DOJ Sues Minnesota Over Gun Permit-to-Purchase Laws and Waiting Periods
Armed self-defense cannot wait on a government permission slip. DOJ’s lawsuit challenges Minnesota’s gun purchase permits and waiting periods under the Second Amendment.
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Plain Truths in Amicus Brief, Court Rulings Underscore 2A as First-Class Right
From privately made firearms in Delaware to waiting periods and interstate handgun sales, recent cases test whether courts will treat the Second Amendment as a first-class right.
POTD: The H&K G11 - Tomorrow's Rifle, Yesterday's Budget
The G11 represents a peculiar Cold War tragedy: a rifle so technically advanced that it arrived exactly at the moment its creator could no longer afford it. Developed across two decades by a West German consortium and completed in 1990, this caseless-ammunition assault rifle was supposed to defin...
Fokker D.VIII Fighter: The Deadly Flying Razor
In the summer of 1918, a new fighter ascended in the German Air Combat Forces, or Luftstreitkräfte, boasting a level of performance that would outpace any of Anthony Fokkers’ famous designs. The Fokker E.V parasol monoplane, eventually known as the Fokker D.VIII, demonstrated tremendous combat...
Leupold’s Relentless Rifleman: Toughest NRL Hunter Match in The West
I have spent plenty of weekends on the clock in all sorts of competitions and classes, including Rimfire PRS , along with a handful of smaller regional and private precision matches, but until this year I had never shot in an NRL Hunter match , and I had never so much as watched its parent discip...
Leupold Launches the BX-2 Timberline HD Binocular
Leupold just added the BX-2 Timberline HD to the binocular lineup, and the pricing answers the question most hunters will have right away. The 10×42 runs $199.99 and the 12×50 comes in at $249.99. Both are backed by Leupold’s lifetime guarantee and built around their Advanced Opti...
Operation Anthropoid: Killing the Butcher of Prague
Who was the most horrible person in all of human history? Some might claim their mother-in-law. I’m personally crazy about mine. However, I’d like to dig a bit deeper than that today. Tragically, the competition for that particularly dark superlative is fierce. I would say that human beings a...
Berlin Candy Bomber in the Berlin Airlift
U.S. Air Force Colonel Gail Seymour Halvorsen was a transport pilot best known as the “Candy Bomber” or “Onkel Wiggly Wings,” who became famous for dropping candy to German children in Berlin during the Soviet Blockade of the city. Following Germany’s defeat in World War II, the vic...
Aviation Icon and American Hero: Chuck Yeager
Born into poverty in the woods of West Virginia, Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager was a World War II aircraft mechanic, fighter pilot, double ace, military commander, and a test pilot who broke the sound barrier. His journey from Army private to USAF Brigadier General is an inspiration to all. Yeage...
Binocular 101: How to Buy Smart
Charred lodgepoles scratching a gunmetal sky reflected my mood. This morning the elk had won. No plan in mind, I climbed beyond where they’d scattered. Probing the slope’s crest from the sit with my binocular, I saw it. Among ranks of black boles with low-arcing limbs, a branch curved up...