The Social Security Administration, created to administer public retirement benefits, is now poised to deny the Second Amendment-protected rights of tens of thousands of recipients. Editor’s Note: Since this feature appeared in the print version of America’s 1st Freedom magazine, Congress and President Donald Trump rolled back the Obama-era regulation …

Tentative cops and uncertain justice are driving up urban homicide rates. This feature appears in the March ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   The downward trend in violent crime over the last 25 years has been nothing short of remarkable. …

We Carry Lifers have an image problem, like it or not. Non-shooters especially, but some surprising others too, labor under lingering doubts that we’re secretly fonts of seething, irrational fury, waiting to erupt with gunfire at imaginary provocations. The happy—though certainly unappreciated—truth is the polar opposite. CCW holders have a …

Democrats keep frantically pushing for more and more control, even when it contradicts their own beliefs. This feature appears in the March ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   Buy All-American! Bring health and vitality back to your body with these …

Somewhere, perhaps in Snapchat’s headquarters on the west side of Los Angeles, in the sunny beachside community of Venice, the question of what to do about this story must have come up. Maybe even one or more of the former Stanford University students who founded Snapchat in 2011—Evan Spiegel, Bobby …

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If you read Shooting Illustrated regularly, you’re probably not the type who’ll settle for making do with whatever shotgun you happen to own, even if it’s not ideal for home defense. But many Americans are. Fact is, any gun in the home is better than none for self-defense, and many …

Getting hits at close range in a battle with a felon is the single most likely gun fighting skill you will be called upon to execute. For those of us that have experienced such a battle, it is unforgettable. The action has been called the Tyranny of the Moment. At …

With violent crime on the rise around the country, the media should be interested in investigating the reasons why, right? Instead, the media feeds into the anti-gun frenzy with reports of untraceable “ghost guns,” descriptions of suppressors as “tools for assassins,” and gun owners as ticking time bombs. When was …

There is a gated community where the anti-gun rich and powerful live. Within these ideological walls, their points of view needn’t meet reality. In this protected place, their convictions aren’t even put to the sort of test that a college debate club might find normal. In this private community they …