by Lee Williams Marianna Mitchem, ATF’s former Associate Assistant Director of Field Operations (Industry Operations), is now working for former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group, Everytown for Gun Safety, according to a former ATF senior official who did not want their name used in this story.  Mitchem has turned on the ATF since joining Everytown, the former official said. She is reaching out to her former colleagues, trying to target Glock and Glock-type handguns.  Mitchem began her 20-year ATF career in 2005 as an IOI, an Industry Operations Investigator, who inspects gun shops to ensure their records…

As armed National Guard troops patrol the nation’s capital as part of an unprecedented federal takeover of Washington’s police department, handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump, according to the latest AP-NORC poll.Americans are generally not happy about the Republican president’s handling of issues like immigration and the economy but are more positive about his tough-on-crime approach, according to the survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.Indeed, the vast majority of Americans, 81%, see crime as a “major problem” in large cities — a concern Trump has seized on as he has deployed…

Sign up for the Quick Strike Newsletter The hottest fishing news, tips, and tactics Fishing for trophy muskies is all about the eat — that moment of ambush when a big fish finally commits and hammers your lure. These strikes can be savage, and they rarely happen when you’re expecting them to. But every so often, you might get lucky and catch one on camera up close. Connor Norgrove did, in a cast-to-catch video he shared to Instagram, and it’s one of the most badass muskie videos you’ll ever see. The clip shows a nearly 50-inch muskie hitting a big,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this week that his military no longer needs permission from the United States ruling class to strike deep inside Russia. It now has a new flamingo missile with a 3,000 km range that will allow the war-mongering country to “bypass” any restrictions. The Pentagon has quietly blocked Ukraine from using American-supplied ATACMS missiles to hit Russian territory since late spring. Ukraine’s resources, manpower, and Western support have been dwindling, which makes the Flamingo a desperate last gamble rather than a war-winning strategy. It still doesn’t look possible for Ukraine to win this war, even with…

Federal prosecutors have failed to obtain a felony indictment against a U.S. Air Force veteran who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.Sean Charles Dunn was arrested on an assault charge after he threw a sub-style sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent. A video of the incident went viral, and shortly after he was fired from the Justice Department, where he worked as an international affairs specialist in the department’s criminal division.According to service records obtained by Military…

Military spouses will soon see the expansion of a paid fellowship pilot program, with higher compensation and the extension to those living overseas, as the Defense Department program becomes permanent on Jan. 1, 2026. Meanwhile, on Sept. 1, Defense Department officials are temporarily closing applications for the Military Spouse Career Accelerator Pilot, as they start to shift to the permanent program, as authorized by law in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill. That permanent program, dubbed the Career Accelerator, will reopen for applications Jan. 1.The pilot program has offered 12-week fellowships to military spouses with participating employers, with DOD paying…

Israel has demolished 1,000 buildings in Gaza in its raid, while the bombardment has also reportedly trapped hundreds of civilians under rubble and strained emergency services. The more than 1,000 buildings that have been destroyed in Gaza City’s Zaytoun and Sabra neighborhoods since Israeli forces began a new ground incursion this month are trapping people under them, Al Jazeera has reported, citing Palestinian Civil Defence. The once lively city has now been reduced to rubble. Zaytoun was known for its bustling markets, olive groves, and tight-knit community. Generations of families have lived there. In a statement on Sunday, Civil Defence reported…

Sign up for the On The Gun Newsletter The latest for gun hunters and competitive shooters. Each year we review the best new rifles of the year and highlight some remarkable (and expensive) new guns. We spend a lot of ink on the most accurate and most innovative rifles because, well, they’re the most interesting.  But for the workaday deer hunter who cares more about value than refinement, a lot of these new guns, and the high-end scopes that we mount on them, just aren’t practical. Happily, there’s a whole class of rifles, optics, and hunting ammo that are affordable…

New Mexico’s waiting period law, which forces gun purchasers to wait seven days after paying for a firearm and passing the background check, has been ruled unconstitutional by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. HB 129, which was signed into law by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham in 2024, mandated a seven-day waiting period on any gun buyer, other than a concealed handgun license holder, who clears an FBI background check to purchase a gun. And another provision made the new law even worse. The law also states: “If the required federal instant background check has not been completed within twenty…

This article was originally published by George Ford Smith at The Mises Institute.  “Taking the State wherever found, striking into its history at any point, one sees no way to differentiate the activities of its founders, administrators, and beneficiaries from those of a professional-criminal class.” —Albert Jay Nock, Our Enemy, the State “There is no such thing as ‘democracy’ that is not controlled to a large degree (or completely) by special-interest politics, and there never has been in the history of the world.”—Thomas J. DiLorenzo, “America’s Temple to Political Plunder” “. . . virtue never has been as respectable as…

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In a deservedly sarcastic piece of writing, the head of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently blistered so-called Everytown For Gun Safety’s brand new “gun safety training” initiative. In a news item posted on the group’s website on August 18 titled “Cue the Clown Car: Everytown Gun Control Wants to Train Gun Owners,” Larry Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel, wrote about the rich irony of a group that’s never seen a gun control proposal it doesn’t like acting like it plans to train gun owners in safe usage—ironically the same gun owners the group wants to…

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Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Vortex today is releasing an updated version of its popular Crossfire II scopes, a feature-packed entry-level scope line called the Crossfire HD. These scopes have versatile magnification ranges, extremely useful second-plane reticles, and decent capped turrets tuned to ¼ MOA clicks. They’re also built on 1-inch tubes, include threaded sunshades, some have illuminated reticles, and are covered by Vortex’s legendary lifetime transferable warranty. And they will sell for well under $200. That price point puts the new Crossfire HD line on…

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