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The NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits attract firearms owners of all shapes and sizes—including quite a few proud, celebrity gun owners. Here are a few that you can visit if you'll be on the scene in Louisville this weekend.

In this, its 150th year in business, the history of Winchester firearms is well known. After all, “The gun that won the west” was a Winchester, the Model 1873. The Winchester Model 70 is known as the “Rifleman’s Rifle” and the Model 1894 is perhaps the most successful sporting rifle in history. The company also shook up the scattergun market with classic shotguns like the Model 1897, Model 21 and Model 12. The raw truth, however, is that none of these guns could have made their mark in history without ammo to shoot out of them. It’s kind of the red-headed stepchild in terms of glory and glamor, but Winchester has been in the ammo business as long as they have been in the gun business.

It was 150 years ago that the name “Winchester” was first stamped on a rifle. But Winchester’s narrative began well before that, and it is a tale tied to the American West, to the wars of the 20th century, to big personalities such as John Browning and John Olin, and to the manufacture of billions of cartridges and millions of rifles and shotguns beloved by generations of Americans.

Two weeks ago, veteran outfitter Phil Shoemaker was guiding two fishing clients in the Alaska bush when the party came face to face with an enraged grizzly. Shoemaker, armed only with a 9mm semi-auto pistol, defended his clients and himself. Here’s his account …

Few companies have had as profound an impact on the American hunting and shooting industry as Browning—in no small part thanks to genius of its famous founder. Here are 10 things you might not have known about the company's history.

The National Rifle Association is pleased to announce the sponsors for the 2017 National High Power Rifle Championships, scheduled for July 7-25, 2017, at Camp Atterbury, Indiana.

The SCAR family of rifles has served U.S. Special Operations Command units in the field for some time, and the Special Operations Combat Assault Rifle Heavy finally became available to consumers with the FN SCAR 17S.

Managing Editor Jon Draper takes a closer look at the Mossberg Patriot Predator, the latest addition to our #SundayGunday series.

The relationship that exists between hunting and firearms throughout history is in some ways more crucial to our American identity than anything else, and there are probably more connections between the two than we realize.