By Mike KeleherI was fortunate to have grown up being taken along by my father to fabulous crowded, smelly and wonderous gun shows held in county fairground buildings in the 1960’s and 1970’s. The were gatherings of beings who purveyed almost anything from guns and ammo to books and knives…

"The time is always right to do what's right," the great civil rights leader (and gun owner) Martin Luther King once said.  He was right, too!  Today, some do-gooders in Decatur announced a coming gun buyback for Friday afternoon, April 2nd from 2p-6p.  Sponsors are calling it the "Decatur Community…

The Illinois State Rifle Association has officially pulled the plug on the Illinois Gun Owners Lobby Day for this year.  Scheduled for April, the event would have had thousands of gun owners saturating the capitol complex.   Well, before COVID restrictions. If you have a "moderate" Democrat State Senator, we would…

Police in Las Vegas released video of the death of a would-be thief who tried to steal a handgun from a bag under a table in a concealed carry class. Marvin Payton then attacked a pair of responding officers with a screwdriver, stabbing a female cop. That's when her partner…

In Goldsboro, North Carolina, a 12-year-old young man grabbed a gun and shot a masked home invader who had shot his grandmother. Proving himself a better home protector than any pacifist beta male, the young man's actions caused the intruders to flee with great haste. Not long after, one of…

If you didn’t already realize it, if you don’t continue to shoot over time, you will slowly lose your shooting skills. With ammunition so expensive and hard to come by, making every shot count now has a whole new meaning. How do you maintain your skill sets without burning through…

Legislators in Arkansas passed a "Stand Your Ground" law in recent weeks by an overwhelming margin, and Governor Asa Hutchinson has now signed the measure into law. "Stand Your Ground" policy removes a duty to retreat before a would-be victim can use deadly force to defend against the imminent threat…

North American Arms makes some pretty small revolvers.  Suitable for deep cover.  Or, in the case of a woman in Boone County, Missouri, deep-deep cover.  Amy Wilhite, 39, apparently lacked a holster for her NAA .22 revolver, so she improvised.  She reportedly used the holster that mother nature provided. Even…

Mark Twain once famously noted that the only certainties in life are death and taxes.  We're all going to die someday, some of us a little sooner than others. Which is why it is important to prepare ahead of that eventuality by helping your loved ones identify and value your…

Photo credit: KWWL.com By Mike KeleherI just read a marvelous story on Ammoland.com written by Dean Weingarten about a “gunfight” which took place in a mobile home park in Hiawatha, IA last May, at tobacco spitting distance, between two opposing groups which strongly reminds me of the shoot out at…