David Codrea, quoting Richard Henry Lee.

“A militia when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves, and render regular troops in great measure unnecessary. The powers to form and arm the militia, to appoint their officers, and to command their services, are very important; nor ought they in a confederated republic to be lodged, solely, in any one member of the government. First, the constitution ought to secure a genuine [ ] and guard against a select militia, by providing that the militia shall always be kept well organized, armed, and disciplined, and include, according to the past and general usage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms; and that all regulations tending to render this general militia ― useless and defenceless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permament interests and attachments in the community is to be avoided. …To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them….”

Then he quite rhetorically asks, “What about well regulated?”

Go read David’s piece.

Here’s what well regulated means from the Oxford English Dictionary.

“The equation of time … is the adjustment of the difference of time as shown by a well-regulated clock and a true sun dial.”

Functioning properly. “Something that was well-regulated was calibrated correctly.” “Working as expected, calibrated correctly, normal, regular.”

One can only hope the supreme court does the right thing. This is a very big deal for firearms manufacturers.

Additionally, if this goes forward in the states, you know who pays the cost? Firearms owners. They will have to pass the cost on or not survive. So, it affects all of us who own firearms. I’m certain that’s part of the strategy. Legal costs are exorbitant.

But that isn’t what I want you to do. I want you transferred to the border to crack down on immigration and crime, and/or hunt gangs down elsewhere and rid our nation of the gangs. I want you to do something where you don’t know if you’re going to come home safely at the end of your shift. Failing those two options, I just want you to hunt for a new job.

Otherwise, what use are you?

Shooting Illustrated.

Remington Ammunition is expanding its Core-Lokt Tipped ammunition line to cover lever-action rifles and carbines with the new Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun product line.

“Big Green is excited to be bringing the Core-Lokt Tipped family into the world of lever guns,” said Jon Langenfeld, research and development engineer at Remington Ammunition. “The resurgence of the lever gun was a welcome sight within Remington. We knew it would only be right to allow every lever-gun shooter, whether novice or expert, the ability to utilize the trusted performance of Remington’s Core-Lokt Tipped in a variety of lever-gun calibers.”

Most lever-action firearms use a tubular magazine, which places cartridges in front and behind each other in the magazine. For safety reasons, lever gun calibers are not loaded with pointed, spitzer-type bullets due to potential danger of a bullet’s point sitting right behind the next round’s primer, which may result in an accidental discharge. Blunt-nosed bullets are used in these magazines to prevent this, but the trade-off has always been less efficient ballistic performance, especially at longer distances.

All Remington Core-Lokt Tipped Lever Gun bullets use a green polymer ballistic tip which reduces each bullet’s “blunt” profile to boost its ballistic performance in a way that’s safe for the inside a lever-action firearm’s tubular magazine. However, the Core-Lokt bullets still expand into their classic “mushroom” shape to stop game.

It’s about time. I’m surprised it took them this long. Here is list of bullet weights and muzzle velocities.

• .360 Buckhammer, 180 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,400 fps
• .30-30 Win., 150 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,390 fps
• .35 Rem., 200 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,080 fps
• .45-70 Gov’t, 300 grain: Muzzle velocity 1,900 fps
• .444 Marlin, 240 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,350 fps
• .32 Win. Special, 170 grain: Muzzle velocity 2,250 fps

This is a little disappointing. To be quite honest, I’m not sure why they’re not loading them hotter than this. Picking up a box of .444 Marlin jacketed flat nose by Hornady, I see it has a bullet weight of 265 grains with a muzzle velocity of 2400 FPS. That’s a heavier bullet moving slightly faster than the Remington bullet. But then, the Core-Lokt cartridges have always been a bit slower than the competition. It’s the expansion guys love, and too much velocity can actually hurt the ballistics by “penciling” through the game. We’d have to see a gel test to quantify the difference between these manufacturers.

There’s also the issue of sighting in your rifle. The sight-in procedure is good for only a single bullet weight, and so if you’re testing ammunition from a different manufacturer, while the point of impact during testing won’t matter, the final ammunition choice will require sighting in the rifle with whatever you choose.

As to the issue brought up a few days ago by a reader, I still see very high usefulness and viability of the lever action rifle. As I’ve said, this .444 Marlin round will easily put down hogs with a single shot without any movement at all after impact (I’ve seen lesser rounds take longer to accomplish the job).

Also, there’s the issue of cool factor. Lever action guns are just cool to own and shoot, and a .444 Marlin or 45-70 doesn’t exactly go into an AR pattern rifle (it’s short action, including the AR-10s).

I think the lever gun will be around long after I’m gone, as it should be. Every American boy should own a lever gun, or several.

Good procedure. I wasn’t aware of it.

Also, very meticulous torquing passes he made in the scope mounting procedure.

It’s easy to watch Trump and Hegseth at work firing worthless generals now, but it’s also too easy to forget when Obama engaged in that action too. And one such detail is remarkable.

Rear Adm. Chuck Gaouette, commander of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, was relieved in October 2012 for disobeying orders when he sent his group on Sept. 11 to “assist and provide intelligence for” military forces ordered into action by Gen. Ham.

Let that wash over you. This officer was relieved of command for sending assets to assist and provide intelligence for what was happening in Benghazi and the forces General Ham ordered into action for the fight.

By the way, General Ham was also fired and had to sign an NDA on the event, so he can never speak of it. Clinton, Obama, and the other gaggle of demons. One cannot imagine a more insanely corrupt, polluted and poisonous bunch of people.

Wisco sends this deep dive along into early experimental magazines for the M-16 / AR-15. He also sends this along for those of you who are interested in doing more research for the rest of us.

Cops are more likely to get killed, more likely to get injured, and more likely to injure a bystander.

Sounds about right.

Source, from a reader.

Mark Smith analyzes it.

Also, Dan Bongino is apparently now going to be a deputy director of the ATF.

I’m not sure how this all plays out.

This is an updated version of a prior article at OL.

I usually aim for a high shoulder shot. This article does a good job of differentiating between quartering-away shots, quartering-to shots, frontal shots, and especially the difference between bow shots and rifle shots.