Why Add Weight to Your Precision Rifle
Rifle weight is a key factor when building a use case for your platform or system. Many folks look for ways to make their rifle lighter, but what if you want to make it heavier, and more importantly, why would you want to make it...
In first, Hegseth to skip multinational meeting on Ukraine support
Pete Hegseth will not attend a gathering of 50 countries to coordinate military support for Ukraine, multiple European officials and a U.S. official said — the first time the coalition will gather without America’s secretary of defense participating. The group will meet April 11 in...
Army identifies final soldier found deceased in Lithuania peat bog
Editor’s note: This is a developing story and will be updated. The U.S. Army identified on Wednesday the fourth and final soldier found deceased in a peat bog at a training site in Lithuania. Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, was recovered from the bog...
Beretta M9: The U.S. Military’s Iconic Sidearm
The chunk-chunk of the M16 rifle is iconic, and the thump of the M2 Browning unmistakable. But for over thirty years, another sound echoed across training ranges and battlefields: a sharp, authoritative crack that signified the presence of the American warfighter. This sound belonged to...
Plan would make military enlistment, retention bonuses tax exempt
Military enlistment and retention bonuses would be exempt from federal taxes under a proposal unveiled this week, a move that could put thousands of dollars into the wallets of eligible service members. The legislation — sponsored by Army veteran Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla. — would...
Trump’s D.C. Gun Rights Order Shocks Critics
President Trump hit the ground running in his second term, issuing a wide range of Executive Orders, approximately 170 at the time I write this, addressing everything from Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports to Protecting Second Amendment Rights. But the latter of those two...
DOJ Targets L.A. Over Gun Permit Delays
The Department of Justice, under Attorney General Pam Bondi, has launched an investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to determine whether the agency violates American’s gun rights via excessive fees and wait times throughout its concealed carry permitting process. The investigation, aimed at...
How Trump’s team flipped on bombing the Houthis
Before the Trump administration began striking targets across Yemen to reopen global shipping, before many of its top officials included a journalist on a group chat to plan those strikes, in fact even before Donald Trump took office this January, many in his administration didn’t...
Army IDs 3 of 4 soldiers killed in Lithuania training accident
The U.S. Army on Tuesday identified three of the four U.S. soldiers who died during a training exercise in Lithuania last week. Sgt. Jose Duenez, Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois; Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California; and Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of...
What surviving an IED taught me about being a stand-up comedian
As a comedian, you never forget the first time you bomb. For me, it wasn’t on stage. I was in southern Afghanistan in May 2014 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near me while covering a routine patrol as a public affairs specialist. It...
