In cruising the news headlines each day in search of gun-related news, including legitimate stories of defensive gun use, we come across a lot of stories where people “claim” self-defense, but it later turns out to be anything but. In a number of cases, it’s a suspect claim right from the start. We also occasionally come across some strange ways people die or are killed. But this has to be among the strangest. News out of Rapid City, South Dakota, courtesy of WTVO is that 44-year-old Pedro Simental is apparently a big fan of the Denver Broncos ..read more

While most lawmakers used Monday’s congressional hearing featuring now-former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle to try to determine what exactly happened to allow a would-be assassin to shoot former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally, one congressman twisted the hearing to push his anti-gun agenda. Democrat U.S. Rep. Gerald Connelly of Virginia repeatedly tried to badger Cheatle into saying that if so-called “assault weapons” were banned it would make the agency’s job easier ..read more

President Joe Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has taken another shot to the chin over the agency’s propensity to make laws rather than enforce them. On Thursday, a federal judge in Texas overturned the administration’s ban on forced reset triggers, which automatically return to their starting position after being pulled. District Judge Reed O’Connor, who has been front and center in recent decisions to rein in the rogue agency, ruled in the case National Association for Gun Rights v ..read more

District Judge Christopher C. Conner with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued an order granting summary judgment to SAF and its partners, finding the state’s law banning carry of a firearm in a vehicle without a license unconstitutional. He further declared that a ban on firearms possession without a license during a state of emergency is facially unconstitutional, and enjoined Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Col. Christopher Paris from enforcing those provisions ..read more

I get lots of press releases and new product announcements. My eyes often glaze over when company XYZ writes a 500-word press release for a holster that now accommodates one more gun. Call me jaded, but most don’t get read. I make an exception for Cimarron. They make cowboy guns, and I like cowboy guns. So, when a headline for the Cimarron 1887 Lever-Action Terminator came across my inbox I pepped up. The Terminator is a clone of the Winchester 1887 ..read more

Last weekend, our Guns Save Life Defense Training crew had a unique opportunity to grow America’s gun culture beyond the students enrolled. One student, a public school teacher, brought her well-behaved 8-year-old daughter along to the class. The young lady even spent some time behind the rangemaster, watching her mom and a gaggle of other students firing their first shots with great interest. We noticed her interest in guns and shooting, along with how well she listened and behaved ..read more

Concerns over stolen elections, manipulated elections and a system that is arguably plagued with flaws and accusations aside, sheer numbers of supporters is the best chance we have of ensuring the candidate of our choice wins an election at every level. A new report from a grassroots voter registration group demonstrates the tremendous importance of registering to vote and the heightened impact hunters, recreational shooting sports enthusiasts and other law-abiding American gun owners could have on federal, state and local elections if they were only to register to vote and do so on Nov ..read more

To the town of Agua Fria rode a stranger one fine day Hardly spoke to folks around him, didn’t have too much to say No one dared to ask his business, no one dared to make a slip For the stranger there among them had a big iron on his hip Big iron on his hip -The beginning of Marty Robbins’ 1959 song “Big Iron” As with the stranger that rode into town, having “big iron” matters at all levels ..read more

Joe Biden lied about guns, Second Amendment rights and nearly everything else so often that even his staunchest supporters stopped taking him seriously. The country’s 46th President beclowned himself with his own falsehoods. Biden was a classic fabulist. He invented stories and assigned himself the starring role. Whether he was singlehandedly confronting hunters armed with standard-capacity mags in a Delaware swamp, exaggerating the efficacy of the 1994 federal Assault Weapon Ban or making up colonial cannon prohibitions, Biden received more Pinocchios than Disney, which is one of the reasons ..read more

In a quiet cul-de-sac in Ogden, Utah, an evening that started with routine truck maintenance quickly turned into a scene right out of an action movie for Dane Wise and his neighbor. The unexpected stars of this drama? Two pit bulls with a penchant for aggression. Dane Wise, a man just trying to tinker with his truck under a covered area, found himself in a sudden showdown with the growling pits. “(They) started getting aggressive and barking at me and growling and trying to get up on the thing,” Wise recounted to KSL TV, recalling the dogs’ sudden hostility ..read more