The high-end auction houses always have some sort of interesting firearm up for auction - sometimes it’s a rare piece of history, sometimes the gun belonged to a notable figure from the past, and sometimes, it’s a set of diamond-encrusted, gold-plastered Smith & Wesson No. 1 revol...
NEW ORLEANS, LA — The Firearms Policy Coalition has taken Texas to the Fifth Circuit over three laws that strip law-abiding gun owners of the right to carry in places people visit every day. FPC filed its opening brief on June 15 in Ziegenfuss v. Martin, asking the federal appeals court to stri...
MANCHESTER, KY — Kentucky State Police are investigating an early-morning shooting in Clay County that left a 23-year-old man fighting for his life after, troopers say, he arrived intoxicated at his parents’ home and threatened the family. The call came in to Clay County 911 around 2 a.m....
TULSA, OKLA. — A convenience store clerk shot a man who police say stormed in swinging a machete, got behind the counter, and came after him twice. It happened June 11 around 8:17 a.m. at Naifeh’s Food Mart near 200 N. Mohawk Blvd. Tulsa Police officers responded to a shooting call and fo...
TULSA, OKLA. — A man waiting to pay inside a south Tulsa QuikTrip had his pistol taken straight off his hip, and the case is a clean example of why I carry concealed instead of open. According to the Tulsa Police Department, the theft happened June 12 around 1:42 p.m. at the QuikTrip at 1415 [&...
Episode 61 was filmed June 3rd, flying Southwest from Las Vegas to New Orleans. Smooth from start to finish. Check-In at LAS Declared firearms. Agent asked if there was ammunition in the chamber — no. Confirmed I was heading to New Orleans, then handed me the declaration form to fill out and si...
OLYMPIA, WASH. — The Washington Supreme Court ruled June 11 that the state can strip your Second Amendment rights over repeat drunk driving convictions, even when no firearm was ever involved in the offense. In McLellan v. Brown, the court upheld RCW 9.41.040, a 2023 law that temporarily bars a...
A diligent mindset is the discipline against complacency. See how a quick trip for a soda turned into a knife fight, and why diligence has to be unbroken.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The change I wrote about this spring is now the law. As of June 12, 2026, any West Virginia adult 18 and older can carry a concealed deadly weapon without first getting a license. That date marked 90 days from the passage of House Bill 4106, which Governor Patrick Morrisey s...
The classic American service rifle, the M14 in 7.62x51mm NATO, was the replacement for the M1 Garand, adding (among other things) a 20-round detachable box magazine and select-fire including fully automatic. It was the primary service rifle for the U.S. until Vietnam where it was replac...