Europe is now facing the reality of their stupid policies of allowing Muslims to invade their countries. Facing rapes, threats by the Islamic State and other acts of lawlessness by these Muslim refugees throughout Europe, the Czechoslovakian Interior Minister is calling for a constitutional change that would protect citizens who …

Article first appeared at American Rifleman. They say beauty is only skin deep. That said, some people have difficulty looking past the surface. I think that is indeed the case with the recently leaked imagery of the new Taurus Spectrum pistol. Despite the jibes, perhaps rightly, Taurus has taken on …

The more the threats to freedom increased over 2016, the more Americans understood the need for the right to keep and bear arms, which is protected under the Second Amendment. More than 27.5 million guns were purchased by Americans in 2016. According to background check numbers released by the FBI, …

Article first appeared at Cheaper than Dirt. Contrary to what you may see in a lot of the popular firearms media these days, the revolver as a self-defense tool is not dead. In fact, there are quite a few options available for those seeking a revolver for home defense, concealed …

Article first appeared at Americas 1st Freedom. This feature appears in the January ‘17 issue of NRA America’s 1st Freedom, one of the official journals of the National Rifle Association.   Watching the news during the NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits can be a strange and unsettling experience. After a cursory look …

For most of us, we have never lived in a world where the 2nd Amendment was not the law of the land. We often talk about the 2nd Amendment. We talk about our right to bear arms, but, we have never actually had those rights fully, as government, since the …

Article first appeared at Shooting Illustrated. Sam Colt invented the revolver as we know it, offering the first one for sale in 1836. That first Paterson was a five-shot, cap-and-ball revolver. An earlier—and very complicated—flintlock revolver, the Collier, came out of the United Kingdom and may or may not have …

Article first appeared at American Rifleman. Experts in the field of personal protection advise their students to arm themselves with the most powerful defensive handguns they can manage. But how much felt recoil any one individual can deal with is governed by a variety of factors. Age, injury, illness or …

Article first appeared at American Rifleman. As one of the most popular pocket-pistol cartridges today, the .380 ACP round is actually quite long in the tooth. Dating back more than a century to its creation by John Moses Browning, the .380 has a long and storied history. However, it was not …

Article first appeared at American Rifleman. It should be obvious that a gun intended for concealed carry on the person should be small, but more importantly, it should be light. Often, however, the small, light handgun delivers ballistic performance on the light side. That forces the defensive handgunner hard up …