Ukrainian Snipers Arm Up With American Rifles and Gear
A story by Alex Horton at The Washington Post details the Smile Platoon, a unit of Ukrainian snipers and sniper support personnel. Overlooked to a degree and underfunded, the Smile Platoon has turned to...
Holy Wars: How a Cathedral of Guns and Glory Symbolizes Putin’s Russia
By Lena Surzhko Harned, Penn State
A curious new church was dedicated on the outskirts of Moscow in June 2020: The Main Church of the Russian Armed Forces. The massive, khaki-colored cathedral in a military...
Ukraine and The Left Suddenly Embrace Civilian Gun Rights
Sometimes you just have to go out and look at the stars. Sure, you could do that to relax, but right now we need to give the heavens a quick check to see if...
Germany Gives In, Authorizes Arms Shipments to Ukraine
Before Saturday’s turnaround, senior Ukrainian officials had been complaining bitterly for weeks about Germany’s refusal to allow arms shipments to bolster Ukraine’s defenses.
Estonia, in particular, had said it wanted to send old howitzers but...
NGSW Apples and Oranges: SIG SAUER’s 277 SIG Fury vs. True Velocity’s 6.8TVC
Like just about all military procurement projects, the Army's Next Generation Squad Weapon selection process has been a long and bumpy journey that's dragged on since 2018. The Army's been running 5.56 weapons for...
Ukrainian Civilians Train to Mount a Resistance Should Russians Invade
By Mstyslav Chernov and Lori Hinnant, AP
The table tennis coach, the chaplain's wife, the dentist and the firebrand nationalist have little in common except a desire to defend their hometown and a sometimes halting...
Canada Can’t Seem to Replace the Military Sidearms They’ve Been Using Since World War...
Here’s the thing: sometimes government procurement is hard. Governments sometimes need stuff that no one else needs, and there’s no real opportunity to develop expertise in procuring supplies that only need replacing once every...
Mexico Needs to Explain Why Its Military ‘Loses’ 30% Of The Firearms It Buys...
By Larry Keane
Mexico is going to have to answer a few basic questions when their lawyers finally step in front of a judge to claim that U.S.-based manufacturers are somehow responsible for their own...
SIG SAUER’s New MCX-SPEAR in 277 SIG Fury is the Commercial Version of the...
From SIG . . .
SIG SAUER is proud to announce the official expansion of the MCX series of rifles with the new MCX-SPEAR chambered in 277 SIG FURY. The MCX-SPEAR was developed with direct input...
Gun Control’s Death Throes: Burmese Rebels Use FGC-9 3D-Printed Guns to Resist Army Coup
2021 has been a particularly bad year in Burma (a.k.a. Myanmar, but that's another story). After decades of military dictatorship, the country finally started to see some freedom and representative government during the last...
Oops: Bloomberg News Anti-Gun Editorial Makes the Case for ‘Shall Issue’ Carry Permits
By Larry Keane
A nationally syndicated editorial attempted to persuade readers on the merits of New York’s problematic “may issue” handgun permit law and why the U.S. Supreme Court should leave it intact. But they...
Well Regulated Militia: Ron DeSantis Wants to Create a Florida State Guard
By Lee Williams
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Thursday that he wants to create the Florida State Guard, a 200-member volunteer paramilitary force that he would control – not Joe Biden – which would assist...