Guns and Shooting Online is an online reference source for information and articles of interest to shooters. It is written by shooters for shooters.

Founder and Managing Editor Chuck Hawks was an avid recreational shooter for over 50 years. He was, in addition, a noted researcher, writer and professional photographer. His shooting career started when he was selected to join his high school rifle team in his freshman year. He has sold guns and outdoor accessories at the retail level. He qualified "Expert" with both rifle and pistol while in the United States Air Force and was invited to try out for the USAF national shooting team. He was the instructor for a guns and shooting seminar offered by his local community college. He was a Benefactor member of the NRA (USA) and was made a complimentary member of the National Firearms Association (Canada). He has been writing about guns and shooting since his college days and founded Guns and Shooting Online in 1997.

Everyone on our staff is an experienced shooter and ourdoors person who voluntarily joined the G&S Online staff. None of us got involved for the money, although we are proud of our success and grateful to our millions of readers in some 150 countries. Most of this success is because, collectively, we live and breathe guns and shooting. Guns and Shooting Online is a labor of love and we are in the enviable position of loving our work.

This site is more analogous to a continuously expanding e-book than an e-zine, so you can read it at your leisure. New articles keep appearing, but the previous ones do not go away. Actually, Guns and Shooting Online is a new concept, made possible by the Internet.

Guns and Shooting Online is composed of two sections, the Main Site and the Member Side. The Main Site offers the widest range of articles and features. The Member Side presents somewhat more specific articles and in-depth reference information that we trust will be of interest to shooters everywhere--for just pennies per article!

Sharing information is the primary purpose of Guns and Shooting Online. If you have information or an article that you would like to share on this website, I would be happy to receive your submission. E-mail to randymagic@aol.com. You will retain all rights to your material, and full credit will be given for all submissions.

Of interest primarily to Members, rest assured that our privacy policy is absolute. We don't share any information about our members or customers with anyone, period. No fine print and no exceptions.