A group of Marine Raiders hailing from Texas were equipped with the ill-fated Reising Model 55 SMG during the vicious fighting on Guadalcanal. As was my habit, I came back on the gun’s trigger rather gently. After all, it was an unusual gun and I had no experience with it …

The weekend of August 22 and 23 was another violence-filled Saturday and Sunday in Chicago, with 66 people shot and five of those people killed. The previous weekend also saw 64 people shot—seven of them fatally. According to NBC Chicago, 2020 has seen a sharp increase in Chicago violence. “From …

Not satisfied with restrictive gun control measures already enacted by the New Mexico Legislature, like the ban on private firearms transfers and a red flag gun confiscation law, the Albuquerque City Council is poised to consider three additional gun control measures in September: Resolution R-20-68 urges the New Mexico Legislature to …

Years ago, when I first began martial arts training, I read a book called Living the Martial Way, by Forrest Morgan. Even though the martial arts featured in the book were not of my liking and have lost considerable popularity in today’s mixed martial arts world, Morgan still laid the foundation …

Imagine if, in the early 20th century, the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst not only grew from owning a single newspaper in San Francisco to building a media empire in New York and beyond, which he did, but also was able to build a company that could actually control private …

It’s a funny word, “moderate.” We throw it around habitually, as a positive and aggrandizing description, but we rarely stop to ask the crucial, prerequisite question: “Relative to what?” In some circumstances—when drinking, for example—moderation can indeed be a virtue. In others, it is among the worst of vices. Justice …

This article, “Deep Behind Enemy Lines: Weapons of Vietnam’s Covert Warriors,” appeared originally in the April 2015 issue of American Rifleman. To subscribe to the magazine, visit the NRA membership page here and select American Rifleman as your member magazine. It’s unlikely that any other U.S. military unit ever fielded such an array of …

As I’m wedged in the back of an NYPD Strategic Response vehicle, the officers rip through the clogged Manhattan streets on a frostbitten Sunday afternoon. The destination is not the usual crime-plagued pockets of the Bronx or Brooklyn, but the lower east side of the island borough dotted with designer …

It’s no secret that gun sales have soared over the past six months, propelled by the uncertainty of the global coronavirus pandemic and subsequent unrest. More than 2.5 million Americans have become first-time gun owners, with a million more expected to join the ranks by November. A recent national poll conducted …

In a shameless effort to exploit the El Paso, Midland, and Odessa tragedies, gun control advocates have been demanding that the Texas Legislature pass radical restrictions on your rights called for by failed politicians like Beto O’Rourke and Michael Bloomberg.  The Texas House Committee on Mass Violence Prevention & Community Safety …