Day: January 6, 2026

Very big win, especially coming from the Ninth Circuit. On Friday, Jan. 3, a divided three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that California’s ban on open carry in counties with a population of greater than 200,000 violates the Second Amendment. This means that California, at least for

I came across this article from 2017, which reports on Venezuela under socialist rule: civilians are disarmed while the regime arms its loyalists to maintain control. History is proof. The socialist leader of Venezuela announced in a speech to regime loyalists his plan to arm hundreds of thousands of supporters after a years-long campaign to

I’m often asked for advice and guidance by new shooters—where to start, what really matters, and how to avoid being overwhelmed by bad information or internet noise. This is one of the better beginner guides I’ve come across. It’s clear, practical, and written without talking down to the reader. It covers the fundamentals new shooters

Gun confiscation wasn’t a side issue of the American Revolution. It was a catalyst. Repeated attempts to seize arms and intimidate an armed population convinced the colonies that liberty couldn’t survive without the means to defend it. The Founders enshrined the right to keep and bear arms because history had already shown what happens when

Available data suggest that violent crime in the U.S. has not increased after the Bruen decision and, in fact, has continued to trend downward in the years following the ruling, countering the predictions of many gun‑control advocates who forecast a spike in violence after the expansion of carry rights. Anti-gun advocates have long held that

The Supreme Court’s duty is to uphold the Constitution, and if it ruled in a way that infringed the Second Amendment’s clear guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms, it would exceed its authority and risk undermining its own legitimacy. The Supreme Court will soon consider whether to take up dozens of Second

I would change the title to “Poles Learned a Lesson From Their Own Playbook”. My parents were Holocaust survivors from Poland. The Poles disarmed Jews and enabled their mass extermination of virtually the entire Jewish population of Poland. Poland’s firearms training today reflects a bitter lesson learned from its own actions: disarming a population has

Before this turns into an argument about Israeli gun laws—read carefully. Yes, Israel has restrictive firearms policies. I don’t like them either. But turning this article into a lecture about what Israel should do according to American standards misses the point entirely. Israel is not America. Different constitution. Different legal culture. Different assumptions about the role of

Every repetition, dry or live, is either building good habits or reinforcing bad ones. That applies not only to technique, but to the stimuli we expose ourselves to, including the anatomical realism (or lack thereof) of the targets we train on. The scoring zones on many traditional qualification targets are often misplaced anatomically: mapped to