Similar to many other urban areas of the country, St. Louis saw a dramatic increase in homicide in 2020. The Gateway to the West’s homicide rate per 100 thousand residents exploded from 64.5 in 2019 to 87.2 in 2020. The homicide rate was far and away the city’s highest in the preceding 50 years. This startling increase …

For years, voters in the Evergreen State have been assured that if only they approve certain gun control ballot initiatives, they would “save lives” and reduce crime. The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR), the organization pushing these ballot measures, has made an industry (if the term applies to an entity funded …

If you can’t win, change the rules! That was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (D) 1937 approach to a U.S. Supreme Court, a court that was declaring many of his programs unconstitutional. The idea is now being brought back by Democrats. FDR saw the Great Depression as an opportunity to fundamentally …

Springfield Armory’s Hellcat pistol came to market offering increased capacity within a micro-compact design. Now the company has introduced a 15-round detachable magazine for its Hellcat series of 9 mm Luger-chambered semi-automatics, remarkably bringing the micro-compact’s capacity up to par with that of many fullsize pistol designs. The new 15-rounder …

The Smith & Wesson “Victory Model“ was chambered in .38 Spl. and had a 4″ barrel as made under a World War II U.S. Navy contract. It is seen here being fired by Navy cadets.  In mid-1940, when it was becoming increasingly likely that the United States would be drawn into …

Springfield, VA – Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation (GOF), and the Virginia Citizens Defense League, among others, are continuing the no-compromise defense of the Second Amendment in GOA v. Garland before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Erich Pratt, Senior Vice President of GOA and GOF said: We’re pleased …

Less than a year into the Biden-Harris administration, there is already a sense that America is at a tipping point. At the fulcrum of this precarious balance is the Second Amendment. If the administration gets its way, what makes America not just unique, but better, stronger and freer than any …

Dozens of Republicans in the U.S. House recently sent a letter  to the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) leadership demanding that the Biden administration rescind a recent proposal to redefine what constitutes a firearm frame and receiver. The proposal, titled “Definition of ‘Frame …

FN America’s P90 was a radical departure from traditional firearm design when it first appeared in the 1990s. The fact it chambered the equally new 5.7×28 mm cartridge set it apart, but then there was the translucent, 50-round polymer magazine riding atop the select-fire personal defense weapon. The configuration was …

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The 2nd Amendment wasn’t put into place so Ted Nugent could piss off liberals in a horrible reality TV series, or so the Duck …