National Guard Troops Patrolling the Streets of Los Angeles
From the AP:
Armed National Guard soldiers patrolled the streets of Los Angeles early Sunday as the city began cleaning up after a night of violence that saw demonstrators clash repeatedly with officers, torch police...
Civilian-Owned Weapons Led to the Rise of Democracy
When one reads gun blogs voraciously, one runs across two main types of arguments for our right to keep and bear arms (RKBA). The constitutional argument (the English comprehension model) and the self-defense argument....
Fort Leavenworth Soldier Rams Active Shooter With His Car, Saves ‘Countless Lives’
From the AP:
A soldier stationed in Kansas saved “countless lives” Wednesday when he hit a man with his car as the man was shooting randomly at people on a bridge near an Army base,...
On Memorial Day, the Firearms Industry Pauses
By Mark Oliva
Factories have been humming for the firearm and ammunition industry. Business has been brisk over the past couple months. Even ranges that were forced closed by the coronavirus pandemic are starting to...
VIDEO: Navy Successfully Tests Laser, Downing an Aircraft in Mid-Flight
They promised us flying cars. We're still waiting. Tesla and Uber don't begin to cut it. But now, after a successful test by the US Pacific fleet, it looks like frickin' laser beams have...
Raw Combat Footage Shows Strafing A-10 Warthog Save Ground Troops
By Travis Smola
When soldiers in our armed forces need air support, they welcome the sound of an A-10 Thunderbolt II, AKA the A-10 Warthog. This awesome plane and her pilots have been in service...
FBI: Shooting This Morning at NAS Corpus Christi ‘Is Terror-Related’
By Lolita C. Baldor and Michael Balsamo, AP
A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead is being investigated as “terrorism-related,” the FBI said Thursday.
The shooting...
Security Team ‘Neutralizes’ Active Shooter at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi
A shooting at the Corpus Christi, Texas Naval Air Station this morning was stopped with one of the members of the security team that responded being injured.
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A security team...
Pensacola Naval Air Station Shooter, a Saudi Air Force Officer, Was an al Qaida...
By Eric Tucker, AP
The gunman in a deadly attack at a military base in Pensacola, Florida, last December was meticulous in his planning and had been radicalized overseas for at least five years, U.S....
News Flash: Most Common Civilian-Owned Firearms Are ‘Military Grade’ Weapons
One of the phrases that frequently gets tossed around by anti-gun activists -- people like noted firearms experts Emma Gonzalez and Justin Trudeau -- is "military grade weapons." The connotation, of course, is usually...
World War II Photographer Survived COVID-19 With Grit and Lots of Red Wine
By Richard Drew, AP
Tony Vaccaro's mother died in childbirth, and at a tender age he also lost his father to tuberculosis. By age 5, he was an orphan in Italy, enduring beatings from an...
Can Navy SEALs Train While Maintaining Social Distancing?
By Julie Watson, AP
Navy SEAL recruits and their instructors are being tested for the coronavirus as the candidates in one of the military’s most grueling programs return to training with new social distancing guidelines,...