Every summer, thousands of service members leave the military and begin the next chapter of their lives. June is one of the busiest retirement periods of the year, but the reason has less to do with preference and convenience than with military pay. “It is really more of an administrative timing,” said Sarah Roder, Director of Partnerships at Armed Forces Mutual. “June 30 is the last day of the third fiscal quarter. If you retire on June 30, then you would see your pension check immediately on July 1.” For Roder, however, the retirement date is only the beginning. The…
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The death of a young sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman has been ruled a suicide, nearly three weeks after his body was found in the water near the piers at Naval Station Norfolk. Engineman Fireman Apprentice Isaac Benjamin Morris, 22, died from drowning, according to the Virginia Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. His manner of death was determined to be suicide, according to local media reports on Monday. Morris, from California, was last seen at Naval Station Norfolk on June 14 and was reported missing before authorities found his body on June 19. The…
Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps none captured the American public’s imagination as vividly as the agency’s “heart attack gun.” During the Cold War, there was almost nothing the CIA wouldn’t do to get a leg up on the Soviet Union, from simple operations such as intercepting and reading the mail of American citizens to more serious — and equally illegal — acts such as dosing “unwitting, nonvoluntary human subjects” with LSD and seeing how well they would hold up to interrogation. We know about these…
One of the world’s most thrilling winter sports is finally coming to the world’s biggest stage. Freeride skiing and snowboarding has been steadily growing in popularity since at least the 1990s, when this gnarly alpine discipline was codified with official contests in the U.S. and Europe. It’s a rough-and-tumble sport that’s also fun as hell to watch. And now it’s coming to the Olympic Games. On Tuesday, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that freeride skiing and snowboarding will debut at the Alpes 2030 Olympic Winter Games. This is a major milestone for a sport that relies on natural terrain,…
I came across this on Facebook earlier today, and I felt like I needed to address it. The reason, of course, is that it’s absolutely stupid, and someone posted this with the intention of it being read as profound or something. Let’s break this down for a moment.”You’re afraid we will take your guns away.”Yes, we are. We are because too many of your fellow travelers have tried it or advocated for it from the start. Just this year, Rhode Island tried to take the modern sporting rifles of residents, the very guns it grandfathered…
U.S. Coast Guard crews are still assessing ports and waterways across Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands following Super Typhoon Bavi, as commercial traffic remains shut down while officials check for damaged navigation markers, hazardous seas and debris. U.S. Coast Guard Forces Micronesia/Sector Guam said Tuesday that the ports of the Marianas remain under Port Heavy Weather Condition ZULU, meaning they are closed to commercial traffic until crews complete post-storm assessments and resolve safety issues. The port closures affect a region that is central to the U.S. military’s posture in the Pacific. Guam is home to Naval Base Guam, Andersen…
As the sun began to peek over the horizon, waves slammed my lower back against fiberglass. If I wasn’t awake before, I sure was now. As the young guy on board the bay boat, I volunteered myself as tribute for the “seat” that wasn’t really a seat. Through the waves, I tried distracting myself by staring at the Academy H20X Factor rods on board, armed with all manner of interesting baits for snook, sea trout, and, if we were lucky, tarpon. Honestly, I had a lot of trepidation about the rods. I’m not a snobby person, but when it comes…
Americans weren’t waiting around. Newly released NSSF-adjusted NICS background check figures show firearm purchases jumped sharply in June, led by huge spikes in Virginia and Rhode Island as gun buyers rushed to purchase Modern Sporting Rifles before state bans took effect on July 1. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, there were 1,123,006 adjusted background checks in June 2026, an 11.7% increase over June 2025. But the biggest story came from states where lawmakers approved new restrictions on America’s most popular rifle. Virginia recorded 123,699 background checks, a staggering 241% increase over June 2025. Rhode Island followed with a…
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday insisted that the United States should be in control of Greenland rather than NATO ally Denmark, renewing tensions in Europe even as the trans-Atlantic military alliance was announcing billions in arms deals at a summit in an attempt to appease the mercurial U.S. leader. Trump called the semiautonomous island “an important part” for the United States, as he repeated the false claim that it’s surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships and said he won’t let Greenland be threatened. “That should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” Trump told…
Yosemite National Park is home to one of the most famous (and oldest) groups of trees: Mariposa Grove. This area is full of mature giant sequoia trees that are thousands of years old and hundreds of feet tall. The Grizzly Giant, a 3,000-year-old tree, looms in the center; along with Half Dome and El Cap, this tree is one of the park’s most iconic structures. It has endured climate change, forest fires, and invasive species, and scientists and park officials were wondering just how well this old colossus was holding up. To find out, a group of researchers climbed the…
How many actual rights do we have preserved in the Constitution that have an age limit? Voting, of course, does, but what else? Even the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition, didn’t include an age limit on who could drink. Then again, it didn’t actually say drinking was a right, either. And yet, while we acknowledge adulthood at 18, and people can register to vote then, some states have decided that despite someone otherwise having the totality of their rights when they reach the age of majority, they can’t have guns because…well, because.One of those is…
A Fort Worth homeowner is being hailed as a hero after police say he shot and killed a machete-wielding man who turned on him while allegedly attacking a woman. According to CBS Texas, the terrifying incident unfolded just after 10 p.m. on Ross Avenue in north Fort Worth last week. Neighbors told police they heard a woman screaming for help as she was dragged down the street by a man armed with a machete. A nearby Ring camera captured part of the encounter. Witnesses told CBS Texas they saw the suspect striking the woman with the handle of the machete…
The first camera was simply pointed the wrong way. In early April 2025, Jerry Reina, leader of a local neighborhood watch in the Harbor View area of Suffolk, Virginia, noticed that one of their community’s six Flock Safety cameras had been turned away from the road it was installed to monitor, according to his testimony at a preliminary hearing reported by WAVY. A Suffolk police sergeant who helps oversee the city’s camera program soon found another aimed into a wood line. By summer, entire poles were down. Some cameras were thrown from the Hampton Roads Parkway onto Interstate 664 below,…
Health care workers helping treat and control the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are threatening to strike as the hemorrhagic disease continues to spread. Yesterday, healthcare workers in Ituri issued a 24-hour notice of an impending strike. Those working on the Ebola frontlines said that the working conditions were too poor to continue. They reported unpaid benefits, low wages, and inadequate supplies since the outbreak officially began in May. The DRC Ministry of Health has now confirmed 1,561 cases in the outbreak, with the epicenter in Ituri province and significant transmission in North and South Kivu provinces, as…
I’m a gear junky. To be even more specific, I’m a flashlight junky. After spending several months in the field with the Streamlight® ProTac® 2.0 HP, I’m pleasantly surprised. I recently did a rather extensive review of the Streamlight® ProTac® 2.0 HP over at my own site, The Square Reviews. The light made such an impression on me, I felt like the readers of Bearing Arms would love to learn about it. The ProTac® 2.0 HP is a high lumen, high candela flashlight. Is it suitable for everyday carry? Depending on your needs. What I…
The ATF is backing away from a controversial cell phone tracking program after lawmakers revealed the agency had used it hundreds of times without a warrant. According to a new video from Gun Owners of America (GOA), the ATF has canceled its contract with a data broker called Webloc, a company that provides geolocation information collected from mobile devices. GOA argues the move is a major win for both the Second and Fourth Amendments. The controversy began during a congressional oversight hearing when ATF Director Robert Cekada acknowledged the agency had purchased access to a geolocation tool capable of collecting…
Pickup trucks are workhorses; let’s not kid ourselves. We expect them to prioritize payload capacity and towing metrics over aesthetics, which only gives designers immense leeway to experiment with how a truck could/should look. Sometimes, those bold aesthetic end up being genuinely ugly pickup trucks. But as we have learned over the years, you should never judge a book by its cover, because many of the most polarizing designs hide brilliant engineering and undeniable capability. The information was correct at the time of writing. Ugly Trucks That Were Far Better Than They Looked 1. Ford Econoline (First Generation) Credit: Bring A…
