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The Revolutionary War, I feel, is often misunderstood. Maybe that’s due to our own ignorance, or rather a failing in our education system. We teach and discuss the war with romanticized patriotism—it is in fact the war that leads to the birth of our nation. However, we don’t realize how close the conflict came to defeat. To borrow from the sports world, the Continentals snatched victory out of the jaws of defeat. If it weren’t for a few gaffs by British leadership, the war might have turne

Welcome to the Gun Bench. This is a series where we at Straight Talk bring our readers into the thought process behind how we set up our gear for various roles and scenarios. There is a saying that purpose drives gear. In the gun world, that saying rings clear. With each selection of equipment, there is a purpose—whether it be for hunting, competitive shooting, home defense, or survival—that equipment matters and must stand up to the task at hand. This series looks to help with the thought

Ask many hunters across the country what their bucket list hunt is, and it would probably be a western big game hunt for elk, mule deer, or pronghorn. The vast landscapes these animals call home, with high-elevation forests and seemingly endless sagebrush sea, present the challenge and excitement for a dream hunt. These landscapes also define the lives of big game animals that must migrate across vast distances through the seasons to fulfill their habitat needs.Elk migrating on National Elk Refu

Person-of-Interest is a series to promote and discuss those individuals and organizations that are promoting, fighting for, and defending the values of the Second Amendment. In today’s world, media—in all its forms—is littering our nation with counter-narratives and counter-culture ideology. The idea of a God-fearing, nuclear family is being eroded. We are being taught to accept the changes and to not challenge them. Those that speak out are quickly “cancelled.” Those that question is suff

A new week, and another new gun, however, instead of the onslaught of new guns coming from Sig Sauer, one of their rivals’ swoops in to pick up the slack. Smith & Wesson, one of the oldest American gun companies, and home to the very popular Military and Police line (M&P), has released a new addition to that aforementioned line, however, this time, the gun has undergone treatment in S&W’s Performance Center (PC). The M&P M2.0 series first released a 10mm option back in Nove

The engineers at Sig Sauer have not rested in the new year. They’ve purportedly worked around the clock so that a new model will be released every week during 2023. Well, that might not be completely true, although, it is now the third week in a row that Sig has introduced a new SKU to the marketplace. The P210 is an interesting gun in Sig’s repertoire. Its origins date back to the mid-1940s where it was developed to be a military sidearm used by the Swiss government. The 210 bares signifi