Having "devoted nearly his entire adult life" to discussing the arms industry, he also is a U.S. Army veteran that has served as a faculty member of the history departments at the Yale and Cornell Universities.
[4] Metcalf was born and raised in Illinois on a family farm, property dating back generations.
[6] In November 2013, Metcalf was fired from Guns & Ammo after a column[7][better source needed] he wrote on what he thought were appropriate limits to Second Amendment rights became controversial and sponsors of the magazine threatened to withdraw funding.
[8] A TV colleague remarked to The Washington Times that Metcalf had "provided a great service to the firearms community as a reviewer of guns" but that the controversy "could be awfully hard to recover from.
In terms of specific policies, he supports the requirement of adults getting a concealed carry license to take gun safety and handling classes.