Flying home from a murder trial a few days ago, I read the book “Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee” by Casey Cep. Harper Lee, you’ll recall, wrote the iconic novel “To Kill a Mockingbird.” … Read more
This month we lost Denny Reichard of Rochester, Indiana, who has been mentioned in these pages many times. He was a cop for 36 years, the last decade of that on an artificial leg due to a line-of-duty injury. As … Read more
What is the most contentious and persistent socio-legal policy debate in the United States? It’s probably a tie between “gun control” and abortion. The latter is not within my purview as the firearms editor for Backwoods Home magazine, which hosts … Read more
We live in a golden age of quality firearms which, when adjusted for inflation, require proportionally less of our income to purchase than their predecessor models cost our parents and grandparents. Offered as evidence: the Springfield Armory’s new Defender 9mm … Read more
Assorted prohibitionists have of late become more strident in their demands that certain firearms be banned, and their owners declared felons and imprisoned if they failed to turn theirs in. Some of the most radical have suggested that such a … Read more
