Greer detectives have officially ruled the fatal shooting of Jonathan Gilbert Kraemer as an act of self-defense after evidence showed Kraemer brandished a knife during an argument outside Ollie’s Tavern. No criminal charges will be pursued against Maven Martin, who discharged the firearm in response to the immediate threat. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE GREER, SC (2-minute read) — A deadly encounter outside a popular Greer establishment has officially been ruled a case of self-defense by local authorities. The Greer Police Department concluded their investigation into the January 3 incident that occurred outside Ollie’s Tavern on Trade Street around 2:15 a.m.…
Author: Tommy Grant
U.S. forces on Friday killed a terror leader in Syria who officials say had ties to the ISIS insurgent who carried out a Dec. 13 ambush there that killed two Iowa National Guardsmen and one U.S. civilian, U.S. Central Command announced. Bilal Hasan al-Jasim, who U.S. officials called “an experienced terrorist leader” who also had ties to al-Qaida, was killed in a Jan. 16 strike in northwest Syria, a release stated. “The death of a terrorist operative linked to the deaths of three Americans demonstrates our resolve in pursuing terrorists who attack our forces,” Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, said…
Southfield investigators have cleared an armed security guard of all charges after he fatally shot a woman who pointed a firearm at him during a chaotic scene outside a local bar. The shooting occurred as the guard attempted to render aid to an injured person following an earlier physical altercation. LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE SOUTHFIELD, MI (2-minute read) — A fatal encounter outside Bloom Southfield has resulted in no criminal charges for the armed security guard involved. Following a thorough investigation into the January incident, Southfield police Chief Elvin Barren announced that the guard acted in self-defense when he discharged…
Most people train their everyday carry the same way every time. Two hands. Comfortable stance. Calm breathing. Nice, predictable rhythm. It looks great on the range. It looks even better on Instagram. It also assumes nothing will go wrong. Real life, unfortunately, has never signed onto that plan. Two-handed shooting is a baseline, not a guarantee. The Myth of “Normal” Shooting Most defensive training starts, and often ends, with the assumption that both hands will always be available, cooperative, and uninjured. That assumption quietly falls apart the moment: You’re injured or knocked off balance You’re using one hand to create…
This article was originally published by Thiago V. S. Coelho at The Mises Institute. As Étienne de la Boétie pointed out, the state is absolutely dependent on ideological support, without which it could not even command an army to force obedience from the public. Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State points out that the state acquires this support by means of its court intellectuals, who frame power as “public service,” while framing skepticism as childish, antisocial, or “conspiratorial”—especially the simple habit of asking cui bono (“who benefits?”). In a previous article, I highlighted the need for libertarians to criticize how academia and journalism can serve as the primary vehicles…
A Massachusetts appeals court has reversed an earlier lower court ruling that a woman could be denied a carry license because of past incidents involving her husband. In the case Guinane v. Chief of Police of Manchester-by-the-Sea, the appeals court’s three-judge panel ruled that Barbara Guinane’s application for a license to carry be granted, even though her husband’s LTC had been suspended. At issue in the case was a police chief’s determination that Ms. Guinane didn’t qualify for a carry permit because her husband’s permit had been suspended because of incidents in which he had acted aggressively and violently during…
National Guard troops will be on the streets of Washington, D.C., until the end of the year, according to a memo reviewed by The Associated Press.The memo, signed by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and dated Wednesday, said “the conditions of the mission” warranted an extension past the end of next month to continue supporting President Donald Trump’s “ongoing efforts to restore law and order.”Meanwhile, Trump has at least temporarily dropped his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, which had provoked legal challenges. He also backed off a bit Friday from his threat a…
The U.S. Coast Guard didn’t meet its drug interdiction goals for 10 years, in part because it redirected a bulk of its efforts toward migrant interdiction at sea, an independent government watchdog found.The Coast Guard failed to meet its metrics for drug interdiction efforts between 2015 and 2024 and missed its migrant interdiction goals for six of those years, despite funneling resources from drug seizure efforts to migrant interdiction, according to a Government Accountability Office report published Tuesday.Part of the reshuffling of Coast Guard assets was due to limited resources, including the dwindling availability of vessels and aircraft, delays in…
Two MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters completed their first operational mission Jan. 8, escorting a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile convoy, the U.S. Air Force announced Wednesday.Piloted by Capt. Michael White and Capt. Maxwell Turner, the aircraft from the 40th Helicopter Squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, shepherded a convoy of missile maintenance and armored security vehicles from the 341st Missile Security Operations Squadron to a remote launch facility more than 100 miles east of the base, according to a service release. The six-hour mission was completed without refueling.The MH-139A, a militarized variant of Boeing’s Leonardo AW139, offers significant upgrades…
A turncoat who left a decades-long career in the gun industry to work for an anti-gun group has announced he is running for Congress in the state of Montana, raising a red flag with the powerful National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). In his career, Ryan Busse spent 25 years working for a leading American firearm manufacturer, during which time the company produced more than 2.3 million rifles, pistols and revolvers. But as NSSF pointed out in a recent press item, after leaving, Busse took a high-dollar paid lobbying position with the national gun control group GIFFORDS Courage to Fight Gun…