Companies that traditionally did not offer suppressors are adding them to their lineups at a scalding pace—including some major leaguers. The migration began long before the price of a National Firearm Act (NFA) Stamp dropped to $0 on Jan. 1, 2026. New names taking the field at the SHOT Show, and since, clearly indicate managers recognized the approaching demand, and let engineers loose in labs and on ranges months before.   The wisdom of that infield shift showed early this year. Roughly 178,000 NFA applications—most for the muzzle-mounted devices—were submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE)…

One-sided and often dishonest reporting on issues related to the Second Amendment is just one reason for the cratering of trust in today’s mainstream media. To put this in context, in 2025, a long-running Gallup poll on U.S. public trust in mass media found that 28 percent of citizens, a record low, said they trust the media. The public trust in the media, according to this poll, was as high as 54 percent in 2003, but has been deteriorating ever since. Given how turned off the public is, what is the future of the news media, and is there any…

Editor’s Introductory Note: This young man is prayerfully seeking a wife. He is offering an after-marriage gift of up to $50,000 to whoever introduces him to his bride with $18,000 after their marriage and another $16,000 to the individual who provided the introduction after the first two births of healthy children born to him and his wife, for a total potential gift of $50,000. For further details, see this link to his article posted on July 13th, 2025: My Quest for a Wife: I’m Willing to Move, and in his February 24, 2026 article on rural migration starting at the…

On April 12, 1811, the first US colonists on the Pacific coast arrived at Cape Disappointment, in what is now the state of Washington. — April 12, 1933: US Navy commissioned Air Station Sunnyvale (later renamed NAS Moffett Field) in Santa Clara County, California — at the southern end of San Francisco Bay. — April 12th is the birthday of the late novelist Tom Clancy. (Born 1947, died October 1, 2013). It was Clancy who almost single-handedly created the modern techno-thriller genre, with his first novel, The Hunt For Red October. Coincidentally, Tom Clancy’s first literary agent is now my…

Armed Citizen® Today A Jewish father was with his two young children at a crowded park on April 3 in Miami Beach, Fla., when another man approached and asked if they were Jewish. When the father confirmed that they were, the stranger allegedly unleashed a tirade of cursing and antisemitic slurs, followed by threats. The father attempted to de-escalate the situation, as did others witnessing the event, telling the man to keep back and to stop, but the man instead charged at the family. The father then drew his firearm, deterring the aggressor long enough for police to arrive. Later…

The demise of newspapers, small and large, has been well chronicled—many analysts agree that more than one-third of U.S. newspapers that existed in the mid-2000s are now gone—but how this has impacted America’s most practical civil right, our right to keep and bear arms, has not often been considered. For context, we need to realize that local newspapers are not just the minor leagues. They were—and, to a much smaller extent, still are—a counterweight to national narratives driven by elites at The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and a few others. Federalism is a concept that allows bodies…

The Battle of Ravenna was fought on April 11, 1512. French forces under Gaston de Foix defeated the Holy League in this major battle of the Italian Wars. — April 11th is the birthday of John Milius, who was born in 1944. He both wrote the screenplays and directed the films Dillinger, The Wind and the Lion, Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian, Red Dawn, Farewell to the King, and Flight of the Intruder. He also wrote the screenplays of the first two Dirty Harry movies as well as the first draft of the screenplay for Patton (before Francis Ford Coppola…

Anyone who understands that the essence of American freedom is that we have the right to defend our lives with modern and commonly owned tools we call guns, must then feel frustration whenever they read or listen to mainstream-media members who not only don’t understand this, but are also opposed to this foundational principle of our individual liberty. So, why is so much of the mainstream, legacy or corporate media opposed to our right to keep and bear arms? There are real answers to this question. To answer it, let’s begin with a classic film you likely have not heard…

In 2021, Springfield Armory made a splash with its SA-35 design, a modern rendition of the famous Browning Hi-Power handgun. Recently, the company has since expanded the lineup, adding a polished blued finish version and, now, a shortened, compact variant in the SA-35 4″. American Rifleman Executive Editor Jay Grazio has paired this compact, carry-ready Hi-Power with a classically styled leather outside-the-waistband holster from Galco, along with a classic-looking pocket knife that has a bit of a modern twist. Watch our “I Carry” video above to see the details of this EDC kit. “Yes, they have a modern day mythical…

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