Historical

Reader Tyler Hilliker writes . . . Dr. Ossian Sweet (1895-1960) was an African American physician and civil rights activist who played a pivotal role in the fight against housing discrimination in the United States. Born...

The guys from JK Armament sat down and interviewed industry legend, Dr. Phil Dater, MD, about the origins of his shift from radiology to becoming the modern day godfather of the firearm suppressor industry....

If I asked anyone what Mossberg is most well known for, they’d likely point to the famed 500 series pump guns. Those guns have made Mossberg a fortune and are genuinely awesome shotguns. Mossberg...

To make stocks faster and more uniformly, Thomas Blanchard invented fourteen different machine tools. Each machine would be set up for one particular cut. As the stock was cut, it would be moved from machine to machine....

I like weird guns. In fact, I pretty much like all guns. I know in the past, some people haven’t understood some of my Obscure Objects of Desire, and I get it. That said,...

Absolute constructions also aren’t grammatical fossils irrelevant to current English. We still use sentences today that contain free-floating absolutes to modify verbs in the same way as in the Second Amendment, through phrases such...

Want to celebrate America’s independence like a Founding Father? Consider getting to a range. It’s what they would have wanted. The celebration of America’s independence, self-determination and revolutionary spirit is rooted in a heritage...

By LKB The “Dinner Party Hypothetical” is a common psychological thought experiment. In it, you’re asked to list a set number of people from history that you would invite to a dinner party (with the...

I retired from full-time law enforcement two years ago, and I took a job as a part-time school police officer at a local school district. That means I now have summers off for the...

If you read my first post on how I spent my summer vacation, you know I built a few rifles. But that was just part of my summer production. I still had time and...

UC-Berkely History Professor Brian DeLay is an expert witness states frequently have turned to recently to defend unconstitutional gun control laws in light of Bruen. This week The Duke Center for Firearms law published...

By Tyler Hilliker You have probably heard of the world famous Uzi and its variants, even if you aren’t really a “gun person.” The infamous little 9mm is just one of those guns that's almost...