The head of the Department of the Air Force’s recruiting efforts, who has overseen the service’s turnaround from missing its goal for the first time since 1999 to hitting it three months early, believes those slumps are solidly in the rearview mirror.Brig. Gen. Christopher Amrhein has served as the commander of the Air Force Recruiting Service since June 2023 — a role he’s set to leave later this month. In an interview with Military.com where he looked back on the Air Force’s recruiting turnaround, the one-star general said he believes the service is on some of the best footing it’s…
The Pentagon has confirmed reports it has pulled Navy Rear Adm. Michael Donnelly from promotion and a new job overseeing the Navy’s Pacific fleet after a conservative news outlet again highlighted his role in allowing sailors to hold drag shows aboard a ship he commanded nearly 10 years ago.A senior defense official confirmed that “Secretary Hegseth has chosen to withdraw Adm. Donnelly’s nomination to lead 7th Fleet” in a statement provided Friday, adding “the department will open up nominations for the 7th Fleet commander” — the fleet that operates in the Pacific and especially around Japan and China.On Thursday, conservative…
A former Marine who exploited roughly two dozen minors, including by posing as a teenage girl online, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday. He extorted multiple victims into creating child sexual abuse material and threatened to release it to their friends and family.Anthony Fritzinger, 25, committed the offenses while he was an active-duty lance corporal in the Marine Corps at Cherry Point, North Carolina, according to his indictment and service record. His criminal conduct was first discovered in 2020 when he used an anonymous account to threaten an 18-year-old woman with the release of nude pictures taken…
By James Tarr Ed Brown, who passed in 2024, was one of the 1911 Illuminati, a small group of gunsmiths in the 1970s and ’80s who figured out how to turn a clunky service pistol into an accurate, reliable, user-friendly sidearm that became the number-one choice of professionals for years. Among many other upgrades, Ed Brown’s “beavertail” grip safety puts the shooter’s hand higher on the gun than any previous design, and he invented the “Speed Bump” at the bottom to ensure deactivation, which is now copied by many. Twenty-five years ago, Brown launched the “Bobtail” featuring a…
By Logan Metesh The May edition of GunBroker.com’s Top Selling Report presented by GunGenius.com, shows Smith & Wesson’s Model 686 revolvers moving up in both new and used revolver categories. The recent release of a Lipsey’s exclusive Mountain Gun version of the 686 has breathed new life into this 45-year-old design.The Model 686 is built on Smith & Wesson’s L frame, which is often seen as a Goldilocks size for revolvers. It’s larger than the K frame on which the Model 19 is built, but smaller than the N frame on which the Model 29 is built.The Model…
A Utah woman fighting to get her Second Amendment rights restored more than a decade after she became a prohibited person because she wrote a bad check is going to have to wait a little longer to learn what the Department of Justice has to say about her legal fight. Melynda Vincent petitioned the Supreme Court to accept her case in early May, and the DOJ originally had a June 11 deadline to respond. In early June the Solicitor General’s office requested and received a one-month extension, which pushed the deadline to July 11. In…
When you are a non-swimming athlete and your time in the pool is basically limited to backyard games such as Marco Polo and Sharks and Minnows, you may need a swimming routine to get you better prepared for a fitness test.This system requires swimming five days a week, but each week includes the following staple workouts:TechniquePracticing the stroke technique you will use on military fitness tests is the first step. For strokes such as the sidestroke, breaststroke and the modified sidestroke — referred to collectively as the combat swimmer stroke (CSS) — you should receive technique training. This can occur…
The modern uber-luxe G63 AMG, a ubiquitous sight in West L.A. and Calabasas, traces a direct lineage back to historic military vehicles built by Magna Steyr in Austria. Those older G-Wagens featured solid front and rear axles, zero creature comforts, and the ride quality of a delivery truck. Not anymore, though. Mercedes started selling the G in the United States and eventually switched out one of the solid axles for independent front suspension, while doubling down on all the luxury trappings imaginable. The top-spec G63 AMG now has supple leathers, extensive tech features, and unbelievable power from a mild-hybrid twin-turbo…
Chicago pretty much dictates politics for the rest of the state. That means Illinois’s anti-gun bent isn’t because of most of the rest of the state, but because people in the Windy City want gun restrictions. And, of course, they don’t work.But as you already know from the headline, this is a bit of a weird story. It’s not a shocking one, though, because nothing about this is truly surprising, overall. That’s probably the only surprising thing about it.The father of a rapper whose album release party was the setting of a River North mass…
Spouses of deceased service members and veterans would be able to keep getting survivor benefits if they remarry at any age under a bill inching forward in the Senate. Right now, surviving spouses who remarry before age 55 become ineligible for benefits such as the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Dependency and Indemnity Compensation and the Defense Department’s Survivor Benefit Plan. A bill from Senate Veterans Affairs Committee ranking member Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., would eliminate that age restriction. In addition to maintaining benefits for anyone who remarries in the future, the bill would let surviving…
One billion rounds. Yes, that’s billion with a “B.” Hornady has given shooters a lot to be thankful for in the last 20 years: LeveRevolution, Creedmoor and PRC cartridges, Critical Defense, Critical Duty, ELD-M and -X bullets, and much more. And one of Hornady’s grand-slams was the .17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire (HMR), which was introduced in 2002.At the start of the new millennium, then-ballistics engineer Dave Emary was working on a Christmas present for his father. His dad had a rifle in .22-250 that Emary had given him for Christmas in ’75. Fast-forward a quarter century; his dad was getting…
Reader Rebecca Platt writes . . . I was seven years old when I had my first experience with a gun. My father was target shooting with some friends and asked me if I wanted to try. His stable hands enveloped mine as I tried to grip the handle of a Colt Trooper .357. Ear protection in place, I squinted one green eye like the cowboys on TV and, with dad’s help, pulled the trigger. The deafening kick was a shock. I still remember the immediate fear and respect for an object so powerful. I was 12 before I experienced…
This article was originally published by Peter St. Onge at The Mises Institute. The Central bankers of the world, apparently losing confidence that they can fix the inflation they created, are turning to Plan B: blame the people. So we fight each other. Last week the chief economist of the Bank of England, Huw Pill, said the quiet part out loud, that “British households and businesses need to accept they are poorer and stop seeking pay increases and pushing prices higher.” Note inflation in the UK is currently running double-digits, with grocery prices up 19% year-on-year. So not getting a…
The United States and Canada have had good relations over the years. That being said, the current government of Canada and current executive branch in the U.S. are both on the same page when it comes to infringing on civil liberties and usurping the rights of their people. Prime Minister Justin “Castro” Trudeau and Sleepy Joe Biden joined in a partnership back in 2021 that has the markings of some real New World Order kind of stuff. Recently the two pinkos in charge released a joint statement on the 2023 “US-Canada Cross Border Crime Forum (CBCF).” First, the backstory. The…
The head of the Naval Special Warfare Center — the command that oversees much of the training for Navy SEALs — has been transferred out of his job early. He had recently been reprimanded for his part in the high-profile death of a Navy SEAL candidate last year. In a statement released Tuesday evening, the Navy announced that Capt. Mark Burke relieved Capt. Brian Drechsler. The service held a change of command ceremony earlier Tuesday, overseen by Rear Adm. Keith Davids, the head of Naval Special Warfare Command. A spokesman for the command noted that Drechsler was not relieved due…
Did BioFire, the makers of the latest “smart gun” travel 10,000 miles just to miss the point of being an armed citizen? During the latest episode of SOTG University podcast, Professor Paul Markel will consider this latest piece of high tech and whether or not it’s a solution looking for a problem or is the answer to all of our prayers. The SOTG University podcast is a short-form, single-topic, and easy-to-digest weekly program hosted by Paul G. Markel, founder of Student of the Gun and veteran small arms and tactics instructor with over three decades of experience. SOTG University…
After yesterday’s banking bloodbath, Regional bank stocks tumbled further earlier this morning (before recovering) after former Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan warned that the United States regional banking crisis is far from over. Most worryingly, Kaplan went on to claim that bank stocks have been marked down solely because of their over-investment in United States Treasuries, while the credit phase, which is “normally more serious,” is yet to unfold. “I’d prefer to do what’s called the hawkish pause, not raise but signal that we are in a tightening stance, because I actually think the banking situation may well be more…
The much demonized “assault weapon” is one of those firearm types that many people seem horribly concerned with but that aren’t actually used in crime all that much. Still, many people want to ban them here in the United States. In Canada, they almost did. The proposal nearly passed but was thwarted by a number of groups banding together to address specific concerns. None of that opposition seemed overly focused on the so-called assault weapons themselves, though. That means lawmakers up that way are going to give it another go. The Canadian government is proposing a ban on assault-style firearms that would…
Cost-of-living allowances for service members and their families stationed overseas will decrease starting this month, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, after the Department of Defense spent months repeatedly delaying the cuts. Service members’ overseas cost-of-living allowance, called OCOLA, will decrease on May 15 and Nov. 15, according to senior defense officials who spoke with reporters on the condition of anonymity. Those cuts will be seen in their June 1 and Dec. 1 paychecks. More than 230,000 troops receive the stipend overseas. “Many of the locations that we will see initially will be in areas such as Hawaii, Guam, Japan,” a senior…
TTAG’s own LKB, an attorney, took both me and Guns Save Life to task for touting Illinois’s Freedom Week following a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge in the Southern District of Illinois. LKB, in comments on the story TTAG published last Saturday, suggests that our publicity will be used against us in subsequent hearings. John: Your linked article, wherein you and GSL crow about a “Freedom Week” and publicly encourage people to immediately go purchase “banned” stuff, is exceedingly foolish. I’ll bet that’s now going to be Exhibit A in an emergency motion to the Seventh Circuit, and…
There are a number of ways criminals get guns. One way, though far from the primary method, is via straw buys. For those unaware, a straw buy is when someone with a clean criminal record buys a gun for someone who can’t lawfully buy a firearm for themselves. It’s against federal law to do such a thing and many want to put the onus for such buys on gun stores, but the truth is that unless they’re incredibly stupid, it’s hard to detect when it’s happening. It can also be difficult to prove that it happened previously, meaning a lot…
