Both Freedom Group and Smith & Wesson Holdings broke bad news for employees last week. Late Friday afternoon, Freedom Group issued a news release announcing the March 31, 2011 closure of the Wyndham, Maine facilities of Bushmaster Firearms International. Simultaneously, Smith & Wesson’s announcement of the decision to close Thompson/Center’s manufacturing facilities in Rochester, New [...]
Today is Election Day. A Catholic organization also reminded me, it’s All Souls Day, the day prayers are offered on behalf of all the souls of the “faithfully departed”. Hopefully some of the prayers offered up today, whatever your faith, will be for wisdom in the elections and for the well-being of our nation and [...]
Friday afternoon, word that Bushmaster Firearms testing had uncovered a potential problem with their Adaptive Combat Rifle (ACR). According to the notice issued to owners of the ACR, routine test firing had “discovered a design flaw which could result in multiple rounds firing continuously when the trigger is pulled.” As the notice observed “This unexpected [...]
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition that called for an EPA ban on the production and distribution of lead in ammunition. In his explanation of the ruling, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Steve Owens said the reasoning behind the decision was simple: “EPA reached this [...]
This weekend, I sat through the History Channel’s marathon of Top Shots, the show that pitted a mixture of shooters in a variety of marksmanship competitions against each other for a $100,000 top prize. At first, I started watching because a couple of shooters Caleb Giddings (Gun Nuts Media) and J.J. Racaza (a top competition [...]
For some, the word bodyguard conjures up the mental image of a hulking brute in an ill-fitting suit just waiting to pound someone into a pile of goo. In the world of private security, however, the opposite is almost equally true. A bodyguard is also light and agile and oriented toward avoiding conflict, but still [...]
I’ve never been one to make changes to my guns. After an unfortunate experience involving my dad’s favorite wristwatch, I’ve left complicated machinery pretty much alone. It’s worked out better for everyone that way. Since a no-nonsense drill instructor during an ROTC summer training camp told me “if you reassemble this firearm incorrectly, when fired, [...]
The Second Amendment Foundation continues its assault on bad gun legislation with a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New York and its handgun permit licensing officers. The suit seeks a permanent injunction against enforcement of a New York state law that allows carry licenses to be denied because applicants cannot show “good cause”. Westchester County [...]
Back after more than two weeks of watching oil spread across some of my favorite places on Earth, I find myself staring semi-blankly at a stack of things that have managed to accumulate atop my desk in my absence. No, not just the bills, they are regular arrivals; the special packages that I haven’t had [...]
As we return from another Independence Day holiday, I couldn’t help think about the many things we still had to celebrate without realizing how far we’ve come from the country I knew as a kid. When I was a kid, not many people thought a thing about seeing me and/or my friends heading out into [...]
