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Perhaps my favorite fiction author is Larry Correia. His Monster Hunter International series is incredible, though the Grimnoir series is my favorite. He’s done others, and one that I think a lot of people sleep on is the novel he did with John D. Brown called “Gun Runner.” It’s a science fiction work that, frankly, I enjoyed so much. While I’m hoping we get a second book there, it seems there’s something else in the works in that universe.A Kickstarter for a graphic novel version of the book.The 2021 Dragon Award-winning military science fiction novel…
Gun owners (or most of them, anyway) are rightfully delighted with U.S. District Judge James Wesley Hendrix’s decision that much of the National Firearms Act has been rendered moot now that the making and transfer taxes on suppressors, short-barreled firearms, and “any other weapons” have been zeroed out by Congress in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. As Reason’s Jacob Sullum writes in his latest syndicated column, though, even folks who have no plans to purchase a suppressor or short-barreled rifle in the future should be pleased by how Hendrix reached his decision. Hendrix didn’t decide…
More than 100,000 surplus M14 rifles once used by the U.S. military are expected to go on sale to the public beginning early next year through the Civilian Marksmanship Program. The organization is a federally chartered nonprofit that plans to sell the guns. CMP CEO and board Chairman Jerry O’Keefe said the organization is targeting a price below $2,000 per rifle, though final pricing has not yet been announced.” Every buyer is limited to two weapons apiece, and sales are expected in January. The CMP could reconsider this limit as sales go on. CMP CEO and board Chairman Jerry O’Keefe…
I keep trying to keep myself calm regarding the court’s decision on the NFA registry requirement for suppressors and short-barreled long guns. I want it to mean the end of the NFA requirements entirely, and while they’re gone for now, there’s no guarantee they won’t return down the road. I want to temper my expectations. Still gonna SBR my home defense rifle and put a can on it, though.However, it’s always possible that an appeal will come.That’s not stopping Giffords from absolutely losing its mind over it.Trump’s Justice Department just failed to defend nearly 100…
PHOENIX (AP) — All eyes were on Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay. The 101-year-old veteran saluted while the national anthem played on Friday, kicking off a day of recognition honoring him and the other Navajo recruits who famously used their native language to keep military secrets during World War II. Begay, one of the last two living Code Talkers, made the long trip from his home on the Navajo Nation to the Arizona State Capitol for the event. He was joined by family members and dozens of descendants of other Code Talkers. “I am so damn proud,” said Begay,…
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The United States once planned to drop more than 1,000 bomb-carrying bats over Japanese cities. A psychologist taught pigeons to guide missiles. Cold War troops were issued a recoilless weapon capable of launching a nuclear warhead. British engineers built a giant pair of rocket-powered wheels stuffed with explosives and expected the contraption to drive itself up a beach. These weren’t concepts that lived only on paper. Every weapon on this list reached at least the prototype or testing stage. Several entered military service, and some were used in combat. Here are 15 of the strangest weapons military engineers actually built.…
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In 1968, John Bard Manulis and his classmates entered seventh grade at Harvard School for Boys in Los Angeles, an all-male, Episcopalian prep school that still carried the structure of a military academy. They wore uniforms. They marched with rifles. They learned hierarchy early. Seniors had privileges younger students did no. Manulis remembers the school as a place shaped by discipline, authority and, at times, hazing. More than 50 years later, those boys—now older men—found each other again on Zoom during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their conversations, arriving for a wider audience during Mental Health Awareness Month, became something Manulis did…
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Emryn Welton has a new honor she never dreamed she would achieve. The 10th grader from southern New Jersey has been named “Military Youth of the Year” in the state for her leadership, service and academic excellence in a youth program hosted by the military installation and the Keystone Club of the Boys & Girls Club of America. For more than 30 years, the Department of Defense has partnered with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to offer various support programs to the youth at military installations in multiple states and around the world. In 2013, the Military Youth of…
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The House on Thursday passed what supporters are calling the most significant expansion of benefits in decades for some of the veteran community’s most vulnerable families, approving bipartisan legislation that would boost support for catastrophically wounded veterans and Gold Star families while expanding VA home loan access for National Guard and Reserve members. The legislation, the Sharri Briley and Eric Edmundson Veterans Benefits Expansion Act, passed the House by a vote of 235-179 and now heads to the Senate. According to House leaders and the bill’s sponsors, the measure would increase benefits for more than 7,000 severely disabled veterans and…
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My spouse works his tail end off for his country, not to mention risking his life and leaving his family behind for months at a time. So it’s pretty great when people who are not in the military recognize his service with a military thank you. He finds it a little embarrassing, but sometimes I secretly plot ways for us to run errands right after he gets off work and before he has time to change out of his uniform just so that I can hear people thank him for his service. It’s heartwarming. And then there are the little…
