Daily Archives: Mar 16, 2026

Charles Mitchell

AR-15 Assumptions That Keep Getting Owners Into Mechanical and Legal Trouble

The AR-15 has a bigger reputation than the design. A rifle designed around modularity and a straightforward operating cycle ends up enveloped with folklore some of it based on marketing euphemism, some of it based on the language of the law, and some of it based on the similarity...
Charles Mitchell

7 Handgun Calibers That Leave Too Much to Chance in Self-Defense

"The caliber of the handgun is least important when it does not fit the boring criteria: it has to be able to ignite, the recoil must be felt, and it has to be able to penetrate the body enough to reach vital organs. The latter is what makes the...
Charles Mitchell

8 Gun Owner Slipups That Turn Routine Carry Into a Rights...

An example is that a responsible gun owner may do everything correctly at the range, and through the rules that reside outside the firing line may still be taken off task. The legal tripwires are likely to appear in the normal day life: road trip, visiting a federal building,...