The process of bluing firearms may have changed a bit in the last 300 years but the appeal to shooters has not.

We were all poor and living hand to mouth. We each maintained a cabinet in the kitchen that we kept stocked with ramen, mac and cheese and similar low-cost...

You know that bored, restless feeling we all get from time to time? It usually occurs during the lazy, hazy days of summer, at least for me.

Special Assignments Editor Roy Huntington takes us back in time to the beginning of WWII with not enough 1911's to go around. S&W stepped up with a special...

How do you determine your effective range for hunting? It’s a thought-provoking question indeed — there is no one-size fits all answer.

I’m nothing if not impetuous. A few years back I got it in my head a shiny nickel-plated Colt 1911 would suit me, so I bought the first one encountered.

You’re at the range. You’ve got your handgun and ammo and you’re going to find out how it shoots. Now what?

How could something so ethereal and diaphanous be so unimaginably powerful?

Interesting things start happening after completing our 50th ride around the sun, especially among hardcore gunmen and women.

In honor of American Handgunner’s 45^th anniversary, Ruger is giving away a one-of-kind-commemorative SR1911® in .45 auto. This semi-automatic pistol is...