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Fake movie posters mock actor Liam Neeson for his anti-gun stance.

The Washington Post called out president Obama for telling tall tales on the gun issue.

Can you believe it has been over a year since I started this column? If you are a new subscriber, you may have missed some of the seminal early stuff, so I would go into the archives and read some if you have the time. There is more information here than you’d find in years of subscriptions to print mags, and hundreds of hours of surfing survival blogs, which are both mostly full of fluff geared towards advertisers. From the start this column has taken a hard look at actual survival without the benefit of modern society, but we began with the question, why should we do this?

The final design of the 1911 really came about from a series of trials that the US Government put it and other pistols through. These tests let Colt and John Browning see how the pistol held up. There were also requirements that the design had to meet. A lot of the credit for how the 1911 came out can be attributed to the trials and specifications required for the new pistol.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Tuesday that it received over 80,000 comments on the proposed framework for reclassifying the “armor-piercing” ammunition known as M855. That’s quite a lot of feedback.

At least two prominent gun-control organizations denied that they pushed for the ban on M855 ammunition, reports the Hill.com

Caught on tape! Mayor Danny Jones of Charleston, West Virginia, was making fun of gun rights advocates while waiting on preliminary election results Saturday.

First of all, what’s a 6.8 Remington SPC? While at first glance it may look like a 5.56mm round, it’s not. Mainly because it’s bigger in all ways. Some folks from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit, United States Special Operations Command and Remington got together to work up a new cartridge that maintained reasonable compatibility [...]

Former Navy SEAL and NRA News commentator Dom Raso reminds us that Hillary Clinton lied about dodging “sniper fire” on a trip to Bosnia. As such, Raso contends that the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate is unworthy to be the nation’s commander-in-chief.