How I Spent My Summer Vacation: AR-15 Rifle Builder Edition, Part Deux

[ED: This is the second in a three-part series. Read the first article HERE.] 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 parts on hand so . . . … Read more

Gun Review: Fulton Armory FAR-15 USGI A2 Upper Receiver Assembly

With no prior military service and an affinity for wing shooting, it took a while for USGI builds to reach the top of my list. In fact, I was planning to build a new snow goose shotgun when the opportunity to start on an A2 build landed in my lap. Of course, I couldn’t pass it … Read more

The Pen is Mightier Than the Glock

Patrick Walsh is a writer who lives in Princeton. He served as a rifle platoon leader, battalion adjutant, and company executive officer in the Fifth Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment. This passage is excerpted from his letter to the editor at The Philadelphia Enquirer.

After graduating from college, I served four years as an infantry officer in the Army’s 25th Infantry Division. I fired everything from 9mm pistols to .50-caliber machine guns, routinely qualifying as “expert” with an M16A2 rifle.

It’s not despite such experience, but precisely because of it, that I think the availability of guns in America is stunningly negligent public policy. And it may get worse . . .

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