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Fortify Your Home on the Cheap, Part 2
In addition to firearms training, you can still fortify your home against crime with a number of simple, cost-effective solutions. Here are half a dozen more strategies to protect your home. 8. Install a hotel-style lock on your bedroom door: For some reason, placing a lock on your bedroom door …
Is America On The Verge Of The Battle Of Lexington 2.0?
On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. They did so in response to the midnight ride of Paul Revere warning that the British were coming to take the people’s weapons. Today, America is on the verge of another shot …
Fortify Your Home on the Cheap, Part 1
We all would like the best security, but, of course, most of us aren’t as wealthy as Michael Bloomberg, who has enough cash to turn his many homes into fortresses. Rest assured, though, that in addition to getting a firearm and training, there are half a dozen strategies you can …
Ballot Initiatives: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
The season has passed for gathering signatures for voter initiatives in the 24 states that allow them, so firearm-prohibition outfits with fuzzy names are finished trying to get gun bans—things that couldn’t make it through the state legislatures—on state ballots this November. A few very bad ideas did make this …
Origin of the Sniper: Rifle Development & Accuracy Potential
This article, “The Genesis of Sniping,” appeared originally in the August 2015 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. Since the introduction of firearms, there has been one goal for both shooters and manufacturers—achieving the maximum possible …
Hoggwash
Anti-gun activist David Hogg is far from reluctant to share his thoughts. Earlier this year, Hogg posted a tweet that read: “This is a tweet for for [sic] the founders of the gun violence prevention movement started centuries ago by almost entirely black, brown and indigenous lgbtq women and non …
10 Cleaning Tips and Tricks For Firearms
There’s really no excuse for a filthy firearm, especially in competitive shooting. If you don’t know where to start, work your way through these tried-and-tested gun cleaning tips. And, if you have a new gun, some of these tips will help get it ready for competition. When all is said and done, your gun will …
Firearm Prohibitionists Shy Away From Gun Control in Senate Campaign Ads
How unpopular is gun control in states with contested Senate races? Ask Everytown for Gun Safety, a firearm prohibition lobby backed by billionaire Michael Bloomberg. They’re spending big piles of Bloomberg’s cash running campaign ads to flip Senate seats in Iowa and North Carolina. But for a gun control advocacy …
Parting Shot: The U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Give Us Our Freedom
More SUBSCRIBE Defenders of the right to keep and bear arms might be forgiven for wondering whether the U.S. Supreme Court’s copy of the United States Constitution is missing a few pages. It has been twelve years since the Court affirmed in D.C. v. Heller that “the right of the …
5 Steps to Improve Your Dry-Fire Routine
Most of us are spending a lot of time indoors that would otherwise be excellent shooting weather or are unable to get to the range. Editor-in-Chief Mark Keefe asked if I would share some thoughts on dry fire to perhaps help shooters get some repetitions in while stay-at-home orders are …