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The Obama administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is set to ban a popular ammunition, the M855 ball, as “armor-piercing” ammo, it was announced Friday. The unexpected move is clearly intended by the administration “to suppress the acquisition, ownership ...

Due to their availability, fair price and good conditioning, older surplus bolt action rifles have become very popular weapons with survivalists who are seeking cheaper alternatives to higher-end automatic weapons such as AK-47s, AR-15s and M1As. The Russian-made Mosin-Nagant bolt ...

You’ve probably seen one of those ads selling a book about how to make a “ghost gun” at some point in time. What’s a ghost gun? It’s a gun that isn’t on the books anywhere. It’s not on the books ...

A new 3D printing device could make many gun control laws unenforceable by allowing anyone to manufacture his or her own AR-15 semiautomatic rifle at home – at a relatively affordable price. The Ghost Gunner Computer Controlled (CNC) machine sells ...

The first person charged under Connecticut’s controversial gun control law appears to be a 65-year-old Milford man, who is in trouble with police because he shot a squirrel – with a legal gun. Police were in James Toigo’s neighborhood directing ...

ATF agents raided a gun parts store over the weekend to obtain a customer list. The raid began after Dimitri Karras, the owner of Ares Armor, in National City, Calif., refused to turn the customer list over to the federal ...

The popular AR-15 is being redesigned by some New York gunowners to allow them to still possess the gun, despite SAFE Act laws. Gunowners in other states where the AR-15 is banned are doing the same thing, too. Semi-automatic weapons ...

Roughly 100,000 gunowners in an East Coast state are now considered felons under a new gun registration law. Why? They failed to apply for “assault rifle certificates” under a state law that went into effect on Dec. 31. Only around ...

The AR-15 is a rifle that needs no introduction; it’s the penultimate American rifle, recognizable by anti-gunners and shooting enthusiasts alike across the globe. Chambered in 5.56 NATO or .223 Remington (basically interchangeable), the AR-15 is essentially a semiautomatic version ...

Dick’s Sporting Goods apparently has ended its no-AR-15s policy, but so far only at a spinoff store. Field & Stream, a new outdoors store which is a spinoff from Dick’s, is selling AR-15 semi-automatic rifles at a new Pennsylvania store. ...