Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2025 i Firearms News

Darwin Nercesian is a long-time gun rights advocate and shooter of targets far, far away. As a News Field Editor at Firearms News, Darwin writes about the Second Amendment, firearms, and related gear. Follow him on Instagram, X, and YouTube @DTOE_Official. The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) fought off a lot of competition for the media’s center stage, from an ongoing conflict in Ukraine to munitions exchanges between Israel and Iran. In doing so, we witnessed significant fatigue in America’s patience with out-of-control government spending on programs that do not benefit the taxpayer. Additionally, the reconciliation bill was an opportunity to correct course on the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA), an unconstitutional infringement upon gun rights hidden in the tax code almost a century ago when lawmakers knew that…

Not everyone wants a suppressor that is full-auto rated. Any shooting pace that even comes close is hard on barrels and wallets. Not everyone is happy with a foot-long suppressor that is that long to be quiet. Some want a well-behaved, not-heavy suppressor for hunting, one that won’t break the wallet nor feel like an anvil on the last leg of a hike up to the hunting area. So, Savage makes one. The AC30 B.O.B. This is a .30 suppressor that ticks all those boxes. First off, the B.O.B. part? That’s back-over—barrel, what we called a reflex suppressor in the old days. The mount threads are partway up the suppressor tube, and the extra volume that the design provides (part of the two-inch diameter of the AC30) means more quiet.…

Prologue: ‘Bergs, Bear, Blood, and a Tier-1 Weatherby Rifle There is nothing safe, easy, or certain when hunting solo in Alaska…and while this truism has never been lost on me in over two decades of backcountry adventures in the 49th state, it especially rang true as I sat, alone, on a remote, lonely beach on Prince William Sound losing an obscene amount of blood through a gaping leg wound and blocked from returning to my boat by a mile-long ice flow choked with icebergs as large as pickup trucks. The .300 Winchester Magnum Weatherby 307 Alpine CT leaning against my Eberlestock pack had accomplished its mission, as readily evidenced by the large black bear boar dead at my feet. Now it was time to complete mine… and it was multifaceted:…

Ever since the first lever-action rifle hit the market back in 1866, there has always been a lever-action rifle in production (except for wartime production demands) by one or more manufacturers. Why? The lever-action rifle is a grand combination of sleek, handy, compact, and ergonomic. It is light enough to be easy to pack, yet heavy enough to dampen recoil. It can be (and is) chambered in a wide range of cartridges that are eminently suitable for hunting on the North American continent. The mechanism is simple, easy to keep clean and oiled, and the parts are robust, which sounds like an advertising campaign for the Henry line of rifles, and perhaps it ought to be. The one sent here for testing is the Steel Lever Action .360 Buckhammer. (Actually,…

“The Second Amendment is not a second-class right. See you in court, Illinois,” United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Harmeet K. Dhillon, declared in a mid-June post on X.com. “Proud of my @CivilRights team — thank you, Jesus!” She wasn’t offering a prayer of gratitude. Rather, she was acknowledging the contributions of Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jesus A, Osete, who co-submitted an Amicus Curiae (friend of the court) brief along with Dhillon and three other Justice Department lawyers to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in support of plaintiffs in Barnett v. Raoul, a challenge to the state of Illinois outlawing “some of the most commonly used rifles and magazines in America via a so-called ‘assault weapons’ ban.” Noting the state had…

I fly a lot compared to some people, but perhaps not as much as some business travelers. Unlike them, however, pretty much every time I fly inside the U.S. I travel with a gun. If you’ve never flown with a firearm before, there are certain things you need to know—some of which can be found on various websites (TSA, your airline), but some of which can’t. And if you haven’t flown with a gun in a while, a few things have changed. First, if you’ve never flown with a gun before go to both the TSA website (TSA.gov) and the website for your airline to see their rules and restrictions when it comes to flying with firearms and ammunition. In the past, certain airlines have restricted the total number of…

Prologue: Free-Falling…but not the kind Tom Petty sang about! If someone asked me what three things I disliked most about Alaska, the answers would be simple: • The state bird (Culiseta Alaskaensis, the last frontier’s “home-team” mosquito) • The amount of time it takes to get back to the Midwest during a family emergency (or fall deer season on my buddy’s farm) • …And lastly, that lying, insidious, no good upper level of crust on super-deep spring snow that gives false hope you can walk across it, only to break bad underfoot and send you plummeting downward to your doom (or at least up to your ears) in its crystalline depths…which surprisingly is where the story of the Wilson Combat “Tactical Hunter” begins. There was no doubt about it…I was…

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. In addition to being a regular featured contributor for Firearms News, he blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” and posts onTwitter: @dcodrea and Facebook. “I’m not anti-gun at all,” California governor (and potential Democrat presidential candidate) Gavin Newsom lied though his teeth in response to former U.S. Navy SEAL, CIA contractor, and podcast host Shawn Ryan presenting him with a “California compliant” SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro. “The last thing people would expect is I respect this gift,” a broadly smiling Newsom assured his host. “I’m for just some gun safety common sense that I think vast majority of…

When it comes to big-bore cartridges developed specifically for use in the AR-15 platform, there are three main contenders to consider, the .50 Beowulf, .458 SOCOM, and the .450 Bushmaster. The .50 Beowulf was the first big-bore AR-15 cartridge and it helped to change how the AR-15 was viewed when it came to hunting. Designed by Bill Alexander, the .50 Beowulf was initially introduced at the 2000 Florida SWAT Round-up, and then publicly at the 2001 SHOT Show. Alexander developed the .50 Beowulf with one purpose in mind, to be the physically largest cartridge an AR-15 can accept. The .50 Beowulf quickly became popular as a short-range brush busting hunting cartridge, and opened the eyes of many to the possibilities offered by the versatile AR-15 design. The next big-bore design…

The fall, I love this time of year. If it were up to me, I would have six months of fall, four months of spring, one month of winter, and one month of summer. The leaves changing color is one of the most beautiful sites in nature, the bugs start going way, and the cooler temperatures allow one to put on those awesome “woodsy”-type clothes that just make you want to go explore outside. Although I became a deer hunter later in life, I have been a small-game hunter since the mid-1970s. The first animal I ever saw shot was a black bird my maternal grandfather killed in his backyard, sometime around 1972. He used a J.C. Higgins single-shot .22 LR rifle (he used to shop a lot at Sears,…