wing. The military is really into that. I’m sure the people I work with have differing ideas about these things. It’s just not really a thing that’s a part of our daily lives.

The Sako 85 Carbonlight is the company’s lightest rifle and is now available in the US.

States have symbols: bird, flower, tree, and so on. Last year the Utah legislature was the first to name an official state gun: the 1911 pistol. Arizona followed with the Colt Single Action Army revolver. This year Indiana chose the Grouseland Rifle. I asked readers of the Gun Nut blog to suggest guns made in the U.S. that had some significance to their home states. We got many great answers, then added some ourselves to come up with guns for all 50 states.  Alabama - Remington 742 Readers chose the 742 semiauto as the ubiquitous Alabama pickup-truck deer rifle.Alaska - Ruger Stainless Model 77 .30/06 Affordable and rugged, the 77 is the choice of many Alaskans.Arizona - Colt Single Action Army The state legislature got it right: The Single Action Army is linked forever to Wyatt Earp and the O.K. Corral.

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It was usually evening when the three men arrived at the shop. They would roll up in a Volkswagen Beetle, and come to a halt at a nondescript, garage-sized warehouse in a strip of shops in a residential neighborhood in Guadalajara, in Southwestern Mexico’s Jalisco state. They would park the Bug, and proceed to drink on the curb. Eventually the men would go inside, entering through a street door. They always locked the door behind them.

After a deranged 20-year-old brought unthinkable evil to Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary in December 2012, both Connecticut and New York banned the sale of semiautomatic firearms they deem to be “assault weapons” and required owners of these guns to register them with the state. When the deadline for gun owners to [...]

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From style of stock to caliber to trigger pull, nearly everything on the Sauer 404 can be modified.

Damage Industries is celebrating Father’s Day with some of their most popular categories on sale.

The Ruger M77 Hawkeye Predator is based off of a tried and true design that allows for flawless operation and nail driving accuracy.

Chris from the Lucky Gunner team reviews the Smith & Wesson Model 640 Pro Series revolver, looking at what makes it one of the best carry revolvers around

Now that we’ve had a bit more time to learn about the Glock G43, it’s time to round out the story.

The intricately designed Roman implement, which dates back to 200AD, is made from silver but has an iron blade and features a spoon, fork and retractable spike.

The proposal, if approved, would represent the first time since the end of the Cold War that the United States has stationed heavy military equipment in Eastern Europe.

Just finished building my 40W(!!!) laser shotgun!!! The output of this laser is complete insanity, and is made up of 8 parallel 5W laser beams totaling to 40W. The parallel beams are manipulated with lenses, sort of like how a choke modifies the spread of a shotgun blast. The massive diode array is powered by a huge lithium polymer battery pack (capable up dumping 250A) and the laser array is regulated by a whopping 24 LM317 drivers.

At Maralinga, Australia, a former nuclear testing site and the country’s newest tourist attraction, visitors are given an unusual welcome: Don’t stay too long and never, ever dig.

Long a staple of science fiction, laser weapons are edging closer to the battlefield — thanks to optical fibres.

Isis has used the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Dabiq to suggest the group is expanding so rapidly it could buy its first nuclear weapon within a year. The hyperbolic article, which the group attributes to the British hostage John Cantlie, claims Isis has transcended its roots as “the most explosive Islamic ‘group’ in the modern world” to evolve into “the most explosive Islamic movement the modern world has ever seen” in less than twelve months.

From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 B.C., to today's killer drones, mankind's use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive. Weapons have changed history and aided in the rise and fall of civilizations. For example, gunpowder, a Chinese invention, led to the development of cannons and guns—revolutionizing warfare in the Middle Ages and beyond. Much of the research for this video came from the book A History of the World in 100 Weapons.

Archaeologists excavating a burial pit in the ancient capital of Xi’an are hopeful that a trove of ancient artifacts will be unearthed at a site that once guarded the mausoleum of China’s first emperor.