Booby Traps – Maybe Not the Best Idea

I was in middle school (we called it junior high back then) when I first became interested in booby traps. I’d seen First Blood and thought the traps Rambo set up in the woods were pretty nifty. From there, it wasn’t a big leap to start looking at how to set up similar sorts of […] The ...

By Jim Cobb

Kit and Gear Selection Part 1: Choosing the Right Tool for the Job

The procurement of individual gear to support military, police, or civil defense has a long, convoluted, but necessary history. Choosing what gear best suits your needs becomes a balance of practicality and assumption. Whether you are riding a tractor, enforcing a warrant, or running the back hil...

By Toby M

The State Of The Canadian Gun Ban/Buyback

What’s going on in the Canadian gun world these days? Same as always—more legal wrangling back-and-forth between shooters and the government. But there have been some relatively major recent developments with the federal government’s so-called buyback. The feds are steaming full...

By Zac K

[SHOT 2026] Kinetic Blossom MAGPIE Handheld Electric Speed Loader

Loading double-stack single-feed pistol magazines by hand can be difficult, tedious, time-consuming and even painful depending on the number and/or capacity of magazines you load. Thankfully, there are multiple different speed loaders available on the market that make the loading process of the a...

By Hrachya H

MCG Tactical Has A Green Solution For Boresighting

Just because we’re used to doing something a certain way doesn’t mean it can’t be done better. That’s how just about every advancement, ever, in firearms design came about—someone rethinking the normal. And that is spreading over to the world of optics these days, wi...

By Zac K
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