The benefits of training to shoot while moving. by Gary Paul Johnston Traditionally, cops have been trained to shoot while standing still. By now it should be pretty clear where this is going, and going should be the name of the game when the going gets tough. When I became …

A 13-year-old student attending a virtual class from home on a snow day was suspended after a teacher saw him playing with a toy gun he had received for Christmas. The incident occurred at Spring Grove Middle School in York County, Pennsylvania, after the boy showed his gift to the …

A Florida law enforcement officer saved the life of a six-month-old baby who lost consciousness and stopped breathing while trapped inside a car following a horrific high-speed crash. The baby was strapped securely in the back seat of her mom’s car when a motorcyclist slammed through the baby’s window on …

An American multi-purpose canine (MPC) Belgian Malinois was honored for heroism under fire while serving four tours of duty with the U.S. Marine Corps.  Shimanski was deployed to Jordan, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia during his seven-year career and received the Animals in War and Peace Medal of Bravery for his service, an …

by Scott Stipe My first exposure to John Moses Browning’s iconic .45 caliber 1911 pistol was in the 1980’s, during my enlistment in the Arizona Army National Guard. Our unit had a weapons cage with a grumpy old sergeant who allowed us to touch and fire the M1911A1 45’s during …

Russian soldiers, mercenaries and militia fighters are being returning to the battlefield in Ukraine with untreated wounds and even after limb amputations, according to the British Ministry of Defence. This comes at a time when Russia is suffering a shortage of healthcare workers who fled the country in order to …

“If Russia believes they have escalation dominance, Putin might get it into his head to launch a surprise attack.” Russia is far more willing to deploy tactical nuclear weapons on the battlefield than NATO, a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies has suggested. Tactical nuclear weapons are small …

Iran has established an underground base for fighter jets designed to withstand possible strikes by U.S. bunker-busting bombs, state media reported. The base, named Oghab 44 (Persian for “eagle”), can accommodate “all types of fighter jets and bombers, in addition to drones,” the official news agency IRNA said, releasing images …

Sniper Chris Kyle wrote the following for Soldier of Fortune in 2012, the year before he was killed. More than a decade later, his words resonate. Tested I was not the best sniper in my class. In fact, I failed the practice test. That meant potentially washing out of the …

“We will batter them with drones, we will conduct partisan raids in their rear. We’ll fight until we’re dead.” by Aleksander Palikot NEAR ROBOTYNE, Ukraine — “To put it bluntly, we barely have enough strength to defend what we gained over the summer,” Ihor said. He is a battalion commander …