My brother-in-law and I took our collective AR-15 rifles to the local sand pit last Saturday to practice shooting drills and basic marksmanship. Included were several 5.56 NATO rifles in both standard and tricked-out versions, as well as one suppressed .300 BLK. Although we knew better and made sure (we …

Armed Citizen® Today One alleged robber is wounded and in police custody and two other robbers are missing after encountering an armed resident inside a Texas home during an attempted robbery. In the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, a Houston, Texas, man was getting out of his car …

In response to the NRA’s victory in Bruen, which secured every American’s right to carry arms, NY passed the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act,” severely restricting carry throughout the state. The 2nd Circuit upheld many of those restrictions. Today, NRA filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to hear that …

My phone buzzed—nothing truly rings anymore—and I saw it was my friend Dave calling; he was on a whitetail hunt in Maine, and I immediately hoped this would be good news. “Just put some blood on the three-fifty, good six-point buck. Just over 200 yards, and those loads worked just …

Widespread wisdom declares that cartridges handloaded with attention to every detail can make a regular hunting rifle shoot as true as a target rifle. To determine if all that effort is worth it, I handloaded a meticulously prepared batch of cartridges and another lot using only the most essential steps, then fired …

On Saturday, the Department of Justice put out a press release stating that they were launching the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, aka Red Flag Law Gun Confiscation Center. This came just hours after the criminals in Congress passed another unconstitutional $1.2 trillion omnibus bill that steals our …

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer wants America to know that today’s high court isn’t pragmatic. For good measure, he declares that he is, especially when it comes to interpretating law. That’s not just conjecture. That’s laid out in the title to his new 250-page book, “Reading the …

The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024, which was unveiled at 2:32 AM the day before a vote, is a dream come true for anti-gun politicians and the bill even subsidizes the gun control lobby. Further, its expedited timeline is an outrage, not giving gun owners enough time to analyze the …

Plato defined rhetoric as “the art of ruling the minds of men.” Gun-control advocates—especially those in the media and government—have artfully employed rhetoric for decades to evoke emotional responses, alter attitudes and shape perspectives about guns. They have managed to frame the debate over gun ownership in America by laying …

A resolution by the Pima County, Ariz., Board of Supervisors to impose a $1,000 fine on any gun owner who doesn’t report the theft or loss of a firearm within two days is drawing pushback from the Goldwater Institute, a conservative and libertarian public policy think tank located in Phoenix. …