‘Background Check’ Rule Is Coming For You
On April 11, 2024, the Biden Administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives issued a new rule to expand background-check requirements for private...
Laser Cartridges Damaging?
Firing Pin Breakage with Laser Training Cartridges
This is a request for a review of laser training cartridges. My very reputable renowned gunsmith says that laser...
New Shooter’s Guide: Firearms Storage, How to Protect Your Firearms
Gun Tests Reader Mike F. recently sent us a great note inquiring about long term firearms storage. He wanted to know whether it was...
More California Nonsense
I often write about outlandish judicial decisions in this space, but on March 15, 2024, Federal District Court Judge Josephine L. Staton raised the bar...
Great Service from SIG Sauer
Re “Rimfire Automatics from
SIG, KelTec, and Taurus
Square Off,” November 2023
Hi Todd, I wrote to you last year about my experience with a SIG P322....
What Do These Gun Terms Mean?
Definitions
I’m new to the gun world, have taken a handgun safety class. It was recommended I read your magazine for continuing my research and...
Rebellion In The Lower Courts
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Protect Illinois Communities Act in January 2023, and it is among the nation’s worst gun-control laws. It bans...
How About More on .410 Shells?
Re “.410 Defense Guns: Bond Arms, Taylor’s, and HenryShoot It Out,”
September 2023
Hi Todd, I enjoy reading Gun Tests because it’s the unvarnished truth about...
An Attack On The Civilian Ammunition Supply
If you live in one of the below mentioned states, please understand that the legal system in your area is attempting to restrict gun...
Cali’s Restrictive Ammo-Purchasing Law Declared Unconstitutional, Then Stayed
California’s restrictive ammunition law was repealed, and then stayed, after a lawsuit from ammunition e-tailer Ammunition Depot and the California Pistol & Rifle Association...
What About the Retro Receivers?
Re “Four AR-15 Lower Receivers Assembled and Range Tested,” April 2022
Enjoyed the article on AR-15 lower receivers. In your discussion of the Brownells (Retro) BRN-601, you...
News Briefs
Anti-gunowner rights shareholder complainants are planning to sue the board of Smith & Wesson because, they allege, the board members “knowingly allowed the Company...
Appeals Court Upholds AR Ban
In an almost incomprehensible decision in early August, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia ruled 10 to 5 to uphold Maryland’s...