The Brief: A licensed concealed-carry holder defended himself during an attempted armed robbery at an Orland Park, Illinois gas station. A masked assailant approached the customer pumping fuel and drew a handgun. The customer responded by drawing his own weapon and firing at least two defensive shots. The wounded suspect dropped his firearm and fled before being apprehended nearby by ...

Editor’s Note: Be sure to employ the services of a qualified gunsmith if you are incapable of installing these parts on your rifle. The SAINT rifle used in this article was originally loaned to the author by Springfield Armory, but it was subsequently purchased by the author. Springfield Armory’s SAINT Victor rifles include many factory-installed enhancements that place them solidly ...

Ever cleaned the cosmoline out of an military surplus firearm? In today’s article, we demonstrate a straightforward way of cosmoline removal using a Type 56 carbine to show the cleaning process. As a lover of guns, I aspire to collect pretty much all of them. But I remember a not-so-distant past where I looked down on “old” military surplus (or ...

For years, preppers have been mocked for telling people to keep extra food, water, medicine and a way to get information when the power goes out. Now the British government is essentially telling its own citizens to do exactly that while rewriting a government war plan that hasn’t received a major overhaul in more than two decades. Britain is accelerating ...

The Royal Air Force’s Avro Lancaster and Handley Page Halifax are considered by many aviation historians to be among the most capable heavy bombers of the Second World War. However, neither were the RAF’s first four-engine bomber. A Short Stirling Mk I is shown in flight. While not as famous as the Lancaster or Flying Fortress, the Stirling played important ...

With the Saudi pipeline being shut down, refineries in the Midwest dealing with outages, the war in Ukraine still hammering energy infrastructure, the Iran conflict disrupting Middle Eastern oil flows, and diesel prices surging here at home, I’ve been getting variations of the same question: How bad could this actually get? Are we looking at another recession, food shortages, food ...

The Brief: A property dispute in Lehigh Acres, Florida, escalated when Eddie Jordan II attacked a resident with a pickaxe. After being knocked to the ground, the resident shot Jordan in the leg in self-defense. Following a secondary dispute days later, law enforcement officers arrested Jordan near a local convenience store. Jordan was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly ...

Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption. Then another disruption showed up. Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed ...

Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Yamil Sued reviews the XS Sights R3D 2.0 night sights for the Springfield Echelon. But, how do they perform? Read on to get Sued’s take on them. The sights were provided by the company to Sued for review. I’ve been a big fan of tritium night sights for a long time. Any time I test ...

Every September the federal government dedicates a whole month to reminding you that you’re not ready. That’s what National Preparedness Month actually is. FEMA and Ready.gov didn’t invent it because Americans are prepared. They invented it because we’re not, and their own numbers prove it. FEMA’s household survey puts the share of Americans who’ve taken even three basic preparedness steps ...