Since its introduction in 1983, the Desert Eagle has not only secured a niche as a semi-auto handgun chambered for cartridges normally reserved for magnum revolvers, but its imposing image became a cultural icon, in everything from movies to video games. With the growing popularity of suppressors, Magnum Research is bringing the icon up to date with a suppressor-ready, threaded-barrel version of the Desert Eagle Mark XIX in .50 AE. Magnum Research has updated its iconic Desert Eagle with a suppressor-ready, threaded-barrel version. The new suppressor-ready Desert Eagle takes the standard Mark XIX pistol and makes two important changes. First,…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: It’s a media podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer new Arthan. Today we’re joined by Jannis Brody, Randall, Nate, Sarah and Cory. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from Medeater’s four verticals, which are hunting, fishing, conservation and cooking. There is a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winners choosing. All right, we have a mailbag question to start today’s show. If you have a question you want the crew to…

America celebrated its 200th anniversary when I was 11 years old. It was a big deal. There were parades and television specials, and it was the most important Independence Day I can remember. The landmark event was celebrated with everything from T-shirts to automobiles, but I also remember seeing a box of Winchester .30-30 Win. Bicentennial ammunition down at Ray’s Bait Shop. I remember thinking: “That must be some really special ammo!” A half-century later we’re celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest country on Earth, and we have some new limited-edition munitions to commemorate that achievement. Federal is one…

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear two cases challenging bans on popular semi-automatic rifles that local governments have defined in different ways as being “assault weapons.” Grant v. Higgins is a challenge to Connecticut’s ban on its definition of “assault weapons” and Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois is a challenge to Cook County’s ban on what it deems to be “assault-weapons.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld Connecticut’s ban in August 2025, while the Seventh Circuit upheld Cook County’s ban in June 2025. The Supreme Court will hear these cases together in the next term.…

Montana’s Hunting District 380 is one of the most difficult units to draw a bull elk tag. The success rate in 2023 was well under one percent. According to court records, multiple people bypassed the draw system entirely, illegally killing multiple bulls as well as several deer over a two-month period that ended in multiple convictions.The case centered on Tylor Castona and Alisha Byrd of East Helena, who illegally shot three six-point bull elk with rifles during archery season in the Elkhorn Mountains. They also took three whitetail bucks, including one deer left where it fell after a landowner heard…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: What John Wesley Powell accomplished first in the eighteen seventies. Float the length of the Grand Canyon. You can do today and it’s still the Western wild lands experience of a lifetime. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West, down the West’s grandest Canyon. Our personal motives for experiences in the American West have always been many. Some of us move west or relocate within the West for a new start in life. Some come to seek wealth and become rich. Some of us are lured westward because everything from scenery to wild animals is…

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Mild steel, construction plate, an old shovel blade… these dent, crater, and pit. And a dented, cratered, pitted surface is exactly what sends fragments flying back in directions nobody planned for. Here’s a quick true story from an outdoor gun club years ago. Somebody was shooting, unknown to the rest of us at the time, a square steel plate about a hundred yards downrange. After the incident, when we looked at the thing, it was exceptionally thick and heavy steel. It just wasn’t hard enough because it was old scrap. Anyway, to make a long story short, amongst the scattered…

This Independence Day, you’ll probably hear fireworks from every direction. If you’re fortunate, you may also hear something else — a crisp three-volley salute or the measured boom of ceremonial artillery marking the nation’s birthday. The post The Mysterious 21-Gun Salute appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here