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Editor’s Note: This piece was crafting as a special retro-style “mini-magazine” within the Winter 2026 print issue of The Armory Life. We styled it to look as though it had been published back when the author was a young teenager poring over his collection of Springfield Armory catalogs. You can see this mini-magazine itself, which starts on page 89, within Winter 2026 issue by clicking here.I’ve been a “gun nut” as long as I can remember. As a young teenager in the 1980’s, I subscribed to all the gun magazines and would voraciously read them from cover to cover. While…
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We take a closer look at Vortex Optics’ high-end Razor HD Gen III riflescope line.I’ve had a ton of time in the field and range with a slew of world-class optics from a host of great companies. What follows here is a compilation of what I believe are some of the best optics not just from Vortex, but also in the broader field of optics. While nearly everyone has a certain loyalty to a given brand, perhaps handed down from generation to generation (Dad had a Ford or Ram, you know the gist), I have the benefit of being able…
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared a statewide disaster Monday over diesel prices. In the same stretch, at least 16 trucking companies landed in bankruptcy court, Iowa farmers started saying out loud that they might lose family farms, and on Tuesday the Conference Board reported that Americans’ confidence in the economy fell to its lowest level since 2014.Any one of those would be a bad news day. Together they tell one story. The fuel shock from the Iran war has moved off the gas station sign and into the businesses that move food and pay people. Freight, farms, used cars, credit…
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For most of this year the AI companies have been telling everyone their technology is dangerous. We covered every step of it. The agents that broke out of testing and hit Hugging Face, the CEOs who suddenly all agreed the industry needed to slow down, and the request for Washington to step in and oversee the whole thing. On September 17, in Andrew Yang Says Escaped AI Agents Seeded the Internet With Self-Replicating Code, we said the slowdown pitch looked a lot more like a play for government protection than a safety plan.This week the books started coming out, and…
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When I plucked the September-October issue of Smithsonian magazine out of my P.O. Box, the first article I turned to was “The Secret Life of Cormac McCarthy” by Richard Grant. As I skimmed it, a pull-quote leaped out at me: “He never left the house without a book. He never left the house without a gun. Both were equally unthinkable.”“OMG,” I thought, “Cormac McCarthy was one of us!” The movie version of “No Country For Old Men” is replete with interesting firearms, including the tried-and-true 1911. Image: Gail PepinThe article focused on the late Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist’s book collection, which ran…
