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Cpl. John F. Mackie spent the years before the Civil War as a silversmith in New York City. Thirteen months after he enlisted in the Marine Corps, he was aboard the ironclad USS Galena on the James River when Confederate fire killed and wounded the gun crew beside him. Without waiting for orders, Mackie pulled the casualties aside and got the gun back into the fight, leading a handful of Marines who kept it firing until the ship had run out of ammunition. That act, in a losing fight at Drewry’s Bluff, made him the first Marine in the nation’s…

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The gun debate runs along mostly predictable lines. Something terrible happens, then the anti-gunners step in to tell us all about how they just want some gun control because that will equate to safety. If I can’t have an AR-15, you see, then no one can have one. Of course, I can’t have a full-auto conversion device for my Glock, and yet those are supposedly everywhere and massively deadly. That doesn’t matter. See, the gun control groups like to frame everything in the context of “safety.” They even call themselves gun safety advocates, because gun…

For decades, “pro-gun Democrat” wasn’t an oxymoron. In fact, according to a recent commentary from Gun Owners of America (see below), there was a time when even lawmakers who generally supported gun control occasionally backed major Second Amendment initiatives when common sense demanded it. Today? That’s a different story. In a recent Minuteman Moment video, GOA’s Ben Sanderson argued that the modern Democratic Party has become so committed to gun control that many elected Democrats are increasingly out of step with their own voters. And that’s where things get interesting. Gun Owners Don’t Fit the Old Stereotypes Anymore One of…

The one downside of concealed carry versus open carry is that sometimes, you feel like you’re the only one in a given place with a firearm. That means that if something goes down, all the weight of the world is on you to do something about it, and it’s all because you don’t know who’s carrying and who isn’t. This isn’t a bad thing, mind you, but just something that plays in my mind, at least.However, new data suggests that my concerns probably aren’t well-founded.The CPRC hired McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 general election…

If Hollywood made a movie about the average concealed carrier, they’d probably cast a retired rancher wearing camouflage, chewing beef jerky, and yelling at clouds. According to new research from the Crime Prevention Research Center, reality looks a whole lot different. In fact, some of the survey’s most surprising findings completely blow up many of the stereotypes surrounding who carries a gun. The CPRC commissioned McLaughlin & Associates to survey 1,000 likely general-election voters in May 2026. The results showed that 29.8% of likely voters carry a concealed handgun at least occasionally, up from 24.3% in a similar survey conducted…

Four Republicans crossed party lines on Wednesday evening, joining Democrats to pass a war powers resolution that checks President Donald Trump’s authority as it pertains to the ongoing conflict in Iran. The White House said it doesn’t matter. The vote marks a drastic shift from more than a dozen previous war powers resolution votes in both the House and Senate, as Democrats have lacked support from both GOP-controlled chambers to put a legislative check on the Trump administration’s military operation in Iran that began on Feb. 28 without congressional approval. An original vote was scheduled for May 21 but canceled…

This article was originally published by Vincent Cook at The Mises Institute.  The socialists who have been taking over the Democratic Party lately have a problem—the state and local jurisdictions where they are able to seize power still have to compete with rival jurisdictions that are still relatively friendly to private property and capitalist businesses. The principal targets of egalitarian fury, namely possessors of great wealth, are strongly incentivized to escape from dystopian hell-holes created by socialists to saner locales. Even those who aren’t so clearly targeted as objects of envy suffer from the effects of economic and social decline…

The ATF has announced a slew of rule changes that will work out pretty well for gun owners. That’s the good news, though it’s not exactly breaking news. This follows decades of the ATF maintaining a certain hostility toward anyone who exercises their right to keep and bear arms and those who sell them guns. “Zero tolerance” may have kicked off under President Joe Biden, but there’s never been any reason to think folks in the ATF were upset by the declaration. Recently, Cam addressed a piece by ProPublica. It was supposedly taking issue with…

The Second Amendment Foundation is expanding a lawsuit against New Jersey officials after discovering what it says is a disturbing pattern: law-abiding residents allegedly losing gun rights not because of anything they did, but because of who they lived with. That’s the central claim in Aliaj v. Fort Lee Police Department, a federal lawsuit that now includes multiple plaintiffs who say Bergen County officials revoked permits, denied applications, and confiscated firearms based solely on concerns about other people living in their homes. And if SAF’s allegations are accurate, the implications are pretty staggering. The case originally began with plaintiff Elsid…

LONDON (AP) — “Mad” King George III — the villain of “Hamilton,” “Schoolhouse Rock” and the Revolutionary War — has undergone a makeover in time for America’s 250th birthday. He’s been known in the United States for centuries as the English ruler who lost the American colonies. You might remember him as the maniacal monarch from the Broadway musical or the subject of the 1990s play and film, “ The Madness of King George.” Americans of a certain age would recall him as the tyrant who taxed them without consent in the song, “ No More Kings.” Except the runup…