Author: Jack Bogart

I have been running the standard Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 as my deep-concealment carry gun for a good stretch now. Out of the last couple of years, it has hands down been my new favorite concealed carry piece in my current rotation. It disappears under a t-shirt better than just about anything else in my collection. When Gideon Optics released the Pebble reflex sight built around this exact pistol, I decided it was time to see if a dot could make the little .380 more than a last-ditch contact distance weapon. The S&W Bodyguard 2.0 The Bodyguard 2.0 itself needs…

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And if you’re Democrat Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, these are desperate times, indeed. Hot on the heels of polling data showing that she is so far in the hole that she’ll likely never climb out, Gov. Spanberger can almost see her party’s chance at redrawing Congressional district lines to heavily favor Democrats going down the tubes. Consequently, rather than sign the unpopular measure, SB 749/HB 217, passed by the State Assembly banning many common semi-automatic rifles, Gov. Spanberger has instead made minor amendments to that bill and several others, which will push her deadline…

An anti-gun organization’s shenanigans of enriching itself by refusing to file necessary reports on joint fundraising solicitations have the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) crying foul. On April 13, the NSSF filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against Giffords PAC, the political fundraising arm of the gun control group Giffords. In the complaint, NSSF alleges Giffords PAC and its allies are skirting the FEC’s joint fundraising rules when they solicit funds for both Giffords PAC and their preferred candidates for elected office.  According to an NSSF news release, Giffords PAC has been using these joint fundraising solicitations to…

Olight is one company that many of us didn’t think would stick around for very long. In addition to their recently released and highly successful Osight series, Olight has announced a limited-edition finish variant of their popular ArkPro Ultra, plus two new Baton series models. The new limited variant emphasizes some new looks over new performance numbers, adding laser-engraved linear texture and a premium hard-anodized black finish. It becomes available on April 20 and builds directly on the existing ArkPro platform. New ArkPro Ultra Skin The product catalog describes the ArkPro series as redefining everyday carry through multi-light versatility and…

Images by the author Bond Arms, of Granbury, Texas, made its reputation selling derivatives of the derringer. Before you call me on it, now might be a good time to state that I know I mispelled “derringer”, but that’s the common way to spell it nowadays. The man who invented it, Henry Deringer, Jr., perfected his one-shot pistol in the 1850s. I guess its most notorious use was when Booth used one to assassinate Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Later, a second barrel was added to some models. There, got that out of the way – moving on… The company prides…

Two major gun-rights groups have filed a motion asking the Superior Court of California for the County of Sacramento to grant summary judgment in a case challenging the state’s 11% excise tax on firearms and ammunition. In the case of Poway Weapons & Gear v. Gonzalez, the plaintiffs argue that the law violates the Second Amendment by unconstitutionally infringing on the right to keep and bear arms. The brief, filed by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), and other partners, argues “…the State’s tax implicates the purchase of protected firearms and ammunition, which is squarely within…

I had the opportunity to visit New York City for the first time last weekend, and to be honest, I felt naked without my carry pistol. However, with the various laws and “sensitive places” restrictions, it’s nearly impossible to even take a handgun into the city legally, much less carry it for self-defense. Fortunately, on the morning of April 12, I was in the security line at LaGuardia Airport, “admiring” the signs threatening me with a multi-thousand-dollar fine if I happened to have a firearm in my carry-on bag. Meanwhile, at the nearby 42nd Street-Grand Central subway station, 44-year-old Anthony…

The Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is threatening to sue the state of Virginia if anti-gun Gov. Abigail Spanberger signs the measure recently passed by the state legislature that would ban common semi-automatic firearms owned for a number of lawful purposes. In an April 10 letter sent to Gov. Spanberger, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said SB 749, the measure banning manufacturing, selling or purchasing many common models of semi-auto rifles, is unconstitutional. “This letter provides formal notice that the Civil Rights Division will commence litigation in the event the Commonwealth of…

With gas prices and the economy being the way they are, I find myself sorting from lowest to highest a lot more often. In doing so, I recently discovered the Century Arms Centurion Survivor. As a fan of alliteration, the gun name caught my attention; as a fan of low prices, that did too. In fact, I can keep listing things I am a fan of that made this gun appeal to me: It is a shotgun It is a survival gun It is ugly It is weird It folds Those are all things I am a fan of. I…

Here’s something the mainstream media won’t tell you about the mainstream media: its anti-gun bias isn’t just ideological. It’s structural. And it was built by Silicon Valley’s ad machine, not by a shadowy cabal of editorial writers sitting around plotting your disarmament. The Numbers Don’t Lie In 2000, newspapers accounted for roughly 53 percent of U.S. ad spending. By 2020, that number had collapsed to about 5 percent, according to the Congressional Research Service. The revenue didn’t disappear — it moved to Google, Meta, Amazon, and TikTok. The fallout was immediate and severe. More than a third of U.S. newspapers…