GSM Outdoors received the 2025 Outdoor Supplier of the Year award from Academy Sports + Outdoors, recognizing exceptional partnership and category leadership. CEO Eddie Castro highlighted the company's commitment to dependable service, innovation, and reliable delivery across hunting, fishing, and outdoor categories.
Desi Edmunds of Team Winchester and Team White Flyer secured Runner Up at the 48th FITASC World Sporting Clays Championship in Portugal. USA Sporting Clays teams won first place in Male, Lady, and Junior divisions, with Team Winchester members Connor Daniel and Joe Fanizzi contributing to championship victories.
NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, invites target shooters nationwide to participate in the 10th annual National Shooting Sports Month in August with the tagline "Let Freedom Plink." The celebration features the #RangeChallenge, participating ranges and retailers offering events and classes, and opportunities to win prizes throughout the month.
Midwest Gun Works expanded its Full Auto Fulfillment program to all firearms industry businesses, offering e-commerce site design, order fulfillment, and customer support. The program leverages MGW's nearly 30-year expertise in navigating firearms regulations to help brands streamline operations and focus on growth.
NSSF, ATF, and DOJ launched the 26th annual "Don't Lie for the Other Guy" campaign in Indianapolis through early September to educate the public about federal penalties for illegal firearm purchases, including up to 15 years in prison and $250,000 in fines. The campaign includes 18 billboards, 140+ transit displays, 1,300+ radio spots, and targeted digital impressions across the region.
CCI Ammunition and Henry Repeating Arms have partnered to introduce the Henry Golden Boy Edition 22 LR ammo, a 275-round collector's edition featuring 36-grain copper-plated hollow-point bullets at 1,260 fps. The ammunition is now shipping to retailers nationwide.
Steiner unveiled the MPS 2.0 Micro Pistol Sight, an enclosed emitter red dot designed for duty and defense with enhanced durability, longer battery life, and improved ergonomics. The optic features redesigned brightness controls, up to 90,000 hours of runtime, and compatibility with the industry-standard ACRO footprint for multiple weapon platforms.
WOOX announced the Gladiatore V2 Stock & Forend, a premium upgrade for compatible Mossberg pump-action shotguns. Handcrafted from American walnut with wraparound grip technology and ventilated butt pad design, the V2 enhances performance and ergonomics. Available as stock, forend, or complete kit with MSRP of $439.
Mission First Tactical introduced the MFT AIWB WML Ambidextrous Holster, a versatile light-bearing, red dot ready holster compatible with Streamlight TLR series lights and RMR reflex sights. Handmade in the USA with adjustable retention and available for Glock, Sig Sauer, and Springfield models at $59.99.
EOTECH, a division of American Holoptics, announced the sale of 14,000 units of OGL systems, HWS, and compatible magnifiers to the U.S. Army through Transformation in Contact buys to support the PAE Maneuver Ground portfolio's surrogate optics project for M7, XM8 Carbine, and M250 Automatic Rifle.
Heritage Manufacturing is offering a FREE .22 WMR cylinder with the purchase of any Heritage Rough Rider, Rough Rider Rancher, or Barkeep revolver throughout August 2026. Customers can redeem the promotion through Heritage's rebate portal at HeritageMfg.com.
Umarex USA will exhibit at the Mid-States Distributing 2026 Fall Rendezvous on August 11-12 in Phoenix, AZ. Retailers can meet Umarex representatives and view 2026 products and classic items at booth No. 208, featuring Umarex Airguns, T4E, Prepared2Protect, and Elite Force Airsoft.
Outdoor Channel presents "Night at the Range" every Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET, featuring firearms education and shooting sports programming including Guns & Ammo TV, Handguns, Gun Stories with Joe Mantegna, American Rifleman, Shooting USA, and Airgunner Challenge, hosted by experts from Outdoor Sportsman Group.
MyOutdoorTV presents "The MeatEater Team Shootout," a livestreamed event on August 3 featuring Steven Rinella, Ryan Callaghan, Janis Putelis, Clay Newcomb, and other MeatEater crew members competing in a skeet shooting competition while discussing conservation, shows, and upcoming projects.
Some of us have the need to hang a full-size weapon light (think SureFire X300, Streamlight TLR-1 or similar) on a compact or a duty-size pistol. Most of us, however, don’t. For the rest of us, a compact light will more than do the job on our everyday carry or home defense gun.
Sure, you can tote a bigger, heavier unit that cranks out 1300+ lumens, but there’s something to be said for a more compact, lighter-weight package that, in the case of the NITECORE NPL25 GL, will not only generate 900 lumens of light-em-up power, but also gives you the added capability of a green laser as well.
For size comparison purposes, here you see the NPL25 GL mounted on an FN 509 Midsize Tactical. It’s ideal on a compact of full-size pistol, but if you’re toting something smaller like a 365, Hellcat, or similar, you’ll want something smaller.
The NITECORE NPL25 GL has a great mounting system. Most similar weapon lights come with a handful of different keys or plates that let you adapt it to mount on standard Picatinny rails, GLOCK rails, SIG rails. Not this one.
The NPL25 has a sliding plate that can adapt to the rail slot on a wide range of guns. There’s a sprung button on the left side of the light that moves that toothed bar up, releasing the plate. You then slide it to the position you need and release the button to lock it in place. Easy peasy with no plates to hold onto and (inevitably) lose in about 36 hours.
On a pistol like the FN (above) that has a standard Pic rail, you can a few options as to placement of the sliding plate. On a gun like the G19 (below) with just one slot, it’s easy to adjust and mount it right where you need it. NITECORE ships the NPL25 with a small “Picatinny rail adapter” piece that screws into the two holes you see above, but I mounted the light without a problem without the adapter.
The NPL25 GL is powered by a rechargeable Li-ion battery that’s rated to run for 1.5 hours of continuous use. Rechargeable pistol lights are hardly new, but some designs require you to either bring the gun and light to the charging cord or dismount the light to do that. Not everyone wants to have a pistol sitting around while the light is charging.
NITECORE gets around that by making the battery removable. You can leave the light mounted to your pistol (it’s been dismounted in the pic above, but that’s not necessary) while charging the battery in your kitchen, on your nightstand, wherever.
FYI, the magnetic cord that charges the NPL25 isn’t a standard USB type cord. Sadly, it’s proprietary, so you’ll need to hang onto it.
A series of four LEDs on the right side of the light tell you the leval of the charge the light has remaining.
The NPL25 GL lets you use just the light, just the green laser, or both at the same time. And yes, a green laser is the better option. The human eye is far more sensitive to green light so a green laser just works better in far more lighting situations.
You can switch through the options by holding one rocker switch down while the unit is on and pressing the other to get toggle through the three modes.
But wait. You want to know, is 900 lumens enough? In almost any situation, it certainly is. The corner of the yard in the photo above is 30 yards away and the NPL25’s white light does a very nice job of illuminating things. The unit is both a high and a low setting (low on the left above, high on the right). You toggle between the two with a quick double-tap on one of the rocker switches when the light is on. The pics make both settings look more similar than they do to the naked eye.
The low setting is listed as only 120 lumens, but it still does a good job. Full blast, as you can see, really lights up the yard. NITECORE rates the beam throw distance at 216 meters (I assume that’s at the full 900 lumens level). That sounds like a lot and I could only test it out to about 125 yards, but it did the job nicely at that distance.
Nitecore’s done a good job of designing all the features into the NPL25 GL that most of us need and they’ve done it at a very affordable price level. This is a great option, particularly for a bedside home defense gun.
