Article first appeared at America’s 1st freedom. Remember Operation Fast and Furious? The program, run out of the U.S. Department of Justice, funneled thousands of firearms to members of Mexico’s drug cartels, and only came to public attention after one of those guns was used to murder Border Patrol agent …

Article first appeared at America’s first Freedom. Lawful, peaceable citizens in Europe are getting it from both directions today. On one side, suicidal, murderous Islamic terrorists are attacking with increasing ferocity and lethality—from Belgium to Denmark to France to who-knows-where tomorrow. On the other side, European Union officials are seeking …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. A handful of NRA-opposed bills are making their way through the state legislature in Hawaii, threatening to make the state’s already-restrictive gun laws even more onerous for law-abiding gun owners. Five measures have been approved by both the state House and the Senate, …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. The Obama administration’s gunrunning scandal, known as “Operation Fast and Furious,” is still being dragged, document by document, into the light. If you recall, this is the operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in which the ATF …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. Is Hillary Clinton so scared of losing the Democratic nomination fight to Bernie Sanders that she has to point to Vermont, a state that is by any measure among the safest in the country, and blame that state’s residents for New York City’s …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. We’ve observed that the ammunition drought is waning—thank goodness. Joining the ramp-up of established suppliers are new domestic and offshore sources, all supplemented by healthy growth of, and interest in, handloading. Thank goodness, again. We can finally get back out to the range …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. While anti-gun organizations and gun-ban politicians push a constant barrage of misinformation claiming their views are “mainstream,” a brand-new Rasmussen Poll released last week once again shows just the opposite. Two main findings, according to Rasmussen: Record firearm sales are being spurred by …

Article first appeared at America’s 1st Freedom. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton wants to give big-city politicians and the gun-ban lobby everything they need to sue America’s firearms industry out of business. Clinton’s campaign website proudly proclaims, “Hillary will lead the charge to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in …

Article first appeared at Shooting Illustrated. High-tech simulators like this one from MILO Range are excellent alternatives to force-on-force training. They present scenarios that challenge your judgment as well as your shooting skills. A comment frequently offered by multiple trainers at various training institutions is that in a gunfight, you …

Article first appeared at Shooting Illustrated. I spent a lot of time in my teen years shooting at dirt clods and varmints in the fields and woods around my hometown. My whopping $3.25/hour wages were used for whatever ammunition was cheapest to shoot through a ragtag collection of second- and …