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Video cover of how to safely load and unload an AR-15 rifle

How-To

NSSF: Safely Loading and Unloading the AR-15

Whether you already have an AR-15, or are simply doing a little research before heading to range for the first time, the following video from National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) AR-15 Administrative Load and Unload: Modern Sporting Rifle Tip demonstrates two different ways to safely load the AR-15. By following these simple instructions and heeding the lesson of head up, eyes up, gun up, you’ll enjoy and safe day which will start you down the path to earning the respect and trust of the shooter’s around you.

extractor and breech face

Concealed Carry

Handguns: Are You Using or Abusing Your Guns?

I do not own a safe queen. The safe is temporary storage. The true nature of a Combat Magnum is on the range, in the field or on the hip, not in the safe. If you use a quality firearm and take good care of it, the piece will last almost indefinitely. Abuse it, and a few years at best are all you will get out of it. These firearms have lasted not because I have babied them but because I have maintained them and you can too!

16.5-inch loose round magazine loader for AR-15 style magazines

News

Load 30-Round AR Mags in a Single Stroke: The Maglula Range Benchloader

For shooting competitors, armories, ranges or just a regular shooter, makers of one of our favorite accessories releases the 30-round AR-15 magazine loader the Range Benchloader. The Range Benchloader allows you to load hundreds of .223/5.56 30-round magazines quickly with a single-stroke. Compatible with all AR-15-platform magazines, including PMAGs, SCAR 16, H&K 416 and Beretta AR 70, the Maglula Range Benchloader loads 30 loose rounds of ammo in 25 seconds. Click here to learn how it works.

Shooter racking slide of 1911 .45 pistol

Competitive Shooting

Immediate-Action Drills

The most sickening sound in a gunfight, or even on the shooting line during a competition, is click! If you should ever find yourself in such a situation and your mind races before quickly coming up with the solution, I am sorry to tell you but it is too late. Now is the time to prevent a disaster with this simple drill.

Picture is a close up of a man loading a stripper clip full of ammo into a rifle magazine.

Firearms

Do You Use These Common Five Wrong Gun Terms?

Do you know the difference between bullets and ammo? What about clip and magazine? For many immersed in gun culture, there are a few words and phrases we hear all the time that sound like nails running down a chalkboard. Many of these words are commonly used even outside the gun community and usually everyone—pro or anti—recognize what those words mean. I’m not sorry when I say this, but many of those commonly used words are, quite frankly, wrong. Do you use these five common misused words? Read to find out.