Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he will respond to Ukraine’s recent strikes. As Ukraine continues to suffer setbacks on the battlefield, it has stepped up drone strikes on civilian targets and infrastructure, to which Putin says retaliation will be “several times” more powerful. Ukraine has recently intensified drone attacks on Russian energy infrastructure using Western aid and resources. It has also attacked residential areas in recent months, amid launching several hundred unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) a day on average. First-person view, or FPV, drones, including artificial intelligence-assisted models, have increasingly targeted passenger buses and private vehicles. Putin made the…

Beginning this week, adults in Kentucky who are under the age of 21 can exercise their right to bear arms either openly or concealed, though they still have more hoops to jump through than those 21 and older.  Lawmakers in the Bluegrass state approved HB 312 earlier this year, and ultimately overrode Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto, setting up a “provisional” concealed carry permit for adults 18-to-20-years-old. The biggest difference between the provisional carry permit and the concealed carry license available for adults over the age of 21 is that the provisional license is recognized only within…

Suppressors aren’t just having a good year. They’re having a historic one. According to new reporting from NSSF, Americans are buying suppressors, short-barreled rifles and other National Firearms Act (NFA) items at a pace the industry has never seen before. If current trends continue, suppressor applications alone could approach 2 million by year’s end. The surge isn’t happening by accident. Lower costs, dramatically faster ATF approvals and growing interest from hunters and recreational shooters are all fueling demand. Tax Stamp Change Lit the Fuse The biggest catalyst came from Congress. After the One Big, Beautiful Bill reduced the federal tax…

The United States’ third-largest police force has let its contract with Flock Safety expire. On July 11, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)—which, until recently, was one of Flock’s largest government customers—walked away from their contract. They cited that it wasn’t about cost; rather, they walked away due to data ownership. “This contract is not being renewed because of serious concerns around civil liberties and civil rights issues, particularly around privacy and the data that is being collected from these cameras,” Dean Gialamas, the department’s chief information officer, told ABC7 after the decision was made public. The LAPD will stay…

Newly surfaced images and animations from the canceled Doom 4 have given fans another look at id Software’s original vision for the franchise before rebooting it in 2016. The fourth entry in the original Doom run has fascinated fans for years, as it was allegedly the entry that would take the series in an entirely new, more mainstream direction before being scrapped. Doom 4 entered production in 2007 and was announced in 2008 before being canceled in 2013 after id Software decided to reboot the project altogether, eventually taking what was left and creating what would become 2016’s Doom reboot.…

Is the right to bear arms more fundamental than the right to keep them? What about the right to acquire a gun? It’s hard to keep or bear one if you can’t legally get one, after all.  To date, the Supreme Court has rejected the idea that some of the rights protected by the Second Amendment are more important than others, but that’s exactly what the state of Delaware is suggesting in its latest defense of a law banning most young adults from purchasing and possessing firearms classified as “deadly weapons.”There are currently two lawsuits challenging…

Every year, thousands of borrowers pay the VA funding fee and never claim a single dollar back at tax time. It’s one of the most overlooked tax deductions in military homebuying, and in 2026, it’s back on the table after years of uncertainty. Here’s what you need to know about the VA funding fee tax deduction for 2026, including what changed, who qualifies, how to claim it, and what to watch out for when you file. Is the VA Funding Fee Tax Deductible in 2026? Yes. The VA funding fee on a VA loan is tax-deductible in 2026 for eligible…

This article was originally published by George Ford Smith at The Mises Institute.  If you read enough commentary, you’ll find various versions of the idea that our ruination is the result of powerful private interests driving government decisions that benefit them at our expense. Simply put, rich guys can buy votes that favor them, and only them. In some cases, they augment their bribes with blackmail. Does the problem lie with the billionaires or the government? One way a person can become a billionaire is by providing people with a product or service they want. As various economists have pointed…

In the midst of the gun debate, we tend to focus on two time periods. One is, obviously, the time when the Second and the Fourteenth Amendments were ratified. Under the Bruen doctrine, this is important as it gives us an idea of what those who ratified saw as just infringements on our gun rights. Looking there makes sense. But the other time period is here and now. It’s not even really what’s happening, but the perception of what’s happening. Gun control advocates tell us that the Second Amendment is antiquated, that it’s a relic from…

Many people have trouble combining calisthenics and running on a fitness test such as the Air Force Special Warfare Initial Fitness Test (IFT) or the Navy Special Warfare/Special Ops Physical Screening Test (PST). These fitness tests require doing a series of calisthenics then running, with rest or transition periods between events. The calisthenics are pushups, situps and pullups performed to maximum effort. This three-exercise combination fills the upper-body muscles with blood, making the run after these sections of the test more challenging than when running fresh. To decrease the difficulty, we do something called “the PFT transition.” Practicing the PT…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) plans to reintroduce an amendment removing a provision from the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would substantially expand military technology cooperation between the United States and Israel. The provision, which was renumbered from Section 224, would establish a United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. It would require the defense secretary to appoint an official responsible for coordinating joint research, testing, weapons development, technology integration and industrial cooperation between the two countries. The initiative would cover areas including missile defense, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, quantum technology, electronic warfare and weapons co-production. Massie…

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