Results of a poll released early this week by the University of Texas at Tyler and The Dallas Morning News indicate first-time gun owners accounted for more than half of the new firearms purchased between May 28 and Sept. 2. The study focused tightly on registered voters in the state—with …

While having options is always good, intimate familiarity and thus competence is fostered by regularly carrying the same gun. There’s an ongoing inner struggle between the part of me that’s practical and the part of me that just wants to have fun, and unless one is possessed of Spock-like levels …

In 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court famously wrote:  “the power to tax involves the power to destroy ….” This truism has not been lost on firearm prohibitionists, who when unable to ban guns outright have often tried to tax them out of reach of the …

Not satisfied with restrictive gun control measures already enacted by the New Mexico Legislature, like the ban on private firearms transfers and a red flag gun confiscation law, the Albuquerque City Council is poised to consider three additional gun control measures in September: Resolution R-20-68 urges the New Mexico Legislature to strip …

A group of Marine Raiders hailing from Texas were equipped with the ill-fated Reising Model 55 SMG during the vicious fighting on Guadalcanal. As was my habit, I came back on the gun’s trigger rather gently. After all, it was an unusual gun and I had no experience with it …

Shooting is a perishable skill—that’s a simple and often painful fact. For me, nothing disappears faster than handgun-shooting skills, and it was a horrible time for that to surface. Due to major surgery—with a less-than-acceptable outcome—I had been in a forced hiatus from competitive shooting for a couple of years. …

Self-defense shooting and tactics instructors tend to have varying perspectives on virtually every subject, but there are the occasional exceptions where they agree. In all my training, one of these exceptions has been the admonition that all students tote a spare magazine when carrying a semi-automatic handgun for self-defense. The …

Labor Day 2020 is a celebration of America’s workers and their critical contributions to making this nation such a great place to live. Some of these workers are in the American shooting sports industry, which is built on the solid foundation of our Second Amendment rights. From America’s first gunsmiths …

One time I was working with a film crew out here in the desert Southwest. These folks were a long way from home and not at all familiar with my part of the country. So I made them a brief little talk about rattlesnakes and how to keep from being …

Over the last several months a lot of folks have become an owner of a new self-defense handgun. And, a lot of folks who already own a defensive handgun are looking at it a bit differently; looking at it like they may very well have to use it to save …