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The gun-rights group Gun Owners of America (GOA) is blowing the whistle on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division for revealing sensitive tax and firearm information of a GOA member. According to an April 17 news release, GOA is asking the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General to investigate what it calls a “a series of alarming breaches in which the government intentionally filed, on a public court docket, the sensitive tax returns of a GOA member, along with details of this person’s private firearm collection.” According to GOA,…
The truth of the matter is that so-called “ghost guns” exist in part because there is a point where something that isn’t a gun becomes a gun. Selling something that’s almost a gun, but not quite, isn’t exactly new. I first bought an AK receiver kit more than 20 years ago, along with a parts kit that would let me put together my very own AK. I loved that gun.Anyway, the whole “ghost gun” thing, at least when it comes to going after dealers, is premised on someone doing something wrong simply because they took…
I’m always on the lookout for coverage of defensive gun uses by local media outlets, so when I ran across a story from KXAN-TV in Austin, Texas headlined “Austin woman chases intruder out of home during ‘terrifying’ invasion,” I was definitely intrigued. The story itself is less about that encounter, though, than the less-than-satisfying response the victim of the home invasion received when she called 911 to report an intruder. It was last fall when Shayla Worley woke up and realized a stranger was in her home. KXAN doesn’t even really describe what Worley did, other than…
I remember when magazines like Esquire were about men’s style and the gentleman’s lifestyle. If you wanted to be the most well-dressed man in any room, you probably read it and its sister publication, GQ. They focused on what they focused on and they did it well for decades. But, like most publications these days, they seem to think they also need to cover politics to some degree, which I guess would be fine if they actually had anything intelligent to offer. Just like Vogue and its offshoots, though, they seem to find people who…
Iran has vowed to retaliate against the United States after it fired upon and seized a cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. “Trump, by imposing a blockade and violating the ceasefire, seeks, in his view, to turn the negotiating table into a table of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering,” said Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. Ghalibaf led the Iranian delegation in the failed talks with Vice President J.D. Vance in Islamabad, Pakistan, on April 11th. Vance Fails In Iran: No Peace Deal According to state media, as reported by NBC News, the ministry called the Sunday night cargo…
Instructors at Vail Resorts are opting into a class-action lawsuit against the corporation, alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Since it was filed, nearly 2,000 snow sports instructors have opted in, and if the judge extends the deadline at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, April 22, many more could join. The lawsuit, titled Quint et al. v. Vail Resorts, Inc., accuses the ski company of having failed to fairly compensate its instructors for “off-the-clock” job duties — including time traveling between employee parking lots, locker rooms, and worksites; time spent putting on gear and uniforms; and time in…
Kentucky has pretty solid gun laws, especially considering it has a Democrat governor. Andy Beshear isn’t quite what I’d call a pro-gun Democrat, but he has quietly allowed several pro-2A measures to become law without whipping out his veto pen, and he’s been mum about things like the state’s permitless carry law as well. Beshear has come out in favor of “red flag” laws, though, and with rumors swirling about his intentions to run for president in 2028, the governor may be looking to make inroads with the gun control lobby. Keep that in mind…
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is celebrating “a significant milestone,” announcing that it completed a record number of key element extractions integral to nuclear weapons testing and acceleration.The NNSA announced Friday that there were 13 extractions of tritium—an isotope of hydrogen and key element in nuclear weapons—over a nine-month period stemming from Fiscal Year 2025 and into FY 2026. The previous extractions record was eight in 12 months, spanning FY 2022 and FY 2023.Savannah River Tritium Enterprises (SRTE), operated by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) for NNSA, extracts the tritium. SRTE’s facilities provide a unique capability to safely increase production…
After serving his country in the Marine Corps, veteran Michael D’Angelo has found another way to give back to the military community – making them laugh. D’Angelo feels right at home delivering punchlines in front of a couple hundred Marines at dusk, after they’ve finished an intense training regimen and just want to relax because he remembers that life far too well. He created the Rapid Fire Comedy Tour, a nonprofit organization the delivers first-rate standup comedy to active-duty military members and first responders for free. D’Angelo’s amazing story is featured on the latest episode of the Tango Alpha Lima podcast, hosted by…
When it comes to killing brain cells outright in mass, likely the only thing that could beat a three-day tequila bender is the so-called Everytown for Gun Safety’s annual gun law rankings. Everytown recently released its 2026 list, and I feel dumber just for reading the report. But I decided to take one for the team, since now you won’t feel compelled to spend more than a few seconds on it. “We compared gun policy across the country, scoring every state on the strength of its gun laws and comparing it with its rate of gun violence,” Everytown crowed in…
Saturday’s killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), by one or more U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis, Minn., represented the end of a “life devoted to healing,” according to his family, coworkers, and others across the health care industry.The Jan. 24 shooting marked the third involving federal immigration officials in Minneapolis in January.Pretti, 37, worked as a registered nurse in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. He was fatally shot by federal agents near 26th Street and Nicollet Avenue during immigration enforcement operations.He was…
Yes, a state Democratic Party chair just applauded a move by the ATF that is, ultimately, a pro-gun move. Yes, it’s enough to make you check and make sure you’re not still asleep and having the least realistic dream you’ve had since that time in high school when you dreamed that Heather Locklear was next to you as you stood on a pyramid in sun god-like robes while thousands of naked women were screaming and throwing little pickles at you. What? I’m the only one who has that dream?Anyway, a state chair. Democrat.Yes, it’s surprising,…
Enraged tyrant Donald Trump has taken to social media to express his anger and frustration at the killing of another person in Minnesota by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement). Trump was especially unhinged that an American citizen dared to arm themselves against a tyrannical ruling class. Trump ended his rant on X over the shooting with the following message: “LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!” Does anyone remember…
In 2025 the National Rifle Association announced some major changes. Last month NRA President Bachenberg addressed members’ concerns with changes to the magazines. The first electronic issues have arrived; so what’s the deal? Prior to changes to NRA Publications transitioning to a new division, NRA Media, there were four magazines. Due to the price of printing and mailing, NRA leadership found it to be cost prohibitive to continue printing those magazines on a monthly basis. They announced in Oct. 2025 that they’d be cutting down to two magazines: “American Rifleman” and “American Hunter.” The magazines…
Falco Holsters was in attendance at SHOT Show 2026, and with the expansive catalog of holsters that they already offer shooters who want to conceal carry a firearm, we thought we’d swing by to see what they have new for this year. It turns out that there are several new models/variations in the works, and we got the rundown on all of them. Falco Holsters with Blended Materials Falco Holsters is looking to blend together leather with Kydex in a couple of methodical ways this coming year. The first holster we came across and looked at was an Inside-the-Waistband (IWB) holster…
The killing of a Minnesota man who was protesting a Border Patrol immigration enforcement action while carrying a concealed firearm has quickly become a political Rorschach test, particularly on the right, while some voices on the left are suddenly displaying feigned appreciation and support for the Second Amendment. 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who worked as an ICU nurse at a Veteran’s Administration hospital in the Twin Cities, was shot and killed by Border Patrol agents during a chaotic scene in which it appears a gun was discovered in a holster as Pretti was on the ground…
For most of us, the Lincoln assassination lives only in history books or in television or movie adaptations of the event. But for Samuel J. Seymour (1860–1956), it was a core memory. It was a confusing, scary night at the theater, seen through a child’s eyes, long before he understood what the moment meant.Seymour is best remembered today, if remembered at all, as the last surviving eyewitness to President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. He was five years old on April 14, 1865, and was in attendance, sitting in the balcony of Ford’s Theatre when John Wilkes Booth fired the shot. And he lived long…
Federal authorities arrested multiple activists after protesters inside a St. Paul, Minn., church disrupted a worship service, pushing the Department of Justice into a broader investigation.The protest unfolded earlier this month inside Cities Church in St. Paul, where demonstrators interrupted a worship service to protest federal immigration enforcement. The disruption prompted a local police response, followed by federal arrests and a widening DOJ civil rights review currently examining whether the actions violated laws protecting religious worship and if federal charges are warranted.Military.com reached out for comment to the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the city of…
