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On April 25, 1644, the last Ming Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself from a tree on Jing Mountain, Beijing, rather than be captured by the forces of Li Zicheng, the Chinese peasant rebellions leader — who soon after ruled over northern China briefly as the Yongchang Emperor. Thus ended the Ming Dynasty. — Today is the birthday of physicist, inventor, and entrepreneur Guglielmo Marconi (1874–1937). He was known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission as well as for the development of Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. He is often considered the inventor of radio. — Just a…

In this episode of the Guns Podcast US, hosts Brent Wheat and Roy Huntington dive deep into the highly debated topic of staging firearms for home defense. The post The Truth About Hiding Guns at Home (Most People Get This Wrong) appeared first on GUNS Magazine. Read the full article here

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Canada’s federal government has been moving since 2020 to ban and then seize a vast array of mostly semi-automatic firearms. In March, Canada’s federal Assault-Style Firearms Compensation Program wrapped up its declaration phase with only about 67,000 guns turned in—compliance rates are estimated to be only in the single digits. The country’s amnesty period for having one or more of these firearms runs until Oct. 30, 2026; after that, owners of any of the more than 2,500 newly prohibited models must surrender, deactivate or destroy their guns or face possible criminal charges. This is no “buyback.” It is mandatory confiscation…

Because of the fast rotational velocities the 9 mm can produce, the modern bullets it fires tend to expand quite well over a wide velocity range from long and short barrels. This expansion is critical to the projectile causing enough disruption to stop a threat. Americans thought they were done with the 9 mm in 1986, after the disastrous FBI shootout in Miami was blamed on a single 9 mm bullet failing to penetrate deeply enough. Immediately, .45 ACP aficionados and proponents of the then relatively new 10 mm began declaring, “I told you so,” and in less than a…

Armed Citizen® Today Two minor celebrities found an alleged trespasser prowling on their Los Angeles grounds shortly after midnight on April 17. Barbara Palvin, a model, called 911 and reported the “creepy guy,” as her husband, actor Dylan Sprouse, successfully held the man at gunpoint until police arrived. The suspect was arrested for outstanding warrants, though the couple apparently did not choose to press charges for trespassing. (people.com, New York, N.Y., 4/18/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1991 After their son received several death threats, an Everett, Wash., couple arranged for an armed neighbor to be at their…

Bob Smith stepped into the Maine woods on a November afternoon in 1997 and never came back.His wife heard a single gunshot. Then… nothing.What followed was the largest ground search in the history of the Maine Warden Service. Investigators found clues—a set of boot prints, a strange arrow in the dirt, even a dead moose nearby—but none of them led to Bob.As the search dragged on, rumors surfaced: out-of-state hunters who left early, a story about an accidental shooting, and people who may have known more than they said.Was Bob Smith the victim of a tragic accident… or something far…

Kimber recently entered into the double-stack 1911 market with a number of new designs, first starting with its carry-oriented KDS9c, then expanding the line to include the competition-oriented 2K11. But in 2026, the company developed its 1911 DS Warrior, an American-made, double-stack design that is intended to be an affordable entry point into Kimber’s double-stack handgun line. Watch our “Gun of the Week” video above to see the details of the 1911 DS Warrior. “Kimber’s long been known for its line of single-stack 1911s, and recently, it came out with the 2K11, which is their double-stack,” American Rifleman Executive Editor…

A Connecticut angler recently caught a rainbow trout of epic proportions. On April 11, Richard Courtright Jr. was fishing at a Spring Fishing Day fishing derby on the West Branch of the Farmington River, where the Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) had recently stocked trout. There was a rumor that the agency had stocked a state record—and Courtright spotted it in the water.He threw everything he had in his box at the fish, including lures, spinners, and salmon eggs, to no avail. Then Courtright went back to his car to retrieve meal worms. It’s a good…