NORTH CAROLINA’S LEGISLATURE HAS OPPORTUNITY TO RIGHT A WRONG
North Carolina’s General Assembly is at a decision point. It can vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill to repeal a Jim Crow-era law requiring a permit-to-purchase a pistol. Or, it can allow the governor’s appeasement of special interest gun control groups to keep a law, rooted …
TAKE ACTION: ARM THE TEACHERS
The bill (H.J. Res. 44) to REPEAL Biden’s unconstitutional pistol brace rule is in peril. Republicans POSTPONED today’s House Judiciary Committee vote on H.J. Res 44 after Democrats plotted to hijack the process to politicize the recent tragic shooting in Nashville. We cannot allow the anti-gun lobby to pressure Republicans …
Gun Skills: Knowing Empty
Many believe that becoming an instructor marks the end of being a student, but the opposite is true. Teaching brings me back to fundamentals I might not otherwise have thought about for decades, particularly aspects of shooting that have inadvertently crept their way into muscle memory. For example, when I …
Idaho: Gun Owner Credit Card Privacy Bill Going to Governor
Today, the Senate voted 34-1 to pass House Bill 295, to prohibit payment processors from requiring the use of a firearms-specific MCC to distinguish purchases at a firearms retailer from a general merchandise retailer or a sporting goods retailer, and prohibit the misuse of payment card processing systems to surveil, report, or disclose these legal transactions. It now …
Making Modern Colt Revolvers
With the disappearance of the last custom-shop-produced Pythons made in the early 2000s, Colt, a name nearly synonymous with revolvers, found itself out of the modern double-action revolver business. More than a decade passed, but Colt found a way to resurrect old names and designs, all while improving on legacy …
Why Choose A Slim Pistol?
Handgun thickness is dictated by magazine dimensions, which vary based on capacity, construction and feed geometry. Travel with me back to the turn of the Millennium, when the big worry on internet firearm forums was what was going to happen when all the lights went out at midnight on Dec. …
First Look: Rock River Arms DMR Rifles
Rock River Arms (RRA) is now selling a new line of DMR style rifles known as the Rock River Arms Operator DMR series. This new product line includes four different rifles chambered for .308 Win. (7.62 NATO) along with two additional .223 Rem. (5.56 NATO) variants. DMR stands for “Designated Marksman …
8 Great New Hunting Rifles for 2023
Wandering the aisles of the SHOT Show in Las Vegas, I am always intrigued by the amount of new firearms, cartridges and optics released each year. Being a rifle junkie, I pay special attention to the new hunting rifles, and this year has an interesting crop. Some wear walnut and the steel …
The Solution Series: Self Defense & Situational Awareness with Richard Merfert
“When seconds count, police are minutes away!” ~ National Rifle Association slogan By Corey Lynn and James White The deterioration in our sense of personal safety comes from many directions. After a break-in at our neighbor’s home, we start to read the local reports of crimes and arrests. Or we …
Kevin McCarthy Stabs Gun Owners in the Back!
More than two months into the new Republican majority, and Kevin McCarthy has not brought one piece of pro-gun legislation to the floor for a vote. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise because as Majority Leader in 2017-2018, McCarthy actively promoted the unconstitutional “Bump Stock” ban and voted for Dianne …