PHILADELPHIA, PA — The legal defenses sustaining strict state-level firearm regulations are fracturing. Operating as a full en banc bench, the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit dramatically expanded a fragmented 2024 lower-court decision. While that previous district ruling had narrowly struck down the state’s ban only as it applied specifically to the Colt AR-15 model, the 3rd Circuit completely rejected that single-model ...

Memphis homeowner Kendra Scott faces first-degree murder charges after fatally shooting 20-year-old Rodderius Morton. Although Scott initially claimed self-defense against an intruder, investigators determined Morton was an invited guest, but invited by the juvenile. Evidence showed Scott shot Morton in the back of the head while he was retreating from the property. Legal protections for defending a home may not ...

On January 29, 2026, the organization legally responsible for the reliability of the North American power grid published a report saying 13 of its 23 assessment areas are heading into energy shortfalls before 2030. It’s free. It’s public. It’s a PDF sitting on a website with no paywall and no password. Nobody read it. The trade press ran a story. Utility ...

The McDonnell F3H Demon was a single-seat, carrier-based jet fighter developed for the United States Navy in the 1950’s. This aircraft represents a critical but troubled chapter in American naval aviation: one that pushed the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation toward design philosophies that would eventually produce the legendary F-4 Phantom II. But the path there wasn’t pretty. The F3H struggled with ...

The first thing that stood out when I got the KAER safe into position wasn’t any single feature — it was the balance of it. I like it. It’s not too heavy nor too big. It feels weighty in position and secure in place. It’s not something you want to move casually about the house. You pour a lot of ...

The Brief: In June 2026, a Clovis, New Mexico resident fatally shot Abel Abeyta after Abeyta drove an SUV into their home late at night. Responding officers found significant structural damage and the driver with multiple gunshot wounds. Abeyta later died at a specialized trauma center from his injuries. The District Attorney declined to file criminal charges, concluding the shooting ...

For years the official line has been the same: the grid is resilient, the lights will stay on, and the government has a plan. Then you go read what the government actually wrote when it thought nobody outside the Beltway was paying attention. According to Google AI, the government has never issued a warning… BULLSHIT! In December 2018, the President’s ...

The Brief: A two-year-old boy from Georgia died after being accidentally shot by a four-year-old relative in Kissimmee, Florida. The incident occurred in a vacation rental driveway when the older child found an unsecured, loaded handgun inside a vehicle while adults unloaded luggage. The toddler later died at a hospital. The Osceola County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the incident for ...

When I was a teenager, the misconception I had about professional racing was that the trophy would go to the most powerful car, or perhaps the most aggressive driver. It was in the mid-90s that a number of racing games hit the market that tried to simulate the physics and details of motorsports as closely as possible, from real-world courses ...

Back in the 1990s, it was widely predicted that laser sights might very well be the next “big thing” in handguns utilized for personal defense. The first successful laser sight was invented by Dr. John Matthews — founder of famed SureFire — some years before, but it wasn’t quite ready for prime time. Matthews was able to design a helium-neon ...