A cold blanket of fog interrupted what had been a scorching climb as I pedaled around a remaining snow patch perched above 10,000 feet overlooking Vail Mountain. Hot and out of breath, I waited for a deep chill to set into my sweaty body, the type that keeps you moving frantically instead of settling into a rhythm. Ortovox’s new wool Sequence Free Jersey and Shorts provided a legitimate buffer to the springtime temperature swing. Wool and Ortovox are two things you don’t see in the mountain biking world. But the latter has brought the former into play with the new…

A three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals sounded surprisingly skeptical on Tuesday about California’s defense of a state law prohibiting adults under the age of 21 from purchasing firearms unless they first take a hunter safety course, and bars them entirely from purchasing semiautomatic centerfire rifles.  The case, known as PWGG v. Bonta, has been bouncing around the federal court system since 2019. Most recently, a U.S. District judge upheld California’s restrictions after concluding that the law does not even implicate the plain text of the Second Amendment because it does not…

Everyone has good days, and bad days. On your bad days, did anyone try to boot you from your job and suggest you take advice from a fugitive? That’s what current Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa faced today during the company’s 127th shareholders meeting, held at Nissan’s headquarters in Yokohama, Japan. After the meeting, we can’t help wondering if he considered hiding in a big musical instrument box to escape the crowds. Credit: Nissan So, what exactly happened? Those of us with a beat on the auto industry know that annual shareholder meetings are largely cut-and-dry, packed with some financial speak and…

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The Civil Rights Coalition, which is the grassroots organization that managed to collect nearly 100,000 signatures to put Massachusetts’ latest gun laws before a vote of the people, has received $50,000 from former Massachusetts gunmaker Smith & Wesson in support of its effort to repeal Chapter 135.  Smith & Wesson, of course, was headquarted in the state for more than a century before Massachusetts’ gun laws made it virtually impossible to continue to manufacture some of its most popular products. I think it’s great that the company is continuing to support the state’s gun owners,…

TOKYO (AP) — The head of the U.N.’s nuclear agency signaled Wednesday that Iranian nuclear enrichment sites would be visited by his inspectors, a key component in the interim U.S.-Iran deal to reach an end to the war. An Iranian diplomat instead insisted any such visit would only come after a final deal. The U.S. and Iran offered contradictory remarks Tuesday about whether those sites would be inspected. A week after the two countries signed an interim deal, leaders from the U.S. and Iran have repeatedly disagreed in public about what that document actually means. International Atomic Energy Agency head…