IN AN email sent recently, self-defense trainer and firearm rights advocate Mike Melchor of Manila expressed worry that a firearm measure eyed in General Santos City will lay to waste the hard-earned success achieved by the A2S5 Coalition just a few months ago. The statute, being pushed by Mayor Darlene Read more…
LIKE most people, I was practically glued to the television set Monday night, watching with growing interest, deep concern and, eventually, horror and frustration, the event that unfolded at the Quirino Grandstand. Global media captured how the Manila’s police assaulted the bus and how they, after an hour of embarrassing Read more…
AT THE first sound of gunfire, Mac instantaneously hugged the ground, crawled for cover and, fighting to get his breathing even, assessed how best to get out alive. Death was not an option. Updates on President Benigno Aquino III’s presidency Then, after determining that fighting was his best, if not Read more…
AFTER a relatively long hiatus, the shooting community’s southern connection, Front Sight Gun club, is back in the circuit and, hopefully, for good. With the support of the Minglanilla municipal government and other sponsors, the club hosted a two-day practical shooting match—featuring five very original and immensely challenging course designs Read more…
THERE is an old shooting range joke about the Dremel tool being every gunsmith’s best friend. It’s true. It is not because every gunsmith uses one, although I saw one in Mario Abangan’s shop the last time I dropped by. Updates on President Benigno Aquino III’s presidency Rather, it’s because Read more…