Learn how background checks for gun purchases work through NICS. This guide covers the 3 possible results (Proceed, Denied, Delayed), what causes denials, how long checks take, and state-specific requirements.
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Radio discipline, earpro compliance, and the gap between "we have a plan" and "that plan survived contact with an actual call."
In February, the minutes from an Australian Senate meeting revealed that Australia plans to provide the Papua New Guinea Defence Force with more than 3,000 new Thales ACAR - or Australian Combat Assault Rifles.
In this Viridian RFX11 review, author Dan Abraham evaluates the usefulness of a green dot optic on a handgun. Green dots may be more visible in bright light than red dots. But, does that actually play out on the range? The RFX11 was provided to the author by the company for the purposes of this R...
American bombers in World War II represented the most significant leap in strategic air power the world had ever seen. Between 1941 and 1945, the United States Army Air Force (U.S.A.A.F.) deployed an unprecedented array of bombing aircraft across both European and Pacific theaters. From light att...
Your rifle doesn’t need to be “cool.” It needs to be the same every time, for every officer, under every dumb condition.
It was Thanksgiving weekend. James Kim and wife, Kati, with their young daughters Sabine and Penelope, were motoring on their trip home to San Francisco on I-5, then turned toward Gold Beach on Oregon’s southern coast. The road James took began to climb. There was no traffic, and soon no cell s...
It took a while before I was able to have Nolan Howard on the show. In the meantime, he had stories about him and 617 Defense in the Boston Globe, and he was on Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co. a few times.