Images by the author unless otherwise noted As most shooters know, there is an entire cottage industry built around 9mm self-defense loads. It isn’t only civilian shooters who want them. For years, law enforcement agencies from the F.B.I. on down have requested that ammunition companies produce more effective ammunition. We’ve come a long way from the 158-grain lead round nose .38 Special round, for sure. Two Philosophies There are two basic philosophies or schools of thought about making effective defense ammo. One of them believes that a heavy, blunt, slow lead bullet at moderate velocities works best, as its mass…
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PARIS — France will send the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier and its strike group to the Mediterranean as war expands in the Middle East, President Emmanuel Macron said in a speech on Tuesday night.With the Strait of Hormuz closed and the Suez Canal and Red Sea threatened, France is also working on a coalition to pool assets, including military, that will allow shipping traffic to resume, Macron said in the televised speech.“Faced with this unstable situation and the uncertainties of the days ahead, I have given orders for the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, its air assets, and its…
House and Senate members, along with prominent veterans’ organizations, hope 2026 will be the year Congress passes legislation to give 54,000 wounded veterans their military retirement pay and Veterans Affairs disability compensation — without one offsetting the other. In the past two weeks, veterans groups, including Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars, lobbied lawmakers for passage of the Major Richard Star Act, a bill that would allow medically retired U.S. military personnel to receive both their full retirement pay and VA disability compensation. While the legislation has been a major focus for advocates since 2020, concerns about the…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Supreme Court expressed skepticism Monday about the federal government’s law banning people with a “habitual use” of marijuana from legally possessing a firearm, a Second Amendment case that could test the limits of creating exceptions to gun ownership.But in two hours of spirited oral arguments over “guns and ganja,” several justices — while seeing marijuana smokers as potentially less serious — expressed concern about allowing drug addicts and other illegal substance users who might pose a danger to society to have those weapons.A narrow ruling appears likely and might apply only…
Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Olive A. Fredrickson wrote six stories for Outdoor Life about her life as a homesteader, trapper, and subsistence hunter in Canada. Eventually, she turned her experiences into a novel, The Silence of the North, which was co-written with former OL staff writer Ben East and ultimately made into a movie in 1981. This was her first magazine story, published in May 1967 under the title “I Had To Have Moose.” The canoe was a 30-foot dugout that the local tribe had…
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The father of a Georgia high school shooting suspect was convicted of second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday.Colin Gray, the father of accused Apalachee High School mass shooter Colt Gray, has been found guilty by a jury in Barrow County.Colt Gray allegedly killed two 14-year-old students and two teachers during the September 2024 shooting in Winder. The father was found guilty on all counts and is facing up to 180 years in prison. He will be sentenced at a later date. Gray was motionless, looking down and to the side while seated…
United States ruler Donald Trump claims that the U.S. can wage war “forever” with an “virtually unlimited” supply of weapons and ammunition. Trump made the claim in a post to Truth Social on Monday. In the post, Trump dismissed concerns over the U.S.’s alleged limited munitions availability. Military analysts have claimed that the concern is over air defense missiles, and they claim it is a limiting factor in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli campaign aimed at toppling the Iranian government. “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries’ finest arms!),” he wrote. The president…
The U.S. Air Force updated its physical fitness program and score charts for the fitness tests to boost the long-term health of airmen.The modernized program utilizes a more thorough assessment model to strengthen warfighter readiness by motivating airmen to build more sustainable fitness habits for the duration of their careers, according to a Feb. 27 release.“This update is not just about increasing the physical fitness test standards; it’s about ensuring our warfighters are fit, ready, and prioritizing their long-term health,” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ken Wilsbach said in the memo.The updated score charts will have increased minimums for…
BERLIN — Greece has dispatched two frigates and four F-16 fighter jets to Cyprus following a drone strike on RAF Akrotiri, the British military’s main hub for Middle East aerial operations, as the Iran conflict threatens to spill into the Eastern Mediterranean.A Shahed-type unmanned aerial vehicle reportedly struck the British base’s runway a few minutes past midnight on March 2, causing what the U.K. Ministry of Defence described as “minimal damage” with no reported casualties. Two additional drones targeting the base were intercepted on March 2, according to Cypriot authorities.The strike is widely believed to have been carried out by…
What’s a gun-grabbing Democrat politician to do when a foreign-born Muslim dressed in a “property of Allah” hoodie shoots up a nightclub in Texas the day after the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in Iran? If you guessed ignore the terror connection and push for more restrictive gun laws, you can go to the head of the class. U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, took to X to claim that Republican lawmakers and pro-gun organizations were responsible for the attack, not the Muslim terrorist who actually pulled the trigger. “Gun violence is preventable,” he posted. “This devastating loss of life…