The Beretta A400 Solo vs A400 Xtreme Plus comparison began at 8:15 in the morning, when the thermometer already showed 84 degrees and the air felt thick enough to reload. By 10:00, the temperature had passed 90. The wooden bench was hot, the ammunition boxes were softening at the corners, and our blonde range influencer…

The Supreme Court AR-15 case reaches an important deadline today, October 21, 2026. Cook County and Connecticut must submit their merits briefs defending bans on AR-15 platform rifles and similar semiautomatic firearms in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins. The Supreme Court will hear the consolidated cases on December 2. At publication this…

Can you build an SBR without a tax stamp in 2026? According to ATF’s current nationwide enforcement policy, the federal answer is yes: an unlicensed individual no longer needs an approved Form 1, a $200 tax payment or National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record registration before making a short-barreled rifle. That does not mean every…

Hornady Frontier 7.62×39 ammunition is coming for 2027 with a 123-grain full-metal-jacket bullet and an unusually useful 50-round box. Naturally, we answered this announcement by hauling an AK, a military-surplus SKS and a Ruger American Ranch to the range to determine which rifle would behave like a precision instrument and which would behave like an…

The WASP AI gun is a functional but extremely crude single-shot .22-caliber pistol created through a conversation with GatGPT, an artificial-intelligence model developed by Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed. It reportedly fired two of three cartridges during a witnessed demonstration in Austin, Texas. That makes the WASP interesting. It does not make it a robot-designed Glock…

The new Taurus Brace-Ready TX22 answers a question nobody needed government permission to ask: what happens when you give a lightweight .22 LR pistol a rear Picatinny rail, folding stabilizing brace, threaded barrel, red-dot cut and 22-round magazine? The answer, according to our completely scientific 500-round range session, is that somebody will burn through an…