Happy Birthday Mr. Stoner

Today’s the birthday of Eugene Stoner – probably one of the most underappreciated American firearms designers of the 20th century. We did a short write-up on him that’s meant for sharing in order to honor an impressive man whom just about every American gun owner should know: Eugene Stoner was born in Gosport, Indiana, in…

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June 6, 1944

Pictured above is an amazing aerial photograph of Omaha Beach during the latter hours of the horrible amphibious assault that took place there, June 6th, 1944. This photograph was taken by an American bomber flying over Omaha Beach, most likely returning from the hundreds of bombing missions that were occurring all across Normandy and France…

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Gunfighting Wisdom From Wyatt Earp

I was a fair hand with pistol, rifle, or shotgun, but I learned more about gunfighting from Tom Speer’s cronies during the summer of ’71 than I had dreamed was in the book. Those old-timers took their gunplay seriously, which was natural under the conditions in which they lived. Shooting, to them, was considerably more…

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