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Inside the Badge by Ronnie FrigultiDecember 8, 2010

The Best Way to Zero a Rifle

Sighting in on a target at 25 yards is much easier than attempting to sight in at a greater distance. Once sighted in at 25 yards, it will be easy to find your shots at 100 yards or greater and make the correct adjustments.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2010

Ruger Announces Mini Thirty Tactical Rifle

The Mini Thirty Tactical has a blued 16 1/8-inch barrel with a flash suppressor and black synthetic stock. The rifle weighs approximately 6.75 pounds, has an overall length of ­­­­­ 37.5 inches, and arrives with one 20-round magazine.

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Newsby Staff WriterJune 3, 2010

Remington Releases Model 700 Tactical Rifle With Threaded Muzzle

The carbon steel, hammer-forged barrel's rifling provides a twist rate of 1:10. These specialty, bolt-action rifles are shipped with a thread protector installed.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 20, 2010

Steyr Arms Introduces SSG 08 In .338 Lapua Magnum

The cold-hammer-forged barrel measures 27.17 inches to maximize the potential of the .338 cartridge, and its 1:9 twist rate will stabilize bullets up to and including the increasingly popular 300-grain HPBT Secnar projectile.

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Newsby Staff WriterMay 10, 2010

California Snipers End Mother's Day Stand-off With Suicidal Son

Contra Costa County Sheriff SWAT officers ended a Mother's Day standoff involving a suicidal son who held a gun to his mother's head by shooting the man.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 19, 2010

FNH USA and Leupold Team Up for Precision Shooting Competition

The competition will showcase 30 two-man teams representing the finest sniper/counter sniper teams from the U.S. military as well as local, state and federal law enforcement communities.

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Photo Galleriesby Staff WriterJuly 10, 2009

Rifle Optics

When it comes to gear and gadgets for duty applications, many of us are drawn to the coolest, most expensive items. That's true of weapons and it's true of weapon accessories such as optics. But what's more important is to find the right optics to fit your mission. Options include red dot sights, variable focal length short scopes often used on shotguns, and of course true precision scopes meant for use on a precision rifle.

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Newsby Staff WriterJanuary 22, 2009

Knights Armament Publishes iPhone App for Precision Rifle Shooters

After digesting all the information, Bulletflight tells you where exactly on the sniper scope you should position your target in order to hit it.

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Articlesby David GriffithAugust 1, 2005

SWAT Snipers

For as long as most active SWAT operators have been police officers, there has been one gospel truth about SWAT sniper operations: the 70-Yard Rule. Ask any SWAT sniper what is the average range of a police sniper shooting, and he will answer, “About 70 yards.” Ask him the source of his data, and he will say, “FBI statistics.”

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Articlesby Eitan MeyrApril 1, 2001

Euro Counter-Terrorism

Conventional police forces deployed in large and normally  slow-to-react formations were not capable of dealing with small, clandestine terrorist cells, striking swiftly and melting into the civil scenery.

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