Mark Chesnut

Going to the shooting range can be an exciting experience for new gun owners. After all, what’s not to love...

When my nephew, Aaron, was young, he had a pretty severe aversion to rifle recoil. He was slightly built at...

It wasn’t that long ago that nobody would have considered using anything other than iron sights on a self-defense pistol....

In a 1789 letter to physicist and clockmaker Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin wrote of our newly founded country: “Our new...

Many of the topics we have covered so far in our Shooting 101 series might have seemed like take-it-or-leave-it information...

Concealed carry has grown exponentially since Florida passed the first “shall-issue” carry law in the country in 1987. “Shall-issue” means...

Black powder firearms, sometimes called muzzleloading rifles, aren’t firearms at all based on the legal definition of the terms. But...

Since the introduction of the Glock 17 back in the mid-1980s, Glock’s semi-auto pistols have taken the country by storm....

A recent scientific survey revealed that self-protection is the overwhelming reason Americans exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and...

One of the most important uses for firearms is home defense. In fact, a new study published in the journal...