Author: Gunner Quinn

A Florida bowfishing guide has developed an unusual partnership with the aquatic life of the Gulf of Mexico. For more than a decade, Crystal Bay charter captain Justin Dymond has been attracting pods of dolphins with the underwater flood lights he uses to locate fish for his bowfishing clients. As soon as the fish are visible and stunned by the lights, the dolphins start snatching them.Lots of anglers know this dynamic all too well, especially in Florida, where one recent study showed that 43% of anglers had experienced depredation of their catch by sharks.But Dymond says that losing those few…

This article, from the September 1975 issue of The American Rifleman, is correspondence between an NRA member and Dope Bag Contributor Kenneth C. Raynor regarding the existence of an M15 rifle. To subscribe to today’s magazine, visit the NRA’s membership page. Q. The last two rifles adopted and used by the U.S. Army were the M14 and M16 models. Was there ever an M15 rifle. If so, what can you tell me about it? A. Yes, there was an M15 rifle officially designated “Automatic Rifle, Caliber 7.62 mm., M15.” During the developmental stages, it was referred to as the T44E5.…

September 21, 1776: The Great New York Fire. Five days after the British Army took New York City, one quarter of the city burned down. — September 21, 1931, Britain abandoned the gold standard. The Pound was devalued by 20%. — On this day in 1780, during the American Revolution, American General Benedict Arnold met with British Major John Andre to discuss handing over West Point to the British in return for the promise of a large sum of money and a high position in the British army. The plot was foiled and Arnold’s name became synonymous with the word…

Gravity is not your friend. That is, except for some rare instances when it actually is. The Unorthodox Designs SLAP (Single Load And Press) Loader for SIG P320/250 harnesses the power of gravity to quickly and easily load steel SIG P320/250 standard or high-capacity magazines. The loader is especially effective when loading factory FMJ ammo with brass or nickel-plated casings. The SLAP loader is available exclusively at GunMag Warehouse where it cost $19.99 at the time of this writing. There is also a version available for double stack Glock 9mm or .40 S&W magazines. (Full Disclosure: GunMag Warehouse is an…

It’s impossible to deny that the KeTec company follows its own path when it comes to the company’s lineup of handguns, rifles and shotguns. Case in point is the bullpup, pump-action, twin-magazine-tube KSG shotgun introduced in 2011. Six years later, KelTec introduced the single-tube KS7, which was impressive enough to be awarded the 2020 NRA Golden Bullseye Award for Shotgun of the Year. New for 2025, the company has updated the design with the KS7 Gen2.  The KS7 Gen2 is a update on the original that has been improved both internally and externally. According to the company, the Gen2 KS7…

America is a wonderful place to live. We enjoy great prosperity and far more freedom than the citizens of most other nations. Our right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution. But, as a union of 50 sovereign States, we also live with a patchwork of laws. Something that is perfectly legal in one State can be a misdemeanor or even a felony in another.  I feel fortunate to live in a very gun-friendly state in the Northern Rockies with permitless open carry, permitless concealed carry, and permitless vehicular carry. Here, nobody blinks an eye when they…

On September 20, 1945, under OSS (and later CIA) Operation Paper Clip and Operation Overcast (1945 to 1959), German rocket scientists began to work in the United States. For the sake of expediency, more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were granted immunity from war crimes prosecution and transported along with their families from the former Nazi Germany to the United States for employment with various government agencies and later, with defense contractors. Under these secretive and later publicly acknowledged and very controversial programs, the German contingent was most conspicuously led by senior scientist Wernher von Braun. (Pictured above,…

On September 10, the Trump administration announced a proposal to reverse the Public Lands Rule, a Biden administration fingerprint on the Bureau of Land Management that affirmed conservation’s equal-footing status with other uses of BLM lands and established conservation and restoration leasing programs, incentivizing market-based solutions to issues plaguing landscape health and wildlife habitat.But the proposal revealed more than just how Trump’s DOI has misinterpreted the Public Land Rule’s basic functions — which, despite the agency’s claims otherwise, acknowledged preexisting grazing and mineral leases on BLM lands, left room for compatible extractive uses on lands entered into conservation leases, and…

Armed Citizen® Today A burglary that escalated into a full-scale assault ended when the victim defended himself inside of a Boise, Idaho, retail store. At about 9:30 a.m., an 18-year-old woman entered the store and began stealing alcohol when she was confronted by the store’s employee. Immediately following the confrontation, two other suspects entered the store, and all three began assaulting the employee, who was backed into a corner of the store and was “repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped as he remained on the ground,” according to the police report. At that point, the employee drew his firearm and shot…

A substantial search and rescue effort is underway in Southern Colorado after two elk hunters went missing. The hunters—Andrew Porter, a 25-year-old from Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko, a 25-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah—have not been heard from since September 11, according to a Facebook post from Porter’s fiancée, Bridget Murphy.“They were hunting in Unit 81 of the Rio Grande National Forest off of the Los Pinos Trailhead and have lost use of [their] Garmin,” wrote Murphy. “While they are experienced hunters, bad storms and fog came in quickly and continuously until Sunday morning.”The hunters were reported overdue…