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Anyone who has ever competed in sports has experienced the stress and nervousness brought on by the possibility of winning. Imagine yourself up on the firing line shooting very well. Everything is going right, and you are in contention to win the match if you can just finish the last …

There has always been ridiculous. But now there is Tredyffrin-Easttown School District ridiculous. That’s because this Pennsylvania educational board currently tops all-comers in the hotly-contested race for the most counter-productive overreaction to a perceived “threat” from an objectively harmless student. In this case, the victim was Margot, a 6-year-old kindergartner …

The campaigns of Democrats seeking to challenge President Donald Trump in November 2020 seem to be on a never-ending quest to see which one can implode in the most spectacular fashion. We’ve documented the collapse of Representatives Eric Swalwell and Robert Francis O’Rourke, as well as predicted the demise of …

As attacks continue upon our rights as Americans to keep and bear arms, it looks as if virtually no representatives, save a handful, are willing stand against those attacks and remove from office those doing the attacking. We have a rich history of keeping and bearing arms in this country …

I suppose it is just human nature that we imagine episodes and events that make us look good. Further, we often see and hear things that sound really cool and repeating them makes us sound like we are really experienced in this business of personal defense. One of my favorite …

I spend a lot of time thinking and frankly, worrying about how I train myself and what I teach students in my defensive-handgun classes. It weighs heavy on my mind because the stakes are high. A defensive gun-use error can be costly. If you err on the side of excess …

The current political leadership in California has a well-earned reputation for outright hostility to the Second Amendment and to those Golden State citizens who wish to exercise their right to keep and bear arms. But the California landscape—political, social and cultural—is large and diverse, and contrary to what some might …

The 2020 Legislative Session in Connecticut has just started, and anti-gun legislators are quickly introducing bills to restrict your Second Amendment rights. House Bill 5040, sponsored by Rep. Jillian Gilchrest (D-18), will financially burden law-abiding citizens and their right to self-defense by imposing a 35 percent tax on ammunition sales. This is in …

Following an incredible turnout of armed citizens in Virginia this year on Lobby Day, the representatives of the people stabbed them in the back, not only trying to silence their criticism, but by advancing numerous bills through the House, including a ban on semi-automatic weapons, high capacity magazines and suppressors. …

Don’t mix up your shotgun ammunition, no matter what the internet “experts” tell you is best. What might sound like a great idea in theory rarely works as expected in practice. I received a letter last month asking me about the practice of loading several types of ammo—buckshot and/or birdshot …