Publication/Issue: Ballistic

The year was 2001. I was in my fourth year of medical school, and my family could finally see light ...

I’m a millennial and have grown up under the societal umbrella of participation medals. Since I was a child, my ...

The big draw at SHOT Show each year is, of course, firearms. But this year, I happened across a gem ...

DriveTanks.com has the only fully operational M4A2E8 Sherman tank in the world. The German Leopard defended the Western European frontier ...

The events of September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya, took the life of Kris Paronto — a.k.a. "Tanto" — from ...

"The AR-15 is a great platform. It’s light and mobile and can be fired quickly and accurately. It just doesn’t ...

Land Cruisers aren't for everyone, but Rodney Wills isn't "everyone." Rodney has lived a life of constant immersion. He just ...

Jason and I each sat alone in the bleachers during seventh-grade gym class, a pair of skinny, forlorn children new ...

Sound suppressors, or “cans,” are devices appended to a firearm to diminish its noise. We strive mightily to mitigate the ...

In 1997, Colonel Jeff Cooper, the founder of Gunsite Academy, wrote "The Art of the Rifle." This book remains one ...

Although this land is still the United States, the landscape is vastly different than what our grandfathers and great-grandfathers saw ...

Author's Note: I penned the article below concerning the SB Tactical Pistol Stabilizing Brace for SIG full-body handguns. At the ...

The chiseled gun-writer-turned-CIA asset stood noiselessly and alone in the frosty rain of an Afghan midnight. The sensations of cold ...

The new normal is not the junkie in the parking garage with a switchblade—though they still exist. Rather, it’s an ...

When some people see the XM42, they immediately think, “WANT!” Others might think or cry out, “Why?!” But those who ...

  Life is demanding. It can be a grind getting from Point A to Point B in our busy, chaotic ...

The great expanses of wilderness stretching through America’s interior are sliced and stitched together by thousands of dirt roads, muddy ...

Building your own gun isn’t difficult. In fact, it’s dead simple. At one time, I believed there was something mystical about building ...

I don’t know any gun owner who doesn’t like playing with something new every now and then. I suffer from ...

You just weathered the largest storm that you’ve ever been in. You survived high-powered winds, torrential downpour, and even massive ...