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Deployment and data breaches both raise the odds that a service member’s personal information ends up in the wrong hands. The good news is that military families have access to protections civilians don’t, starting with a free active duty credit alert that requires lenders to verify your identity before opening…

The National Firearms Act might well be in the last years of its existence. We’ve already legislated the tax stamp for suppressors and short-barreled rifles away, which was grounds for a federal court to declare the registration requirement unconstitutional. Machine guns are still there, as are destructive devices, but…

CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unannounced trip to Moscow on Aug. 25 for meetings with Russian officials, sparking questions about the visit’s intent and about national flags on the premises. The visit became public after observers spotted a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at a Moscow airport and…

The Department of Justice is suing the state of California over its newly imposed ban on the sale of Glocks and other striker-fired handguns, and now California’s Department of Justice has responded to the feds’ request for a preliminary injunction.  California Attorney General (and Democrat…

Iran will not allow military vessels to travel through the Strait of Hormuz as part of a temporary agreement the Islamic Republic is negotiating with Oman. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi told state TV late Tuesday night that the two countries have agreed to a new framework for managing…

The idea behind microstamping is simple, if stupid. Each gun would stamp a unique identifier on each round fired. Then the police could use that to trace who shot the gun in the first place. The fact that anyone with an elementary knowledge of firearms can see all the…

As hijacked planes turned into weapons on Sept. 11, 2001, inside a quiet Air National Guard facility in upstate New York, a handful of young techs and officers suddenly found themselves scrambling fighter jets as they realized in real time that the United States was under attack. As the towers…

Florida gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds has named state senator Bryan Avila as his running mate on the Republican ticket this fall, and the move appears to be going over well with many folks on the Right.  Politico notes that Avila has been heading up Latinos…

The Department of Defense created the Basic Needs Allowance in 2023 to address a problem that had been quietly acknowledged for years: Some active-duty families, particularly larger households at junior enlisted pay grades, were living below the federal poverty line despite a parent serving full-time in the military. The allowance…

Luis Manuel Aviles Roa, The father of a sailor deployed aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln has been released from immigration detention days after his arrest drew national attention due to his son being at sea for a nine-month deployment. The family of Luis Manuel Aviles Roa told CBS News he…

The Supreme Court delivered two big Second Amendment wins last term and is poised to strike down bans on so-called assault weapons in the coming months. The ATF is in the process of reforming its rules with an eye toward helping, not hurting, gun owners, gun makers, and gun…

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​One thing that is not new to military families is the struggle of deployments. A valuable member of the family is taken away, sometimes for over a year, and the hardships of that are hard to deal with. Now, military families have free access to an online tool that is…

The simplest solution to avoiding issues with a ban on so-called assault weapons is simply not to ban them. They’re not commonly used in crimes, and as Virginia Tech showed us, you can kill a lot of people in a gun-free zone without an AR-15. Still, some states want…

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The Marine Corps is offering eligible Marines up to $40,000 to join or stay in the Selected Marine Corps Reserve under a new retention and affiliation bonus program that took effect this week. MARADMIN 377/26, released Aug. 20, establishes the Selected Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR) Retention and Affiliation Bonus program.…

The jury is out on whether space is actually the final frontier. What we do know is that nations all over the globe are looking above when channeling the next generation of defense technology. More than 6,500 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to launch by 2035, generating roughly $160…

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The Navy has released new technical requirements to allow the use of 3D printing in submarine construction. The service said in a statement that it was removing “administrative and engineering hurdles” to allow 3D printing to make and maintain submarines. “This is exactly the type of barrier we must remove…

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