Summary and Key Points: The M16 rifle, designed by Eugene Stoner and adopted by the U.S. military in the 1960s, has remained a staple due to its reliability, modularity, and effectiveness.

This Mack Brothers Custom Rifle is a great crossover rifle for backcountry hunting and NRL Hunter style long-range ...

P erhaps no other rifle is more iconic of firearms in general as much as an AR-15 and an M16. They have been popular in this ...

The NGSW is currently confined to close combat units such as infantry, reconnaissance, combat engineers and associated combat ...

At the time, the only way anyone could lay his hands on such a rifle was with the help of a custom gunsmith. That changed in 1997, when Steyr introduced the Steyr Scout Rifle, which Cooper helped ...

Learn more › The 6.5 Creedmoor cartridge may be polarizing in the gun community, but its popularity cannot be denied. With more makes and models available from gunmakers than ever before ...

The M4-series Carbine achieves over 80% commonality with the M16A2 Rifle and replaces all M3 .45 caliber submachine guns, and selected M9 pistols and M16 rifles. The Army is pursuing a two-phase ...

Investigators are working to understand how suspected gunman Ryan Wesley Routh, who, according to court records, has a felony criminal history, allegedly obtained the semi-automatic SKS rifle.

1364 - First recorded use of a firearm. 1380 - Hand guns are known across Europe. 1400s - The matchlock gun appears. Before the matchlock, guns were fired by holding a burning wick to a "touch ...

The photos show an AK-47 rifle propped up against a fence alongside a black backpack and a GoPro attached to the wires. Law enforcement sources identified the suspect as Ryan Wesley Routh ...

Rifle scope designs follow trends in the rifles that they’ll be paired with. The 3-9×42 scope, one of the best all-around hunting optics mounted on generations of bolt-action rifles, held sway until ...

A bold new public health advisory marks the first the U.S. surgeon general has issued related to gun violence, which has been a highly contentious political issue for decades.