Gov. Jay Inslee signed a package of three Washington state gun control bills into law yesterday (March 23) as many expected he would — one bans the sale of standard-capacity magazines in the state, and another prohibits residents from building ...
Kel-Tec, Police Depts, Gun Shops Sending Ukraine Firearms, Body Armor
The outpouring of support for the Ukrainian struggle against the ongoing Russian invasion continues in the United States, including American companies, law enforcement agencies, and individuals sending Ukraine gun donations and much-needed shipments ...
Expansion Ammo Preps Huge Texas Plant to Fight Ammunition Shortage
As the country’s major ammo manufacturers insist they can do little to quell the never-ending ammunition shortage and continually surging prices, one young company, Expansion Ammunition, is looking to help make shooting affordable again. Expansion ...
Indiana Joins Alabama and Ohio as Newest Constitutional Carry States
UPDATE - March 22, 2022: Gov. Eric Holcomb signed the Indiana constitutional carry bill (House Bill 1296) into law on Monday, granting residents the right to legally carry a concealed firearm without possessing a permit, paying a fee, or receiving ...
Cormac McCarthy Returns With Two Companion Novels
The revered author Cormac McCarthy is returning to the publishing world this fall, after a 16-year hiatus, with two companion novels that will be released a few weeks apart. The Passenger is set for an Oct. 25 release, with the second book, Stella ...
2 Million Rounds Headed to Ukraine from American Ammunition Manufacturers
Support for Ukrainians fighting against the Russian invasion of their country is pouring forth from all over the United States, including the ammunition industry. Two major US ammo producers have pledged to support the resistance — with bullets. ...
California Wants to Let People Sue Gun Shops, Spits Shade at Youth Rifle
California Gov. Gavin Newsom appears to be following through with a promise he made last year: to introduce anti-gun legislation based on the Texas Heartbeat Act, an anti-abortion law that went into effect in September, hoping to eventually put the ...
Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Hunter S. Thompson and Firearms
Hunter S. Thompson has become a lot of things to a lot of people since his death in 2005. While he was alive, it wasn’t much different. He was a public figure so controversial, that went so against the grain of civilized society, and was so litigious ...
Washington State’s High Capacity Magazine Ban Moving Forward
A so-called "high capacity" magazine ban is moving steadily through the Washington state Legislature. If successful, Senate Bill 5078 would make Washington the 10th state to impose a magazine capacity limit, and there's just one chance left for the ...
Ohio Gun Laws: Bill Would Protect Gun Rights During Riots, Emergencies
A piece of legislation that could codify the protection of gun rights during states of emergency in Ohio was approved by a committee this week and will be sent to the House for a vote. The bill, HB 325, would declare firearm possession, ...
Bill That Would Gut Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board Up for Public Comment
Next week, the Vermont Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy will hold a virtual public hearing on a trio of Senate bills that could reduce the size and power of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Board, ban hunting coyotes with dogs, and ban ...
Let’s Get Dark: The Best Songs About Murder
It’s time to take a trip to the musical dark side with one of the most beloved subjects of pop songs no matter the era: murder! There’s just something about songs that tell killing stories — they get in your head and stay there in a way to ...
Rash of LA Train Robberies Continues: 82 Firearms Stolen, Possibly More
For months, Union Pacific Railroad cars passing through Los Angeles have been repeatedly robbed by thieves who have made off with millions of dollars in merchandise, including TVs, appliances, and clothing. After local officials have, apparently, ...
Tom Brown Tracker: The Knife From ‘The Hunted’
Every so often, a movie will make a gun or a knife astonishingly and surprisingly famous. Dirty Harry did it for the Smith & Wesson Model 29 .44 Magnum revolver, First Blood did it for sawback knives with hollow handles, Crocodile Dundee caused a ...
Gun Owners Required to Buy Liability Insurance Under New San José Law
Gun control advocates have been talking about it for years, and now it looks like one city will become the first in the United States to require its gun-owning residents to buy liability insurance to exercise their Second Amendment rights legally. If ...
Gun Sales 2021: 5.4 Million Americans Bought a Firearm for the First Time
The results of the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF's) annual surveys of gun retailers are in and, as it turns out, Americans bought a helluva lotta guns in 2021 — and a large percentage of them did so for the very first ...
Minimum Age for Wisconsin Concealed Carry May Be Lowered to 18
Four bills have cleared the state Assembly that would significantly loosen restrictions on concealed carry in Wisconsin; one would lower the minimum age requirement for a CCW permit in the state from 21 to 18. Another bill in the package would allow ...
Browning Hi-Power Reborn: How 3 New, Updated Versions Stack Up
Time is a flat circle, and what is old will invariably be new again, especially if it didn’t suck the first time. It seems the wheel has come around for the Browning Hi-Power 9mm pistol. Born from a John M. Browning pistol design created not long ...
Cabot Guns Paves the Way for Firearm NFT Sales With its Moonshot 1911
Cabot Guns is about doing things that are different. You won’t catch them following any trends in the gun world, and their recent announcement that they have become the first firearms manufacturer to offer a digital firearm collection via NFTs ...
Raylan Givens to Return in ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Reboot
In an era when most people would have said an old-fashioned gunslinger with a badge had no place on TV, Justified came along and proved there was still an appetite for a different kind of cop show with a quick-drawing protagonist who usually put bad ...
Backcountry Movies That Will Give You Chills and Coax Some Feels
The backcountry is the place where people test the limits of their physical and mental endurance and learn what they're made of. By virtue of what it is, the backcountry has certain inherent dangers. Those that crave isolation and rough conditions ...
Ohio Constitutional Carry Bill Passes Senate, Competes With House Bill
Last week, the Ohio State Senate passed “constitutional carry,” aka permitless carry, legislation by a solid margin. The measure would allow law-abiding Ohioans who are 21 or older and legally allowed to possess a firearm to carry a concealed handgun ...
The Glock 17 Pistol’s Coolest Movie Moments
The Glock 17 is getting old. The Austrian import first made its way to the US market in 1988, and as ridiculous as it sounds, that was 33 years ago. The original Glock pistol’s use of modern polymers and its large ammo capacity and robust ...
Analyzing Alec Baldwin’s Movie Set Shooting Story
A lot has been said and written about the tragic events that unfolded on the set of Rust in the New Mexico desert since they occurred less than two months ago. Oct. 21 ended with the film’s cinematographer dead, its director suffering a gunshot ...
Study: Mass Gun Laws Increase Robberies, No Effect on Violent Crime
Last month, the results of a study on gun violence in Massachusetts done by a researcher at American University in Washington D.C. flew under most people's radar, but offer some fascinating insight as to how the gun-unfriendly state's changes to ...
Bart the Bear II, Actor and Cancer Spokesbear, Has Died
Everyone, raise a glass and pour one out. One of the greatest ursine actors to grace the silver screen — and there haven’t been many of those — has gone to the great beyond. Bart the Bear II, a highly acclaimed and extremely well-trained grizzly bear ...
Behind the Scenes of the Black Rifle Coffee Tesla Model XR556
How the hell do you top a vehicle build that pairs a Prius with a Vulcan cannon? By marrying a Tesla with twin miniguns, of course. Black Rifle Coffee Company co-founder, and resident mechanical genius, Richard Ryan cooked up the ...
New Pennsylvania Bill Would Decriminalize Automatic Knives
A piece of legislation was recently introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives that would significantly loosen regulations on automatic knives in the state. Rep. Martin Causer introduced HB 1929, which would make the manufacture, ...
Stallone’s Rocky 4 Director’s Cut Delivers More Heart, Less Synth
During the COVID-19 pandemic, when the country was mostly locked down in 2020, Sylvester Stallone told Rocky fans that he’d been occupying his time by doing something that nobody really expected — completely recutting Rocky IV (1985), which is a fan ...
Supreme Court Leaning Toward Voiding New York Carry Permit Law
US Supreme Court oral arguments held Wednesday, Nov. 3, regarding the most important Second Amendment court case since D.C. v Heller indicate the court is likely to void the current gun permit laws in New York state. Such a decision would have major ...
