The world of defensive-style shooting has long been filled with controversy and differences of opinion. One point we might all agree on is that the road to success involves putting decisive hits on an adversary in the shortest possible time. But how we achieve this has been open to debate for years. I got interested in shooting handguns some time ...
Most preparedness plans for putting meat on the table start and end with a rifle. That makes sense until the ammunition runs out. Americans watched that happen in 2020 and 2021, when gun stores had empty shelves and a box of common cartridges cost double what it did a year earlier. A rifle also announces your location to everyone within ...
In 1969, an armed citizen named Richard Davis shot it out with a trio of armed robbers and survived — but was hit a couple of times during the melee. Deciding that there had to be something better to stop bullets with than one’s own flesh, he conceived soft, concealable body armor and became “the man who bullet-proofed America’s police.” ...
As Americans Struggle with gas prices and rising inflation, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion taxpayer-funded weapons sale to Israel, including 40,000 2,000-pound bombs. American families are getting hammered by another round of rising energy costs, with diesel now well above $6 a gallon nationally, gasoline climbing again, and crude oil back above $100 a barrel. At the ...
On September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report and the headlines practically wrote themselves. Employers added 162,000 jobs, nearly three times the 56,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Financial television called it a rebound, the stock tickers turned green, and the story was over by lunch. Buried further down in that same ...
Patrick De Haan has been tracking fuel prices for GasBuddy since 2011. He has worked through refinery fires, hurricanes, COVID and the 2022 diesel spike, and he is the guy reporters call when pump prices start going crazy and they need somebody to explain what is actually happening. This week he pulled up the diesel spot market and posted a ...
The names of firearms designers such as John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Morrison Stoner are synonymous with iconic firearms. Stoner was a prolific firearms designer who was responsible for the AR-7 U.S. Air Force survival rifle, the AR-10 rifle, the SR-25, and, of course, the AR-15 and M16 rifles. A member of a U.S. Navy SEAL team armed ...
Remember when Americans were fighting over toilet paper at Costco? For a few weeks in 2020, the country got a crash course in just how fragile the modern supply chain r–eally is, and just how eaily people can push things over the edge when they start to panic. A product nobody thought twice about suddenly disappeared, stores slapped limits on ...
Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Ramon Ramirez takes a look at the Springfield Armory 1911 Emissary 4.25″ AOS pistol chambered for the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge as a modern self-defense handgun. The firearm was provided to the author by the company for this article. I didn’t step into the firearms space thinking reviews were going to become the main focus. That ...
For the first time since the AI industry started, the four companies building the most powerful artificial intelligence on the planet agree on something — AND NO IT’S NOT GOOD. Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google DeepMind spend every waking hour trying to destroy each other. They poach each other’s researchers, sue each other, mock each other in public, and burn ...