M10 Booker: Not Your Daddy’s Light Tank

For more than a century, infantry units have fought under an unforgiving reality: When you’re humping a ruck through non-cooperative terrain and you run face-first into an entrenched bunker, fortified machine-gun nest or enemy light armor, your options for immediate heavy fire support are painf...

By Mason Berryman •

Armed Homeowner Halts Fleeing Intruder Following High-Speed Police Chase

A Florida homeowner successfully defended his wife and property by deploying a defensive firearm against a wanted robbery suspect who fled a police pursuit and broke into his residence through a detached garage. The homeowner's decisive action halted the intruder until deputies arrived. The post ...

By Brandon Curtis •

The Norco Bank Robbery

On May 9th, 1980, five heavily armed men stormed the Norco branch of the Security Pacific Bank, demanding 20,000 dollars in cash. What happened next became a legendary gunfight that poured out of the bank and into the streets of a California city. It’s a shootout that’s long fascinated me, on...

By Travis Pike •

POTD: Blue Lights, Hard Steel and Rio's Thin Blue Line

TFB’s Photo Of The Day goes in blue and red lights. Polícia Militar do Estado do Rio de Janeiro officers stand at attention in the darkness, berets crisp and squared, radiating exactly the kind of disciplined presence the force projects when it wants the streets to know it is there. ...

By Eric B •
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