Every active and reserve Marine now owes an annual Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) protective mask fit and seal test. The Marine Corps made the requirement service-wide in MARADMIN 384/26, signed Aug. 21 by Lieutenant General Jay M. Bargeron, the deputy commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations. The change turns mask seal validation into a named, tracked annual task for the Total Force. The status will follow a Marine in the Marine Corps Training Information Management System (MCTIMS). The practical test is a simple one: get a seal on an M50 or M53A1, clean-shaven at the respirator seal surface…
A Girl & A Gun® is the largest all-women’s shooting organization with over 30,000 members. President & CEO Robyn Sandoval talked about her journey and the organization during our April interview. While attending the 2026 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting, Sandoval stopped by to discuss A Girl & A Gun. This interview was made possible by Beretta Holding, the sponsor of the Voices of the Second Amendment at the NRAAM.Sandoval says she’s just “another gun girl, another woman on the range,” but in reality this mother of three is one of the most accomplished and…
It may be the Fifth Circuit, but it’s first in the hearts of many Second Amendment advocates simply because of how many solid victories the appellate court delivers. Today a three-judge panel on the Fifth Circuit sided with Firearms Policy Coalition, Elite Precision Customs LLC, and two individual plaintiffs who had challenged the federal prohibition on interstate handgun sales. The panel reversed a district court decision in favor of the government, which argued that the ban doesn’t violate the Second Amendment because regulations on the sale of firearms presumptively fall outside of the Second Amendment’s…
If I could offer advice to our Founding Fathers, other than to ditch slavery right away, it would be to just skip the militia clause of the Second Amendment. While I understand they were explaining why the right to keep and bear arms needs to be preserved, they didn’t foresee the legions of morons who think that clause means the exact opposite of what we know their intentions were. But now the anti-gunners’ efforts to use that clause are going to backfire on them, as the Indiana State Rifle and Pistol Association notes on its…
A pilot safely ejected from a crashing F-16 Fighting Falcon on Thursday in Grand Traverse County, Mich. The jet, part of the 149th Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard, was “on a routine training mission from the Air National Guard’s Combat Readiness Training Center, in Alpena” during the incident, the Texas Air National Guard said in a statement, cited by Stars and Stripes. The crash occurred shortly before 2 p.m. and the pilot ejected safely. The incident came as the Texas Unit is in Michigan to take part in annual training at Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center. The…
A West Virginia man already serving life in prison for murdering his wife pleaded guilty to defrauding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) of more than $354,000 by falsely claiming he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the Justice Department. Zachary Hess Dawson, 39, currently an inmate at the Mount Olive Correctional Complex, pleaded guilty Sept. 2 in federal court to theft of public money. He admitted that he fraudulently obtained $354,813.98 in VA benefits over roughly eight years, from about January 2017 through September 2025, prosecutors said. Dawson claimed the benefits by asserting that he had PTSD resulting from…
Warning: This story contains mentions of suicide. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has begun quietly firing recruits it hired during last year’s rapid expansion, reportedly including a Marine reservist and father of two who died by suicide days after being told he would lose the job, according to an investigation by The Washington Post. Joseph Moore, 38, of suburban Philadelphia, had spent years trying to build a career in law enforcement. He died Aug. 28 outside ICE’s Philadelphia field office, according to the Philadelphia medical examiner’s office, which ruled the death a suicide. Moore died three days after ICE…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Russia plans to launch “hybrid-style” drone and missile strikes against nations supporting Ukraine, including NATO-member Poland, as the war enters its most crucial phase. The Kremlin’s main goal now, as supported by evidence gathered by intelligence services, is to destroy Ukraine’s economy and logistics and weaken NATO’s resolve by attacks on its member states, Tusk said in parliament on Thursday. This is the “most likely scenario,” the premier told lawmakers ahead of his planned visit to Ukraine on Friday. Poland, as a key transit route for aid to Ukraine, has suffered a spate of…
While the Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, the sport itself is a key part of our American heritage and should be protected. Where the two overlap is in using guns to hunt, something Americans of all ethnicities have done on these shores since they could first get their grubby little paws on firearms. But like so many other things that touch the Second Amendment, there are those who want to step in and tell everyone how it’s going to be. This is what governments do, and while it can be fine in…
One of the new proposals regarding gun buying and selling is that it’ll be possible for me to buy a gun from my wife’s uncle, who has a gun store that’s a bit of a drive away, without having to make that drive. We’re both in the same state, after all, and so no shipping of a gun across state lines will take place, but it can come to me just the same. It’s pretty rad, if you ask me, and while I’d also like to buy guns from friends in other states and have…
Base-building games have become incredibly popular over the last decade, with every year producing at least a couple of standout releases. Heck, Pokemon even jumped on the train by releasing Pokopia, a cozy base-builder and life sim. As good as that spin-off is proving to be, it is still too early to rank it among the all-time greatest fantasy base-builder games like Valheim and Enshrouded. Games in this subgenre are best when they are relaxed in pace, methodical, and have a variety of building pieces and systems for gamers to play around with. Whether players are on the hunt for…
The Supreme Court will finally hear a case involving a ban on so-called assault weapons. This is fantastic news, to say the least, and I’m still giddy about reading the case’s name in the Supreme Court’s orders as having been granted cert. They’ll hear it, and I think we all know how that one’s going to go.But while it’s good news for us, it’s better news for the people who have been knee-deep in these cases, and Women for Gun Rights is celebrating one of their own who played a key role in this one.As…
As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, Americans will gather for fireworks, parades and ceremonies honoring the nation’s founding. The anniversary is also an opportunity to remember one of the country’s most enduring traditions: the oath to support and defend the Constitution. An Oath to the Constitution, Not a Person Millions of Americans have taken that oath. Whether it is a young Marine raising their right hand for the first time, the president taking the oath of office on the Capitol steps, a newly elected member of Congress or a federal judge, each begins by making the…
Full-size pickup trucks rule America. That goes for public streets, and private meeting rooms at the automaker than build them. And the battle is getting a little exciting as we pass the halfway point in 2026. These trucks dominate the sales charts and the balance sheets of the Detroit Three. Now Ram is pulling closer to being the number two truck than it has in a very long time, and General Motors is pulling away from Ford when you combine Silverado and Sierra sales. The gap between F-Series and Silverado is a little tighter, too. But Ram is the only…
Nissan’s huge efforts to sell more cars over the last decade did the job of moving more metal, but they hurt the company in the long run, its new CEO says. Without pulling any punches, in a recent interview he said that aggressively pursuing the rental car market boosted its share, but those sales came with big discounts and big damage to the company’s image. Now he wants to change it. Sales At All Costs…Came With A Hefty Cost Credit: Nissan “Before, it was like, okay, we want volume, volume, volume,” Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa told Reuters in an interview, describing…
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo is intensifying. With over 1,400 cases and 438 deaths tainting the morale of health workers, there is a small piece of good news. A treatment trial has begun. The DR Congo has officially started a trial of potential treatments for the species of virus behind the current deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The strain, called Budibugyo, has been difficult to treat since it is not the more common Zaire strain. The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that the first patient in the trial has been enrolled,…
California Attorney General Rob Bonta has responded to the Department of Justice’s lawsuit taking on the state’s new ban on Glocks and other striker-fired pistols, and it’s a doozy. First, Bonta claims that the government’s request for a temporary restraining order barring enforcement of the law should have been filed when AB 1127 was signed into law, not when the law took effect on July 1. The DOJ’s lawsuit is based on a pattern and practice complaint, though, and until the law was actually being enforced there was no pattern or practice of violating the…
As the United States prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding, the military is once again confronting a question almost as old as the nation itself: What does religious freedom look like inside an institution built on discipline, uniformity and readiness? The debate isn’t new. Chaplains have served alongside American troops since the Continental Army. Service members have long balanced personal convictions with military requirements. But over the past two years, the Department of Defense has quietly implemented a series of policy changes that collectively offer perhaps the clearest snapshot yet of where faith stands inside today’s armed…
An Army officer who secretly gave abortion medication to a pregnant junior enlisted soldier, causing the loss of her unborn child, was sentenced to 12 years in prison following a guilty plea at a court-martial on June 24, according to Army officials. Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams, 34, pleaded guilty to multiple offenses, including intentionally killing an unborn child, domestic violence, fraternization and conduct unbecoming of an officer. The sentence was handed down during a military trial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM) in Washington. According to Army officials, Jones-Adams admitted to secretly placing a pill in the soldier’s drink after investigators determined…
There are exceptions to a great many gun control laws, but not for most of us. Those are usually for law enforcement officers or the military. When they’re performing their duties, that makes perfect sense, but most of those exceptions aren’t limited to just when they’re on the clock. So, it’s more than a little bizarre for someone who has such an exception to then misuse their special status, only to be hoisted up as the poster boy for why gun rights should be further restricted.Take South Carolina. An editorial out of the state just…
Ubisoft continues to announce new features for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, with the latest tease changing how players will be able to explore the deep sea areas in the game. Although the existence of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced may have been one of the worst kept secrets before its eventual reveal, it seems likely that many may have underestimated just how many new features, fixes, and other quality of life improvements Ubisoft Singapore has made to the original game. For most, the biggest change for Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced was the move to the Anvil Engine, giving…
