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My nana always told me, “Trace, if you can’t say something nice about somebody, you just come sit down right here next to me.” Ever since the folks with a “D” after their names took the majority of the House last fall, the “gun control” schemes have been flying as fast and as furious as…
Shaka, brah. You don’t seem to be doing real well with this whole “America” thing… You know how, every single time the anti-gunners get going with some cockamamie gun-ban scheme, they love to condescendingly tell us that nobody’s trying to take away our guns? The next time you hear that particular canard, I recommend you…
My nana always told me, “Trace, if you can’t say something nice about somebody, you just come sit down right here next to me.” Every week, America’s hoplophobes go into the smallest room in their house and think really really hard about how to make life tougher for law-abiding Americans. With concentrated effort, any number…
Here are the stories of four people whose lives were saved by their own quick thinking, their training…and the fact that they had guns. If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re already pretty well-versed in both of the statistics you can see in the above photo. The problem with statistics is that, for…
My nana always told me, “Trace, if you can’t say something nice about somebody, you just come sit down right here next to me.” Every week, the anti-gunners open their cake-holes with some harebrained scheme that even they know perfectly well won’t help reduce violence. And every week, the mainstream media also pretends that not…
There are fools out there, and they have money. Let us part them. If you ever had any doubt that anti-Second Amendment activists are people with more money than sense, please take note of this recent article, courtesy of the NRA. In it, we learn that the producers of the Broadway revival of Oklahoma! have…
My nana always told me, “Trace, if you can’t say something nice about somebody, you just come sit down right here next to me.” If there’s one thing I can say for anti-gunners, it’s this: They’re industrious as dung beetles, rolling up little balls of gun control, then busily parading them to and fro. Sadly,…
One of the reasons the AR-15 is “America’s Rifle” is its sturdy utilitarianism and endless customization options, and an outfit called Real Avid aims to help you make the most of that with a set of professional-grade armorer tools custom designed for the modern sporting rifle enthusiast…or newbie, come to think of it. It’s called…
If you get a chance to attend a HAVA event…take it! For the past five years, Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) have held their HAVA/NSSF Golf Classic just before the advent of SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 2019’s was better than ever. The Classic is designed…
Let’s not “reward” the mysterious armed citizen who saved a stranger’s life by ruining his… On January 28, we were treated to a wicked pissah tale of road rage from–where else?–Massachusetts. According to this news report from Fox, it all started with a typical ‘Pike event: a minor crash. The two drivers started to argue,…
Here’s all the weird gun-related news we missed while we were in Las Vegas… There are two types of people who read the news: Those who skip straight to the “news of the weird” entries, and those who pretend they don’t. Thanks to the SHOT Show, we have to admit that in the last week…
Lubricia’s back with another reader letter! Hello, lovers! I’m Lubricia Cosmoline, your hoe-stess of “After Dark.” As a long-time aficionado of everything that goes “bang,” I seek to offer a platform for all of your most intimate, personal experiences in the world of guns and hunting. I’ve seen it all—a .50 BMG can’t go too…
