Joshua Gillem

The UK Crime Numbers Don’t Lie: Gun Control Does NOT Work

By Joshua Gillem / April 5, 2018

If the United Kingdom had any more gun control, they’d have their police officers unarmed and unable to defend themselves and others against criminals. Wait, what? That already happened? Well,…

Deerfield Illinois Board Bans Some Semi-Auto Firearms, To Issue $1,000/Day Fine

By Joshua Gillem / April 3, 2018

UPDATE: As of 6/13/2018 a federal judge has issued a block to Deerfield’s ban. We had a saying in the Marines when something was overly stupid, excessively complex, or just didn’t…

Woman Shoots Friend In Head On Facebook Live

By Joshua Gillem / April 3, 2018

I’m incapable of making this stuff up. A woman recently shot her friend in the head in the midst of a Facebook Live video, and then tampered with evidence as…

Jacob And Riley To Teach At USCCA Concealed Carry Expo

By Joshua Gillem / April 2, 2018

In case you’ve recently crawled out from under your rock, we are getting ready to enter into the second phase of our gun conferences for the 2018 calendar year. Of…

Does The Bump Stock Ban Test The Waters For Confiscation?

By Joshua Gillem / March 30, 2018

This has been getting a good amount of coverage, lately. But, as I usually do, I wanted to take a different approach on it. Some background, if you weren’t aware,…

JM4 Tactical Sews Leather To Polymer? And, What Is Boltaron?

By Joshua Gillem / March 29, 2018

In a bold move, gun holster manufacturer JM4 Tactical figured they would try something that hasn’t really ever been done before in that they attached their Hermann Oak leather to…

Are You Training Enough?

By Joshua Gillem / March 28, 2018

How Often should you train for a self defense scenario? Would you believe me if I told you that you likely don’t train often enough? Here’s the thing, I work…

Reddit Lays Down The Ban-Hammer On Gun Groups

By Joshua Gillem / March 22, 2018

Swiftly on the heals of YouTube announcing some serious changes in policy concerning gun channels, social media giant, Reddit, just laid down the ban-hammer on a couple different, and very…

Visit Us at the US Concealed Carry Expo!

By Joshua Gillem / March 21, 2018

We are currently ramping up for the second string of gun-owner events that we like to go to, and this time around, it’s the USCCA’s US Concealed Carry Expo, in…

G2 Research Telos: Ammo Review Of Sorts

By Joshua Gillem / March 21, 2018

Every so often I get the distinct pleasure of testing ammo. Sometimes I enjoy this more than firearm tests, because I get guns sent to me quite often. Ammo, on…

Holy Smokes! A Good Guy With A Gun Stopped A Bad Guy With A Gun!

By Joshua Gillem / March 20, 2018

In what can only be called a severe case of, “I told you so,” the recent shooting at a school in Maryland can do nothing but prove our point that…

The Oath We Take

By Joshua Gillem / March 16, 2018

Here is the Oath of Enlistment I spoke when I joined the Marines: I, Joshua Gillem, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United…

Gun Control Both Sides Can Get Behind?

By Joshua Gillem / March 9, 2018

The anti-gun rhetoric continues, and no we are NOT getting behind any anti-gun anything, at any point, ever. Some ideas are harsher than others are, but make no mistake: The…

Dear President Trump, It’s Not The NRA Politicians Should Fear

By Joshua Gillem / March 5, 2018

With all that happened around the country this past week with guns and politics, there is something that I’m dying to get off my chest. Before we get to my…

How The Trump Tax Bill Will Impact Firearms Dealers

By Joshua Gillem / March 2, 2018

By Scott Hawksworth There’s been plenty of ink spilled about the politics of the Trump Tax Reform bill (the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act”) passed in December 2017. This isn’t one…