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 [...]
When Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation tells me something is a “call to action” in the future, I’m going to go ahead and get on my feet. He’s marching, and everyone with him had better be ready to move. On Monday, the SAF filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for [...]
Later today, the United States Supreme Court will issue final rulings for their current session. Among them- as expected- the ruling on the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the second case in what will doubtless be a long line of cases challenging the myriad of anti-individual firearms ownership interpretations of the Second Amendment of the [...]
Seems there’s a knife fight brewing between New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and knife owners infuriated over his so-called sting operation against knives he classified as “illegal gravity knives”. Seems statement claiming seven of fourteen New York dealers have removed folding knives from their shelves and forfeited any sales profits from earlier sales, [...]
