Range time can - and should - be a way to spend some quality time with your kids. It's an opportunity to teach a variety of skills, too. Here are a few ways to improve the planning and execution of a successful trip to the range with children.

You have access to a shooting range for kids...are you prepped and ready to take your youngsters to the range? Are the children tprepped and ready?

Paul Carlson chronicles about what he learned after spending his first chunk of time training with the Trijicon SRO Red Dot Sight.

Julie Golob's Aim2CureJM Challenge is a way to hit the range and support the Cure JM Foundation (a 501C3 nonprofit). Shootin' and doin' some good. What's not to like?

The "O" in the Cloud Defensive OWL acronym stands for optimized, and the term is apropos. It's an excellent weapon light choice. Read why.

The Cloud Defensive REIN is a new weapon light from the same folks who brought you the OWL. Named for a stripper (?), it boasts many outstanding...features.

Defensive firearms training is serious business. I think that most instructors have the best intentions. Unfortunately there is no single way for students to be confident they are selecting quality firearms training. A teachers background matters, but probably not as much as our industry tends to lean on that metric. I’ve had LE and mil instructors that were fabulous and ...

If you can disassemble an AR-15, you can tune an AR15 buffer. We're using a recent AR pistol build for an example of how simple the process is.

An LPVO (Low Power Variable Optic) provides a range of magnification to be selected by the person looking downrange. We'll look at pros and cons of its use.

11 tools you'll need to build an AR15: Paul Carlson runs them down in this installment of Mag Dump Monday. Got a vice? Check. Got armorers' wrench? Check. Got all the right punches? No? Need a list of which ones you should have on your bench? Read on.