Ian Bolser

Why They Don’t Want You Armed

They Don’t Want You Armed Despite several headlines in the last several weeks where a “good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun,” it seems like there is always the threat of having your rights taken away. Why is it that those who should be grateful as responsible citizens killed a

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What Is Your Life Worth?

Shooting is expensive, and with inflation and scarcity, the prices are only going up. It is harder to go to the range because if your local gun stores are like mine, you might have noticed a price increase there as well. While some of this I think is from general inflation, I think there might

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Hazards of Range Ammo

Hazards of Range Ammo – Shooting the good stuff I bring up ammo a lot on here, and I do that for a reason if you don’t have ammo your firearm is nothing but an expensive paperweight. However, as with everything, ammo prices are going up, and with that more and more people are turning

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Unrealistic Expectations for gunfighters

Unrealistic Expectations for Gunfighters I think that there are misconceptions across the preparedness, self-defense, and shooting enthusiast communities that are not just concerning, but most are downright deadly. We as a community tend to overestimate our capabilities, we neglect things we should not, and overall, we focus on one thing vice the branches and sequels.

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Inflation and Protection

Inflation and Protection: One more way our rights are being stripped I attended a local gun show this past weekend because I love to scope out a new selection of firearms and accessories; I also like to gauge how things are going with the market. I purposely go to gun shows several hours after opening

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Top 5 Reasons to Conceal Carry

Top 5 Reasons to Conceal Carry:   1. You need to protect yourself We have seen in several high-profile shootings where the good guy with the gun was triumphant over the bad guy with the gun. From Indiana to Illinois, or to the CA store owner who “shot the arm off” a would-be-armed robber, these

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House AWB Passes

House AWB Passes – 217-214 Vote Sometimes it appears that history does in fact repeat itself. In 1994 then-President Bill Clinton signed into law the “assault weapons ban” preventing the lawful ownership of the majority of semi-automatic weapons. While it was originally set up to prevent gun crime, the slew of weapons was thrown together

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The Dicken Drill

The Dicken Drill – Recently there have been a lot of folks championing Eli Dicken, the young man who shot a would-be mass shooter in an Indiana mall. Tragically, he didn’t stop the shooter before he was able to kill three people, but within 15 seconds of the shooting starting, this young man engaged the

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States Suing ATF

States Suing ATF: South Carolina suing Biden administration over proposed firearm regulations (msn.com) It seems like the current political climate is still a warzone with multiple states, 17 in fact, suing the current administration, including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). It seems that they are trying to now mandate that parts

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Lives Saved By Firearms

How many lives are saved by firearms? Gun grabbers love to say how many lives are taken each year by firearm violence, usually sitting trumped-up numbers that include suicides and accidents, however, few of them actually admit that the presence of a firearm can and does save lives. So why are those statistics so hard

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Would You Break The Law?

Would You Break The Law? – One of the biggest things to come out of the multiple concealed carry cases this past few weeks is that a good guy with a gun does in fact stop a bad guy with a gun. In one of those cases, the Eli Dickens of Indiana was carrying Constitutionally in

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