With (Gun) Rights, Come Responsibilities
The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, but unfortunately not all those who bear arms today are responsible.
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Quiet Readiness: A Simple Reminder for Concealed Carriers After a Tense Weekend
There has already been at least one geopolitically connected incident reported in Austin, Texas. That doesn’t mean anything is about to happen in your town, and it doesn’t mean you should change your daily routine. What it does mean is that uncertain times are a good moment to make sure your equipment is working the way it should. Calm preparation beats last-minute scrambling every time.
Two Free Societies, Two Very Different Views of Law-Abiding Gun Owners
In the United States—particularly in states like Michigan—firearm ownership is treated as a normal attribute of a free citizen. In Australia, firearm ownership is treated as a conditional privilege granted by the state.
A Nation of Responsible Citizens or a Nation of Subjects: The Constitutional Right to Self Defense, Part I
The Second Amendment was not written in poetic ambiguity. It was written with brutal clarity by men who had just finished shooting their way out of tyranny.
America’s Gun Problem. We Are Gonna Need ’em, But….? by George Mcclellan
Despite, or because of the speed of Trump’s unbelievable accomplishments dismantling the Deep State, America faces a very perilous period fraught with increasing violence, threats of violence and deranged people
It’s Not the Guns!
Many people blame the AR-15-style rifles (“AR-15” is a trademark of Colt, so to be an AR-15, it has to be Colt or an original ArmaLite) and the “modern” semi-automatic pistol for the rise in mass shootings, somehow believing that these are New Things.
Our Second Amendment
The Second Amendment to the Constitution serves a number of functions to preserve liberty, not all of them obvious.
Unmasking JStark1809: The Man Behind the 3D-Printed Gun Revolution3d Printed Gun
In the shadowy world of 3D-printed firearms, one pseudonym stood out: JStark1809. This alias belonged to Jacob Duygu, a German national born to Kurdish parents who arrived as refugees from Southeast Turkey in the 1990s. Duygu’s exact date of birth remains uncertain, but he was either 28 or 29 years old at the time of his death in 2021.
The Truth About 3D-Printed Guns: Why Governments Fear Them and Why They’ll Fail to Ban Them
If you thought the Second Amendment was clear, Michigan’s recent attempts to outlaw 3D-printed firearms prove that clarity means nothing to politicians looking for control. The state’s latest ghost gun legislation mandates serial numbers on homemade firearms, threatens prison time for ownership, and in classic bureaucratic fashion, assumes criminals will suddenly start following gun laws. …
The First Steps of Tyranny: Disarming and Silencing the People
History has shown that every authoritarian regime follows a similar pattern: first, they take away your right to defend yourself, and then they take away your right to speak.
Aluminum and Plastic Toys and Wooden Souls: Why Real Rifles Have Wooden Stocks
The difference is simple: a wooden-stocked rifle has a soul. It’s a rifle in the truest sense of the word—a tool, yes, but also a companion, a legacy, and a reminder of what matters. A rifle without wood? It’s just another tool in your toolbox
A Good Guy With a Gun and the Golden Minute
The Golden Minute is the time period where a good guy with a gun arrives in time to prevent a single shooting from becoming a mass murder.
The Real Problem Isn’t the Gun, It’s America’s Moral Drift
In the wake of yet another tragic school shooting, the debate often centers around guns, but the true issue runs deeper. Neither a thought nor a prayer has ever stopped a bullet, but tragically, the bodies of children and teachers have
The Liberator Pistol: A Brief History
In 1942, the U.S. sought to create a weapon that could be cheaply and quickly produced to arm resistance fighters in Nazi-occupied territories.
The AFNN Use of Force Test, Part V; Can You Pass It?
If all the guns in the world could somehow be magically removed; the weak, frail and vulnerable would have no way of protecting themselves from the thugs with bats, clubs and knives
Will They Ask Handgun Control About This?
Once again we must point out, it’s not the device, but the evil people that cause mass murder. Maybe we should be careful who we allow into our country.
John Moses Browning: A Patriot and Engineering Genius
John Moses Browning, born on January 23, 1855, in Ogden, Utah, was not just a firearms designer; he was an engineering genius whose innovations revolutionized the firearms industry
Restoring Constitutional Integrity: Challenging the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968
The National Firearms Act of 1934 and the Gun Control Act of 1968 stand as affronts to the United States Constitution and its foundational principles.
The Power of Words: Rethinking Language in the Gun Debate
The term “assault weapon” often carries a negative connotation, invoking a sense of menace and danger.
Dempsey Darrow: It’s a Game of Semantics
There’s no such thing as “assault rifle,” The term is an exercise in semantics used by mewling leftists to infringe on an enumerated constitutional right.