One Tennessee man recently lost his hunting privileges for life. A tip to a wildlife hotline led game wardens to Austin Hale’s home, where they found 18 deer mounts, 52 turkey beards, 84 turkey spurs, and one fan mount. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) says the vast majority of the wildlife parts were obtained illegally. They were confiscated as evidence and later ordered forfeited when Hale pleaded guilty to six counts of possession of illegal wildlife.TWRA received a tip in March about two wild turkeys they believed were killed illegally near Alexandria. The concerned citizen gave game wardens photos…

The FBI just released its final 2025 national crime statistics. The numbers from 2024 to 2025 are striking: Violent crime fell 9.3 percent Murder and non-negligent manslaughter fell 18.1 percent Robbery fell 18.5 percent Rape fell 7.6 percent Aggravated assault fell 7.2 percent The murder rate fell to 4.1 per 100,000 in 2025, which the FBI says is tied with 1955-56 for the lowest national rate in its historical estimates. The FBI actually describes the 9.3 percent decline as the largest year-to-year drop in violent crime since national estimates began in 1936.  An important caveat is that these are national statistical estimates based…

Taurus USA joined the micro-compact handgun market with its GX4 in 2021, and within the last five years, the company has expanded its GX4 line with a number of options, including optics-ready and XL models. More recently, though, the company added a unique variant to the line in the form of the GX4 Strike Bravo. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of the Strike Bravo model. “This is still a handgun. But what Taurus has done is rather than have your usual polymer handgun frame that just ends the beavertail and the end…

As of Aug. 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) webpage is again providing defensive-gun-use (DGU) data. The Biden administration, at the behest of gun-control groups that want to shape anti-gun narratives in the media, dropped scientific surveys that indicate how many times armed citizens annually use their guns for self-defense. The Trump administration’s CDC is again publishing this well-established data. The CDC’s “About Firearm Injury and Death” page now says, “The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.” The 60,000-2.5 million range is not…

Sitting on the border of Quebec and Vermont, Lake Memphremagog is one of the largest lakes in the Green Mountain State and a true angler’s paradise. With over 20 species of gamefish found in Memphremagog’s glacial waters, anglers flock to its shorelines to catch everything and anything from perch to salmon.However, the recent discovery of a contagious melanoma that’s been discovered among Memphremagog’s brown bullhead population has tainted this fishing oasis.A Cancerous DiscoveryBack in 2011, anglers started reporting “black, tar-like” marks on the faces and bodies of bullhead they regularly caught in Lake Memphremagog, said Vermont Fish and Wildlife (VTFW)…

While the company is mostly known for its metal-frame, hammer-fired DA/SA handguns, Beretta jumped into the striker-fired, polymer-frame pistol market with the APX in 2017, followed in 2022 by the upgraded A1 series in 2022. New for 2026, the company is adding another first to the APX lineup with the first factory ported model. The new Beretta APX A1 Ported has a single barrel port that aligns with seven ports on the slide. The APX A1 Ported carries the features of the A1 family, including its modular serialized stainless-steel chassis, improved ergonomics, interchangeable backstraps, an optics-ready slide that uses adapter…

One of the lesser-known segments of the suppressor industry, shotgun suppressors have been growing in popularity along with suppressor ownership and usage as a whole. Just because you’re in the field hunting for upland game or busting clays at your local range doesn’t mean you can’t protect your hearing, and suppressor makers have worked to further develop this unique niche, giving shotgunners more versatility and capability across different gauges. Check out the three latest shotgun suppressors out this year. Banish | 410Using additive manufacturing, this suppressor is built specifically for .410-bore shotguns. Lightweight and versatile with interchangeable choke tubes, it…

In August 2026, First Breach Defense Technologies, a producer of ammunition and unmanned aerial systems based in Hagerstown, Md., announced that its common stock had begun trading on the NASDAQ capital market under the ticker symbol “FBDT.” The announcement marks an important next step for the company, which initially outlined a strategy of expanding domestic ammunition manufacturing capacity and has since created a vertically integrated production platform for critical ammunition components, finished ammunition and advanced drone technologies within the United States. “Beginning trading on NASDAQ represents a defining milestone in First Breach’s history,” said Jeffrey Low, co-founder and chief executive…

I am a collector of 1911-style, .45-caliber pistols because I like the way they feel in my hand. Most of these pistols were previously owned, but all seemed to be in good shape when I bought them. I also bought several extra magazines for each gun as I subscribe to the theory that one cannot have too many magazines. I retired this past year, moved to a warmer climate, joined a local gun club and I’m now interested in getting to know and shooting the guns in my collection. I decided that I could save time at the range if…

Reader Becky B. in California wrote to ask about a do-it-yourself recipe for the shelf-stable peanut-butter based ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) that was developed in Africa in the 1990s. It has saved many thousands of lives in starvation zones. It is sold commercially packaged in sachets under the brand name Plumpy’Nut.  Note: For the best nutrition its is best to buy the commercially-made product. I found a Public Domain  practical home-style recipe (approximate and for household use only.)  It is is as follows: Ingredients (yields ~750–900 g; ~3,500–4,500 kcal) 500 g roasted, unsalted peanuts (skin removed if possible) 150–200 g…