I’ve been recommending Rock Island Armory’s traditional 1911-style pistols for a long time. Now RIA has branched away from the traditional with its new STK100, a striker-fired 9 mm with a 17+1 capacity, and I’ll be recommending them even more.
Many of us remember Chris Cheng from the History Channel’s long-since-canceled show “Top Shot.” The show ran for five seasons, between 2010 and 2013, and featured two teams of competitors who had to use an unknown array of rifles, handguns and shotguns on various targets as they ran through shooting stations. One by one, the lowest-scoring marksmen were eliminated.
Faced with a dire emergency during one of her courses, Suzanne Freehauf remained calm and acted quickly to save the life of her student, who was experiencing a severe medical situation.
Many on the anti-gun Left like to point to Australian's 1996 gun "buy-back" scheme while claiming it was a success. Crime statistics tell a different story.
With the increase in violent crime nationwide over the past year and a half, and threats to defund and/or abolish law enforcement, more and more Americans are taking the steps to become first-time gun owners.
It’s sometimes hard for me to believe that it wasn’t until the late 1980s that the right to self-defense for law-abiding Americans truly began to be recognized in the modern era, and lawfully exercised, outside the confines of the home.