Did you buy a gun on Black Friday? If so, you were not alone. The FBI reported 203,086 requests for background checks on the busiest shopping day of the year. That is a new one-day record for background checks. The two previous one-day records were also set on Black Friday.

Silverware Surprise: Tennessee Hotel Guest Defends Against Armed Attack A Nashville couple checked into a local hotel after church one Sunday afternoon. They rode up in the elevator with an…

Regular readers will know how much we at the USCCA stress avoiding trouble before things get out of hand. In my last column, I suggested learning who your neighbors are and how they think about you…

What lengths would you go to if it were necessary to protect your children? Almost any I suppose, which is the way I feel about my daughter. I remember a man who shot his daughter’s rapist during the…

A friend of mine, Ken Stern, worked as VP and then CEO of National Public Radio from 1999-2008. He was best known perhaps for growing NPR (NPR called him a “numbers cruncher and lawyer”), squeezing…

By the time you read this, there will be much more information available on last Sunday’s mass shooting in the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, a town of only a few hundred people.…

Remember the old saying to “keep your friends close and your enemies closer?” I understand what that means … about not wishing the ex-wife would slip and fall beneath a road roller, for example, or…

Today, with the public becoming aware that more than 15 million Americans are legally carrying firearms, you would think that people would be less inclined to engage in road rage. But even more…

Crisis Averted A family of four from Hoonah was walking in line through a wooded area to a favorite fishing hole when a brown bear emerged from the woods and charged the group from the front. The…

As I write this column, information, accusations and political diatribes are flying in from all quarters. People are lining up to voice their opinions on what happened in Las Vegas and how we can…

In the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, the anti-gun fanatics have finally dropped all pretense of wanting only “common sense” gun “safety” regulations. Democrat House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi,…

During the hustle and bustle — and, quite possibly, the insanity — of getting ready for back-to-school activities last month, two pairs of women physically tussled over the last notebook on a shelf…