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Most of them are all gone now. Our world used to be dirty with WWII veterans. In my own little Southern town, the local car salesman served on PT boats in...

What is it about the gun world that foments such extraordinary friendships? Two total strangers can meet over a vintage Luger and cherish each other’s...

Ours is a lamentably disposable society. There is a floating garbage island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean currently twice the size of Texas. No...

Audie Murphy was the most highly decorated American soldier who ever drew breath. He contributed more to the cause of freedom than every movie star, social...

Familial ties are most curious things. They are at once ethereal and diaphanous while yet remaining incalculably strong. We want what is best for our...

My little medical clinic is the best place in town for meeting people. Everybody rolls through there at some point. I have cultivated some of the most...

In 1946 a boy and his mom walked into Tupelo Hardware on Main Street in Tupelo, Miss. The kid was an only child. His identical twin born 35 minutes earlier...

Every military aviator is the best military aviator since Wilbur and Orville first slipped Earth’s surly bonds back in 1903. We typically have very...

Everybody needs an Uncle Bob. In a family rife with characters, he stood out from the rest. Uncle Bob just had no filter. Born the 13th of 14 children,...

Four Wounded Warriors Hosted To A Special Match By Rifles Only. Three Marines and one Army Ranger, all military snipers, traveled to Rifles Only to...

The safe management of human waste is a really big deal, particularly in a military environment. During the American Civil War, more lives were lost as the...

I just came in from cutting the grass. Some guys look forward to this modern urban chore. I despise it myself.

During World War II strategic bombing was just finding its legs. For the first time in human history, the planet was tasting total war on an industrial scale.

Decisions you make now impact your health as you grow older.

I bought my first two machineguns on my 21st birthday. They joined an already not-insubstantial collection of scary black guns.

It was the Spring flood season in the Mississippi Delta. For me and my friend that meant exploring.

Roughly one in five Americans suffers from some sort of mental illness. The severity of these maladies can range from inconsequential to catastrophic with...

Trust me, I’m a professional. Blowing stuff up is one of the few marketable skills I retain from the military.

The year was 1994, and I was in a restroom at a shopping mall in Dothan, Alabama. My wife, young son, and I had just enjoyed a day on the beach and were...

What’s the most fun thing you’ve ever done? Might want to keep it to yourself just in case there are sensitive ears about.

The argument is background noise anyplace two or more gun guys are gathered. Could you, should you ever, use a .22LR as a defensive weapon?

As I sit typing these words, I am currently neck-deep in the COVID crisis. My day job involves wading about in a disease reliably killing about one in every...

Guns are undeniably cool and it’s the reason you’re currently clutching this hallowed tome. However, amongst countless makes, models, barrel lengths and...

Maybe it never got closer to the action than guard duty at an ammo dump. Or perhaps some poor dogface clutched the thing desperately close in the frozen...

In the 1970s the hair was long, the gas was rationed, the interest rates were astronomical and the prevalent fashions could foment blindness if unduly gazed...

The scientific term is entropy. This is a quantifiable measure of the amount of disorder in a system. Everything naturally descends into a greater state of...

I hurt my back when I was 27 years old and a soldier. I wish I could tell you it was fast roping into some evil despot’s lair to rescue the Dallas Cowboys...

We’ve been everywhere together. We’ve trudged through fetid jungles, shivered in snow caves, crouched within powerful war machines, and even flung...

The petite woman had been out hiking along a riverbank with her kids. The water moccasin caught her just above the right ankle. By the time we met in the ER...

It’s called a CALFEX — the mil-speak term for a Combined Arms Live Fire Exercise. Think of it like a machinegun shoot on steroids.