Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan is pure Hollywood fiction, but it was inspired by the true — and all too tragic — story of the five Sullivan brothers. The siblings enlisted/re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and insisted they serve together on the same warship. All were killed less ...
The Brief: A national coalition of gun rights organizations has filed a federal amicus brief challenging Maryland’s refusal to recognize out-of-state concealed carry permits. The legal challenge argues that current state policies create unconstitutional barriers for nonresidents and impose significant administrative burdens on law-abiding citizens traveling across state lines. The lawsuit highlights the conflict between state licensing statutes and Second ...
At 6:40 this morning Eastern, people started tapping their phones at the register and nothing happened. Apple Pay was down. DoorDash was down. Reddit, Hulu, PlayStation, all of it, gone. Not because those companies did anything wrong. Because a single Amazon Web Services region in Oregon coughed. AWS didn’t officially admit anything until 4:40 a.m. Pacific, which is 7:40 Eastern, ...
In today’s article, Jeremy Tremp reviews the GOYOJO GRL335 thermal optic. This 4x optical scope offers an attractive price point with a professional-grade sensor and easy operation. How does it perform? That’s what Tremp sets out to discover. The optic was provided by GOYOJO Optics for the review. There is a moment in every shooter’s life when technology catches up ...
The Brief: A resident defended his property after Joshua Arenas attempted to steal a vehicle and followed the owner inside. Following a physical struggle involving a baseball bat and a handgun, the homeowner shot the suspect in the leg. Authorities subsequently arrested Arenas on multiple felony charges. Investigators cleared the homeowner of criminal charges under Oklahoma’s Castle Doctrine and Stand ...
You don’t rise to the occasion behind the wheel. You default to your last level of training. Most drivers don’t have one. They have habits, what they saw in a reel, or the assumption nothing bad will happen between ignition and destination. That assumption is where things start to unravel. When a street turns hostile, drivers don’t perform to the ...
Part 2 of The Colorado River Story. In the first piece I told you Lake Powell is sitting about 34 feet above the line where Glen Canyon Dam stops making power. This one’s about what’s underneath that line, because that’s where the story gets genuinely bad, and it’s the part almost nobody outside a handful of water nerds and environmental ...
When it comes to AR-15 magazines, Magpul’s PMAG line is about as proven as it gets. For years, the PMAG 30 GEN M2 was the standard. It’s tough, reliable, and affordable. But as with any product, there are always potential updates and enhancements to be made. According to the author, you can never have too many PMAGs. They feed reliably ...
America’s quest for greater firepower isn’t a new phenomenon. In fact, the desire for increased firepower can be traced to the earliest days of the United States and the repeating flintlock designs of Joseph G. Chambers. An illustration of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812. There are indications that the Constitution carried Chambers swivel guns in her mast ...
Nineteen years in. Employee of the quarter twice. “Our most valuable asset,” they said it at the all-hands on Wednesday and everybody clapped. Thursday he’s walking to his truck at 9:15 in the morning with a cardboard box, and his badge stopped working while he was still in the room. Nobody in that building lost a minute of sleep over ...