Back in the 1970s, Charter Arms introduced the five shot Bulldog, a compact revolver chambered in .44 Special with a 3 inch barrel. It was never going to win any beauty contests. Charter Arms had already earned a reputation by producing inexpensive working guns like the Undercover .38 Special. They were revolvers for people who wanted reliability without paying Smith & Wesson or Colt prices. They were the blue collar guns of the revolver world. A friend of mine bought just about every firearm that caught his eye, and one day he showed up with a Bulldog. He bragged endlessly that the revolver was almost impossible to miss with. Naturally, I figured he was full of it. Then he handed it to me at the range. I’ll be damned. That little Bulldog was one of the easiest revolvers I have ever fired. The sights came up naturally, the recoil was surprisingly manageable for a .44 Special, and the bullets landed exactly where I expected them to. My groups were consistently tighter than wha...

Ah yes, the terrifying “ghost gun.” The latest boogeyman trotted out whenever politicians need another excuse to chip away at the Second Amendment. Whether anyone likes it or not, technology has changed the game. Today, people with modest mechanical skills can use 3D printers and CNC machines to manufacture modern firearms in their own workshops. In many cases, they can produce a Glock-pattern pistol that is virtually indistinguishable from one that rolled out of the Glock factory. That genie is not going back into the bottle. Laws attempting to regulate every privately manufactured firearms or  sound suppressor are little more than political theater. They may sound impressive during a press conference, but they are virtually impossible to enforce against millions of hobbyists, machinists, engineers, and basement workshops spread across America. Then comes the familiar refrain from government officials: “We can’t trace guns without serial numbers!” Really? In the overwhelming...

The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) is, a clear violation of the Second Amendment. In 1934, Congress enacted the nation’s first major federal gun control law. The NFA drew an arbitrary line in the sand over which firearms Americans could possess freely and which ones would be burdened with federal registration, taxation, and criminal penalties. For more than ninety years, and through thousands of criminal prosecutions, the United States Supreme Court largely ran from confronting the constitutional issues presented by the NFA. Aside from the badly botched decision in United States v. Miller , 307 U.S. 174 (1939), the Court showed no interest in deciding whether the Act was actually compatible with the Second Amendment. In the meantime, countless Americans were convicted and imprisoned simply for keeping or bearing arms. Many had never committed an act of violence. The vast majority were collectors and firearms enthusiasts whose hobbies had been transformed into federal felonies....

Every time the United States Supreme Court hands down a controversial decision, somebody immediately starts whining, “That’s not what the majority of Americans want!” Maybe.Maybe not.The truth is, nobody really knows. We don’t decide constitutional questions by national referendum. We don’t take a Gallup poll. We don’t count “likes” on social media. Instead, we’re expected to rely on the legacy media to tell us what America supposedly believes. That’s a remarkable arrangement considering those same media organizations have spent decades proving they can shape public opinion almost as easily as they report it. Then there’s an even bigger problem. Our educational system has done a spectacular job of producing graduates who know almost nothing about the Constitution or the liberties it protects. Civic education has largely been replaced with political activism, emotional arguments, and whatever fashionable cause happens to dominate the news cycle. The result?  Millions of America...

First, let’s clear up one of the most abused terms in the firearms debate. An AR-15 is not an assault rifle. Calling it one doesn’t make you a firearms expert. It simply tells knowledgeable shooters that you’ve been repeating political talking points instead of learning the difference. An assault rifle has a long established military definition. It is a select fire rifle that can operate in both semiautomatic and fully automatic modes. A civilian AR-15 is semiautomatic only. One trigger pull fires one round. It is not capable of fully automatic fire without illegal modification. Unfortunately, far too many politicians, television commentators, and even some law enforcement spokespeople casually toss around the term “assault rifle” as if saying it often enough somehow changes the definition. It doesn’t. Words still matter, even if they occasionally get lost in a press conference. The term “assault weapon” became a political label decades ago for fear mongering purposes  and has ...

  While most Americans were asleep in their little dream world, we’ve been straight-up invaded, you oblivious idiots. Our so-called freedom is getting its ass kicked on the ropes. Our Congress? Ha! Packed to the gills with disloyal grifters and professional traitors. We don’t have a clue what empty garbage is rattling around in their heads, but we sure as hell see how they vote. Every single time, selling us out with a smile. We’ve let these socialist and communist parasites seize the helm of our government like the entitled pirates they are. The only thing you can count on from these vermin is bloating the government even fatter and handing it ever more chains to slap on the American people. They’ve flung open the gates and invited in millions upon millions of military-age men from countries that despise us with every fiber of their being. Spare me the humanitarianism bullshit. This isn’t compassion, it’s a goddamn invasion force being built to crush our government and way of li...