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The Guns of Ruby Ridge: America Teeters at the Precipice

The Guns of Ruby Ridge: America Teeters at the Precipice

The very mention of Ruby Ridge still elicits powerful emotions. In 1992 with a Republican in the White House, the full might of the US government was unleashed on an American citizen and his family.

To Pass Gun Control, Treat Guns like Cigarettes says Academic

To Pass Gun Control, Treat Guns like Cigarettes says Academic

“The NRA has framed the issue at the individual level, as gun owner vs. non-gun owners. They paint it as a highly controversial issue that is basically a question of the Second Amendment versus the desire to reduce gun violence.”

Toronto City Officials Call for Nationwide Handgun Ban

Toronto City Officials Call for Nationwide Handgun Ban

The process to own a handgun in Canada is unbelievably onerous by American standards, but that isn’t stopping Canadian officials from calling for a total, nationwide handgun ban.

Cabot Announces Gun of The Month Program for 2020: 12 Limited Edition 1911s

Cabot Announces Gun of The Month Program for 2020: 12 Limited Edition 1911s

Editor’s note: Calling all serious and well-heeled 1911 collectors! Cabot Guns has something you must see! A Gun of the Month Program for 2020, featuring some of the coolest, high-end 1911s you’ve ever seen! Details, pricing, and pics are below. For the rest of us that can only dream of owning one of these pistols, [...]

Steel Shot

Steel Shot

For all of you waterfowl hunters born after 1992, the idea of steel shot is something you accept without hesitation. Reaching back ten more years would capture even more hunters still too young to remember. According to the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation’s 2016 report, just over two million of almost 12-million hunters seek waterfowl. While I am spitting out stats, I might as well add, migratory hunters spent 16-million days on 15-million trips and spent over $2.3 billion in 2016.  While this includes doves it most certainly is heavy with geese and ducks hunters.

1895: The Last Lever-Action

1895: The Last Lever-Action

The Winchester model 1895 was the last lever-action designed by firearms designer John Browning, and a favorite of Teddy Roosevelt and the Texas Rangers.

Shoot Better with the Mantis X - Dry Fire/Live Fire Analysis

Shoot Better with the Mantis X – Dry Fire/Live Fire Analysis

The Mantis X training system uses a rail mounted sensor to collect data on movements before and after trigger pulls.

Of Dictators, Assassins, and Friends - Walther PPK

Of Dictators, Assassins, and Friends – Walther PPK

South Korea’s breathtaking wealth and productivity stand in stark contrast to the poverty and despair to be found in its neighbor to the North. While modern Americans might presume that South Korea has been free and prosperous ever since the end of the Korean War, such was not always the case. Today’s South Korea has a sordid history indeed.

Yale Law School Students: Gun Control is Preemptive Self-Defense

Yale Law School Students: Gun Control is Preemptive Self-Defense

“An individual right to gun ownership offers one path, deputizing all people to defend themselves with a firearm at their side. Gun regulation offers another such path to self-defense, one vastly more efficacious and preferred by the American public. It represents a mode of preemptive self-defense, whereby the state is tasked by its citizens with limiting access to deadly force,” they write.

The Murder of Malcolm X: Muslim Fratricide in Tumultuous 1960’s America

The Murder of Malcolm X: Muslim Fratricide in Tumultuous 1960’s America

In his early years, Malcolm X advocated violence. But when he later took a stand for peace, he became a target—shot by a shotgun pistol, 9mm, and M1911A1.