Anyone who assumes women are the more docile sex has clearly never gotten between a mama and her kid. This is something that happens throughout the animal kingdom, but doesn’t stop there. Rudyard Kipling didn’t write, “That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male,” for…

The best sun shirts act like wearable shade, protecting your skin while staying cool and breathable. To finalize this year’s rankings, three testers — GearJunkie Editor Chris Kassar, lead tester Ryan Kempfer, and contributor Rob Simpson — put 10 sun shirts through a grueling nine-month cycle. From Utah’s arches to…

A bear attacked and injured two soldiers who were participating in a training exercise in a remote location at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Thursday, military and state wildlife officials said Friday, April 17.The U.S. Army 11th Airborne Division soldiers were hurt in the encounter with a brown bear while participating…

The modern gun control movement in the United States has been around since the early 1960s, though it wasn’t until the Gun Control Act of 1968 was introduced in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy that the movement coalesced and found…

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Readiness is being strained as funding uncertainty, aging equipment and rising mission demands collide in the Pentagon’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget request, top Guard and Reserve leaders warned.Guard and Reserve leaders testified before the House Appropriations defense subcommittee on Friday, cautioning that rising mission demands, aging equipment and funding uncertainty…

The right of the people to keep and bear arms isn’t about hunting. It’s never been about hunting. It’s about defending this nation, both from foreign invaders and tyrannical governments, and it seems some people are starting to wake up to that fact. Most gun…

When the siren wails and the sky turns that bruised shade of green, not having a good option is not an option. Your greatest asset in that moment isn’t luck—it’s a plan. And the cornerstone of that plan is knowing exactly where you and your family will ride out the…

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It was while standing near the water hookups outside a Love’s Travel Stop in Alabama, as the contents of our class A vehicle’s putrid blackwater tank splurted and slurried all over the ground at my feet, that I realized owning an RV might not be for me. It was the…

Backpackers talk all day long about weight savings, but for me, space savings are equally vital. Packs have limited capacity, and the less real estate each item takes up, the better. Next to a sleeping bag, my sleeping pad consistently took up the most room in my pack, that is,…

This year’s legislative session has drawn to a close in Alabama, and lawmakers left the state capitol without passing a bill that would have established a tax-free “holiday” on the sale of firearms, ammunition, and related accessories.  As I covered back in February, HB 360…

When you start looking at high-end soft coolers, you usually run into two problems. First, they are often designed like high-tech dry bags, with stiff zippers that scrape your knuckles or narrow openings that make finding a specific drink feel like a game of Operation. Second, they cost a small…

2026 hasn’t been a great year for gun control. Oh, they might have gotten some state laws passed, true, but they’ve also seen something far worse than just looking at a legislative vote. In fact, I now have to wonder just what kind of people support gun control in…