For a while, gun control seemed almost inevitable. In the aftermath of multiple mass shootings, including the horrors of the Las Vegas Route 91 massacre, it was pretty damn hard to convince anyone who wasn’t already pro-gun that gun control was a bad idea. People were upset, they were scared, and they wanted something done. Luckily, things settled down without too much damage. Yes, there was a bump stock ban, but it was an administrative ban versus the legislative one that was working its way through Congress and was likely to pass. That one would…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russia fires a ballistic missile at Ukraine, air-defense systems have only minutes — sometimes seconds — to detect and intercept the deadly threat. The lack of time has left Kyiv and other cities increasingly exposed to devastating attacks by the missiles that come down so fast and so steeply that Ukraine says only the U.S.-made Patriot defense system can stop them. But Ukraine says it has too few batteries and interceptors to protect itself. Unlike cruise missiles, which behave like pilotless planes, ballistic missiles are launched like rockets and then dive steeply toward their targets…

Utah’s Eagle Point Ski Resort suffered devastating losses in this summer’s Cottonwood Fire. As a result, the ski area announced the difficult decision to forego operations for the upcoming 2026-2027 winter season. The resort saw approximately 300 of its 600 acres burn in the fire that began June 22 and scorched nearly 100,000 acres in total throughout Utah. Four of Eagle Point’s chairlifts were destroyed, as well as the Canyonside Lodge. Notably, Eagle Point is also home to year-round residential homes, cabins, and seasonal resort condos — 145 of those were also lost in the fire. “Our first responsibility is…

California’s first microstamping law was signed way back in 2007, requiring all semi-automatic handguns in the state to imprint serial numbers onto two distinct locations on spent cartridge casings. Despite objections from gun makers that this was a practical impossibility and that a microstamped firing pin could be easily modified or destroyed, the state moved forward with enforcing the law, which led to an effective freeze on new semi-automatic handguns being certified for sale in the Golden State.  Democrat lawmakers relented in 2023, modifying the law to require microstamping on just one location on shell…

The modular engineering method in modern car manufacturing is the equivalent of Lego bricks. The same underpinnings can be resized, beefed up, and tweaked to accommodate anything from your yoga instructor’s Prius to the flame-spitting GR Corolla without starting over from scratch. The wasteful era of disposable vehicle platforms is over. Driven by skyrocketing development costs, rapid technological changes, and the need for global manufacturing agility, clean-sheet redesigns are becoming a thing of the past as modern architectures underpinning everything from the Porsche 911 to the Toyota Camry to the Dodge Charger can now stretch, widen, and adapt across multiple…

I stepped off the short trail from my campsite above Granby Lake in Colorado and pushed the tailswitch of the NITECORE P27iX. The smooth, modest light I’d used to navigate the rocky slope exploded in output, suddenly zapping into the night with an astounding 5,000 lumens. I quickly traced the shoreline, looking down 100 feet to the water’s edge in the drought-lowered reservoir. I scanned the beach for hundreds of feet to my right, finally losing sight of it where a ridge blocked my view. Satisfied I was alone on the shoreline, I tapped the front “duty switch” button and…

Earlier this week, I echoed a call to make your voice heard with regard to the ATF’s proposed rule changes. I think this is important as the last thing we need to do is make anti-gunners’ jobs any easier. While they’re engaged in fearmongering and hysteria, cooler heads need to weigh in. I still need to practice what I preach, admittedly, because as I write this, I haven’t actually done it myself — when I finish writing for the day, I plan on fixing that — but that doesn’t make it less important.And, thankfully, someone…

Remains belonging to a Korean War veteran are being returned home to Taunton, Mass., more than 70 years after he went missing during the conflict. U.S. Army Cpl. Normal Ronald Levesque, who went missing aged 18, will be returned by state and local police on Wednesday after police identified his remains last year, according to The Boston Globe. There will be a procession in the city to honor him in addition to an Aug. 14 graveside service, where Levesque will be laid to rest with full military honors. The Korean War began when North Korea, with indirect support from Communist…

As of August 1, it’s a lot harder to purchase an AR-15 in Colorado than it used to be. Prospective buyers have to obtain a Firearms Safety Course Eligibility Card from a county sheriff and undergo a four- or 12-hour training class (depending on whether or not they’ve taken a hunter education course in the past five years) before they can purchase some of the most popular firearms around.  Under the law, sheriffs can charge whatever they’d like for processing the eligibility card applications. Some sheriffs, like El Paso County Sheriff Jospeh Roybal, have said…

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When something awful like a mass killing at a school happens, anti-gunners routinely accuse us of not caring about the safety of students. It’s the strongest round in their magazine because it triggers emotions, but that’s all it does. We know it’s false, and anyone with half a brain will at least wonder why we’re not tripping over ourselves to back gun control even when it might be unpopular to oppose it. It’s because we know good and well that it doesn’t work.What school safety requires is a lot of work, and none of it’s…

CAIRO (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday, as Iran and Oman inched toward an agreement on the critical waterway that could ease pressure on the global economy and potentially help bring an end to the war. The U.S., along with Israel, launched the war on Feb. 28, citing various goals including toppling Tehran’s government and ending its nuclear program. But the conflict has devolved into a fight over the strait as Iranian threats and attacks on shipping ground traffic through the waterway to a halt.…