The latest reporting and analysis on the Second Amendment, gun rights, self-defense, and the people defending our freedom to keep and bear arms.
- “Less Lethal” Doesn’t Lower the Bar. That’s the Part Everybody Gets Backwards.by Mark EdwardsWhat people want is a way to make a man stop without making him dead. That’s the whole wish, and it’s sat…
- A .32 You Can Hit With Beats a .380 You Can’tby Mark EdwardsFor the better part of fifty years, if a European police officer pulled a pistol, odds were good it was chambered in…
- A Video About $300 Pistols Pulled 137,000 Views in Three Days. The Gun Press Is Still Writing About $2,400 Customs.by Mark EdwardsHonest Outlaw put up a video three days ago about the five best pistols you can buy for under three hundred bucks.…
- A New Poll Has the AR-15 at 52-48. That’s a Coin Flip, and Both Sides Are About to Call It a Mandate.by Mark EdwardsBy the end of this week you’ll have seen two headlines built off the same survey, and neither one is going to…
- You Passed the Federal Background Check. Minnesota Can Still Make You Wait Nearly 60 Days.by Mark EdwardsThirty days. That’s not my number and it isn’t the Justice Department’s. It’s Minnesota’s — written into Minnesota law by Minnesota’s own…
- Montgomery County Drew a 100-Yard No-Gun Ring Around Every House of Worship. One Synagogue Got Out.by Mark EdwardsA hundred yards is a football field. Goal line to goal line, the whole thing, and then you’re standing at the far…
- Bill Ruger Made Guns Cheap Enough for Everybody, Then Told Congress Not to Trust Usby Mark EdwardsThirty-seven dollars and fifty cents. That’s what a brand-new Sturm, Ruger & Co. .22 pistol cost in 1949, the first year there…
- The Gun Is About Twenty Percent of a Home-Defense Planby Mark EdwardsA man will spend six weeks choosing a pistol and about eleven seconds deciding where it’s going to live. You see it…
- Nobody Patterns Their Home-Defense Shotgun. Everybody Argues About Gauge.by Mark Edwards“Twelve or twenty?” It’s the first thing out of almost everybody’s mouth when they come in looking for a house gun. It’s…
- The NFA Ruling Is Real. Your Dealer Still Can’t Just Hand You the Can.by Mark EdwardsSomewhere within fifty miles of you there’s a man refreshing an eForms status page for a suppressor he paid for back in…
- One Bookmarks Folder Away From a Federal Indictmentby Mark EdwardsThe federal government’s connection between a Missouri gun YouTuber and the Bourbon Street terrorist comes down, according to AmmoLand’s reporting on the…
- 17+1 for $469: Rost Martin’s New RM1X Puts the $650 Crossovers on Noticeby Mark EdwardsRost Martin — the Dallas outfit that spent the last two years proving a $469 pistol doesn’t have to feel like a…











