Less than a month after West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey started investigating several companies for allegedly discriminating against an in-state ammunition manufacturer, the AG says he’s received pledges from the firms that they will treat lawful firearm commerce the same as any other industry. As we reported in mid-July, Kent Cartridge Company said it was denied services by two payment processing firms because of the products it makes. McCuskey started investigating Bill.com and Ramp after representatives told KCC that they couldn’t use their services “due to compliance and underwriting restrictions,” and “due to restrictions from…
A former U.S. Marine whose family said just days ago that he was near death in a Russian hospital has been freed after more than four years in custody and is on his way to a military hospital in Texas. Robert Gilman, 32, was released after Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a pardon on humanitarian grounds, U.S. officials told Reuters. He was being flown out of Russia on a State Department plane, and officials said he was walking and talking, a marked change from the condition his advocates had described only a week earlier. His family said he had been…
Michigan’s Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate isn’t making gun control a big part of his campaign, but Abdul El-Sayed has some pretty strong feelings about our right to keep and bear arms. As CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski reports, El-Sayed has taken down dozens of videos he posted on YouTube over the last few years because his comments won’t play well with Michigan voters. In an April 2023 video, for instance, El-Sayed took aim at the Second Amendment. Though the video has since been made private, a transcript is still available.Folks who believe in “gun rights,” they…
Sailors and Marines can no longer use anonymous reports of prohibited discrimination or discriminatory harassment to open a Military Equal Opportunity complaint, making the Department of the Navy the latest military department to implement Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to replace anonymous complaints with confidential reporting. The change took effect immediately under an Aug. 7 Navy message applying to both the Navy and Marine Corps. Commanders may still act on information contained in an anonymous report, but the allegation will no longer be processed as a Military Equal Opportunity, or MEO, complaint. The policy does not end anonymous reporting for…
Nakia Smith isn’t exactly a household name, even in Chicago, but his criminal case has garnered quite a bit of attention in the local press thanks to former Education Secretary Arne Duncan going to bat for the felon charged with armed habitual criminal, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and aggravated unlawful use of a weapon after he brought a loaded pistol to a Chicago police station. Smith, who was working as an anti-violence volunteer at the time of his arrest, claims that he was trying to turn in the pistol to police…
A U.S. Army veteran has been convicted of defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of over $170,000 in caregiver benefit payments. A federal jury found James Bradford, 49, of Kansas, guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the government and one count of theft of public money, property or records, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Kansas. The office said that from August 2014 to July 2023, Bradford and his caregiver provided false and fraudulent statements concerning the level of care he needed in order to claim assistance from the Program…
A new military patch has been approved for U.S. Army soldiers with elite jungle warfare expertise. It’s named the Jungle Tab, an official skill tab of the Army that represents a formal recognition of jungle warfare as a definitive skill across the entire military division. “Tactics and training techniques required to fight, survive and win within the harsh jungle environment are deserving of recognition,” Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans, and Training, Sgt. Maj. Christopher Kohunsky, said in a statement. The Army has authorized the gold and black tab that simply reads “Jungle” for any current active, Reserve,…
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President Donald Trump secretly flew out of last month’s NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, on an alternate military aircraft while the White House made it appear that the Republican president was flying on Air Force One, according to a report published by The Washington Post on Monday. The Post said the operation was prompted by an Iranian assassination threat against Trump. The ruse was carried out as journalists and some White House staff members were led to believe they were on the same plane as the president as he began his journey back to Washington from the annual gathering of…
According to a recent study, most American veterans over the past decade have been drinking less. A small and welcome piece of good news buried in the sometimes anxiety-inducing health data. Binge-drinking is down, with younger veterans in particular pulling away from the bottle. Even the gap between how much men and women drink has been shrinking. Then there is the exception. Veterans between the ages of 35 and 49 who are supposed to be past their rowdiest years and settled into careers and families are the one group whose heavy drinking is climbing. While everyone around them drinks less,…
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Sailors and military families at dozens of Navy installations will get free concerts from Teddy Swims, Miranda Lambert, Fitz and The Tantrums and Shaquille O’Neal over the coming months as the service expands its Operation MWR entertainment series through spring 2027. Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation announced Friday that Operation MWR will bring free live entertainment to 50 Navy installations around the world through April 2027. The next concert is Saturday at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island in Washington, where Fitz and The Tantrums will perform with country singer Alana Springsteen. The tour continues Sunday at Naval Base Kitsap with…
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On July 30, an avalanche swept down Pakistan’s Broad Peak, killing 10 climbers trying to ascend the world’s 12th-highest mountain. It’s the deadliest alpine disaster in more than a decade, and several bodies have still not been recovered from the mountain, which remains highly volatile. Multiple expedition teams were on the mountain at the time of the avalanche, and they included some well-known climbers. Among them was legendary mountaineer and Elite Exped leader Nirmal “Nims” Purja, as well as other climbers like Wang Zhong of China, Mallory Geis of the U.S., and Nadhira Ahmed Abdullah Al Harthy of Oman. However,…
From frozen Teton trailheads to windblown Colorado fourteeners, the best down jackets prove themselves as year-round essentials. Because mountain weather is notoriously fickle, your puffy needs to be light enough for a daypack, warm enough for sub-freezing mornings, and tough enough to handle shifting forecasts. Over the past 10 months, two experts tested 10 products: GearJunkie Senior Editor Chris Kassar and lead tester Ryan Kempfer. The duo logged 100 days and 600 miles skiing the Tetons, hiking Alaska, bagging fourteeners, and braving frigid Yellowstone conditions to confirm how these jackets deliver. In the last five years, eight experts have tested…
There’s still no signal from the Justice Department about whether it will appeal a district court ruling that held most of the NFA’s registration requirements are an unconstitutional exercise of Congress’s taxing power, but in the days since last week’s ruling there’s been a lot of debate about whether it would ultimately benefit Second Amendment advocates if the DOJ does appeal the decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. As I wrote last week when the decision came down:The plaintiffs in these cases would like the Trump administration to take the loss, but so…
