The latest reporting and analysis on the Second Amendment, gun rights, self-defense, and the people defending our freedom to keep and bear arms.
- Before You Shoot the Rifle He Brought Home, Read the Number On Itby Mark EdwardsTomorrow is Veterans Day, and somewhere in your house there is probably a rifle that came home from a war. Closet corner.…
- 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…
- “So You Have Guns in the House?” — The Thanksgiving Question Nobody Prepares Forby Mark Edwards“So. You have guns in the house? With the kids there?” It’s going to come from the in-law with the good intentions…
- A Box of Dog Food Is Not Worth Your House, Your Truck, and the Next Four Yearsby Mark EdwardsDelivery season starts about now, which means porch-theft season starts about now, which means in a few weeks somebody is going to…
- Your Rifle Sweats When You Bring It In. That’s the Rust You Find in March.by Mark EdwardsPicture the glass on your iced tea in July. The water on the outside of that glass didn’t leak through. It came…
- The Ammo You Panic-Bought in 2020 Is Old Enough for Kindergartenby Mark EdwardsSomewhere in your house there is a case of 9mm you paid too much for in the spring of 2020. You remember…
- You Changed Every Clock in the House Sunday. You Didn’t Change That One.by Mark EdwardsSunday you went around the house resetting things. The microwave. The truck. The one in the guest room that’s been wrong since…
- The Place You Shot Your First Rifle Is a Cul-de-Sac Nowby Mark EdwardsThe clocks went back last night, so it’s dark by five-thirty and this is the part of the year where a man…
- Your Front Door Opens Forty Times Tonight. Set It Up So You Never Have to Think About It.by Mark EdwardsTonight is the one night of the year when every instinct you’ve spent your adult life building is wrong, and it’s supposed…
- Everybody Moves Indoors in November. That’s Where the Hearing Goes.by Mark EdwardsYou’ll do it in the next three weeks if you haven’t already. It gets gray and wet and forty degrees, the outdoor…
- The Place You Vote Tuesday Is Probably a School. Think About That Before You Leave the House.by Mark EdwardsHere’s a question almost nobody runs before election day, and it’s a bad one to run in the parking lot. Where exactly…
- You Put a Jacket On This Week. Your Draw Just Changed and Nobody Told You.by Mark EdwardsThe first genuinely cold morning hit most of the country in the last week or so, and you did what everybody does.…












