KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — When Russia fires a ballistic missile at Ukraine, air-defense systems have only minutes — sometimes seconds — to detect and intercept the deadly threat. The lack of time has left Kyiv and other cities increasingly exposed to devastating attacks by the missiles that come down so fast and so steeply that Ukraine says only the U.S.-made Patriot defense system can stop them. But Ukraine says it has too few batteries and interceptors to protect itself. Unlike cruise missiles, which behave like pilotless planes, ballistic missiles are launched like rockets and then dive steeply toward their targets…
Utah’s Eagle Point Ski Resort suffered devastating losses in this summer’s Cottonwood Fire. As a result, the ski area announced the difficult decision to forego operations for the upcoming 2026-2027 winter season. The resort saw approximately 300 of its 600 acres burn in the fire that began June 22 and scorched nearly 100,000 acres in total throughout Utah. Four of Eagle Point’s chairlifts were destroyed, as well as the Canyonside Lodge. Notably, Eagle Point is also home to year-round residential homes, cabins, and seasonal resort condos — 145 of those were also lost in the fire. “Our first responsibility is…
California’s first microstamping law was signed way back in 2007, requiring all semi-automatic handguns in the state to imprint serial numbers onto two distinct locations on spent cartridge casings. Despite objections from gun makers that this was a practical impossibility and that a microstamped firing pin could be easily modified or destroyed, the state moved forward with enforcing the law, which led to an effective freeze on new semi-automatic handguns being certified for sale in the Golden State. Democrat lawmakers relented in 2023, modifying the law to require microstamping on just one location on shell…
The modular engineering method in modern car manufacturing is the equivalent of Lego bricks. The same underpinnings can be resized, beefed up, and tweaked to accommodate anything from your yoga instructor’s Prius to the flame-spitting GR Corolla without starting over from scratch. The wasteful era of disposable vehicle platforms is over. Driven by skyrocketing development costs, rapid technological changes, and the need for global manufacturing agility, clean-sheet redesigns are becoming a thing of the past as modern architectures underpinning everything from the Porsche 911 to the Toyota Camry to the Dodge Charger can now stretch, widen, and adapt across multiple…
I stepped off the short trail from my campsite above Granby Lake in Colorado and pushed the tailswitch of the NITECORE P27iX. The smooth, modest light I’d used to navigate the rocky slope exploded in output, suddenly zapping into the night with an astounding 5,000 lumens. I quickly traced the shoreline, looking down 100 feet to the water’s edge in the drought-lowered reservoir. I scanned the beach for hundreds of feet to my right, finally losing sight of it where a ridge blocked my view. Satisfied I was alone on the shoreline, I tapped the front “duty switch” button and…
Earlier this week, I echoed a call to make your voice heard with regard to the ATF’s proposed rule changes. I think this is important as the last thing we need to do is make anti-gunners’ jobs any easier. While they’re engaged in fearmongering and hysteria, cooler heads need to weigh in. I still need to practice what I preach, admittedly, because as I write this, I haven’t actually done it myself — when I finish writing for the day, I plan on fixing that — but that doesn’t make it less important.And, thankfully, someone…
Ever since Wolfenstein and Doom, FPS games have refused to stop coming out. Even as AAA publishers moved away from non-franchise shooters in the late 2010s, indie devs stepped up to right that wrong, producing a new golden era. With competition so fierce, fantastic FPS games frequently slip through the cracks while everyone’s attention lies elsewhere (on COD or Apex Legends). As the gaming industry moves at a blistering pace, convincing anybody to try out a forgotten shooter from 2004 is a tough task, but that won’t stop us from spotlighting these games. If you feel a bit disenchanted with…
There are enough kids in the foster system, many of whom end up in truly dangerous situations with predatory individuals, that it would seem no one should be trying to make it harder for good, decent people to take in children. Unfortunately, there’s long been an effort to keep gun owners from being able to foster these kids. As Cam wrote about on Tuesday, a federal judge in Illinois has upheld some pretty awful restrictions on gun owners who want to be foster parents. In Wisconsin, though, a court just smacked similar laws down.Parents who sign…
President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops as it rolls back immigration protections for military families to pursue its mass deportation agenda, an Associated Press investigation found. More than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty service members have been detained since Trump took office for a second term, and at least six have been deported, the AP found in the first accounting of such detentions, which the government does not track. At least eight immediate family members of U.S. service members remain in federal immigration custody. Parents and spouses of people in…
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Five shots, one old-school cylinder, and 30+ years of carry experience make the CCW revolver harder to dismiss than the high-capacity crowd wants to admit. The J-Frame is not for everyone, but in the right role, this little wheel gun still has teeth. Today, when wonder nines with magazine capacity in the high teens, is the wheel gun still relevant? Is 5 or 6 shots enough for the everyday person? If we take a look, for an armed citizen, a revolver just might be the ticket in certain circumstances. The Wheel Gun Question: Is Five Shots Still Enough? OK, I…
Most people who spend more than two decades climbing mountains eventually decide to stop climbing. Tom Taylor tried. It did not take. “I thought I was going to retire right up into the sunset,” Taylor told me. Then the phone rang about Colt CZ, and the man whose fingerprints are on some of the biggest brand comebacks in the American firearms industry did the math on two more legacy names and could not say no. The Fixer In Person I sat down with Taylor, now Chief Commercial Officer at Colt CZ, to talk about the thread that runs through his…
The FN Reflex combines a surprisingly good trigger, .85-inch best-group accuracy, and flawless reliability in a palm-sized carry gun. This little 9mm ran clean, dirty, and gritty without giving us the first problem. FN Reflex Review: Can This Micro 9mm Still Deliver? FN is no stranger to polymer pistols, but the US-made Reflex 9mm micro-compact models bring that experience to the micro-carry gun market. This FN Reflex review focuses on the iron-sighted version, but there is also an RDS-ready option, the MRD model. Let’s revisit the FN Reflex Micro Compact, which we originally reviewed back in early 2023. Many of…
On Friday, federal agents delivered grand jury subpoenas to four New York Times journalists, arriving in some cases at their homes, days after the paper reported the Secret Service had urged President Donald Trump to leave Turkey aboard an older jet rather than his new Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas order Julian E. Barnes, Eric Lipton, Tyler Pager, and Eric Schmitt to testify Wednesday before a federal grand jury in Manhattan “in regard to an alleged violation of criminal law,” according to the Times, which says it will fight the order. David McCraw, the paper’s newsroom lawyer, said the…
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Pearl Harbor dropped a half-crewed destroyer into bloody chaos, and a young Ensign with just eight months of active-duty experience answered by taking command, getting USS Aylwin into the fight, and driving her out to sea. Stanley Caplan was no comic-book superhero. He was something rarer, a very young American officer who performed magnificently when the world caught fire. Second Lieutenants, Naval Captains, and the Strange Math of Rank Serving on active duty as a Second Lieutenant is a fairly surreal enterprise. Nobody who matters takes you seriously. Military service is rightfully driven by experience, and Second Lieutenants just don’t…
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As it stands, we’re probably going to be waiting a bit before we see details about 2025’s “gun crime” statistics. It always takes a bit of time to break those down, though, so that’s not unusual. On Thursday, Cam took a look at 2024’s numbers as they applied to Florida, which had just achieved real permitless carry. Now, I’m going to look at them at a more national level, because Florida’s numbers don’t really matter if you don’t live in Florida, except in an academic sense. The rest of us live in other parts of…
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