#Indiana

Indiana Gov. Mike Braun ceremonially signed Senate Enrolled Act 176 into law on April 29, 2026, giving shooting ranges across the state new protections against local government overreach. The bill, authored by Sen. Jim Tomes (R-Wadesville), had already been enacted as Public Law 117 during the regular legislative session earlier this year.

In a 65-31 vote in the Indiana House, Bill 1369 passed meaning Indiana’s citizens will be able to carry concealed without the need for a license if the bill passes through the Senate. This is just on the heels of Montana becoming the most recent state to pass constitutional carry laws within its borders. However, the passing of this bill has led to some controversy with some saying that it won’t make residents any safer.

On 27 June during a visit to a branch of the Swedish furniture store IKEA, a child found a handgun tucked down the cushion of a couch and pulled the trigger. A 6 year old child fired the gun at the IKEA store in Fishers, Indiana.

Today is November Twenty-Second, and just so happens to be the birthday of Eugene Morrison Stoner, born in the year 1922. The designer has since passed away in 1997, but had he been alive today he would be 95 years old. Inventor of the AR10, co-inventor with Jim Sullivan of the AR15, the Stoner 63 weapons system, the SR-25 precision rifle, and numerous other small arms designs. Stoner was an interesting figure, and in a number of ways shared many traits with his design competitor Mikhail Kalashnikov on the other side of the world. Both drew enormous inspiration from their service in the Second World War, both designed prolific weapons systems, competing against intellectual engineering giants of their fields with very little experience of their own to begin with. Neither ever received a college degree during their lifetimes, a testament to their passion and hard work ethic.

Marcolmar makes semi-automatic, legal copies of the Czech Uk.59, and similar copies of the Soviet PKM General Purpose Machine Gun. So why not clone the two together and bring the resulting creation into the 21st Century, with polymer furniture, an updated design, and Picatinny rails? Meet the UKM, Marcolmar’s attempt to bring civilians a legal belt fed design that incorporates elements of both the PKM and the Uk.59 without losing any of the capabilities of either, and modernizing the design. For those who are still interested in the traditional belt-fed look, the older designers are out there on the market, but this UKM is for a newer crowd of gun owners that want a little bit extra.

Caleb discusses the bizarre and seemingly arbitrary rules which regulate what firearms can and cannot be used to hunt deer in Indiana: