Tracks of Time

by Unknown in Home on the Range on 2025-11-20T21:18:00Z

In the morning’s snow were small tracks; some the bold steps of the predator, some the almost openly meek meanderings of a creature not yet aware it was prey. There were the sure steps of deer, another set of small, fairy-like paw prints that simply ended, perhaps with a shadow and a mouth set in the “O” of pain that bespoke owl.

If you looked closely enough, you could see the narrative variants of the cessation of life, a tuft of rabbit fur, blood-speckled snow. Further on, a scattering of feathers, designed for speed, intermingled with the downy innocence of plumage, which had been designed for failed hiding, lying in a tiny snow crater. It seemed like only yesterday when summer was blazing. Now, as I walk back to the house I share with my husband, darkness is already approaching even before dinner. 

We’d set our clocks back, and we’d stopped saving our daylight. My days biw lay under a blanket of night that began to thicken and bunch up around six, when just for a moment light hovered in an orb over the lake. Then, with a blink, it vanished up into the heavens, leaving just black exhaust in its wake. Summer was just here, and now it was gone, time passing much too quickly.
Against the wall, a clock of Mom and Dad ticks, the evening light illuminating only its face, so it appears to hang suspended in space. A ticking clock, holding in its hidden depths the regimented chaos of this world I’ve inherited, its ordered cadence the sound that moves me onward at a dizzying speed into a future still unperceived. Two hundred years ago, the days had their own measured order, as full and steady as the moon that rose each night in the sky. No one could have imagined today’s electronic dislocation, when, with the advent of the industrial age, time was taken from us and enslaved to a clock. Time changed from that of a fellow worker to an overseer, a sharp rap with a stick, a shrill whistle of warning. 

Off in the distance, I see a train stopped, yet with that sense of imminent departure that trains seem to possess. I like living by the train line that runs in and out of Union Station in downtown Chicago.  I like hearing it and watching the people bustle on and off as I simply enjoy my morning walk.  People traveled less on trains as years passed; we went in cars, faster and faster as roads got longer and days got shorter; driving to the market for our dinner instead of walking the land in search of game. The game itself had moved further inward, as had we.
In the dimming light, I looked through some photos. There was one of me in the cockpit of a jet, where I spent several years pushing my limits. There was a photo of a piece of lace that helped make a wedding dress, which I burned with the rest of the memories of that youthful mistake. I got married so young and too soon because I had a broken heart and thought a husband and another child would mend it. It only showed me how fixed the scars upon my heart were and how unforgiving he was who saw them. But bringing a smile, there were pictures, so many pictures of my brother and me.
Log trains ran behind my childhood home, and at night their path would cut shadows across our neighborhood. Shadows that would slide over the wall above my bed, over the model boats, planes, and trains my brother and I played with. By day, we'd grab our bikes and go ride the dusty gash of a roadway near the railroad tracks, where we could see and hear the trains go by, the engine passing in hissing thunder, sparks flying up like fireflies let loose from the rails, dust coiling behind it like a tornado in a trail.

We had no timetable, yet we always seemed to know when the train would come by. One moment the tracks would be empty, the next filled with the rhythmic rumble of sound, of life that materialized seemingly out of nothing; with an air of the deliberately accidental that lingered like smoke long after it disappeared from sight. I stopped my bike and simply stood watching, compelled to pause till in that infinite clutch of the temporary confederation of two elements, water and air; the frailest of integers and units of measure combining into a force that cannot be bound, not even in death.
The yard at the timber mill had more than one track running into it, and as two trains would travel in, we'd hold our breath in fear of a collision, only to have one veer off and stop, while a quarter mile of cars passed. I think of the missing man formation, in which a squadron of fighter planes performs a low pass, one separating and flying off to the heavens. A howling ballet, its performers, mighty machines. Both sights bring a lump to my throat.

Stopping on our bikes, out of breath, we see the engineer up in the engine, he's indistinct, and we wonder who he is and what's in his heart as he holds the power in, his steady foot balancing on an engine that knocks and rumbles. We're not supposed to be this far away from home, this close to the tracks, and we're going to be late for supper. But we knew enough, having learned the lesson before, that for something you love, for the ineffable feeling of rightness, of being exactly where you want to be, in tune with nature, the gods, and the sound of a train, there will be a price to pay, and it will be worth it.
Until the day he died, my brother was my best friend, even after a lifetime of years. As adults, just as we did as children, we’d sit out at Dad’s as we traced the stars with the beam of our flashlights. Not as a point in space, but a moment in time, the pinnacle of childhood, where morning, night, and summer are one; the sleight of hand of fate and blood that would later shape us both so far distant as not to be conceived yet. Over the years, he pretended not to see the occasional tears; I pretended I had accidentally dropped an ice cube from my drink down his neck. 

Years later, another picture, a camping trip with my brother.  We were out all day, heading in not by any clock but by the rhythmic cadence of breath and the measure of bone and muscle. The family dog was reluctant to come in from the water, “Just once more!” he seemed to speak to us. But our stomachs signaled dinner, and we called him in with a whistle. He came up the bank panting and trembling with the excitement of the day, to a soft voice and gentle hand, seeking his pack.

Back in camp, we settled to clean our fish and prepare our supper, and hot coals lit our work. My brother said grace over a small glass of whiskey and water, giving thanks for slightly burnt roast meat, a can of beans, and some bread that once actually resembled bread before it had seen my backpack, tasting of the outdoors. It was the best meal we could all remember eating in a long time, tasting our labor and tinged with the smoke of our wildness.
The dog settled into sleep by the dying fire, as in the darkness we prepared our bedding beneath an ancient sky. As the world slowly wound down, stars began to spin their stories in space, and we talked.

We talked of the world and its beauty, love, and sin, where the words are our history, not other people’s words, which are not their past but only the empty gaps of their days. We remembered Dad’s stories of hunting as a boy in Montana when, as children, we lay quietly, listening to bedtime stories that knew no age limit, looking up at the quiet belly of the canvas, hearing not a clock but only the measured breath of contentment as sleep brushed up the remaining crumbs of the day. 

When was the last time you spent a day like that with no clock, no schedule, just time with those who mean the most to you? Now, too often, we rush, scurry, and do not take the time to stop and think of the times we gave up—the times spent rushing after something we didn’t really want or something demanded of us. Wasted minutes, wasted days. Suddenly, years have passed, and the second hand poises in mid-second as you pick up the phone to make a call in the late hour. But there is no one there to pick up that call.
As adults, my brother and I had many more rides together, this time on a motorcycle, cruising the high roads, racing down steep grades just as we did as children on our bicycles, plummeting down fast and breathless as if banshees themselves were at our heels. I remember particularly one summer after our very last long ride together. 

As the bikes idled in the driveway on that last night together, in the light of his front headlamp, my brother was suddenly surrounded by tiny bits of brilliance, a swarm of fireflies that we disturbed as we parked next to the grass. He put his face down to get a closer look, and for a moment, it was all I could see: his laughing in the glow of the headlamp, tiny bits of light rising up like little angels. Then, just as quickly, they moved away, leaving us there in the dark. In the darkness, I felt an inexplicable cold, and time, for an instant, seemed to stop. 

He was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer a few days later, and, on Good Friday 2014, he was gone.
In an instant, I can recall our last phone call, when all I could hear was the sound of breath and heartbeat, the phone held away from my ear. Outside, the rush of the wind, and somewhere far away, the mournful sound of a train as I gazed at a photo of a young family on the wall, the red hair standing out like a flame, waiting for him to answer.

We talked as we always did, as if nothing had changed from our shared childhood, but as I listened to him, I heard something else, the proverbial clock in my pocket. It was still ticking, more slowly, with a sound  I had never noticed before. Then, with the moonlight reflecting off a tear forming, when I was certain the world was still hushed, I heard a bark from the backyard: Barkley, the Labrador retriever, wanting to come in and share your time, all he ever asked for. So I set the phone down for a minute and opened the door to call the dog in, as that happy bark filled the world with articulate tone, a measured beat of time. The time that, at that one single moment, we both still had. - Brigid

The Most Discouraging Article Today

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T20:11:40Z

11/19/25 City Journal:
"“The Largest Funder of Al-Shabaab Is the Minnesota Taxpayer”

How some of the state's welfare funds ended up in the hands of a terror group"

Worth reading in full and getting angry.

Caliphate, USA

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T19:25:22Z

Muslim Dearborn mayor weighs in on residents’ complaints about mosque’s call to prayer – Mayor Abdullah Hammoud said its noise levels were ‘not an issue’ despite residents’ complaints at city council meetings [More] Just their way of letting you know who’s in charge… Who but a fool or an apparatchik would say he’s joking? Now, … Continue reading "Caliphate, USA"

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Forget It, Jake…

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T18:33:24Z

In the initial reporting, we believed Reed had 22 prior arrests. That’s inexcusable enough, but it turns out Reed had 49 prior arrests, including for arson, as well as ten felony convictions. And it seems Reed’s victim didn’t get into an argument with him at all. Reed just approached her, doused her with a flammable … Continue reading "Forget It, Jake…"

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Unauthorized Murderer

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T18:26:25Z

Ex-boyfriend killed woman after being dumped [More] Who does he think he is, a jilted “Only One”? [Via bondmen]

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Today’s Low-Hanging Fruit Report

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T17:55:43Z

Joshua Morency, 28, of Dorchester, allegedly sold 21 firearms to a law enforcement informant at a Stop & Shop parking lot and a Shell station, among other sites. [More] I wonder what they had on the snitch, because I can’t believe anyone would be stupid enough to sell to someone he didn’t trust. It’s a … Continue reading "Today’s Low-Hanging Fruit Report"

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You Get What You Pay For

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T17:47:05Z

In a withering critique of Brown’s handling of the case, Smith decried his fellow jurist as an “unskilled magician” caught in an “illogical straitjacket,” who was handing a victory to Democratic billionaire George Soros and California Gov. Gavin Newsom. [More] Why did Trump nominate him? Why did Abbott stump for the guy? Why did Republicans … Continue reading "You Get What You Pay For"

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Free Books- Part 329

by Greg Ellifritz in Active Response Training on 2025-11-20T17:09:28Z

Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website.  You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day.  These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer.  Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a free […]

Is the Goal Better Teachers or Better Paid Teachers?

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T16:53:00Z

 From a study of incentives on teaching skills in North Carolina at the National Bureau of Economic Research:

Graduate degrees 

One of the most counterintuitive findings to emerge from the basic models is the small or negative effects of having a graduate degree. Most of those degrees are master’s degrees that generate higher salaries for teachers. A negative coefficient would suggest that having such a degree is not associated with higher achievement.  Thus, if the goal of the salary structure were to provide incentives for teachers to improve their teaching, the higher pay for master’s degrees would appear to
be money that is not well spent, except to the extent that the option of getting a master’s degree keeps effective experienced teachers in the profession.

This News Story Has Every Hot Button

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T16:33:00Z

 Associated Press article lacks date:

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court on Thursday convicted a former mayor, who officials say is a Chinese national, of human trafficking charges for helping establish an illegal online gaming complex in a northern province where hundreds of Chinese and other foreign nationals were forced to conduct scams.

The Pasig city regional trial court in metropolitan Manila sentenced Alice Guo to life in prison with seven other Filipino and Chinese co-accused, and ordered them to pay a fine of 2 million pesos ($34,000) each and compensate several trafficking victims, who filed the complaints.

Guo denied all allegations against her and says she is a Filipino citizen.

Vast online scam centers have flourished in Southeast Asia in recent years, especially in the border areas of Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar. The U.N. has estimated that hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped in virtual slavery by gangs who force them to financially exploit people around the world through false romances, bogus investment pitches and illegal gambling schemes....

Philippine authorities allege that Guo is a Chinese national named Guo Huaping, who faked Filipino citizenship to run for mayor of the town of Bamban in northern Tarlac province, where she ran a sprawling illegal scam compound near the town hall....

Last year, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered a ban on hundreds of mostly Chinese-run online gaming operations, which proliferated under the administration of previous President Rodrigo Duterte. Marcos accused the gaming operations of crimes including financial scams, human trafficking, torture, kidnapping and murder.

Many have been raided and shut down since then, with tens of thousands of trafficked workers rescued and sent back to their home countries. But more scam centers remain in operation, officials said....

Philippine security officials and Hontiveros have said the scam centers operated by Guo and other Chinese nationals may have also been used for espionage by China, which has had increasingly fierce territorial conflicts with the Philippines in the South China Sea and has strongly opposed the presence of American forces in the country. The Philippines is the oldest U.S. treaty ally in Asia.

Illegal aliens, human trafficking, Chinese spies.  What, no extraterrestials, mutilated cattle, AI?


 

BFF at ATF

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T16:31:44Z

Gun rights groups hail Trump’s pick to lead ATF: ‘First ever truly pro-Second Amendment nominee’ [More] A true champion of the Second Amendment, eh? I wonder what Fletcher thinks. He’ll be a DOJ team player. This is how the team plays:

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Okay, Let's Take This News Story to 1950s America

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T16:23:00Z

 Try to imagine their attempt to understand it, socially and technologically.  11/19/25 Fox News:

The estranged wife of a NASA astronaut pleaded guilty to lying to law enforcement over what was alleged to be the first crime to be committed in space. 

Summer Worden now faces up to five years in federal prison and a possible $250,000 maximum fine in relation to the false reports she made about Anne McClain, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas. 

"In July 2019, Summer Heather Worden alleged her estranged spouse had guessed the password and illegally accessed her bank account while the spouse was deployed to the International Space Station," the office said.

Estranged wife of someone named Anne?  How do you go to the teller of a bank from a space station?  What is a space station, much less an international space station?



Even If They Are Not Implicated in His Crimes, A Lot of Important Americans Are Going to Look Bad

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T16:18:00Z

 11/20/25 CNN:

They are titans of industry and best-selling authors, world-renowned scientists and banking moguls, top-tier journalists and political power players.

In message after message, they often turned to the same man for advice, for connections, and to banter and trade gossip about President Donald Trump.

That man, Jeffrey Epstein, was already a registered sex offender after a 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution with a minor – but that did not seem to deter his pen pals, some of whom even looked to him for guidance on avoiding their own sexual scandals.

There are scads of references to Trump but as the article admits, they are overwhelming hostile statements by Epstein, with no evidence of Trump's involvement or knowledge of Epstein's crimes.

There is Something Called Double Hearsay in Law

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T16:09:00Z

When A reports what B told him that C told B.  As flaky as that sounds, Federal Rule of Evidecce sec. 805:

Hearsay within hearsay is not excluded by the rule against hearsay if each part of the combined statements conforms with an exception to the rule.

This must be why reporters are relying on what I would have to call the "double hearsay of scum" rule.  11/18/25 Newsnation:

(NewsNation) — Mark Epstein, the brother of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, tells NewsNation that his brother revealed he had “dirt” on President Donald Trump.

Epstein joined “CUOMO” days after Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released thousands of never-before-seen emails.

Earlier Monday, Trump called for the release of the files, in a reversal of course for the president. Mark Epstein told NewsNation that he believes the FBI is participating in a cover-up of the files relating to his brother, Jeffrey.

Mark Epstein alleges an FBI cover-up

“I’ve been recently told the reason they’re going to be releasing these things, and the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files,” Epstein alleged.

“There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia, where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out of it. That’s what I was told by a pretty good source,” he added.

Epstein doubled down on his claims, alleging FBI Director Kash Patel is participating in a cover-up of the way his brother died behind bars.

“He was the one who said in his testimony ‘you know a suicide when you see one.’ I had a laugh. How many suicides has that j****** seen?”

I am also trying to figure what slur starts with J applies to Patel.

Yes, a guy who pimps out teenagers is such a reliable source of moral judgment.  And secondhand?

 

 

Derya Arms DY9Z - A $299 Micro-Compact With 15+1 Capacity

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-20T16:00:00Z

Derya Arms has announced the release of its new DY9Z striker-fired 9mm pistol, a micro-compact design aimed at concealed carry and general-purpose use. First shown to the public at the GOALS show in August, the pistol is now entering the market. The DY9Z is positioned as an affordable option for shooters seeking modern features at an MSRP of $299, and it arrives with ten available frame colors to cover a range of user preferences.

My Kind of Razzmatazz

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T15:50:54Z

Video shows Chicago mother, young son brutally attacked while walking home [More] Blurred video… Forget it, Jake, it’s Chi-Town.

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The Hands That Feed

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T15:24:26Z

As food bank demand hits November high, hunters continue years of support in Northeast Ohio [More] Do you think the recipients will be appropriately grateful or do you think they’ll keep voting Democrat? What about their suppliers?

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One Chip One Vote

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T15:14:15Z

Anybody else smell hubris along with a massive dose of denial?

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Road Trip VI - Captain Arthur J. Brockway

by ASM826 in Borepatch on 2025-11-20T15:13:00Z

Sometimes you see things and know that the only possible reason these items are for sale is that the original owner has passed. 

IN MEMORY OF MY SERVICE

 CAPTAIN IN THE PHILIPPINES

CAPTAIN ARTHUR J. BROCKWAY

 ANTI TANK COMPANY

 383RD INFANTRY

 96TH DIVISION

It's a set of carabao horns, the water buffalo that is the working draft animal in the Philippines. The carving was done in the Philippines, I saw similar, but much newer, work during my time there. The crossed flags are the 48 star American flag and the Philippine flag. The artwork on the horns are local scenes.

The 96th Division, The Deadeyes, made a beach landing in the Philippines and served in combat during the Philippine Campaign and then again on Okinawa. Five members of the Division received the Medal of Honor. There's a foundation with an online museum. 

We had come into town to go to a museum, but it was closed that day. The local junk shop became our alternative. In Salamanca, N.Y., it was a furniture store turned into dozens of alcoves, each stocked by a hopeful seller. Antiques, books, clothes, tools, and so on. On one of the shelves was Capt. Brockway's mementos. The horns, all his patches, and his rank insignia. Echoes of a lifetime.

 

 

Staying in Character

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T14:55:01Z

Dem congresswoman indicted for ‘particularly selfish’ alleged theft of FEMA relief funds for campaign use [More] If you’re not afraid to steal people’s guns, why would you be afraid to steal their money? It goes with a communist entitlement mentality: We shouldn’t have to explain to our children why Congress took dinner off the table. … Continue reading "Staying in Character"

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Under Certain Conditions

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T14:46:56Z

Holiday crime fears grow as ‘jugging’ thieves target shoppers carrying cash and gifts: ‘Only a matter of time’ – Criminals follow victims from ATMs and banks to steal cash and purchases during busy shopping season [More] Like the song says: “I Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

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A Valid Point

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-20T14:36:06Z

A Rainy-Day Pairing: Davidoff Signature 1000 and Coffee

by David in Musings Over a Barrel on 2025-11-20T14:24:00Z

It’s not all cigars and bourbon around here — sometimes it’s cigars and coffee. Such was the case on a recent rainy afternoon. I felt like a quick smoke and reached for a Davidoff Signature 1000. With a mug of mocha-flavored coffee in hand, I retreated to the screened porch.



I’d pre-warmed the space with a small electric radiator, and with a sweatshirt on, the outdoor setup was surprisingly comfortable despite the weather.

The Davidoff Signature 1000 is a small 4 5/8″ × 34 ring gauge cigar. I received a box of these petit panetela smokes from a good friend this past spring as a surgery-recovery celebratory gift. I've smoked a couple of them and find the cigar to be surprisingly enjoyable. There are not a lot of mild cigars that I would enjoy regularly, but this one is an exceptional accompaniment to a cup of afternoon coffee.

The Ecuador Connecticut wrapper and Dominican binder and fillers deliver a creamy, coffee-leaning profile with a touch of sweetness and a hint of pepper. And at about a 20-minute burn time, it’s just right for a quick afternoon break.

Cheers!


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TFB Behind the Gun #193: Print the Future | Hammy3DPrints

by Luke C. in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-20T14:00:00Z

We’ve had “Hammy” on the podcast before, and he’s also been featured once already on the TFBTV Show Time . As the summer season tapers off and people start bundling up in their houses, their hobbies tend to follow them there as well. Today, as is typical when bringing on a 3D printing legend like Hammy , we’ll be talking about what the latest and greatest in the 3D printing world is, where that small part of the industry is growing, and areas where it might need some improvement if it is to survive in this highly competitive industry. Please give “Hammy” of Hammy3DPrints  a warm welcome to the show, and go give his neat American-designed and made products a look!

Child-Brained Imbecile

by Joe in The View From North Central Idaho on 2025-11-20T14:00:00Z

Quote of the Day Critics have lambasted Wilson as a child-brained imbecile, citing basic private property rights and her lack of authority to issue an exit tax without considerable state and local support. Again, socialist candidate make promises they cannot … Continue reading →

More Trump Misuse of Power

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T13:57:06Z

11/19/25 CBS News:
Federal charges were filed on Wednesday against a man accused of setting a woman on fire on a CTA Blue Line train in downtown Chicago this week.

Lawrence Reed, 50, was charged in a criminal complaint with committing a terrorist attack or other violence on a mass transportation system — a federal offense rather than a state offense.

Later in the article is discussion of video showing him buying gasoline, his long criminal history, and his bizarre behavior before the judge.

Mental illness is at the core of much of what is wrong in most big cities.  This guy's release without bail is another consequence of seeing racial equity as an important part of the criminal justice system.


Still Winning

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T13:38:37Z

11/17/25 Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia:
"The outlook for growth in the U.S. economy looks marginally better now than it did three months ago, according to 33 forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. On an annual-average over annual-average basis, the forecasters expect real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.9 percent in 2025 and 1.8 percent in 2026. These annual projections are 0.2 percentage point higher than the estimates in the survey of three months ago. The growth projections for 2027 and 2028 of 2.1 percent and 1.8 percent, respectively, remain unchanged compared with those in the survey of three months ago.

"The projections for the unemployment rate are nearly unchanged from those of the previous survey. Like the previous survey, the unemployment rate is projected to be an annual average of 4.2 percent in 2025 and 4.5 percent in 2026 before falling to 4.4 percent in 2027, and 4.3 percent in 2028."

FL: Palm Coast - Domestic Defense? Both Individuals Claim Self Defense

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-20T13:13:00Z

Beach Village Apartments is a complex at the eastern edge of Palm Coast on State Road 100, near the municipal line with Flagler Beach. “There was a domestic dispute between a boyfriend and a girlfriend, and a third individual tried to intervene,” the sheriff said. The boyfriend is the 22-year-old. “A struggle ensued over a gun, and the gun was discharged.” A sheriff’s release specified that according to the woman’s statements, she was struck and fell during the confrontation, causing her to hit her head. She then began screaming for help.

The woman “reported that a juvenile family member entered the room with a firearm and told Smith to stop,” the release states. “Smith allegedly became aggressive toward the juvenile, who then fired a shot that struck Smith. According to the statements, a struggle over the firearm followed in the hallway. During that struggle, an additional shot was fired, striking the juvenile in the leg. Smith then fled from the apartment and was found at the nearby convenience store.”

  

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MS: Laurel - Drug Deal Leads to Gunfight, 1 Wounded

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-20T13:09:00Z

Davis added a group got into one car to make the transaction but it turned out to be a robbery attempt.

“It went afoul and shots were fired,” Davis said. “Once they all got in there and sat down it turned into a ripoff. The robber pulled his gun out and Keller pulled his gun out. Shots were fired and Keller was the only one hit. The other suspect did fire and hit Keller, but Keller did not hit anybody.”

Keller was hit in the arm and drove himself to South Central Regional Medical Center, where he was treated and then arrested. 

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TX: Grand Prarie - Elderly Homeowner Uses Hunting Rifle to Shoot Burglarry Suspect

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-20T13:07:00Z

Police said the owner of the home called the police and told them that an unknown person had forcefully entered the rear door of his home.

The homeowner, described by the police as an elderly male, was armed with a hunting rifle. He confronted the burglary suspect “who was rummaging through property inside of the house,” the release said.  

Police said the homeowner, who was not identified, shot the suspect in fear for his life. The suspect was pronounced dead at the scene.


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Revisited: Hunt S.A.F.E. – 3 Common Hunting Safety Mishaps

by The WON in Hunting, shooting, fishing and adventure for women by women on 2025-11-20T13:00:00Z

Ali Juten runs through a basic safety briefing in regard to hunting with firearms.

Meme Dump!

by Tam in View From The Porch on 2025-11-20T12:07:00Z




Thursday Meme Drop

by Midwest Chick in Midwest Chick's Place on 2025-11-20T11:33:00Z

Everytown’s latest assault on gun rights raises questions about the authors’ sanity

by Lee Williams in The Gun Writer on 2025-11-20T11:01:23Z

Everytown debunks itself in its latest anti-gun campaign.

Everytown’s Latest Assault on Gun Rights Raises Questions about Author’s Sanity

by Dave Workman in 2nd Amendment Archives - Liberty Park Press on 2025-11-20T10:30:15Z

By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press I was on a radio show this week when I first saw Everytown’s latest anti-gun campaign: “Debunking Gun Myths at the Dinner Table.” The show’s host, Mark Walters, of Armed American Radio, is a longtime friend who enjoys discussing new anti-gun propaganda with […]

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Preparedness Notes for Thursday — November 20, 2025

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-20T07:04:36Z

November 20, 1789: New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. — National Sovereignty Day (Spanish: Día de la Soberanía Nacional) is a national public holiday in Argentina, celebrated each year on November 20th. — November 20, 1914: The U.S. State Department began requiring photographs for passports. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any of their one, two, or three-day course (a $1,095 value), …

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Update: Oil and Lubricant Storage in Retreat Planning

by SurvivalBlog Contributor in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-20T07:03:48Z

JWR’s Introductory Note: The following is an update and expansion to a post that I made in SurvivalBlog back in November, 2005. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary re-posts, in recognition of the fact that the majority of readers did not join us until recent years. — Many letters and e-mails I’ve received over the years have mentioned motor oil and chainsaw fuel mixing oil.  That reminded me about a subject that I’ve meant to address on the blog: the key considerations of oil and lubricant storage.  It is important to think through all of your …

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The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-20T07:02:19Z

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, news of some Ominous rumblings from Washington’s Mount Rainier. Some Frequent Mount Rainier Rumblings America’s deadliest volcano enters unprecedented 72-hour tremor phase as eruption threat looms over millions. …

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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-20T07:01:03Z

“Economic freedom, limited government and unlimited respect for private property are essential elements for economic growth.” – Javier Milei

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Limited government: myth or future fact?

by TPOL Nathan in The Price of Liberty on 2025-11-20T06:59:39Z

Editor’s note: we continue to be on a limited schedule due to travel and work. Please bear with us! As anarchists, we here at The Price of Liberty are opposed to any and all mandatory human government. From a “one-world” … Continue reading →

Tap Follower

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T04:27:41Z

Whoever suggested using a tap follower to get reliably tapped holes: thank you.  I bought a Browne & Sharp spring-loaded tap follower.  (There were no markings as to manufacture nation on packaging, so I guess made in USA.)  Getting consistent and reliably tapped holes just got easy.

Del Toro's Frankenstein

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-20T04:22:45Z

I just watched this.  It is an amazing film at so many levels: technical; philosophical; theological; literary. If I manage to hit all of them before I run out of energy, I will be surprised. 

First of all, it deviates far from Mary Shelley's novel in many details.  A straightforward retelling of it would be worthwhile on its own although I think Kenneth Branagh's version a few years back did that well.  You have read it, right?  It is a Romantic reputation of Enlightenment confidence in scientific rationalism, arguing that there is more to living creatures than bags of chemical reactions.   I read it because while doing my MA in History, my wife was doing her MA in British Literature.  I read many of her assigned novels as she did.

The cinematography is gobsmacking.  Lots of interesting uses of color for various themes.  Awesome costumes and sets.  The Arctic which is the framing location in both book and film is marvelous. It is grisly in places.  As the Monster says at one point, "I was born of a charnel house."

It has been years since I read it but the Monster learnis to read in a Swiss cabin from Genesis and Paradise Lost and i do not think that was in the book.  This scene ends up with a profoundly Christian observation from the old blind guy in the house.  The entire set of ideas of Creation and the soul will cause some serious conversation and confusion in some audiences. 

I really enjoyed it.

TFB Review: Safariland Solis Holster, ALS Security For EDC

by Doug E in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-20T01:00:00Z

Safariland has long been known for their rugged and durable holsters and gear. In their pursuit of giving gun owners a plethora of options, they introduced the Safariland Solis holster. The Solis is designed as an OWB (Outside the Waistband) holster that sits tight against the wearer’s hip, which led Safariland to bill the Solis as a concealment holster. While one could conceal the Solis under winter clothing, I tend to consider it as bridging the gap between duty holsters and deep concealment holsters. Let’s go on a safari to see the Solis in action.

POTD: The Holt Works 7.5” 556 FRT

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-20T00:30:00Z

Photo Of The Day and one of the few builds with irons only is on display. The builder and photographer is Holt Works Photography , showing off his new 7.5” 556 FRT (Forced Reset Trigger). The rail and buffer tube is Cerakoted in slate grey, with some bright wire added in to lighten it up. The upper is FDE with some white added. The lower from Palmetto State Armory uses a Troy Coyote Tan, also with some bright white mixed in. In my opinion, some of the best Cerakotes I’ve seen ran mixed colors, but it’s difficult to do the same thing twice.

Wheelgun Wednesday: Colt Python “Aces and Eights”

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-20T00:00:00Z

On August 2, 1876, a single shot in a Deadwood saloon ended the life of James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok, a scout, gunfighter, lawman, and one of the most recognised figures of the American frontier. Hickok was holding a pair of black aces and black eights when Jack McCall fired from behind. That combination of cards later became known as the “dead man’s hand,” a phrase that would cement itself in American folklore and appear in books, films, and countless retellings of Old West history.

Merits Brief Informs SCOTUS on Hawaii’s ‘Vampire Rule’

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T22:01:30Z

Upholding Hawaii’s disarmament edict “fails every aspect of the analytical framework established by Bruen,” Beck and Petitioner Co-Counsel Mark W. Pennack argue. [More] It’s difficult to conceive how the same court that gave us Bruen could agree that the Founders would have been cool with ubiquitous infringements.

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Life Under Custodians

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T21:29:22Z

Registered sex offender facing charges after stolen firearm, Nazi materials allegedly found in his possession [More] I didn’t see anything abut a warrant. Can they normally search homes as part of the routine, or did he do something that let them? [Via Edmund M]

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The Emperor’s New Clothes

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T21:26:10Z

An excerpt from last Friday’s The Michael Dukes Show…

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In the Business Of

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T21:12:42Z

Former SIG Sauer employee charged with dealing discounted guns, wire fraud [More] This is, of course, the way things oughta be. That he used Facebook and anti-gun payment processors makes me want to see the guy acquitted even more. [Via Steve T]

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Doing the ‘Jobs’ Americans Won’t Do

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T21:03:03Z

Deported Couple Accused Of Running ‘Barbaric’ Sex Ring After Sneaking Back Into US [More] No Kings protesters are furious that the right of these people to be here is even an issue. [Via Michael G]

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And They Say There Are No Stupid Questions

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T20:51:35Z

Data rich, results poor: Is Cleveland wasting money on ShotSpotter? [More] How many times do we need to answer that? [Via JG]

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We’re the Only Ones Common Enough

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T20:45:22Z

SHOCK: Democrat Former New Jersey Mayor and Police Sergeant Arrested For Sexual Assault of a Minor He Met on Social Media [More] The “only ones” who would be shocked are those who haven’t been paying attention. [Via bondmen]

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We’re the Only Ones Unleaveable Enough

by admin in The War on Guns on 2025-11-19T20:17:02Z

A St. Louis officer faces felony charges after allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend last week at her apartment, according to charging documents. The St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has charged Dashaun Sneed, 24, with first-degree burglary and second-degree domestic assault. [More] I wonder what Dashaun thinks about national reciprocity… [Via bondmen]

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Never believe all women

by Midwest Chick in Midwest Chick's Place on 2025-11-19T19:30:00Z

Not sure if you all have heard about this one, but a DoorDash driver in upstate New York went into a guy’s house, filmed him naked and passed out on his couch, and then posted it to TikTok while claiming she had been sexually assaulted. Well she was fired pretty much immediately from DoorDash and […]

TFB Black Friday/Cyber Monday Deals 2025

by Luke C. in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T19:00:00Z

Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here at TFB! As you all settle into your Thanksgiving traditions, we’ll be here providing you with regular updates of the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals from our favorite manufacturers and gear retailers, like Palmetto State Armory, Primary Arms, Brownells, Botach, Natchez Shooting & Outdoors, 5.11 Tactical, Blue Alpha Belts, and many more! We’re thankful for them, you, and the rest of the faithful TFB readers and TFBTV viewers we’ve had with us through the years. Have a great day, everybody, and happy online shopping!

NEXTORCH WL15 Brings Speed & Simplicity to Weapon Lights

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T18:00:00Z

NEXTORCH North America has announced the WL15 Tactical Weapon Light, a rail-mounted illumination tool developed in Germany and built for law enforcement, military, and security applications. The light delivers a stated output of 1,200 lumens and 44,100 candela, producing a concentrated beam that the company claims reaches up to 459 yards (420 meters). Its purpose is to support quick identification of targets and surroundings in low-light or time-critical situations.

Free Soldier Softshell Jacket.

by Dave Markowitz in Blog O'Stuff on 2025-11-19T16:50:00Z

A couple months ago I realized I needed a new softshell jacket. However, I didn't want to spend REI-money as this will be mostly used around town, with light field usage. So, after doing some searching on and off Amazon I ordered a Free Soldier brand Soft Shell Hooded Military Tactical Jacket.




It has over 6,000 reviews on Amazon with an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars, so for $56 I thought it was worth a try. It's available in a variety of colors. I went with OD green which strikes a nice balance of being low key in either the city or the woods, without being as overtly military as a camo pattern. I prefer green over brown in the woods since it's not deer-colored.

Like most of the tactical soft shells on the market it's a copy of the TAD Gear Stealth Raider Hoodie, but at a much lower price.

My initial impressions were favorable. The sewing seems to be good quality, the zippers all move smoothly, there were no loose threads, and it fits me well with room for layering. I'm 5'5" but with a spare tire and broad shoulders for my height so I got a 2XL.


Jackets should have a hood if you're going to be out in inclement weather for an extended time. They keep you dryer and warmer. Ideally, the hood should fit comfortably over a hat without forcing it down onto your head. The hood on this jacket meets that requirement. The hood can be rolled up and secured with a flap although I normally just leave it unrolled. The front of the hood can be adjusted with shock cords that run down into the front pockets. It's big enough to comfortably fit over a ball cap and the brim is long enough to fully cover the cap's brim. Aside from helping to create a nice microclimate in front of your face, this is also great for those of us who wear glasses.


The FS jacket has six external pockets. There are two front pockets with long zippers. Inside each is a D-ring to dummy cord items to and a pen or penlight pocket. The right front pocket also has an internal vertical cell phone pocket that easily fits my iPhone 16 Pro.



Both arms have bicep pockets with Velcro panels on the outside. There's also a small pocket on the lower left arm.

Finally, there's a poacher's pocket on the back with zips on both sides. This would be good for stashing a beanie, gloves, or scarf but I wouldn't want something too bulky back there.



There are no inside pockets, which is a negative IMO. A Napoleon pocket would also be nice.

The cuffs are adjustable with Velcro and the hem is adjustable with shock cords to keep out the wind. There are pit zips for ventilation. The front zipper is two way and the pull is on the right side, i.e., American style.



Softshells should be wind and water resistant.

My initial test of the jacket's water resistance was to stand outside from about 10 - 15 minutes in a pouring rain while it was 70*F. While a short test it did not wet through. I felt some cold from the rain on my shoulders but after I came back inside and doffed the jacket it was completely dry inside. Based on this it should handle brief showers fine, and snow shouldn't be a problem, either.

Wind resistance is very good. I've taken it on a couple half hour walks in ~40*F weather with wind at 20 MPH, gusting to 35 MPH. It kept out the wind just fine.

I haven't owned it long enough to determine long term durability but the initial impressions are good, and the price was right.

Frying Turkeys

by Pawpaw in PawPaw's House on 2025-11-19T16:44:00Z

 I'm seeing a bunch of Turkey frying videos on my feed and the one thing they never cover is how much oil to put in the pot.

That depends on your pot and the size of the turkey.  Once you have chosen your oil, and your turkey, it's time to prep the turkey and make sure that the bird will not overflow the pot with the hot oil.

The turkey must be fully thawed.  Please, God, do not drop a frozen turkey into hot oil. It will explode and at a minimum, a trip to the Emergency Room will be necessary. Once the bird is thawed, season it however you will.  Inject it, or rub it, or whatever.  It's your bird.

The way I was taught to do it was to test it before you lit the burner.  Simply put the bird in the pot, add oil until it covers the bird, then take the bird out.  Then light your burner and heat the oil to the desired temp.  When putting the bird into the hot oil, go slowly. Painfully slowly. Wear gloves and take your time.

Let the turkey fry 3 minutes per pound.  A 12-pound bird takes 36 minutes.  After frying, let it rest for 30 minutes before carving.

Bon apetit.


To the Vegans Out There

by Weerd Beard in Weer'd World on 2025-11-19T16:04:45Z

So Twitter/X has thrust me into the Vegan Activist community….no idea why but here I am.    And today a brilliant Vegan Mind attempted to hurt my feelings with this:   Ouch.   I’ll note that Vegans, at least the activists, … Continue reading →

Rost Martin Introduces Comp-Equipped RM1S and Two New CA Models

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T16:00:00Z

Rost Martin has announced the release of the RM1S Comp, a subcompact 9mm pistol equipped with an integrated compensator. The company also announced two new California-compliant variants: the RM1S Comp California model and the RM1C Comp California model, both approved for the state’s DOJ Roster. The RM1S Comp is built around a compensated slide and a 3.6-inch hammer-forged match barrel featuring a single-port design intended to reduce muzzle rise.

Google is using AI to spy on you without asking for you to opt-in

by Borepatch in Borepatch on 2025-11-19T15:52:00Z

Lawrence has the details.  You can turn the damn stuff off. And oh by the way, they're getting sued over it.

AK-47 4-Minute Fixes: Improve Your AK In Less Time Than It Takes To Poach An Egg

by Dave Merrill in Recoil on 2025-11-19T15:34:11Z

Some quick and easy ways to improve your AK! Rifle might be fine, but it can always be a little better...

Making Lemonade from Socialists

by Joe in The View From North Central Idaho on 2025-11-19T14:00:00Z

Quote of the Day Mamdani, I think, is probably going to end the city. Being an entrepreneur, I think that in five years we’ll go and pick up all the pieces at a very low price point. Kevin MaloneyFounder and … Continue reading →

Volquartsen’s Compact FDE Mini Mamba-TF Rimfire Pistol

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T14:00:00Z

Volquartsen Firearms has partnered with Davidson’s to release an exclusive FDE Mini Mamba-TF, a lightweight .22 LR pistol built around the company’s compact Mamba platform. Designed as a purpose-ready suppressor host, the Mini Mamba-TF measures just over 8 inches overall and weighs approximately 1 pound 12 ounces. The result is a strange-looking pistol, but my urge to get one and suppress it isn’t small.

Aly & Kaufman AKB-23: Better Than the SA80 / L85

by Ian McCollum in Forgotten Weapons on 2025-11-19T13:27:21Z

Penguin Brutality t-shirt available from Varusteleka: https://varusteleka.com/en/products/forgotten-weapons-penguin-brutality-t-shirt The Aly & Kaufman AKB-23 is a set of parts that allows one to use a Brownells BRN-180 upper to create an SA80 / L85 lookalike. It’s a [...]

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Venison and Wild Mushroom Hand Pies with Stout Beer

by The WON in Hunting, shooting, fishing and adventure for women by women on 2025-11-19T13:00:00Z

This featured recipe from Peak to Plate for venison hand pies is sure to warm bellies after a cold fall or winter day spent afield.

Shooting Through Doors and Walls

by Greg Ellifritz in Active Response Training on 2025-11-19T12:00:25Z

Two weeks ago, an Indiana man heard some noises at his doorstep at night.  He fired through the door and killed a cleaning lady who thought she was at an unoccupied house to do work.  That case is all over my news feed since the shooter was criminally charged with the killing on Monday.   […]

Expansive.

by Tam in View From The Porch on 2025-11-19T11:46:00Z

Just finished the second book in The Expanse series, Caliban's War. (I started reading it a couple weeks ago, but had to put it aside to do some research for work and didn't want to pick it back up again until I could polish it off in one whack.)

Still cracking good.

The most impressive thing to me so far is how well the character of Amos works in print as well as on the screen. In fact, print Amos is even more complex and interesting than screen Amos, and that's saying something.

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At Harvard, Epstein pal still in the classroom

by Midwest Chick in Midwest Chick's Place on 2025-11-19T11:32:00Z

Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University (and still a full professor and in the classroom) was a good pal of Epstein (who didn’t kill himself). Apparently such a good friend that good ol’ Larry was asking for advice from good ol’ pal Jeff, about how to make some time with a mentee of his. […]

Hump Day Meme Dump!

by Tam in View From The Porch on 2025-11-19T11:31:00Z




GrabAGun Defies Industry Slump With Sales Surge

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-19T10:58:00Z


GrabAGun, the first publicly traded firearms retailer, has had better sales than the overall industry for 2025.  Marc Nemati, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) stated sales increased by 16% compared to an industry decline, as shown by the NSSF adjusted firearm sales, of 5.3%, for 2025 through the end of September.  Sales are good in spite of the stock price dropping 70% after going public.

In 2025, Donald Trump Jr. became an advisor, then a stockholder in GrabAGun. GrabAGun went public in July of 2025 to become the first, and currently only, firearms retailer listed on the NYSE.  GrabAGun is designated PEW on the NYSE. Prices of the stock increased from about 11.8 in early January to over 17.2 on July 15. By July 29, the price had dropped to 6.2, then gradually dropping to 3.78 on November 14. GrabAGun remains the only firearms retailer listed on the NYSE.

Cash and equivalent assets of GrabAGun were listed as $3.65 per share at the end of September. GrabAGun has been repurchasing shares at these low prices. This is an indication GrabAGun management is convinced the company is on the right track. When a company purchases its own shares with cash, each remaining share owns a larger proportion of the company.

CEO Nemati reported GrabAGun has no debt. From yahoo.com:

 "With over $109 million in cash and no debt, we remain well positioned heading into the fourth quarter and the holiday season. Demand across our core categories remains steady, supported by strong customer engagement on our platform. We’re continuing to invest in the business, advancing our technology, expanding our supplier relationships, and strengthening our customer experience. Our focus remains on building scale, driving operational efficiency, and creating lasting value for our shareholders."

For the third quarter, net revenue was up, at $22.3 million. This is a 10% increase over the same quarter in 2024. Loss from the conversion to public listing and stock based compensation resulted in an overall loss for the quarter.

 Net loss was $3.3 million compared to net income of $0.6 million in the prior year quarter, reflecting the aforementioned stock-based compensation and expenses related to the Company’s public listing.

GrabAGun is dual listed on the NYSE Texas.  GrabAGun keeps its primary listing on the NYSE in New York City. The physical location of GrabAGun is in Coppell, Texas, a suburb of Dallas.

The focus of GrabAGun is online sales. Sales through mobile devices accounted for 67% of transactions and 64% of revenue in the third quarter. The strategy is to make online sales, particularly through mobile devices, simple and easy.

In Q3 2025, Mobile Sessions4 grew 13% year-over-year, and accounted for 67% of transactions and 64% of revenue, respectively (compared to 65% of transactions and 63% of revenue for the prior year quarter), demonstrating a meaningful shift in channel mix that aligns with the Company’s mobile-first strategy.

Overall, firearms sales, as measured by the NSSF adjusted background checks, have been stable for October, just .3 percent lower than October in 2024. This is good news for the industry as a whole. It should be good news for GrabAGun as well.

GrabAGun has not avoided politics. They have taken a pro-conservative position. They have publicly made Donald Trump, Jr. an advisor and prominent shareholder. GrabAGun has partnered with SigSauer to sell specially marked handguns. For each sale, Sig Sauer makes a donation to Turning Point USA.

With no debt, GrabAGun seems well positioned to increase profits. If GrabAGun delivers a simple and pleasant purchasing experience to its customers, in addition to competitive prices, it may win market share. As the company purchases back shares at low prices, the remaining shares are positioned to reap higher dividends.

 

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AL: Prichard - Domestic Defense, Nephew Shoot Uncle who Attacked him with Knives

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-19T10:56:00Z

According to Sheriff Burch, the argument escalated quickly.

“Went to the kitchen, got several knives, began looking for his girlfriend, still yelling, cursing,” said Burch. 

When the confrontation reached his nephew Kenton Todd, who lives at home, the situation turned deadly. 

“He charged the younger Todd with the knives. And, the younger Todd fired twice, striking Keenta Todd in the chest,” said Burch. 

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Il: Belleville - Domestic Defense, Ex Boyfriend Kicks in Door, is Shot by New Boyfriend

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-19T10:52:00Z

Witnesses said an ex-boyfriend of the apartment’s female occupant kicked-in the front door and busted the door frame.

A man inside the dwelling allegedly fired shots, striking the intruder and the woman.

Sheriff's department lieutenant James Hendricks says her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, but the male’s injuries have him in critical condition.

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Indiana: New Albany - Domestic Defense, Brother Shoots Brother

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-19T10:50:00Z

On the scene, officers found one man who had been shot and another man who was involved in the incident.

The shooting victim was taken to the hospital, where he died of his injuries. Officers say the other man remained on scene and was cooperative.

It was determined that the domestic altercation involved a mother and her two adult sons. Police believe that the shooting may have been in self-defense.


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OK: Oklahoma City - Convenience Store Clerk Shoots Man who Attacked her

by Dean Weingarten in GUN WATCH on 2025-11-19T10:47:00Z

The clerk refused to accept the bill, which is when police say Thompson allegedly jumped over the counter and attacked the woman. He was then shot by the employee.

Thompson then reportedly fled the store, before calling police about 30 minutes later, reporting he had been shot. Authorities found him blocks from the first scene and he was taken to the hospital.


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Preparedness Notes for Wednesday — November 19, 2025

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-19T07:04:53Z

November 19, 1530: The final decree of the Diet of Augsburg, “The Recess,” is signed by Charles V and Catholic princes, reaffirming Catholic rites and principles after the departure of Protestant princes. — On November 19, 1619, the Dutch ship Nieuw Hoorn exploded in the Sunda Strait, near Sumatra, after a fire on board reached the gunpowder, killing more than 100 men. — Today is the anniversary of the Kyle Rittenhouse “Not Guilty” verdicts, in 2021. — On this day in 1863, U.S. President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, at the dedication service for the National Cemetery in Pennsylvania. — …

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Experience with a Mouse-Proof Cellar, by Pescadores

by SurvivalBlog Contributor in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-19T07:03:18Z

This article is about my experience using a shipping container as a mouse-proof cellar. A couple of important notes up front – shipping containers are not designed to have a load-bearing roof. I discovered that quickly while attempting to put a dirt cover over the top of the container. With a small load of dirt on top, the roof of the metal container began to bow. I shoveled the dirt back off of there, and revised my plan as explained below. So don’t do that. Also, it is essential that the container be installed above the groundwater table to prevent …

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SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-19T07:02:44Z

Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — Last nuclear treaty between US and Russia nears expiration as Trump and Putin trade testing threats. (Pictured above are subsidence craters from underground nuclear weapons tests at the Yucca Flats portion of the DOE’s Nevada Test Site.) o  o  o “Unique” weather warning for winter as La Nina, Polar Vortex dance. (Our …

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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-19T07:01:21Z

“On what basis can a righteous God justify the ungodly? It is entirely and all of grace.” – Alistair Begg

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Road Trip V - Fort Abrahm Lincoln

by ASM826 in Borepatch on 2025-11-19T04:55:00Z

Sometimes we would find ourselves in a place so captivating we would decide to spend all our time in the park. We talked to the ranger in the museum and later with a docent and author that was giving the tours at the Commanding Officer's quarters. Rode our bikes around and in the late afternoon as the sun was fading, hiked up to the overlook.  

This is the view looking down from the blockhouses toward the Missouri River. The building you can see are the barracks and the Commanding Officer's quarters. 


 That is one of the four blockhouses used on the perimeter of the enclosure on the hilltop. The blockhouses are open and I have climbed one to stand looking out of the firing ports.

Fort Abraham Lincoln was a U.S. Army fort built on the banks of the Missouri River in 1873 along the construction route of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was built on what had been Mandan tribal land until a smallpox outbreak killed about 95% of the settlement in 1837. The 150 survivors had abandoned the area and settled in with another nearby tribe.

There were no battles fought at the fort. The cavalry garrisoned here did participate in putting down a Sioux uprising in the summer of 1876. The commanding officer of the fort was Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and this is where he and the 600 men under his command rode out from. 

The need for the fort was gone in less  than twenty years and the Army abandoned it in 1891. Local civilians stripped the fort for it's lumber, nails, and hardware, leaving only the foundations and memories.

In 1907, Pr. Theodore Roosevelt signed the land over to North Dakota for use as a park. In the 1930s, the Civilian Conservation Corps had a unit assigned to the area. They built an administration building, offices, garages, roads, and the service buildings. They also worked from the foundations and surviving documents to rebuild the fort. 

None of the original buildings had survived. Everything in the park is a CCC reproduction. The layout of the fort, all the buildings, can been seen on a walk, with interpretive signs. Two barracks have been restored and set up to look as they did in 1875. The blockhouses and support buildings were rebuilt as well. The C.O.'s quarters was rebuilt later, in 1989 as part of the North Dakota Centennial. 

In addition to the structures in the fort, the CCC worked with a local Mandan woman who served as a historical resource to build a section of a Mandan village consisting of five full size lodgehouses. It is maintained and used to display artifacts and interpretive displays about the Mandan.

 The CCC administration building is now the park museum. This isn't mine, but it's a slideshow of pictures of the museum and the Mandan village set to music.

It Was Foggy and Misty...

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-19T04:54:08Z

No, this is not a variant of "Twas brilliant and the slightly toves...."

I needed my rear windows defroster on.  Not seeing a button obviously enough labeled, I pressed the microphone button and said, "Turn on rear defroster," and it did.

Ordinary Men

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-19T04:50:49Z

Netflix has a documentary of this title built around Christopher Browning's book by this title.   It was profoundly disturbing. Like Leni Yahil's The Holocaust: The Fate of European Jewry, Browning points out the officers in charge of the Einsatzgruppen were highly educated (usually with two doctorates) cultured middle class men.  

The parallels to today are worrisome: the younger members of Police Reserve Battalion 101 were more likely to carry out orders to exterminate Jews because they had been educated in hatred their entire lives.  Those a bit older and thus not victims of K-12 education under National Socialist rule were more likely to refuse those orders.  

The Poison Ivy League and their state university peers have been doing this same job of educating the young to hate and avoid nuanced examination of claims.  They are producing the same highly credentialed intellectuals that can sway those of weak moral character to do evil.  If the current Democratic Party ever gets back in control with their current rage, Jews and those of us who qualify as Jew-adjacent will need to be ready to deal with this before they start herding us into boxcars or bullet trains to central Nevada for re-education.  (I am kidding about bullet trains; they will never get them working soon enough for extermination.)

Ken Burns' American Revolution

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-19T04:33:08Z

I saw a positive review at The Federalist.  My wife and I watched it last night.  I was pleaaed.  You might expect a lot of leftist whining but really it was not much different from how teach it.  American settlers upset about the Proclamation Line of 1763 protecting the Indians from white encroachment on their lands contributes to Colonists anger about taxation.  Even the discussion of the contrast between "liberty" and slavery emphasizes where this will eventually lead: abolition.  I am sure President Trump would approve. 

The SNAP and Food Desert Scam

by TPOL Nathan in The Price of Liberty on 2025-11-19T01:00:00Z

Consider the State of South Dakota. And consider a certain unnamed online liberal-progressive (Regressive) news source. This week, they proclaimed that South Dakota has a poor, mistreated, ignored, and abused county that had NO stores that would accept SNAP (food … Continue reading →

The M79 - From US Innovation and Modifications to Vietnam's Imitation

by Lynndon Schooler in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T01:00:00Z

When the M79 reached U.S. troops in the early 1960s, it looked like someone had shortened a shotgun and given it an artillery round, a compact, single-shot, break-open launcher that fired a low-velocity 40x46mm grenade. It gave small units a new kind of miniature artillery: explosive power far beyond a thrown hand grenade but without the logistics and crew required for a mortar. That blend of portability, punch, and simplicity made the M79 one of the Vietnam War’s iconic small arms, and it invited modifications in the field. Special operators in MACV-SOG and other units modified by shortening the barrel for specific roles, while post-war Vietnam even produced a locally made variant.

POTD: The Glock 45 Upgrade - TriggerTech ACE Installation

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T00:30:00Z

Today’s Photo Of The Day shows the TriggerTech ACE trigger being fitted to a Glock 45 with a threaded barrel. The ACE is said to offer a smooth, consistent break and a short, clean reset compared to the stock Glock module. You know, features that would make any kind of trigger a popular aftermarket choice for both competition and carry builds. During installation, we documented the simple drop-in procedure: removing the factory trigger group, transferring the connector, and seating the new unit before function-checking and test-firing. In fact, the gunsmith (who had his first Glock Armorer's certificate back in 1987) said it was the easiest and fastest Glock trigger change he ever made.

Small Business Spotlight: Campbell Engineering and Machine

by Hrachya H in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-19T00:00:00Z

Welcome back to TFB’s Small Business Spotlight ! In this weekly article series, we talk about small firearm-related businesses. Today’s company is Campbell Engineering and Machine, LLC, a precision rifle products manufacturer from Monument, Colorado.

Enter to Win a SHIELD OMSsc Red Dot Sight — The First Transparent-Roof Optic of Its Kind

by Recoil Staff in Recoil on 2025-11-18T20:57:08Z

RECOIL and Shield Sights have teamed up to give one lucky reader a cutting-edge piece of innovation: the brand-new SHIELD OMSsc red dot sight. The contest runs from November 18th through December 2nd, 2025 and entering takes less than a minute. If you’re a concealed-carry practitioner, a competitive shooter, or simply a gear obsessive, this is a chance to own... more

It’s a long way to the top (if you want to rock and roll)

by Midwest Chick in Midwest Chick's Place on 2025-11-18T19:30:00Z

On November 12, 374 bagpipe players gathered in Australia to break a world record, which they did. The oldest piper–a 98 year old named Bruce. Billed as “The Great Melbourne Bagpipe Bash,” the eclectic performance took place in Melbourne’s Federation Square, on Swanston Street, which was the scene of the Australian hard rock band’s 1976 […]

Swedish Army Resumes AK 24 Trials After Delayed-Ignition Fix

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T19:00:00Z

The Swedish Armed Forces introduced the new Automatkarbin 24 (AK 24) assault rifle in 5.56×45mm NATO caliber at the beginning of 2025, and regular TFB readers have been able to follow the introduction in detail. What is a lesser-known fact is that shortly after fielding began, a firing ban was imposed on the Ak24 due to incidents of delayed ignition affecting a number of rifles. TFB continues to follow the story and to explain the issues. There is now a Press Release  with more information.

Grid-Down Medical Care Podcast Appearance

by Greg Ellifritz in Active Response Training on 2025-11-18T18:23:47Z

Alex Ooley from the Forge of Freedom podcast and his wife took my systems collapse medical class for the second time a few weeks ago.  Alex invited me to come to his podcast and discuss some of the medical issues we covered in class.   I really enjoyed this one because it wasn’t just a […]

Walther Suspends Production of PPK, PPK/S, and PP Pistols

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T18:00:00Z

Walther Arms, Inc. has announced a formal suspension of production for the PPK, PPK/S, and PP handgun lines as the company initiates a multi-year modernization program. The pause marks the temporary close of a manufacturing lineage that stretches back nearly a century and includes some of the most recognizable pistols in the world.

A New Victim Group

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-18T17:53:00Z

 11//18/25 BBC News:

Two Ukrainian citizens who long worked for Russian intelligence have been identified as the suspects behind two acts of sabotage on Poland's rail network, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.

One suspect had already been convicted in absentia of acts of sabotage in Ukraine, Tusk told parliament.

On Monday, he visited the scene of an explosion near Mika, south-east of Warsaw, which damaged the railway line leading to the Ukrainian border at the weekend, and called it an "unprecedented act of sabotage".

Another incident down the line near Pulawy on Monday forced a packed train to stop suddenly and damage was found to overhead cables.

The Kremlin brushed off suggestions of Russian involvement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said: "It would have been really strange, if Russia hadn't been blamed first."

"Russia is accused of all acts of hybrid and direct war... in Poland," he told Russia's state-run media, adding: "Russophobia is certainly rampant there." [emphasis added]

Of course, it would be a sign of mental disturbance to think Russia might want to block arms shipments to Ukraine.

We Would Be the Laughingstock of the World if We Elected Trump

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-18T17:45:00Z

 Remember how all the smart people warned us that Trump's belligerent and ignorant style would impair international diplomacy?  11/17/25 Guardian:

UN security council votes to endorse Donald Trump’s Gaza plan

The resolution, which includes references to an independent Palestine, was passed by a vote of 13-0 with China and Russia abstaining...

The resolution, passed by a vote of 13-0 with abstentions by China and Russia, charted “a new course in the Middle East for Israelis and Palestinians and all the people of the region alike”, the US envoy to the UN, Mike Waltz, told the council chamber.

The inclusion of references to an independent Palestine was the price the US paid for backing from the Arab and Islamic world, who are expected to provide peacekeepers for an international stabilisation force (ISF).

 

Slippery End Mills

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-18T17:25:00Z

I have previously discussed the problem of 1/8" end mills not having a flat spot to lock them in end mill holders.  I focused on how vibration made them work loose, causing the end mill to fall out after last cutting pass.  Today's discovery is that if trying to cut vertically at too high a speed can cause it to retract back into the holder.  This means the 0.4" deep cut turns into about 0.2" actual depth.

Democrat Epstein Campaign Takes a Democratic Scalp

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-18T17:19:00Z

11/17/25 ABC News:

Larry Summers, a former Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton and the former president of Harvard University, said he's stepping back from public life after his apparent conversations with Jeffrey Epstein were released last week by the House Oversight Committee.

"I am deeply ashamed of my actions and recognize the pain they have caused. I take full responsibility for my misguided decision to continue communicating with Mr. Epstein," Summers said in a statement on Monday.

Summers is currently a member of Harvard's faculty, according to the Harvard Crimson.

"While continuing to fulfill my teaching obligations, I will be stepping back from public commitments as one part of my broader effort to rebuild trust and repair relationships with the people closest to me," he said.

It has been previously reported that Summers maintained a relationship with Epstein for many years, particularly during Summers’ term as president of Harvard from 2001 to 2006.

He flew at least four times on Epstein’s aircraft, according to flight records made public during litigation against Epstein, and he was the top official at Harvard during a time when the university received millions in gifts from Epstein.

All of those gifts were received prior to Epstein’s guilty plea in Florida in 2008 to charges of solicitation of prostitution with a minor, according to the university’s review of its Epstein connections....

No Epstein survivor has alleged wrongdoing by Summers and there is no public record evidence to suggest Summers was involved in any of Epstein’s crimes. However, the newly released emails suggest a closer bond between the two men than has been previously reported. [emphasis added]

The messages just made public include a number of exchanges about dating advice that appear to demonstrate a close relationship between the two that continued long after Epstein’s 2008 conviction in Florida, and lasted until at least a few months before Epstein's death in August 2019.

In one March 2019 email exchange, Epstein gives Summers advice, though the context is unclear and the woman involved is not named. “I said what are you up to. She said ‘I’m busy’. I said awfully coy u are,” Summers wrote to Epstein in the lengthy email. “Shes smart. –making you pay for past errors,” Epstein responded, in part.

 Summers' error was keeping in contact with a convicted child molester and pimp.  Whatever professional contacts Epstein could provide would seem irrelevant with Epstein's history.

 

 

To Regain Male Support, Dems Must Stop Attacking 2A, says CCRKBA

by Dave Workman in 2nd Amendment Archives - Liberty Park Press on 2025-11-18T16:47:37Z

By Dave Workman While recent reports say Democrats seem to wonder why they’re not attracting more male voters—especially younger ones—a national gun rights organization has offered an explanation the party either hasn’t considered or may be too stubborn to acknowledge. Stop attacking the Second Amendment. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear […]

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Clandestine Kalashnikov: The Fake-Chinese Secret Iranian AK-47

by Vladimir Onokoy in Recoil on 2025-11-18T16:39:41Z

Are they real? Are they fake? What is the difference? Diving into the weird world of rare AK-47, things get strange real fast.

SIG Sauer’s New SIG516 G3 Short-Stroke Piston Rifle

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T16:00:00Z

SIG Sauer has introduced the SIG516 G3, positioned as the latest, battle-ready evolution of the 516 family. Developed with more than a decade of piston-rifle engineering and tested worldwide, the SIG516 G3 was refined in New Hampshire to deliver a rugged, durable platform for demanding field use. The rifle runs a short-stroke piston with an adjustable gas system for tunable reliability across ammunition and environmental conditions. Chambered in 5.56 NATO, it features a 16-inch cold-hammer-forged barrel with a 1:7” twist rate.

Making Arrangements

by Pawpaw in PawPaw's House on 2025-11-18T14:26:00Z

 While we were off shooting this weekend, we got word that my mother had died. While it was unexpected, it was not totally unexpected.  You know it's cooing, but you are never really ready for the news.

She led a good life and I'm convinced that she is at peace.  She wanted to be cremated and that is going to take a few days, but there are still arrangements that have to be made.  Belle and i will go to the funeral home this morning.  She pre-planned her funeral several years ago and I'm going just to review the plans and try to insure that her final wishes are honored.

I'm okay, I really am.  We lost Dad on 2007 and we had Mom until Friday afternoon. They taught us how to live, and they showed us how to die.  Death is part of life, that is just the way it is.

Mom's favorite holiday was Thanksgiving, and her Thanksgiving menus were legendary. For the past several years I have hosted Thanksgiving at my place with Mom in attendance as the family matron.  That is probably when the grief will kick in hardest for me, not having her at the table.

So now, if you will excuse me, I have to play out the final chapter of an absolutely remarkable life.

GunBroker.com

by Clayton Cramer in Clayton Cramer. on 2025-11-18T14:15:00Z

 Have any of you used GunBroker.com or similar services to sell guns?  I have several guns in my safe that it I think I should sell before moving to Tennessee.  These are guns for which I do not see any particular utility (the S&W 629 .44 Magnum was bought for camping in grizzly bear country).  

Moving will require me to ship them.  I will not be driving  there, and UBox and PODS both prohibit shipping guns in their containers.  I could ship them to my new home but that requires me to have a new home address before we leave Idaho.  It is just barely possible (and my preference) we might sell our Idaho house first, stay in an AirBnb for a few weeks while buying a new house.  I could ship to an FFL in Tennessee, but if I do not need them at the far end, liberating the capital and decluttering my gun safe would be good.

I could sell them here but I would prefer some confidence that they were not going to prohibited persons.  An auction site is likely to get a better price as well.

The guns that want good homes are 

1. A S&W 629 .44 Magnum stainless steel.  I have fired less than 50 rounds through it all shortly after I bought it in the 1990s.  It has the original box.

2 A Remington 870 12 gauge riot gun (18" barrel).  This has the three round magazine extension.  Shortly after I bought this, Remington started dimpling the 5 round magazine so these magazine extensions would not work.  This has been fired less than 40 times.  I have not fired it in at least 15 years.

3. A Ruger 10/22 with a 3x-9x scope and a sling.  I have no idea how old it is.  I bought it used in 1990 just before California banned private firearms transfers.  It functions perfectly.  I have a dozen or so 25 round magazines for it.

4. A Remington Model 7 bolt action in .308 Winchester with a 4x-12x 40mm scope.  I have no idea how old it is.  I bought it used in 1990.  It functions perfectly.  

5. NIB Browning Hi-Power.  I am not sure if this is dark blued or Parkerized.

Why Allie D’Andrea Hit [REC] | Ascend

by The WON in Hunting, shooting, fishing and adventure for women by women on 2025-11-18T14:00:00Z

On Allie D’Andrea's episode of Ascend, we learn about an experience that sparked a transformation, changing both her career and her life.

CELEBRATE BERETTA 92’S ANNIVERSARY…

by Mas in on 2025-11-18T14:00:00Z

…with a cool book on the topic. The half-century anniversary is upon one of my favorite pistols, the 9mm Beretta 92.  It’s author Chris Orr’s very favorite pistol, and that’s clear from the enthusiastic way he writes about it in “Five Decades of a Fabulous Firearm: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Beretta 92 Pistol […]

Hate and Destruction is Easy

by Joe in The View From North Central Idaho on 2025-11-18T14:00:00Z

Quote of the Day While a lot of reports have done good work documenting the Antifa and leftist protests that attempted to shut down a Turning Point USA event on the campus of UCLA at Berkeley earlier this week (here, … Continue reading →

Mantis Releases A Laser Pistol - The Titan X Trainer

by Luke C. in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T14:00:00Z

It's definitely not in the 40-watt range, but it’ll help you train for the inevitable AI apocalypse either way. Mantis is proud to announce their new Titan X laser training pistol , which is the culmination of virtually all of their previous technologies, all stuffed into one Glock 19-shaped unit that helps you do dry fire more safely, and with all of the data-gathering benefits that the Laser Training academy comes with.

November 2025 Writing Update

by correia45 in Monster Hunter Nation on 2025-11-18T13:01:18Z

I got the edits back for American Paladin. Working on those now. Due this month. Then I’ve got the MHI Memoirs collab with Les Johnson waiting for me. Hoping to be done with that by the end of the year. Then it’s back to regular MHI for #9, MH Trespass, followed by Academy of Outcasts … Continue reading November 2025 Writing Update →

Tool Cycling for Personal Defense

by Shelley Hill in Hunting, shooting, fishing and adventure for women by women on 2025-11-18T13:00:00Z

Shelley Hill, of The Complete Combatant, goes through eight things to consider when learning to cycle through tools for self-defense. Especially during the holiday season, understanding this concept of tool cycling is paramount to safety in the world.

Meme Dump!

by Tam in View From The Porch on 2025-11-18T12:14:00Z




Talk to me about the joys of socialized medicine

by Midwest Chick in Midwest Chick's Place on 2025-11-18T11:30:00Z

Assisted suicides are on the rise in Canada (they call it voluntary euthanasia). Canada’s spiraling euthanasia system is once again under fire as heartbreaking new accounts reveal that a surging number of patients are being forced into “choosing” the government’s “assisted suicide” death program after being denied actual medical care under the nation’s collapsing socialized […]

Expert firearm witness criticizes ATF’s treatment of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak

by Lee Williams in The Gun Writer on 2025-11-18T11:03:16Z

Georgia gunsmith Len Savage knows how badly the ATF screwed up.

Expert Firearm Witness Criticizes ATF’s Treatment of Patrick “Tate” Adamiak

by Dave Workman in 2nd Amendment Archives - Liberty Park Press on 2025-11-18T10:52:19Z

By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Georgia gunsmith and technical specialist Len Savage is an expert witness who has been involved in 29 federal court cases over a 20-year span. He has been hired by defense attorneys, federal public defenders and sometimes the U.S. Department of Justice, which last asked him to verify government testing […]

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Preparedness Notes for Tuesday — November 18, 2025

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-18T07:04:11Z

According to Swiss lore, on November 18, 1307, William Tell of the canton of Uri was forced by Habsburg invaders to shoot an apple off his son’s head, with a crossbow. The international gun rights organization ProTell was named in his honor. — On November 18, 1865, Mark Twain published the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” in The New York Saturday Press. — On this day in 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of …

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The Dirty Side of Homesteading, by Patrice Lewis

by SurvivalBlog Contributor in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-18T07:03:09Z

Too often, homesteading articles, blogs, websites, and videos (including this one – guilty!) show only the successful side of homesteading. The abundant harvest, the completed projects, the fresh eggs and baby chicks and overflowing milk, the healthy livestock … by golly, this lifestyle must be easy-peasy, right? Yes and no. Of course things go right. And of course things go wrong. But what is seldom shown is the nitty-gritty day-to-day dirty side of homesteading, including the daily chores that must be done for the comfort and welfare of animals. For that reason, I thought I’d show you something I do …

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SurvivalBlog’s American Redoubt Media of the Week

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-18T07:02:12Z

This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. World War II Airplane Converted Into A Motorhome Turns Heads In Wyoming. (The photo above is from the motorhome owner’s Facebook page.) Here is more about the Wyoming airplane auction mentioned in the article: Not 2 or 3, but a Wyoming airport is auctioning 16 historic airplanes from C-119s to KC-97s and the bidding starts for the price of two Shake Shack burgers. Some OTHER Recent American Redoubt …

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The Editors’ Quote of the Day:

by James Wesley Rawles in SurvivalBlog.com on 2025-11-18T07:01:31Z

“Gy menne, de nyn harnsch anne en hebben, gy solt achter uns beharnscheden gaen, und wyket nycht und schuwet uns und steket myt den peyken under de iseren hode.” “You men, who have no armour on you, you shall go behind our armoured [men] and will not move nor fear and you will stab with the pikes underneath the iron hats [in the faces and necks of the enemy].” – Captain Hynrick van Gemen, explaining the use of pikes, before the defense of Münster from invaders, circa 1407.

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Is Anti-Gun Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Headed for Exit?

by Dave Workman in 2nd Amendment Archives - Liberty Park Press on 2025-11-18T02:36:09Z

By Dave Workman Unless New York Sen. Charles Schumer, currently the Senate Minority Leader, can work a political miracle, he could be headed for the door, and American gun owners, whom he has made miserable for decades on Capitol Hill, will not be sorry. They also will not be responsible. According to an opinion piece in The […]

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Gun Safety Part of Curriculum in Arkansas, Tennessee, Utah

by Dave Workman in 2nd Amendment Archives - Liberty Park Press on 2025-11-18T02:24:22Z

By Dave Workman Arkansas, Tennessee and Utah have something in common this year which recently caught the attention of network news. All three are now teaching firearms safety in their public schools at all three levels: elementary, middle and high school, according to NBC News. The project includes what the story refers to as “5 basics […]

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TFB Review: Backup Tactical’s Fat Butcher OTF – A Beefy Follow-Up

by Luke C. in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T01:00:00Z

The Out-The-Front (OTF) knife category continues to expand, and Backup Tactical is back for round two with the new Fat Butcher . After the success of the Stinger OTF , company owner and OG Florida-Man Jayson Bayne has once again teamed up with South African knifemaking legend Andre De Villiers (ADV Tactical) for an all-new design—the Fat Butcher OTF. This latest release brings a beefier, more aggressive take on their relatively new American-made automatic knife lineup while retaining all the precision machining, materials, and reliability that made the Stinger a standout, and also the addition of a few novel features that set it apart from every other OTF currently out there.

POTD: Optic Venom Venus X SE - Full-Rail, Full-Metal, Full-Precision

by Eric B in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T00:30:00Z

Some people take a lot of care to make their rifle stand out as little as possible, using spray cans and camouflage patterns. The Italians from Victrix Armaments  work differently, and with this limited edition Optic Venom Cerakote, you’re sure to get noticed.

The Rimfire Report: HUSH Holsters Suppressed MK IV Adapter

by Luke C. in The Firearm Blog on 2025-11-18T00:00:00Z

Suppressors on most handguns are pretty silly for most people and most applications. One of the rare exceptions to this is suppressors on .22LR handguns. The MK IV, although not specifically designed as such, has evolved into one of the best suppressor hosts over the years. With a fixed, often very accurate, pre-threaded barrel, the ability to mount optics, it's often the first choice of many for a first pistol suppressor host. However, one drawback of putting a suppressor on any pistol you plan to use at the range is that there’s typically no good place to put a hot suppressor-equipped pistol when you’re not using it. Today on The Rimfire Report, we’re checking out a great addition to the HUSH Holster  lineup - their MK IV adapter , which solves this problem.

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