Armed Citizen® Today A bleeding man abandoned a vehicle at a busy shopping center in Cerritos, Calif., on July 19, and then ran through the kitchen of a nearby BBQ restaurant waving a knife. A concealed carrier confronted the man and told him to drop the knife, but the man reportedly charged toward him instead. The armed citizen fired at the assailant, killing him. The investigation revealed that the vehicle the man abandoned had been stolen and that the man had stabbed himself in the neck with the knife before entering the restaurant. An off-duty officer was apparently present and…

Smith & Wesson charged boldly into the AR-15 market with its introduction of the M&P15 series in the early 2000s, and these rifles quickly became some of the best sellers on the market. Smith & Wesson continues to introduce new and innovative models, and its latest is the M&P15 AXE pistol and short-barreled rifle chambered in .300 Blackout. The new M&P AXE pistols (pictured) and SBRs mark the first Smith & Wesson firearm to be offered in .300 Blackout. In 2025, Smith & Wesson introduced its AXE series. The new model’s key feature was the Gemtech GVAC system, which uses…

There is a particular jolt of joy when a shooter nestles behind a perfectly stable rifle and puts the ideal bullet exactly where intended. The dopamine dose is often correlated with the difficulty of the shot. Thus, we riflemen spend a lot of time seeking the best possible support to steady the rifle and guarantee a hit. As the makers have given us ever-improving rifles, optics and loads capable of precision deep within fish-story territory a generation ago, there has been a parallel development in bipods, tripods and rests. With these, a shooter can lock the rifle into position to…

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00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal as though public land employees don’t have it hard enough these days with staff cuts and slashed budgets. Two seasonal workers with the Forest Service were kidnapped and held at gunpoint last week in the shaft at Trinity National Forest in northern California. According to authorities, forty nine year old Joseph Charles Henrickson and his twenty three year old son Phoenix, were motivated by extreme anti government sentiment, which you know, even if you’re on that…

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European American Armory’s (EAA) recent acquisition of a large manufacturing facility in Mountain City, Tenn., is further evidence that the firearm importer plans to establish a domestic manufacturing presence. EAA, headquartered in Cocoa, Fla., and established in 1990, currently imports a popular line of Turkish-made Girsan pistols, as well as Balikli rifles, shotguns and more.   Negotiations for the 33,000-square-foot Tennessee plant—once home to the Bike Factory Outlet—were nearing completion in April, according to the Johnson City Press. The newspaper reported that on April 27 Keith Bernkrant, president of EAA told the Johnson County Economic Development Commission that, “Since President…

Most shooters don’t fall apart on the first shot; they fall apart somewhere in the middle of a string of fire—that’s where this drill lives. The secret is to build your firing platform early enough and hold it together long enough to make it through the entire string without degrading your stability. At the core of this training drill is a sustainable grip from the get-go, which is an integral part of your shooting stability. A sustainable grip is one that does not change pressure or position midstream and cause unwanted input onto the gun or move your muzzle out…