This political season seems a good time to scroll back to a vintage ad first depicted on KintlaLake Blog here almost 18 months ago. The...

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in p...

"...The right to own and bear arms is a natural right of man, guaranteed by our Bill of Rights, but superior to all laws and constituti...

It looks like I'm back for one more encore. I've been asked to serve a third term as your president. I don't think anyone'...

Speaking last Friday in Roanoke, Virginia, Pres. Barack Obama now-infamously said, "If you've got a business, you didn't build...

James Montgomery Flagg 's iconic image of Uncle Sam turned 96 years old yesterday. Although most of us know the stern, finger-pointing...

The other day I happened upon an essay entitled, " The Gun as a Weapon of Education ," written by one Edward Cave and published in...

Long before the Winchester Junior Rifle Corps was launched in 1918, "schoolboy" rifle-marksmanship programs were conducted by the...

My fascination with vintage ads, especially those promoting firearms and outdoors gear, continues. I'm especially drawn to depictions of...

(That ad , which featured the Model 67 just a few years before  Winchester pulled the plug on its 26-year production run, appeared in the ...

"['God Bless the U.S.A.'] is a country song. This is Brooklyn . This is not the country." (Dina Rosado, president of t...

"If sales figures mean anything, the faster a .22 can shoot and the more rounds its magazine can hold, the more popular it is with Amer...

While casting about the 'Web over the last 20 years, I've noticed that finding what I'm looking for doesn't stop me -- often...

Last year I lamented that Gil Sengel's excellent article on the history and development of the Winchester Model 67 had vanished from ...

"Just one of the people"

(U.S. Patent 984,519 was awarded to John Moses Browning on February 14, 1911. The U.S. Military would adopt this design a month later as t...

Among the most popular posts here on KintlaLake Blog is " Castle Doctrine, with a Norwegian accent ." It features a 1917 ad for ...

On this rainy Sunday morning I'm compelled to return to that 1948 Handbook for Boys (1953 printing) and what it has to say about edged ...

(This ad for the Winchester Model 67 appeared in Popular Mechanics in April of 1950.)

Posted on levonhelm.com yesterday: "Levon Helm passed peacefully this afternoon. He was surrounded by family, friends and band mates...