Opinion
Does The Bump Stock Ban Test The Waters For Confiscation?
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,…
With Safety Paramount, Legislators Raise the Legal Age for Everything to 21
This is a satire piece, not to be taken literally. No doubt you have heard about Dick’s Sporting Goods and other companies instituting policies barring 18 through 20-year-olds from purchasing…
Maryland School Shooting on March 20th Illustrates 4 Points About Gun Control
On March 20th a 17-year-old student went into a high school in Maryland and fired a semi-automatic handgun injuring two other students, one of whom has passed away from her injuries.…
Has it Become Acceptable to Exploit Children?
Are there really two sides to every story? If you watched the media’s coverage of the #Enough Nationwide School Walkout that occurred March 15th, you would have seen the youth of…
Holy Smokes! A Good Guy With A Gun Stopped A Bad Guy With A Gun!
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…
Aftershock of the Gun Control, School Walkout.
Those children and adults participating in March 14th’s #Enough Gun Control Student Walkout were depicted as courageous, intelligent and a representation of all Americans’ opinions on gun control. Using children…
The Oath We Take
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…
Now is Not The Time For Political Complacency
I just returned home from a rally for second amendment rights. We gathered, around 1,100 strong in front of the Statehouse Building in Columbus, Ohio, in response to an abhorrent,…
Gun Control Both Sides Can Get Behind?
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
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 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…
The NRA Is Killing Our Kids?
Not only is shouting and disparaging someone not a great way to persuade them, it often times has the exact opposite effect. Galvanizing them in their opinion and reaffirming…
Do You Want to Argue Politics, Or Make Our Schools Safer?
The solution to ending school shootings does not rest in the hands of Congress. Again and again I hear there needs to be a ‘conversation’ about how to prevent school…
Why College Aged Brooke Carries A Gun, And What She Overcame To Do So
By Brooke Villella *Editor’s Note: I urge you to read her whole story, because she had some things to overcome.* So the question was posed to me, “Why do you…
Dear Firearm Industry, Stop Stealing Each Other’s Ideas
Think of me as naive, but I used to think of the gun industry as a whole in this way: Second Amendment supporters against the world. I literally thought that…