Hunting 101: Getting Started with Hunting in America
This past weekend Tyler Kee invited me down to his family's ranch in the Texas hill country to go hunting for the first time. As you can see from the picture, things went pretty...
NY Times: The Freedom Group’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Choose
Every week or so the New York Times provides another opportunity for gun rights advocates to give the left-leaning paper the "pitchfork and torches" treatment. Today's Sunday Business section article on the Freedom Group---"the most powerful...
What’s the NRA’s Secret Weapon for Kicking-Out Obama?
Dear ROBERT,
I want to alert you that shortly after Thanksgiving you will receive your new 2012 NRA Membership Card in the mail. When you receive it, I hope you'll give special attention to the...
NRA Supports Silencers. Finally.
Silencers (or suppressors or whatever you want to call them) have long been ignored in the conversation about "gun rights." Regulations regarding ownership and manufacture of silencers haven't changed much since the National Firearms...
NRA Turns 140 Today
On November 17, 1871 the National Rifle Association was officially chartered in the state of New York. The founders, Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate, formed the organization to promote marksmanship among the...
NRA Rips Gun Rights Groups a New You-Know-What on H.R. 822
Our man parsed H.R. 822 (The "National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2011") over a month ago. Despite his definitive analysis, the exact "meaning" of the bill continues to be a matter of debate and confusion...
Is The NRA Doomed?
In Gun Fight; the Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America, Adam Winkler tries to play it both ways. He acknowledges the inescapable fact of American gun ownership while arguing for "common sense" gun...
NRA’s LaPierre: U.S. Doesn’t Supply Mexican Cartels’ Guns
The NRA reckons it's OK, now, to excoriate the Obama administration on the whole ATF Gunwalker screw-up. No surprise there. NRA fund raising has relied on fear-mongering (with or without reality-based justification) for quite...
An Interview with Kevin Brittingham, founder of AAC
A few weeks ago, I was flown down to take a tour of the Advanced Armament Corp. factory, meet their employees, and test out their stuff. You've seen the results of that trip in...
NRA Lawyers Massed on Border Over New Regulations
You had to see this coming, didn't you? The Obama administration announced that they’re going to implement new “common sense” gun control measures. On their own. Without going through Congress. In apparent violation of...
Bridgeville High Powered Rifle Match: How NOT to Shoot HPR
Everyone has an "off" day, where you just can't catch a break no matter how hard you try. Yesterday was one of those days. It just happened to be the first regional competition of...