Articles by semperverus

Range Ready Handgun Video Series

With the focus on being properly prepared, the company Real Avid has produced the 8-episode video Range Ready™ Handgun Series to help shooters prepare responsibly, understand their equipment, build confidence, and get more from every safe range session.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, What to Take to the Shooting Range—Including a Prayer

Presented by world-renowned champion competitive shooter and trainer Doug Koenig, the series emphasizes practical firearm applications and establishes the concept that confidence with a handgun does not begin at the firing line…it begins before the first round is fired. In short, Range Ready™ means showing up prepared with a goal, practicing with purpose, and building confidence through responsible, repeatable habits.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, ‘Where To Shoot’ App Helps Find Ranges Nationwide

Here’s Episode 1: Shoot With a Goal, Not Just for Fun

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National Sheriffs’ Association and Western States Sheriffs’ Association Support the 2nd Amendment

Two law enforcement organizations have submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) a joint amicus curiae (“friend of the court”) brief in support of the petitioners in the consolidated cases of Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins addressing the constitutionality of state and local bans on AR-15 platform rifles and similar semi-automatic firearms.

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The National Sheriffs’ Association and the Western States Sheriffs’ Association write in the brief, “Any ban of an entire class of arms that is currently overwhelmingly chosen by Americans for self-defense violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms.”

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Senior US District Judge Rules California’s Ban on AR-15s to Be Unconstitutional ]

The core legal question before SCOTUS is whether the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right of law-abiding citizens to possess these specific semi-automatic rifles under the “common use” doctrine established in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.

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Inspiring Quotes by C.S. Lewis for Living a Meaningful Life

Scholar and author C.S. Lewis, who lived 1898–1963, was a fellow of Magdalen College at both Oxford and Cambridge. Ardent atheist who became a passionate and intellectual Christian, he wrote more than 30 books, including the immensely popular Chronicles of Narnia series.

C.S. Lewis “very effectively champions objective truth, goodness, natural law, literary excellence, reason, science, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and Christian apologetics,” according to The Independent Institute. “His work captures a grandeur, precision, wit, imagination and insight seldom matched by others, and in the process, he articulately critiques the materialism, reductionism, scientism, collectivism, nihilism, statism, and de-humanization of the modern era.”

“If Christians are to be about bringing God’s kingdom values to our world, then Lewis helps us consider just how to do that,” writes Dr. Robin Baker, president of George Fox University, in his article, Why C.S. Lewis Plays a Prominent Role in My Intellectual Life.

What follows is a collection of quotes by C.S. Lewis, each taken from his book listed next to it, that are especially insightful in helping us live a SemperVerus life:

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International Christian Concern’s 2026 Global Persecution Index

More than 388 million Christians around the world are persecuted because of their faith in Jesus, according to International Christian Concern (ICC)’s 2026 Global Persecution Index (GPI).

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From China’s pressure on diaspora communities to Turkey’s targeting of exiled critics and religious minorities, persecution is a global threat that reaches far beyond national borders. The 2026 GPI emphasizes the rise of transnational repression, as regimes increasingly surveil, intimidate, kidnap, or pressure religious minorities and dissidents living abroad.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Hostility Spreading Against Religious People: Pew Research ]

The 124-page free report provides in-depth analysis of the persecution Christians suffer in more than 20 countries grouped by the regions of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, including personal testimonies from believers (titled Faces of the Persecuted), and profiles of four notorious heads of state who incite persecution in their countries: Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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