The wife and I are night owls on the weekends. Saturday nights for us generally entail going out somewhat late at night and gassing up the cars for the week, grocery shopping, and whatever else we decide to go do. Before I get into tonight’s story, let me say that I know the old addage “nothing good happens after midnight”, but I tend not to abide by it very often. Tonight we set out late …

The Cadillac News brings up an interesting article this week about Lake County, Michigan making a decision on whether or not firefighters who have a valid CCW permit should be allowed to carry when responding to a scene. Jeff Broddle who wrote the article brings up some great points: The situation begs a number of questions: Should an armed firefighter, who is basically a volunteer, take the extra time to drop a gun off at …

This afternoon I ventured out to find a box or two of Remington Golden Sabres in the 124gr (standard or +P, I don’t really care) variety. I had remembered a pretty reasonable price from the last time I was at Bass Pro in Cary, so I decided to hit Gander Mountain first, and then go to Bass Pro on the way home of Gander didn’t have what I needed. When I arrived at Gander Mountain, …

WDAM in Mississippi is reporting that a Lumberton, MS convience store manager was stabbed by a subject while working at the store. A witness who was in the store who had a concealed carry permit took off after the subject, and held him at gunpoint until police arrived. I commend the person for taking action, but I’m not sure I’d want to be the guy holding the gun when the police arrive. Not to Monday …

Long ago, in a galaxy far far away, I wrote a series of posts about how to get started in competitive shooting. As time went on, the information contained in those posts lost relevancy, and some of it was downright wrong anymore. The good news is that I’ve recently updated those posts. You can check them out here: Part 1 – How to Get Started in Competitive Shooting Part 2 – Holsters Part 3 – …

Back in August of 2013 we received word that the NC State Highway Patrol was having some extraction issues with their M&P .357 pistols, and they were supposedly working with S&W to fix the issue. I saw a post over on Carolina Shooters Club this afternoon saying that a members son, who is a SHP officer was recently issued a Sig Sauer 226 in .357Sig. I’ve confirmed with a handful of SHP officers over the …

A SC man was the victim of a home invasion while he was in the shower recently. He got out of the shower, retrieved a firearm, confronted the home invaders firing a shot in the process. A Cameron man called authorities Wednesday after firing a shot at would-be burglars inside his residence. He said he was taking a shower about 3:20 p.m. when he heard a noise coming from his living room. He said he …

It’s no secret that I grew up in northern Michigan. Spent a lot of time hunting and fishing, and trying to sort out the absolutely wacked firearm laws up there. For years the state had handgun registration that required taking the proof of purchase of your pistol to the police department to register it (I’d really like to see the number of handguns sold vs. the number that were actually registered). Rifles that were perfectly …

Do you have an old AR hammer sitting around? After a little discussion over on the Triangle Tactical Facebook Page on whether or not an AR hammer would work as a cool beer opener, my friend Max posted up this picture of an old AR hammer he had sitting around. He said it took a little grinding to make it work, but now he has a cool beer opener for the man cave. I think …

In Episode 73 of the podcast, Ben and I talked about the Winston-Salem gun buyback, and how one of the people interviewed at the event mentioned that he was selling a shotgun that had been passed down in his family for generations, and that it hadn’t been shot in probably 40 years, so he decided to sell it at the gun buy back. I was stunned that someone would just get rid of a family …