News reports on the Supreme Court’s first day of oral arguments in the case of Garland v. Cargill with their line of questioning suggesting the court may be inclined to uphold the Trump-era ban on…
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How far will the typical American male go to look cool? Well, nowadays he will buy sports cars he can’t afford, put Lord-only-knows what kind of muscle-building supplements into his body, spend countless agonizing hours…
Okay so this isn’t really a meme at all. It’s an actual news headline. But in a way it’s also a great commentary on the Gunshine State. On a related note, I couldn’t afford to…
The fine folks at Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pennsylvania recently sold a fully-transferrable, fully-automatic FN M240B machine gun. Talk about an object of desire! First brought online in the late 1970s as a standard vehicle…
While packing up my desk for a recent move, it dawned on me that my pen holder of the past eight or so years was actually a New Frontier Armory stripped polymer lower receiver this…
Steve Newlan of Windsor Arms Co. photographed in 2018 firing his select-fire M16 with an Adam Arms piston upper receiver chambered in Russian 5.45x39mm. (Photo: Ben Philippi/Guns.com) The 15th annual Green Mountain Boys machine gun…
Ben Philippi photographed with the American Flag and his trusty Mossberg 500 12-gauge shotgun. (Photo: Ben Philippi/Guns.com) A Canadian by birth, this year’s Independence Day is different for me. I was recently granted a green…
Screenshot of Vice President Joe Biden’s recent interview along with a split-screen of General Gage’s orders of Feb. 1775 instructing his men to be on the lookout for cannons not under the King’s control. In…
The 75mm M116 Pack Howitzer was designed in the United States in the 1920s. It met a need for a compact artillery piece that could be moved across difficult terrain, replacing the 1900s-era Vickers Mountain…
From 2012 to 2016, I toured America to photograph some of the millions of legal gun owners who proudly exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. These photographs were published in my book called We The…