If you care about public lands, the federal government has a funny way of testing that commitment. Before you can weigh in on a road closure, forest plan, drilling lease, or recreation proposal, you first have to find the dang thing. That usually means figuring out which agency is in charge, which field office posted the notice, where it buried the documents, what string of acronyms you’re looking for, and when the comment period closes. The process may be public, but it sure as hell isn’t designed for easy public participation. OnX just made it much easier. The company’s new…

For a while, gun control seemed almost inevitable. In the aftermath of multiple mass shootings, including the horrors of the Las Vegas Route 91 massacre, it was pretty damn hard to convince anyone who wasn’t already pro-gun that gun control was a bad idea. People were upset, they were scared, and they wanted something done. Luckily, things settled down without too much damage. Yes, there was a bump stock ban, but it was an administrative ban versus the legislative one that was working its way through Congress and was likely to pass. That one would…

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…