Author: Jack Bogart

Colorado Senate Bill 26-043 would require background checks, dealer transfers, and five-year recordkeeping for the sale of a simple metal tube — a move critics say is a textbook step toward de facto disarmament. Colorado Democrats are pushing legislation that would regulate firearm barrels — the metal tube the bullet travels through — as if they were complete firearms. Under Senate Bill 26-043, selling or transferring a barrel to a fellow gun owner without routing it through a federally licensed dealer would be a crime, carrying up to 30 days in jail and a $500 fine on the first offense.…

What Is Going On? Drama in the firearms industry is not unheard of, but it is fairly rare. Given the industry’s relatively smaller size, there just usually aren’t a lot of eyebrow-raising events that happen. However, that has changed recently with interactions between Ruger and Beretta. These two stalwart bastions of gun design and manufacture have not exactly come to blows, but there are developments raising some eyebrows. Let’s take a quick look at the situation. According to outdoorlifecom, in September of 2025, Beretta – the oldest gun manufacturer in the world, since 1526 – acquired 7.7% of Sturm, Ruger…

Images by the author I am no stranger to Griffin Armament. I recently reviewed one of their scopes, an LPVO in 1-8×24. That scope is well-built and sits atop one of my prized rifles. The company makes many products… as an example, they sent me a set of AR iron sights and two mounts for a yet-to-ship prism sight. More on those will follow after that sight comes in. Now that the $200 tax on suppressors is but a tortured dream, every company seems to be selling cans… some are better than others. Griffin Armament is a major player in…

A federal appeals court has ruled that Maine’s law requiring a three-day waiting period between firearm purchases and taking possession of a gun to be constitutional. On April 3, a three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court of Appeals reversed last year’s decision by Maine’s chief federal judge that blocked enforcement of the law on Second Amendment grounds. In a nutshell, the circuit court ruled that the law is a “burden on, but not an infringement of, the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.” In what seems to be strained logic, the court ruled that the law…

Images by the author (Part of me wants to put “… is failure to communicate!”, but this isn’t a movie review). What we have here is something wearing a S&W logo that’s more rare than hen’s teeth… a five-shot, .44 Special revolver.  Now, please understand that S&W is no stranger to either 5-shot revolvers – the J-frame comes to mind – nor to .44 Specials. They’ve made many of both of those over the years. What IS different, however, is that they combined those design characteristics into one gun. I would say to think of the 396 as a J-frame…

The 300 Blackout is one of the most purpose-built cartridges in the AR world, designed from the ground up to perform in short barrels, run suppressed, and cycle reliably with both supersonic and subsonic loads. But that versatility comes with a catch: barrel length matters more with 300 BLK than with almost any other AR caliber. Get it wrong, and you’re either leaving performance on the table or fighting reliability issues. So what’s the optimal barrel length? The data points to 10.5 inches, and here’s why. The Case for 10.5″ 300 Blackout was specifically designed to be run in a…

The Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) has launched its 2026 FPC State Freedom Index, which the organization touts as the “most principled, transparent, and unapologetic scorecard of gun rights in America.” The index shows the state of the law of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., as of the end of 2025, giving gun owners a single, clear tool to see exactly how their state is failing them—and what to demand their elected officials fix. Designations included “Chad States,” 100%; “Freeish States,” 85-99%; “States of Confusion,” 70-84%; and “States of Disaster,” less than 70%. “The 2026 Index’s scores show that far…

One of the best things recently fired U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi did during her tenure to help bolster the right of lawful Americans to keep and bear arms was set up a Second Amendment Section within the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Section. And according to a recent Washington Times report, section leaders there are gearing up to challenge anti-gun state laws throughout the nation. The Times report chronicled an appearance by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon on the “Dana Loesch Show,” where she said her organization was actively hiring Second Amendment attorneys to pursue challenges to unconstitutional laws…

Do You Still Need Hearing Protection with a Suppressor? Of course, you do. At least, you do in most cases, with very few exceptions. When you first clamp a suppressor on your rifle and touch off a round, the difference can feel pretty drastic, and it can be easy to fool yourself into thinking that you’re doing zero damage to your hearing once a suppressor goes on. The sharp crack drops to a manageable thump, and you wonder if ear pro is truly optional. The honest answer from my own experience (and mistakes) is that while a lot of suppressors…

Paul Ivnitskiy from Ammunition To Go makes a straightforward claim: most shooters think they have their rifle zeroed when they’ve really just copied popular advice. Generic 25-meter, 36-yard, or 100-yard zeros can work okay for general use, but they frequently fall short on modern setups once barrel length, velocity, and especially optic height enter the equation. Ammo To Go’s new Zero Tool should help you accomplish that much more easily now. In the video above and article (posted in full below), Ivnitskiy explains that a real zero should maximize Maximum Point Blank Range (MPBR) — the distance over which a…