With the world tightening its belt, affordable firearms are in high demand. Aside from the initial cost of purchasing a gun, it’s always helpful to hedge that expense by starting out with, or adding, one that is cheap to feed. Always seeking to provide its customers with a means to stay on the range, TriStar Arms released its first rifle, chambered in .22 LR. Manufactured by Kral Arms in Turkey, this lightweight semi-automatic promises everything you need to get started or to perfect what you’ve learned over the years. Dubbed the KR.22, it operates on the straight-blowback principle. As .22…

Honest historical research and analysis still matter. The Bruen test, a legal standard the U.S. Supreme Court established in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen (2022) for evaluating whether a firearm regulation complies with the Second Amendment, has put an exclamation mark on this point; but then, the high court’s Second Amendment decisions leading up to Bruen would not have been possible without the historic research done by the NRA and others before the Heller (2008) decision. In a recent example, a paper titled “The American Tradition of Self-Made Arms” was cited by a court in an important ruling on…

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) announced on Aug. 27 that it has suffered a cybersecurity incident. “The impacted system operates separately from the ATF enterprise network, and there is no indication that the incident has affected the ATF enterprise network, the ATF eForms system, or any other ATF system,” the press release states. “Upon discovery of the incident, ATF immediately terminated connections to the affected environment and initiated incident‑response and forensic activities. ATF is coordinating closely with the Department of Justice to investigate.” CyberNews reports the announcement came hours after Qilin—a Russia-based hacker group that specializes…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to This Country Life. I’m your host, Brent Reeves. From coon hunting to trot lining and just general country living, I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences and life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the Store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcasts that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stories to share. bullfrogs, roebucks, and long distance calls. Before we get started, I want to invite you to…

This is the third and final installment of a three-part elk hunting story by FHF founder, Paul Lewis. You can read the first and second segments here.I slid behind the rifle, scanning the dark timber. Silence reclaimed the woods. Then, suddenly, he was just there. He didn’t walk out of the trees so much as materialize, standing motionless at the edge of the willows in the bottom of the drainage. Before I could get him in the scope, he stepped down into the head-high willows, and I caught only a glimpse of his frame from my elevated position. Wide, I…

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…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the whitetail woods. Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. 00:00:22 Speaker 2: This week on the show, we are running Ohio Big Buck Hunter Mike Rex through our what would you do gauntlet to see how exactly he would handle some of the trickiest deer hunting scenarios I can throw at him. All right, welcome back to the Wired…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show. This week we’ve got Randall goes to Austria and tears that place a new one. Meat Eater Live, the Christmas tour is even realer than Santa. Roadless rule updates. Does banning drone use for shark fishing save swimmers from getting mauled by sharks? The wild horse situation is out of control in the American West. The Trump administration is taking steps to fix it. And some people are, of course, pissed about that. Coloradan voters will have a chance to help right the ship in November. An old dead dude got found…

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…