Were pistols common in Revolutionary America? Historical evidence from Cramer and Olson’s Willamette Law Review article shows pistols were privately owned, commercially available, and familiar to Americans at the Founding.
As preppers, we sometimes tend to concentrate on the more extreme end of things, like EMP or mass casualty events. In doing so, we often overlook the far more common, though mundane, situations that can arise. If we’re being realistic, we’re far more likely to be injured working around the ho...
The USS Hornet (CV-12) stands as one of the most storied aircraft carriers in United States naval history, playing a decisive role in World War II as part of the Essex-class fleet. From its origins as a replacement for the lost USS Hornet (CV-8) to its participa...
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a 1940 Colt Official Police shipped to the government of Iceland on March 21, 1940 as part of an 80-revolver order through John Olafsson & Company in Reykjavik. The timing is significant – this was one year into WWII, one month befor...
This question shows up at gun counters more than just about anything else. Someone grabs a box of ammo, notices it says .223 Remington, but their barrel is marked 5.56 NATO, and suddenly they are wondering if they made a mistake. I have watched this exact scenario play out dozens of times, and ho...
Handgun-mounted red dot sights have been around for a long time. I was first exposed to them in the late ’90s mounted on USPSA Open guns. These flat-shooting, compensated, red dot-adorned pistols ran fast when they were running, and Open shooters were most often at the top of the list at the en...
I’ve been chasing that ever-changing goal of a faster draw. How fast can I draw and fire a shot into the target? With a goal of getting it in under 1 second, I’ve been racing the clock daily. Sometimes with dry fire, sometimes with live. I’ve used the TitanX a lot to get my draw […] T...
The DOJ’s new Second Amendment enforcement effort is now colliding with Virginia’s 2026 gun control package, as Harmeet Dhillon warns the state could face federal litigation over unconstitutional firearm restrictions.
As Bob Dylan once sang, “The times, they are a-changin.” I remember an era where bolt-action pistols were associated mainly with long-range metallic silhouette shooting. Magnum handgun cartridges offered a good amount of up-close knock-down power where steel pigs and rams were concerned, but ...
I’ve always been drawn to compact firearms. There’s something about the balance of size, weight, and capability that makes them not only practical, but genuinely enjoyable to train with. They occupy that space between a daily carry pistol and a full-size rifle, that compact yet capable footpr...