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Headspace on Rifles
Checking headspace is as simple as buying GO and NO-GO gauge sets in order to ensure your rifle will function safely. The hottest new cartridge has just hit the street. You want to add an upper to your existing AR in order to take advantage of this new thumper’s impressive …
We Must Remember Our History Of Freedom
Just four days after the patriots defeated the Red Coats at Lexington and Concord in 1775, the inhabitants of occupied Boston were desperate to flee the city. The British governor, Gen. Thomas Gage, offered a deal. Just turn in your guns to selectmen at Faneuil Hall marked with your names, …
Free Speech Doesn’t Apply When It’s About Guns in Wisconsin
When it comes to firearms, apparently the First Amendment doesn’t hold water at public schools in Wisconsin. Following in the footsteps of what a fellow education administrator did a couple of years ago, more Wisconsin public school officials have demonstrated zero tolerance for a student wearing clothes that advertise guns …
Biden Uses Expletives to Insult American Freedom, But Builds Momentum
Former Vice President Joe Biden’s quest for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination continued on Tuesday with Biden insulting Second Amendment supporters headed to the polls in Michigan. “You are actively trying to end our Second Amendment right,” a worker in a hard hat at the Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plant in Detroit said …
Democide: Understanding the State’s Monopoly on Violence and the Second Amendment
Gun control is predicated on the belief that private citizens cannot be trusted with firearms. That the state should have a “monopoly on violence” because it is less violent than individuals. And that firearms should be taken away from private citizens because only the state is responsible enough to handle …
Review: Winchester SX4
Few companies in the American shooting pantheon have a history as storied as Winchester Repeating Arms Co. From its lever-action roots to its more modern innovations, the company has held a key position in the American imagination for decades, a role which it does not appear will be relinquished anytime …
Amid the Anti-gun Hysteria of the Democrat Primary, NICS Sets Another Record
January 2020 was a record-setting month for the FBI’s NICS Office and our coverage noted that law-abiding gun owners buy firearms whenever anti-gun politicians start targeting them instead of criminals. A couple of things have happened since January: failed candidate Mike Bloomberg and others kept talking about their gun control …
Bloomberg’s Anti-gun Hypocrisy and Ignorance Abounded as His Campaign Floundered
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg may have dropped out of the presidential race, but it wasn’t before he took himself and the Fox News viewing audience on a wild spin aboard the Malarkey Express. Appearing at a March 2 Fox News town hall meeting in Manassas, Virginia, Bloomberg took questions from the …
Joe Biden to Gun Confiscator O’Rourke: “You’re Gonna Take Care of the Gun Problem With Me”
Presidential contender Joe Biden’s fortunes have recently shifted, with game-changing wins in several important Democrat primary contests. He has succeeded in part by positioning himself as the Democrats’ “safe” choice to square off against President Trump, at least in comparison to self-proclaimed Socialist Bernie Sanders. But make no mistake, Biden …
An Old Colt Reborn: Bringing a Single-Action Army Back to Life
The old Colt was new in the first year of the 20th century. On March 21, 1901, when Colt’s shipping department closed the package, this and nine other Single Action Army revolvers headed for needy frontiersmen in New Mexico territory. Serial No. 207264 was a blue-steel .45 Colt with a …