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Most single women must throw themselves on the mercy of the counterman at the local gun store to try and figure out what carry gun will work best for them. [...]

Developed by the U.S. Marine Corps in the 1970s, the Mil-Dot reticle was originally designed to provide snipers with a reliable means of rangefinding in the days before laser rangefinders. [...]

The issue of safety over distribution of firearms is examined. The role of marketing industry, to curtail firearms violence, is discussed.

WITH A LOT OF FOCUS on weapon-mounted lights used by the military and law enforcement communities around the country, little attention has been given to the employment of lights by [...]

'Varmint' sounds better than its root word, 'vermin.' It has a harder edge, and it's easier to shout. The two words used to mean the same thing, but they don't [...]

A remarkable and telling phenomenon occurred earlier this year, a gathering in cities throughout our great land that cumulatively dwarfed the assemblage at Tienanmen Square. Like that ill-fated throng/these sojourners [...]

Few handgunners are lucky enough to shoot as much as they would like to. For many, particularly city dwellers, just getting to the nearest range or legal shooting area can [...]

For the majority of us, shooting is a recreation. Comparatively few people who have firearms depend on them for law-enforcement or self-defense purposes. For the most part, we view shooting [...]

'To disarm noncriminals in the hope that this might indirectly help reduce access to guns among criminals is a very high-stakes gamble, and the risks will not be reduced by [...]

FAST HANDGUN SIGHTS * Recently I have seen a lot in print about hip shooting, point shooting, instinct shooting ... a thorn by any other name. That is the technique [...]

A murderous rampage questions assumptions about quiet Britain 'IT'S like watching something from America,' said one resident of Whitehaven, a gentle Georgian town on the north-western English coast. Shooting sprees [...]

By Ben Grossman David Stern, you must throw gun-toting Gilbert Arenas out of the league and never let him play another NBA game. Mr. Commissioner, live up to your last [...]

Byline: Roberto Ceniceros Does carrying a gun really help protect people from street crime? That question never really has been answered. Yet employers, along with the rest of America, are [...]

WHEN A GUN MATTERS IN THE PAST, THE CARRYING OF firearms by security personnel was accepted and unquestioned. Police and security officers were perceived as similar, and many security officers [...]

AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-(C)1997-2005 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Supporters of the gun certification for pilots on US commercial flights claim that the Bush administration is making it unnecessarily difficult for crews to [...]

Seventy people were shot dead in US workplaces last year, with staff murdering about three senior employees per month, according to a report. Terror Nine to Five: Guns in the [...]

It was a 'surreal' and 'traumatic' week at 'The Providence Journal,' where three employees are dead Imagine this scenario at your newspaper: A deadly shooting spree starts in your production [...]

The US Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA)has started a national campaign to allow pilots to carry firearms in the cockpit by delivering a petition with 44,000 signatures to Congress. Meanwhile [...]

Speaking of guns, American Airlines pilot Brad Rohdenburg made a good case for arming pilots against hijackers in a letter to The Wall Street Journal. Even federal agents from the [...]

Back in the '50s, and even the '60s and early '70s, I can remember seeing virtually brand new Smith & Wesson and Ruger .44 Magnums on the secondhand shelves of [...]

THE NATIONAL RIFLE Association's endorsement of Richard Mourdock in his primary race against U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar makes at least two things clear. The first is that, if Mourdock gets [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] NASHVILLE, TENN. -- Some Tennessee restaurateurs, anticipating increased liability costs from a controversial new law allowing concealed firearms into restaurants that serve alcohol, are seeking an injunction that [...]

You pull the trigger, the powder burns, and the bullet gets pushed forward down the barrel. But as Mr. Newton (Isaac, not Charles) showed us, the gun also gets pushed [...]

Cargo airlines may mock the idea of their pilots carrying guns to shoot inanimate boxes but they already are making end runs against a law they have all but conceded [...]

Do freighter pilots need guns to defend their aircraft? Unions representing crewmembers at FedEx and United Parcel Service think so and have joined the campaign to allow pilots to carry [...]

The successful ones are masterful imitators. All of them spit fire and smoke. Some simply go 'bang!' and that's enough. Others utter a loud staccato stutter and realistically fling their [...]

The firearms industry has focused on providing women with quality service. Self-defense revolvers were designed to have seven-shot capacity such as Taurus' .357 Magnum Model 617. Smith & Wesson also offers Airlite an eight-shot .22 revolver. Meanwhile, an Outdoor Woman catalog provides a list of clothing apparel for women and young girls as well. The catalog includes hunting and fishing clothes, boots, hats and gear bags., The firearm most commonly recommended to women looking for a self-defense gun is a revolver. Dealers across the country say, for the new shooter. a revolver is easier to operate [...]

I have a Taurus PT1911 in .38 Super. This ammo is sometimes difficult to find. Can I safely shoot .38 Super+P in this pistol? --Charlie Hayes, Springfield, IL Patrick Sweeney [...]

On my last visit to London, England I made a point of going to Waterloo station. I wasn't interested in taking a train, I just wanted to stand at the [...]

Sandy,Hook, Conn. A killer's mother inexplicably leaves firearms in the home she share with her mentally unstable son. He kills her, and goes on a rampage that ends with 26 [...]