The people behind the wackdoodle Area15 immersive experience are creating a “John Wick Experience” in Vegas. Guests will step through the doors of the Las Vegas Continental and into the fantastical world of the billion-plus grossing franchise movies, where they…
One of the more interesting things to come out of SHOT Show 2024 was the continuing interest in revolvers and thermal vision and the resurgence of lever-action rifles. New AR-pattern rifles were few and far between at this year’s show.…
I'm into double digit SHOT Shows (which pales in comparison to some people), but I've attended it as low-level media, mid-level buyer and now as higher-level media, so I have a fairly broad experience with this event. It's tempting to…
Just like the author of this article, Neal Stephenson’s “The Diamond Age” has been a big influence on my vision of the future, as was Stephenson’s earlier novel, “Snow Crash” and the works of William S. Gibson. And also like…
Should open carry be legal? Of course it should. It’s useful in lots of different ways, and banning it is a restriction on the right to keep and bear arms, and that's a bad thing. But should you do it?…
Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for January 2016. Donald Trump was inaugurated as President, which torched off (literally) weeks of protest. Then came the 2017 Charlottesville attack, the riots in Kenosha and Minneapolis and January 6th. Add it all up,…
Dr. David Yamane has a new video out where he talks about the flaws in a new book on the AR-15. Give it watch right now… https://youtu.be/3S3NZ664fko?si=ZltTw8VR9Eeg2qLv For awhile now, I’ve had a half-formed idea rattling around inside the copious…
Open Source Defense breaks down the steps to make something that once was forbidden and illegal into something normal. They list four steps: Forbidden, Aberrant, Accepted, Unnoticed. The move from the second to third step caught my eye: "Aberrant→Accepted: this…
My friend Michael Bane (along with another friend, Paul Earhardt) came up with the idea of “Gun Culture 2.0” to describe the shift they were seeing in American society. The previous gun culture, version 1.0, was all about hunting and…
Open Source Defense churns out some of the most thoughtful, engaging content in the world of armed self-defense. It’s not about training or gear, but rather, how that training/gear/lifestyle is impacting American society. Their latest article, on how guns are…