Armed Citizen® Today An alleged burglar is recovering in a Chicago-area hospital after confronting an armed man inside a local business late on the evening of April 9, 2023. At 11:50 p.m., a man inside the closed business heard a noise at the back door of the building. When he …

California, the birthplace of banning semi-automatics they mislabel “assault weapons,” has long been considered a laboratory for oppressive and ineffective gun control. Here are just two experiments in cities within the Golden State that anti-gunners would like to see exported to the rest of the country, in a seemingly never-ending …

Some may not remember that the Second Amendment was once facing the prospect of extinction. Instead, the right to keep and bear arms is in the midst of a modern renaissance, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen. How we …

The first Glock chambered in .380 ACP on the American market was the Model 42, a subcompact single-stack pistol introduced in 2014. The company’s history with making .380 pistols, however, long predates the Model 42. One of these models, the Glock 28, is now available in the U.S. as a limited-edition TALO model. …

New York City has some of the most-restrictive firearms laws in the country. Still, in 2021, criminals committed nearly 8,000 felonies with guns in what some affectionately call “Gotham.” How does that add up? The disparity in these two facts shows that, indeed, if it is criminal to have a gun, …

When listening to criminal trials, I am keenly aware that the prosecution’s case must be presented “beyond reasonable doubt.” The same instinct that leads me toward a passion for the civil liberties protected by the Second Amendment leads me to demand strict limits on the government’s power within the courts. …

In the movie Casablanca (1942), when Rick (Humphrey Bogart) shoots Maj. Strasser to stop him from preventing Victor and Ilsa’s airplane from taking off, Capt. Louis Renault gave officers arriving on the scene their marching orders when he delivered the now-famous line: “Round up the usual suspects.”  While rounding up …

Think of a semi-automatic pistol issued to U.S. military personnel during World War II, and the Model 1911A1 immediately comes to mind. But there was another Browning-created semi-automatic that also saw battlefield action and, like the M1911A1, was drafted from peacetime to wartime service. It was the Colt 1903 Pocket …

NRA’s 2023 Annual Meeting & Exhibits began with a slew of new product launches, as several companies took advantage of crowds comprised of tens of thousands of NRA members eager to see the industry’s latest and greatest. Fittingly, many of the new introductions centered upon the huge concealed-carry market, but …

Just imagine if the mainstream media reported this scene straight. Hall A at the Indiana Convention Center was filled with thousands of members of the NRA all waiting for the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum to begin. Some had waited for hours to get in to the hall. They’d stood in lines …