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 concept of the light machine gun was born on the battlefields of World War I. By the time of the 1918 Armistice, every major combatant was fully engaged in developing lighter machine guns that gave their infantry units a mobile base of firepower. In 1915, the French fielded the first light machine gun to be used in significant numbers—the much-maligned “Chauchat,” the Fusil-Mitrailleur mle 1915 CSRG machine rifle. While the Chauchat was a dreadful design in a number of ways, its basic concept as a battlefield machine gun was fully validated. The 20-pound Chauchat (chambered in 8 mm Lebel,…

The VP9, a polymer-frame, striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol, has become one of the most successful handguns Heckler & Koch has ever offered, and the design is in use by military and law enforcement organizations around the world. Over the decade since its introduction, H&K has continued to innovate and offer new versions of the original. The company’s latest is the VP9CC, a pistol designed for concealed carry. The VP9CC is a micro-compact version of the company’s proven VP9 lineup. Like other models in the VP series, the VP9CC has bilateral slide releases, paddle-type magazine releases and rear slide charging supports for…

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In this episode of the Guns Podcast US, host Brent Wheat and co-host Roy Huntington sit down to shatter the long-standing myth about the inaccuracy of semi-automatic rimfires. The post Ruger 10/22 Carbon Fiber: The Most Accurate Semi-Auto .22? appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

As a busy CPA, I was always looking for ways to save time. I would occasionally go to the library and scoop up an armful of time management books. I would take them back to the office and skim through them. They all kinda said the same thing. Make a list, prioritize it and put estimated times to complete by each item. Do the A’s first, then the B’s and then the C’s. It was better than nothing. But it had holes in it. Under the C items was get new tires. But this never happened till a tire failed…

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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…