This being a column about mouse guns, let’s open it with a definition of what, exactly, constitutes a “mouse gun.”

“Our enemy is the gun manufacturers, not the NRA, the gun manufacturers,” Biden said.

Not a single one of the 20 candidates spoke in opposition to confiscation or the respect for the Second Amendment. So, the Democrats really are coming for your guns.

Moreover, what are you going to do, just run into the wild? Forever? What about everyone else who planned to do that?

I once asked him what he thought was the single most important quality in achieving success. His reply was immediate and succinct.

There are a lot of compact pistols out there, but don’t overlook Sig’s PS365. It’s a micro but worthwhile take on the 1911 that comes in fourteen different models.

With the possible exception of the jacketed hollow-point projectile, I don’t believe there’s a single defensive technology that has progressed as far in the last 30 years as the modern flashlight.

In an article appearing in the Virginian-Pilot, Chipman claims, “The gun does not sound gun-like. It takes the edge out of the tone . . . This is how I would describe it: It makes a gun sort of sound like a nail gun.”

In a nation beset by enemies foreign and domestic, it escapes me why some responsibly armed Americans would be opposed to the right tools in the right hands.