The Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that it will be selling true military surplus M14 rifles to the public.In a surprising but exciting twist, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that the organization has received special authorization to begin selling surplus military M14 rifles. Why is it surprising? Because the ATF has long held the position that any receiver that was once a machine gun is always a machine gun. Because original military M14s were built as select-fire rifles, most people never expected that they’d be able to be legally sold on the civilian market. Seemingly, at least…
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After we published an article exposing the federal government’s decision to hand Nevada public land to a Texas investment fund for an AI data center, Washington gave us another example of what I have started calling MAGA socialism.This time, there is no need to argue over definitions or dig through a public-land permit to understand what is happening. The federal government is giving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to private technology companies and demanding ownership stakes in those companies in return.On July 29, the Department of Commerce announced letters of intent covering $874 million in federal incentives for seven…
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The Brief: The Webster County Attorney’s Office cleared Josiah Byram of criminal charges following a July 24, 2026, fatal shooting in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Investigators determined Thomas Ahrens initiated an unprovoked attack, pursuing Byram to his home. Byram shot Ahrens in self-defense before immediately contacting emergency services and cooperating with police. Iowa’s self-defense laws concerning reasonable force and property defense guided the legal outcome. Prosecutors concluded that Byram’s attempts to retreat and his adherence to post-engagement protocols established a record of justification, leading to the closure of the investigation without any criminal charges being filed. FORT DODGE, IA — A…
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A coordinated cyberattack targeted more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota on July 26 and 27, but the story did not stop at the Minnesota state line.By Thursday, July 30, the FBI was warning that water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states had reported similar incidents. Some of those attacks did more than knock out a computer screen or inconvenience an office worker. According to the FBI, the attackers disrupted water operations, caused pressure loss, triggered flooding, locked operators out of equipment and forced utilities to run portions of their systems manually.This is what years of warnings…
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By Dave Merrill and David Lane If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. But what happens when it walks like a Glock, talks like a 1911, and shoots like a CZ SP-01? Well, you’ve encountered the Wilson Combat Bulwark. The Bulwark is a Doctor Moreau monster-mash of John Browning and Gaston Glock, done in a different way. This pistol intrigued us so much, a pair of us tackled it for this review: CONCEALMENT Editor Dave Merrill and RECOILweb Editor David Lane. We didn’t have a gun like this on our 2026 bingo…
What are the odds that you’ll ever need to use a gun for self-defense? Here we break down the data.A few months ago, John Correia of Active Self Protection was confronted by a burglar in his own home. The man fled, no shot was fired, and Correia walked away thinking about a question many armed citizens eventually ask. Realistically, what are the odds I will ever need my gun? In a video on his channel, he ran the numbers from two major firearms surveys and arrived at a startlingly large lifetime probability. This article borrows his framework and pushes further…
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Before we get into what happened in Boulder City, let’s name the thing correctly. ~MAGA SOCIALISM~The federal government took land supposedly owned by the American public, shut that same public out of the decision, and handed the property to a private investment fund out of Texas. Nevada then sweetens the deal with tax abatements for the data center industry, while the local utility prepares to spend billions building new gas turbines to keep the servers running. The hedge fund gets the asset, the technology companies get the electricity, and everyone else gets stuck paying higher utility bills while praying the…
As of July 17, 2026, the crowdsourced DeFlock map had located 95,923 Flock Safety cameras in the United States. That’s about 83% of every automated license plate reader volunteers have managed to find.Volunteers. That’s who’s counting. There’s no honest national inventory, plenty of departments won’t say where their cameras are, and the ones bolted to shopping centers and apartment complexes are harder to spot than the ones on utility poles.Flock’s own number is more than 20 billion vehicle scans a month across more than 5,000 communities. Not 20 billion scans of wanted felons. Twenty billion scans of whoever drove past.Your…
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For most people, their EDC is carried in an inside-the-waistband holster. The problem with that is that you have to wear your shirts untucked. For some, this really isn’t an option for various reasons, and they need their shirt tucked in. A tucked-in shirt doesn’t have to mean leaving your EDC at home. With the right holster, belt, and shirt choice, you can stay armed and still look put together. Why Carry Tucked Various reasons for wearing a tucked-in shirt include attending a formal event, such as a wedding or an awards ceremony, working in an office setting where an…
Palmetto State Armory has just launched the PSA 570 series, a modular, pump-action, 12-gauge shotgun system.After teasing it for the past couple of SHOT Shows, Palmetto State Armory has just launched the PSA 570. This 12-gauge shotgun system takes inspiration from both the Remington 870 and the Mossberg 500 and combines it with plenty of PSA’s original ideas. The PSA 570 was designed to be a modular system, and previous information about the concept included the ability to convert the shotguns to semi-auto, but we haven’t heard anything new about that yet. At least for this initial launch, the 570…
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Big news for the FAST matches and anyone with an FRT or full-auto rifle: FAST has designed an Auto-Rifle division specifically for you! See the full release below: Forced Reset Triggers continue to gain popularity as American gun owners starved for true machine guns for decades adopt FRTs as an alternative. End users and some companies such as Red Right Hand have been building “civilian SAWs” incorporating FRTs Shooting competitions have a long history of being the test bed for new firearms technology and giving citizen-marksmen a place to hone their skill at arms. In consideration of these factors, Firearms…
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