The recent shutdown of Kee Firearms in New Lenox has created a notable gap in affordable concealed carry safety training, according to local gun owners. The store’s popular weekend classes, which attracted around 400 participants monthly for just a $30 fee, fostered a learning community where individuals, including those unable to afford traditional training, could gain essential skills and knowledge about gun safety. With owner Jeffery Regnier facing dismissed criminal charges and the store’s future uncertain, former attendees express concern over the lack of similar affordable resources in the area. Many now seek out alternatives that often cost hundreds of…

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It was 2017 when the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) first launched the 31-day event now known as National Shooting Sports Month. “With so much going on in people’s lives today, the shooting sports offer an opportunity to tune out distractions, learn a new skill, socialize and share their experiences,” said Steve Sanetti, who was NSSF President and CEO at the time. “It’s important to remember to pass on our traditions and to reflect on our unique freedoms that make participating in them possible.” The celebration has grown since then, and so have the number of ranges, clubs and other…

It’s safe to say we are currently enjoying what may be called the golden age of polymer-frame, striker-fired, sub-compact 9 mm semi-automatics inspired by, if not unabashedly ripped off from, Gaston Glock’s pistol design. That being said, there is still a genuine interest among members of the shooting sports community in the pistols used by Allied forces during World War II. My father remembers when, during the 1960s and 1970s, casual collectors could wander into sporting goods stores and find surplus M1911A1 pistols chambered in .45 ACP with relative ease for $20 to $50, depending on their condition. Although not…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: So like I co founded under Armour, people could say that was a big success. I’ve been involved with some other things that you could say with success. I have never felt successful ever once until about two weeks ago, sitting in Alaska overlooking the mountains, looking at my team move a bunch of hunters in and out. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: We just had a bear hunter come in. 00:00:23 Speaker 3: Really cool outfit. 00:00:24 Speaker 1: It’s close to my heart, It’s where I want to be. It’s outdoors at its best. And I was…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the White Tail Woods, presented by First Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light Go Farther, stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon. 00:00:19 Speaker 2: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. This week on the show, I am running Terry Drury through our what would you do? Gauntlet, in which I will be asking him to share with me exactly how he would handle a series of different hypothetical, challenging hunting scenarios and circumstances. All right, welcome…

Introduction This article is not a full review. It is just a cursory evaluation. Several weeks ago, I ordered a Multifunction Nuclear Radiation Detector from a eBay seller who imports these units from China. FNIRSI also sells several other electronic test equipment units, one of which I bought was the multi-function oscilloscope hoping that I could use it on the bench as well as for portable operations. Alas, I didn’t like the unit because the probe connections for the oscilloscope don’t fit well into the connector (BNC type) on the top of the case and because of that issue I…

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90 years ago today, on August 14, 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, the poorly-conceived and undeniably socialistic Social Security Act was signed by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). The first Social Security numbers were issued in 1936, and the first Social Security taxes were collected in January, 1937. The first benefits were doled out in 1940. The following is from the SSA website: “On January 31, 1940, the first monthly retirement check was issued to Ida May Fuller of Ludlow, Vermont, in the amount of $22.54. Miss Fuller, a Legal Secretary, had retired in November 1939. She…