Author: Braxton Taylor
Federal agencies should implement mass layoffs of their workforces if the government shuts down next week, the White House told agencies on Wednesday, dramatically escalating the stakes of a potential funding lapse. Agencies should prepare the reduction-in-force notices for all employees whose work is not funded through means other than annual appropriations and does not align with President Trump’s priorities, the Office of Management and Budget said in its memorandum. Agencies will also prepare the standard furlough notices that go out to employees not otherwise exempted to work during a shutdown, OMB said, and those actions will have no bearing on…
Nine months into the second Trump administration, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s effort to shrink and reshape the Pentagon’s civilian workforce has netted a reduction of more than 60,000 employees, or about 7.6 percent, comfortably reaching the 5- to 8-percent goal he set in March. But while the Pentagon provided those numbers to Defense One, they provided few other details, leaving it hard to judge how the effort to cut payroll and redirect resources is going. Multiple officials declined to talk about various problems caused by the sweeping cuts and policy changes Hegseth ordered just weeks into his job. They also declined…
AmmoSquared proudly sponsored the first annual Ammo Therapy Day in Boise, supporting Building Stronger Veterans and their mission to end veteran homelessness. Helping veterans heal, rebuild, and successfully reintegrate into society. On September 6, 2025, AmmoSquared was honored to sponsor and attend the inaugural Ammo Therapy Day at Double Tapp Range in Boise, Idaho. The event was organized by Building Stronger Veterans, a nonprofit dedicated to ending veteran homelessness through sustainable housing and employment opportunities. Their mission is to help veterans heal, rebuild, and successfully reintegrate into society.AmmoSquared was proud to play a part in supporting such an worthy event…
Breaking: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just “ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice” next Tuesday at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, the Washington Post reported Thursday. No reason was given for the rare and urgent meeting, which is scheduled “as a government shutdown looms,” the Post reminds readers ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline, which is Tuesday. The order “applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers,” five Post journalists report. Officers with those ranks…
IWI US officials, along with Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee (R) and Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development Commissioner Stuart C. McWhorter, announced on Sept. 22 that the gun maker is relocating its headquarters and all major operations from Pennsylvania to Tennessee. The company will invest $15.7 million in its new Andersonville, TN, facility, creating 72 new jobs. The expansion will allow the firm to increase manufacturing capacity and expand its ability to design and develop new firearm technology. “Our relocation to Andersonville, TN, represents a strategic investment in the future of our company, the firearms industry and the local…
If you’ve spent any time around long-range shooters or hardcore reloaders, you’ve likely heard the term “ballistic coefficient” tossed around like it’s the secret sauce of marksmanship. And in a way, it is. Ballistic coefficient, often shortened to BC, matters a lot more than most folks realize, especially once you stretch beyond 300-400 yards. But what is it, why does it matter, and how does it play into real-world shooting? Let’s break it down.What Exactly Is Ballistic Coefficient?Ballistic coefficient is a number that describes how well a bullet resists drag as it flies through the air. Think of it as an…
Defensive-handgun projectiles are designed with consideration for feeding, energy transfer, expansion and penetration, as well as accuracy. It’s a delicate balancing act. Back when I first got into this business, slinging guns across the glass at a shop in suburban Atlanta in the early 1990s, I asked my boss to subscribe to three or four of the most popular gun magazines of the time. This was to build up a reservoir of information I could use the same way I’d used my nerd powers of memorizing tons of trivia in previous jobs selling and repossessing cars and motorcycles. At the…
This month AmmoSquared celebrated its 10 year anniversary. Last month I wrote a lengthy post “The Grit Behind AmmoSquared: What it took to get here.” about the journey over the past 10 years. This month, I wanted to share a “behind the scenes” glimpse of what the AmmoSquared team did to celebrate this momentous occasion. It’s not every day a company turns 10 years old! Just reflecting on that, I’ve seen business statistics that only about 10% or fewer new companies actually make it to their tenth anniversary and only about half a percent make it to $10 million in revenue.…
When I was a kid, deep water fascinated me. I was convinced that those dark, seemingly fathomless depths that stretched into blackness below my boat held fish of unimaginable size. I believed that all I had to do to catch them was to somehow get my lures and baits down into the 50, 80, 100-plus-foot depths and wait for a leviathan. Yet, no matter how hard I tried or how much weight I put on my line, every time I fished that dark abyss, I’d come up empty.Fishing in deep water is an incredible challenge. Unlike when you’re fishing the…
00:00:00 Speaker 1: Have a plan and be consistent. 00:00:01 Speaker 2: We can adjust the playbook, but when the playbook is different every single time, we have no idea of knowing what worked, what didn’t caused you to have the great day, terrible day, and so forth. So pit kind of a routine even prior to going out. Whether this is your training and nutrition, your recovery, all of it, be consistent and give it awack in the field and then come back and let’s make adjustments next time. 00:00:24 Speaker 1: But don’t program hot. 00:00:25 Speaker 2:…