During the Biden administration, gun control activists were able to get the Centers for Disease Control to remove any mention of defensive gun uses from its website. Previously, the agency had language indicating anywhere between 60,000 and 2.5 million DGUs annually; in most cases, instances where the trigger wasn’t pulled but the presence of the firearm was enough to prevent a situation from escalating into violence. Well, now those figures are back, and anti-gun activists are not happy about it. The Everytown-affiliated website The Trace spoke to anti-gun advocates Mark Bryant, who runs the Gun…
A real gap is built into the Department of Veterans Affairs’ disability rating system. A veteran can be rated at 70% or 80%, clearly and seriously disabled by any reasonable standard, and still fall short of the 100 percent rating that unlocks the largest monthly compensation. Total Disability based on Individual Unemployability, shortened to TDIU, exists to close that gap for veterans whose service-connected conditions genuinely prevent them from working, regardless of what their combined rating says on paper. What TDIU Actually Does TDIU pays a veteran at the full 100 percent disability rate, currently $3,938.58 per month for a…
The Army Combat Diver Qualification Course is an elite special operations scuba course run by Army Special Forces in Key West, Florida. To graduate, you must endure seven weeks of training to earn the Special Operations Diver Badge. The school is open to Special Forces members, Rangers and other special operations personnel, including qualified Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps and West Point cadets. Being a good swimmer prior to joining the Army is critical to success in this course, so having experience swimming or preparing specifically for this program prior to joining needs to be part of your training history.…
Sari Horwitz was an investigative reporter at the Washington Post for decades, but based on her bylines her tenure apparently ended in late 2024. At some point since then Horwitz joined the board of the gun control group Giffords, so she no longer has to pretend to be an unbiased journalist. In a new piece at The Atlantic, Horwitz claims that researchers have uncovered what she calls the most “cynical move yet” by pro-Second Amendment groups. In the first study of its kind, the authors analyzed 25 years of data, linking campaign-finance records to every fatal…
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran’s currency hit a record low Monday as Washington prepared to announce new sanctions it said would add further pressure on an economy already battered by previous sanctions and a U.S. naval blockade. The rial dropped to 2.02 million to the U.S. dollar as trading opened on currency markets. Iran’s official Central Bank rate stood at around 1.5 million rial to the dollar, but the market rate is what most Iranians pay. The currency had already been under pressure before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, as Iran faced double-digit inflation and negative…
It’s amazing how guns and alcohol are treated similarly despite being very different. I don’t just mean that one is a liquid and one is a solid. Elementary science is too obvious, after all. What I mean is that while alcohol can and sometimes is consumed on the premises of a retail location, guns are almost never used on those premises. Unfortunately, many towns try to act like they are. Goleta, California wasn’t one of those. Maybe they didn’t think it would ever be an issue, but when a gun store secured a location that…
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Most people already own the gear that would get them through a blackout. A flashlight in a drawer, a radio on the shelf, a power bank buried in a bag somewhere, etc. But more often than not, those devices are at maybe 25 percent, or possibly dead, meaning they’ll be useless when the power goes out. Owning useful equipment with a dead battery is one of the most common gaps in modern preparedness, and it’s completely avoidable. To avoid having dead devices during the next blackout or major disaster, you have to create a habit of recharging everything on a…
The late Ernie Navarre was known as the “Donut King” of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, but police say his son Jules is more of a drug kingpin than fried dough royalty. For decades, Earnie Navarre sold his baked goods and pastries in the town of Springfield, and Jules can be seen working alongside his dad in multiple photographs on the Facebook page of Navarre’s Pastries. Ernie Navarre passed away on his 70th birthday in 2025, beloved by many in the community. Jules Navarre has been running Navarre’s Pastries ever since. The popular shop known for its king…
When is someone an adult?The current age of majority in the United States is 18. This is, traditionally speaking, when someone is considered an adult in the eyes of the law. Despite having had their rights all their lives, they can now legally exercise their Second Amendment rights…unless they live in a handful of states that have decided they can’t really have them and they’re not really adults. Like Massachusetts.Unfortunately for the adults under the age of 21, it looks like they got a bit of a setback in federal court on Friday.A federal judge…
Mark Walters is the host of the Armed American Radio show. Walters, who covers the Second Amendment, just entered into a syndication deal with a TV pilot episode to follow. The nationally syndicated radio talk show host can be heard across over 200 radio stations daily. Walters, a friend of Bearing Arms and fellow board member of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, has been making monumental waves in the industry these last few years — and his entire career really. Between being listed as a Talkers Heavy Hundred two…
A former soldier was sentenced Friday to 44 years in prison for his role in luring an Army veteran into an ambush with one other former soldier, then helping conceal his killing. David DeGroat, 22, was sentenced in New Mexico’s 8th Judicial District Court on Friday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and five other counts in the July 2025 killing of Matthew McLaughlin, 25, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. All three men had previously served together. The victim had moved across the country to live with the two men later charged in his death. His sentence, which…
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A plane that crashed at a remote military site in western Alaska, killing all eight people on board, was making its second runway approach in heavy fog when it lost contact, authorities said Friday. The Cessna’s two pilots could not see the gravel airstrip and were flying solely by instruments when the plane crashed about midday Thursday, Clint Johnson, the National Transportation Safety Board’s Alaska region chief, told a virtual news conference. Regulations required that they abort their first landing attempt because of the lack of visibility, he said, and the plane crashed on its second…
The gun control lobby and their media allies have tried painting Second Amendment advocate and congressional candidate Brandon Herrera as a Nazi, a woman-hating misogynist, and a carpet bagger. None of those attacks have really landed, with a new poll released a few days ago showing Herrera with a six-point lead over his Democrat opponent in TX-23. Now the San Antonio News Express is attempting to create another controversy where none exists: accusing him of inflating his net worth. Herrera said last month he was going to refile his financial disclosure statement because it did not…
ISTANBUL (AP) — Israel did not warn the United States before it struck an air base in northern Syria this week, despite fears of an escalation with the U.S. and NATO ally Turkey, the U.S. special envoy to Syria said. Israel usually closely coordinates its military actions with the U.S., its key backer. Washington has tried to use this influence to moderate attacks as Israel carries out operations in Syria, Gaza and Lebanon. Tom Barrack, who also serves as ambassador to Turkey, said the attack on Tuesday on the Abu Duhur base could have been Israel “baiting the Turks ……
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