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On January 9th, 1580, Francis Drake‘s ship the Golden Hind struck a reef off the Celebes islands. It fortuitously slipped off the reef at high tide the next day and sailed onward to Java, and then around the Cape of Good Hope and back to Plymouth, England. — January 9, 1839: Louis Daguerre demonstrated his ‘daguerreotype‘ photographic process to the French Academy of Sciences. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are selling rapidly, in pre-ordering. The limited number of them packaged in steel keepsake tins have nearly sold out. Orders should start to be mailed in the …
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(Continued from Part 1.) The next topic is water. I begin with the low hanging fruit of having water stored at all times. It hurts my soul to thoughtlessly parrot the “one gallon per person per day minimum” tripe we have all heard so many times. My recommendation is to store no less than three gallons per person per day or ten gallons each. I follow this up by encouraging each family set a goal of having a five-gallon water jug set aside for last minute filling for each person. For those who lament storage space, I recommend the collapsible …
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After some huge price swings in the last week of the year, the Silver Bull has resumed his charge. As of Tuesday afternoon (January 6, 2026), spot silver was at $82.06 USD per Troy ounce. I expect a few gasps of short-selling today, but $70 seems to be the new floor for silver. I’m holding to my prediction that silver and platinum will continue to outperform gold’s gains. The formerly languishing price of nickel has spiked. Surprisingly, we still have the opportunity to stack Nickels (U.S. 5-cent pieces) at face value. The U.S. Mint recently stopped producing pennies. I believe …
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“If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson
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Efforts in USA and Australia to disarm potential victims continue after decades of failure [More] Gun prohibitionists here, there, and everywhere don’t care how many people get killed by their monomaniacal demands for a forcibly disarmed populace.
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We went to Shreveport this morning to pick up Belle's daughter at the airport. She's going with them on the cruise.
We stopped in Natchitoches for a bit of history and a bite for lunch. Belle's favorite restaurant is closed this week for a thorough cleaning and remodeling. We went around the corner to another restaurant and ate po'boys.
This is the beginning of a new series about what (mostly) non-technical readers can do to lock down their home networks to a decent level of security. I need to start with some caveats here:
- It's pretty easy to protect yourself from "script kiddies" (Bad Guys who just use canned exploits without knowing much (or anything) about you or your home network. Hopefully the posts in this series will make you, if not impervious to, at least unreasonably difficult for these attackers.
- It's harder to protect yourself from a knowledgeable and determined attacker. Someone with skill, time, and motivation to attack you is a dangerous opponent. Hopefully the posts in this series will increase the required time, skill, and motivation needed for these Bad Guys to succeed. Basically, it raises the cost for them to attack you which is A Good Thing.
- At the end of the day, you can't protect yourself from NSA or FSB (the KGB successor organization). Or the Chinese, who are quite active and skilled. Even keeping them from sniffing out your traffic is really, really hard. If you think that any of these organizations are likely to want to access your computers, then you should unplug from the 'Net right now. Not kidding.
So if you're interested in this kind of thing, and are willing to spend a nominal amount of time and money to raise the bar on your home network security, follow along on this series of posts.
Tomorrow's post: What is a Firewall and why do you care?
Trump blasts GOP war powers defectors, says they ‘should never be elected to office again’ [More] So… give the Democrats a Senate majority…?
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Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer warns she could kill herself if medical needs not met during murder trial [More] That would probably be the most humane outcome for everyone involved. [Via Edmund M]
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Two people are dead and at least six others are injured after a shooting in Salt Lake City Wednesday evening outside a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse where people were gathered for a funeral. [More] Not that church attendees would have been prepared to do anything about it… The address they give … Continue reading "Brigham Young Would Have Never Put Up With This"
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Brown University Taps DEI Official To Restore ‘Sense of Physical Security’ on Campus [More] Because nothing sends monsters howling into the darkness better than woke effeminates. Tell us you’re inviting more school shootings without telling us you’re inviting more school shootings. [Via Michael G]
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Virginia: Gun Control by Ambush [More] This is my shocked face.
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NY Attorney General Letitia James charging Florida man with 71 gun crimes [More] The state, with unlimited resources, is trying to destroy a man claiming his freedom who won’t surrender. So why are Ron DeSantis and NSSF’s new BFF on board with this? “Online retailer Indie Guns repeatedly defied court orders and spread extremist views … Continue reading "Free DeStefano"
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Getting in and out of the bush isn't always easy, but a good ride makes it a lot easier. For comfort and utility, you can't beat a good Can-Am.This bill addresses the justified use of force. Highlighted Provisions: This bill: requires an individual to report using force; and establishes that an individual must report use of force in order to receive a pretrial justification hearing. [More] “Use or threatened use”…? Not much room for nuance there… What happened to “Don’t talk to the … Continue reading "Force to Be Reckoned With?"
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Twin Cities DSA on ICE Agents’ Murder of Renee Good [More] That’s how the people who celebrate the death of Ashli Babbitt, and who want to disarm you and stab you to death are characterizing it. It’s what blood-dancing Democrats have been counting on, provoking the low-hanging fruit into doing something that results in exploitable … Continue reading "Georgette Floyd"
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Democratic lawmaker says focus should be on ‘White men’ at Minnesota fraud hearing- White men are ‘committing violence at disproportionate rates in our country,’ Rep. Emily Randall claimed… She further referenced data indicating that 41% of murder suspects in the United States in 2023 were White… [More] We’re going to play that game, are we? … Continue reading "Emily’s List"
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Hunting of Ursus Arctos (grizzly bears/brown bears) was banned in British Columbia on December 18, 2017. At the time opponents of the hunting ban warned there would be increasing bear/human conflicts. From British Columbia Wildlife Federartion executive director Jesse Zeman:
“When the hunt was closed, we predicted that over time human-grizzly conflicts would increase, but we also know that bears that learn bad behaviors teach those same behaviors to their offspring,” said Zeman. “This will keep getting worse until science-based wildlife management is reinstated.”
Over the last ten years, ursus arctos/human conflicts in British Columbia have doubled from about 300-500 per year before the ban to almost a thousand per year after the ban. This is the same pattern seen over the world as large predator populations are over-protected. The populations grow and spread and come into conflict with humans. The predators have not learned to be afraid of humans because hunting is banned or severely limited. The aggressive predators are not selected out of the population by hunters. Prior to the attack on a large group of school children in Bella Coola, problems with ursus arctos (grizzly/brown) bears had been increasing for some time. Here are examples: From CityNews.ca:
“And what had happened is that a grizzly — it looks like a sow and her two almost full-grown cubs — had gone in and found the fridge and dragged the fridge actually halfway out and across the bed and everything else.”
The animals had completely demolished the kitchen.
“I’m talking counters, cupboards, drawers, glasses, plates, and everything else,” she said.
The couple also has a trailer on the same property, and Munro says the damage there was even worse than in the house.
The Munro couple were extremely careful about not having bear attractants on their property. They had complained to B.C. official about previous problems. Now they are leaving the area. The BCWF also document these conflicts:
- A neighbour watching his two young children in the house had a grizzly opened a lever-handle door to enter his garage and cause a ruckus; he was forced to shoot the bear at close range in front of his kids.
- A disabled, elderly man had his cedar siding and plywood wall ripped apart and building contents ransacked by a bear, despite his installation of steel doors—an (ultimately unsuccessful) attempt to prevent the bear from re-entering after it had broken through his regular door.
- Neighbours had their garage door destroyed by a bear who returned the next night and caused further damage.
- An elderly woman living alone had a grizzly break into her home, destroy her mudroom, and drag her freezer onto the lawn—all while she was inside.
The is the same pattern seen across the United States, in Europe, and in Japan. Large predators are protected and hunting is outlawed or severely limited. The large predator population expands beyond wild areas and start encroaching on rural populations and even some urban areas. Japan doubled the fatalities by bears in 2025 past the previous record from 6 in 2019 to 13 in 2025. Fatal bear attacks in Europe, especially Romania, have increased with increasing bear populations. Florida had its first recorded black bear fatal attack. Arkansas recorded two fatal black bear attacks in 2025, the first in over a hundred years. California recorded its first ever fatal black bear attack in 2024. Fatal mountain lion attacks are increasing. Only 9 fatal attacks were recorded before 1970, with 19 recorded from 1971 to 2026. Human wolf conflicts are increasing with the re-introduction of wolf packs into the lower 48 states.
Analysis: These numbers are fairly small compared to human homicides. The dangers are very low unless you spend time in areas with significant predator populations. Nearly all of these attacks can be prevented if humans take the trouble to arm themselves with modern handguns. Only one human who fired a handgun in defense against bears has been killed in over 200 recorded incidents. No human who was armed with a firearm has been recorded as killed by a mountain lion. No armed human has been killed by a wolf pack in a recorded incident. Several incidents have been recorded of armed humans stopping attacks by mountain lions and wolves. Modern cartridge handguns are exceptionally effective in stopping predatory animal attacks.
The people killed and mauled by predatory animals pay a high price for the animal worship currently pushed by deep-green environmental groups and Neo-pagan nature worshipers. The numbers killed and injured are small and self correcting. As more people are mauled and killed, more people will effectively defend themselves and their property. Those facts will be reported in our disseminated media. The stories are too interesting to dismiss. In the United States, rights protected by the Second Amendment are being restored. As more people arm themselves, more aggressive predators will be killed, and balance will be restored. People who arm themselves in wild areas do much to protect those who use those areas unarmed. Large predators learn humans are dangerous and learn to avoid them.
Fellow humans in Canada, Europe, and Japan are not so fortunate. Expect more stories of fatal large predator attacks on humans in those areas.
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Gun Watch
On Monday just before 8 a.m., Gavilan entered the City Hall building through a locked back door and went up a stairwell to the fourth floor of the building where he broke out a window within another secure door to enter the office area.
Police said employees recognized Gavilan as an intruder and an on-duty court security officer encountered him, announced his authority and asked him to put his hands behind his back. Gavilan did not comply to the security officer, police said, and instead began fighting the officer.
On January 8, 1297, Monaco gained its independence. Pictured are Buffalo Bill Cody and Prince Albert I of Monaco, in 1913. He was the first reigning European monarch to visit the United States. — On January 8, 1610, German astronomer Simon Marius independently discovered the first four moons of Jupiter, just one day after Galileo‘s lunar discovery. — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are available for Pre-Ordering. This year, we are also offering a limited number of them in steel keepsake tins, with keychains. Both types have been selling very rapidly. Orders should start to be …
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Back in 2016, the organizer for a local church’s senior citizen ministry approached me regarding a program she wanted someone to present on family emergency preparedness. In the two previous years our area experienced a “thousand-year flood” and the wind effects from a passing hurricane. Several of the seniors had requested a speaker who could help them think through steps that could be taken to minimize the impacts of another storm or similar short-term disaster. This article is a summary of what that presentation has become after multiple iterations over the past ten years. My hope in sharing is that …
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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, an increase in fallow farm ground. Georgia Farmer Warns of Fallow Farm Ground Reader Robert W. sent us this: Farmland Shock: Georgia Grower Drops 3,000 Acres, Warns of …
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“When America’s early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.” – Paul Harvey
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You can't teach an old dog new tricks. I've heard that old saying a hundred times, often when trying to train an old dog as our home has been home to 2 senior rescues since we lost Barkley.
It's not so much that being older makes one less able to learn, short of cognitive issues. It's just that we get used to a certain way of doing things and don't wish to change. My teenage grandchildren would be mortified to know I still have a flip phone. It's not that I can't use a smartphone; the cockpit of an A-320 makes a phone's technology look like something Fisher Price built. But this brick of a phone has survived being kicked, dropped in a puddle, run over by a bike, mawed by a medley of dog teeth, and it just keeps working and has done so for less than $50 plus the monthly fee to keep it connected. It has "the ringing app," the only one I really need, as when the desk computer shuts down, I wish no further electronic leash to the world.
But I notice now that I'm retired, I do tend to get into a routine. Up before 7 each day, the dog out for some exercise with me, coffee and a bowl of hot cereal (the pancake breakfasts are for Saturdays, the rest of the time it's "Honey Bunches of Gruel"). Then, outside of the volunteer work I do 3 days a week and the occasional consult for someone in a suit who will pay big $$ to pick my brain to prep for a trial, my time is my own.
But am I going to take up knitting, put my feet up, and watch my hair go grey? (Something that my hair so far seems reluctant to do, red hair apparently being as stubborn as the rest of me?) No.
I couldn't do that at 30; I'm definitely not going to do it now. No, I will leave my comfortable chair and head out, as inconsequential a move as a bird leaving a trusted branch. Something just draws me out of my solitude, a whisper, the sound of a train, the wind in the trees, and I'm heading out, be it on foot or wheels. Just as it was when I was working, I'm constantly looking all around me, noting the people rushing about, their eyes disregarding the sun, their shadows unaware of the branches that wave over them, chattering with the tweets and calls of life. Rushing about until the days are gone until that last one, where all the words of hope and defiance, of great joy and great risks, which take wing so easily into the free immensity of a living sky, fall wearily into that newly dug grave.
Then I will go home and make some music because that special intensity of existence we think is reserved for the young is calling. For you see, long after my "youth" was gone, I went out and bought a violin.
I was always good on the piano and the clarinet, but as far as the violin was concerned, I had the musical gift of a dyslexic tree sloth, but I tried. My fingers were a bit stiff, but the music was still in me, even if only Barkley was around to be the music critic.
It's not much different than taking that first solo in an airplane. You have been given the tools, you have the capabilities. But it's the fear of what you don't know that holds you back, while upward, a huge unknown, the sky, beckons. You've learned through your experience, through your lessons, that the sky is sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes frightening, never the same two days in a row, almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its quiet, and almost divine in its vastness. And you're just a little afraid of it at this point.---But it calls to you, and you know you are going to go forward. It's time.
By Dave Workman A writer at Michigan News Source is reporting how anti-gun Democrat lawmakers are “nowhere near finished” pushing restrictive gun control in the Great Lake State, even after passing gun laws steadily over the past few years. Among those measures, according to writer J.P. Isbell, are mandatory safe storage requirements in homes with […]
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Bourbon has a number of criteria that must be met before it can be called bourbon. At least 51% corn, distilled in the US, aged in new oak barrels, barreled at no more than 125 proof. Straight bourbon is two years old.
Many of you know my fondness for Evan Willians Bottled in Bond. It's my bouse whiskey, aged at least four years, bottled at 100 proof. It's good hooch.
I also like Buffalo Trace. One of the products of that distillery is Benchmark. It's a bottom-shelf, straight bourbon whiskey. Over the years, I have consumed my share. I was in the liquor store today and found a bottle that they call Full Proof. Bottled at 125 proof, this hooch is not watered down.
For $25 out the door, not a bad deal. I brought a bottle home and we'll try it on in a little bit. If nothing else, it should be a good mixer for cocktails.
The commission concluded that state officials and institutions were complicit in 38 lynchings that followed the Civil War and that the perpetrators were never held accountable in any of the deaths. [More] So, who better to hold accountable than members of the productive sector who had nothing to do with any of that @150 years … Continue reading "So… a Bill of Attainder?"
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CIA Tells Court It Cannot Produce Requested J6 Documents and Information for 4 More Years! [More] Trump can’t order this guy to knock off the stonewalling and comply? Before the midterms? Why the hell not? [Via bondmen]
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Democrat Charlotte Sheriff Now Under Investigation for “Mafia-style” Intimidation and Corruption [More] That no doubt informs his position on guns. “Speacial Guest,” eh? Ws this poster designed at a Quality Learing Center? Yeah, I know. Make any more typos and I’ve set myself up… [Via bondmen]
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A Canadian has a greater chance of dying by MAID than an American has of being shot dead. [More] Leftists are only against suicide if you use a gun. [Via Michael G]
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Berlin Plunges Into Darkness After Climate Extremists Set Fire to Power Lines [More] Don’t worry. The German government is right on it! Everybody ready for this here? [Via Michael G]
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Today, both the federal Department of Justice and 26 states filed amicus briefs supporting CRPA’s challenge to California’s ammo ban. The DOJ filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in the case of Rhode v. Bonta. In addition, 26 states collaborated on an amicus brief also supporting the case. [More] Acknowledge when they do good. … Continue reading "Credit Where Due"
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And then I think you’ll see once you read that it’s pretty clear that what Bondi and the Department of Justice are going after Maduro for is not the mere possession of a machine gun. It’s the possession of a machine gun intending to and actually furthering a federal felony in the form of either … Continue reading "Tools of the Trade"
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The entire social welfare system of Minnesota was looted on Walz’s watch and libs want to shoot the messenger. [More] The Bolshevik response is telling, not only because that’s what it is, but because so many useful Democrat idiots buy into it and will vote for more. Feeding WHOSE future…? Even without the criminal parasites … Continue reading "Accusing the Accuser"
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Trump warns Republicans they have to win midterms or he’ll ‘get impeached’ [More] How much responsibility for that will fall on the shoulders of those dousing fire from gunvoter bellies with equivocation, fecklessness, and outright betrayal? How much of that will fall on him? Question for TINVOWOOTers: What’s the detailed alternative plan?
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The look and feel of a wood stock, the mechanical advantages of a chassis! The new Deadset from Boyds combines the best of both. |
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On January 3, 2026, a United States force of military personnel, assisting United States law enforcement captured and took into custody Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Adela Flores de Maduro. Maduro had taken control of the government of Venezuela, and illegitimately refused to transfer power after losing the last election. An indictment against Maduro had been issued by a New York grand jury in 2020, accusing the Maduros of conspiracy to transport and sell illegal drugs into the United States.
Because the United States does not recognize the Maduro regime as the legitimate government of Venezuela and because of the indictment against Maduro, his wife and others, this was considered to be a United States law enforcement action where the assistance of the United States military and intelligence agencies was required. It is a tribute to the Trump Administration the operational security of the operation was well executed. The American media did not receive leaks of the operation. Congress was not made aware of the operation until it was well underway. Secretary of State Rubio made clear such communication could not be done because of the nature of the operation and mission. President Trump made clear no American lives were lost during the mission.
Because the Maduros and others were indicted of conspiracy to import tons of illegal drugs in to the United States (over more than 25 years!) United States law allows the conspirators to be charged with illegal possession of machine guns and destructive devices. From the Maduro Indictment:
Count Two of this Superseding Indictment, knowingly used and carried firearms, and, in furtherance of such crimes, knowingly possessed firearms, and aided and abetted the use, carrying, and possession of firearms, to wit, machineguns that were capable of automatically shooting more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger, as well as destructive devices, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(c)(l)(A) and 924(c)(l)(B)(ii).
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 924(0) and 3238.)
In paragraph 37 of the indictment, the United States declares the defendants "shall forfeit to the United States" all firearms and ammunition used in the commission the offenses. It may seem odd that actors who never entered United States territory and whose action occurred outside United States territory can be found guilty of United States crimes. Such law has precedent from piracy and smuggling laws, where organizations involved in such actions stayed outside of the United States.
The action to bring the Maduros into custody, to stand trial in the United States has precedent from the arrest of Manuel Noriega, dictator in Panama, on January 3, 1990, 36 years ago. This correspondent spent five years in Panama under the Noriega regime. The situation was rather similar. The people of Panama did not consider Manuel Noriega and his confederates to be a legitimate government. The invasion of Panama was executed rapidly with overwhelming force. The lost of life was much greater than appears to be the case in Venezuela, but was small in military terms. Manuel Noriega found Jesus in prison in the USA. He was extradited back to Panama custody in December of 2011, where he had been convicted of murder. He died in prison in 2017. The fate of the Maduros is yet to be written.
The ability of the United States military, law enforcement and intelligence agencies to execute such a strike with overwhelming force, speed and precision stands in stark contrast with the bungle of a similar effort by Russia, almost four years ago. In a decapitation strike against the Ukrainian government of President Volodymyr Zelenski, Russian special forced failed to take control of the government. The Russian special forces which survived the decapitation effort were killed or captured. Russia and Ukraine remain in a bloody, stalemated war.
In Venezuela, it seems unlikely there will be much opposition to a United States supervised transition to a legitimate government. Maduro is widely unpopular. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported much of the security apparatus in Venezuela had been taken over by Cubans. He stated a challenge of transition to a legitimate government will be the removal of Cubans from Venezuelan government and security forces. From the press conference, by Rubio:
One of the biggest problems Venezuelans have is they have to declare independence from Cuba.
President Trump stated U.S. oil companies will rebuild the Venezuelan oil infrastructure. The oil revenue from Venezuela will be used to rebuild Venezuela, to make those harmed by the Venezuelan regime whole, and to benefit the people of Venezuela.
It is to be hoped the right of Venezuelan citizens to possess firearms will be restored in a future government. It seems likely a new Constitution will be written and voted on in Venezuela in the future. The Chavez regime changed the previous Constitution considerably.
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Gun Watch
Police say they responded to an attempted robbery call at the Quick Check Store, located at 1570 Alcy Road.
Officers were told that a man approached the checkout counter and pulled out a black handgun, which prompted the store clerk to pull out a gun and fire a shot at the suspect, striking him in the upper body.
The suspect then ran away on foot, running northbound on Perry Road and Alcy Road. Police stated that the suspect is known to frequent the area.
On January 7th, 1558, Calais, the last English possession in France, was retaken by French troops under Duc de Guise. (The Pale of Calais had been an exclave and parliamentary borough of England across the Strait of Dover from 1347 to 1558.) The painting above, The Siege of Calais was completed by François-Édouard Picot in 1838. — January 7th, 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa and Ganymede. — And on January 7th, 1930, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovered Francium (Fr), the last naturally occurring element to be found. — Today’s feature article is a guest …
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Editor’s Introductory Note: The alarming trend that is described in this article is also taking place in many other book genres. It is possible that at least one of the author names cited in this article may be genuine, so I’m preemptively stating: Jennifer Rader’s article is an attempt to accurately describe the extent of A.I.-generated trickery in contemporary publishing. If the she has mentioned any actual living human authors by mistake, our apologies. We will be glad to update this article with corrections or clarifications. – JWR — As a preparedness author, the meteoric rise in the number of …
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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. — Federal court strikes down California open carry gun ban as unconstitutional. Here is an excerpt from the article: “A federal court in California on Friday struck down the state’s law that prohibits people from openly carrying guns in most public places, ruling that the state law was unconstitutional because it violated the …
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“The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.” – Milton Friedman
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A Proper Tribute to John Taffin and the “Perfect Packing Pistol” Some firearms are tools. Others are heirlooms. And then, every once in a great while, a revolver comes along that feels like a thank you letter forged from stainless steel and walnut. The Lipsey’s Exclusive Ruger New Model Blackhawk commemorating John Taffin is exactly […]
The post Ruger Lipsey’s Exclusive New Model Blackhawk first appeared on Day At The Range.Smith & Wesson 10mm 4-Inch Mountain Guns Comparison Smith & Wesson Standard Catalog vs. Lipsey’s Exclusive There’s something about a 4-inch revolver chambered in 10 mm that just makes the heart beat a little faster. Rugged yet refined, these mountain guns are designed to bridge the gap between serious duty use and spirited range fun. […]
The post How Different Is The Lipsey’s Exclusive Smith and Wesson 10MM Mountain Gun first appeared on Day At The Range.Lipsey’s Exclusive – Smith & Wesson 686+ Mountain Gun: A Modern Classic Refined Some revolvers transcend simple utility and become something more—an extension of heritage, craftsmanship, and purposeful design. The Smith & Wesson 686+ Mountain Gun fits squarely into that category. Built on the venerable L-Frame and chambered in .357 Magnum, this revolver blends […]
The post A New Stallion In The Heard: Smith & Wesson 686+ Mountain Gun: A Modern Classic Refined first appeared on Day At The Range.Funny, how the commies are all against federal agents being masked. Thing is, so am I.
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I walked out into the carport this morning and saw a little water on the floor near the carport door. I wasn't really concerned, thinking it was condensation dripping from the humid weather and heavy dews we have had lately. Looked closer and wasn't convinced, so I went inside and looked at the hot water heater. Found a drip, a very small drip, coming from the lie that brins hot water to the house. Well, hell. Verdigris corrosion, that line was about to fail.
By Dave Workman The National Rifle Association on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against its own charitable foundation—the NRA Foundation—alleging the misuse of millions of dollars in donations, and that the foundation has been “seized by a disgruntled faction of former NRA directors” who are now attempting to regain power via the foundation. According to […]
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The 5.56 suppressor that hasn't even landed on the market yet, but is already beating all of the competition! EchoCore Suppressors are here.
Dad (who was a history professor) liked to say that History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time. I get an incredible sense of deja vu all over again looking at Mitre's list of top 25 exploits for 2025.
The top 4 are all very, very old. I myself demonstrated #4 when I taught a computer security class (with corporate IT Security present) back in 1994. That's three decades ago.
And what's with numbers 11 and 14? One of the classic papers on software security is Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit - from 1996.
Numbers 3, 6, and 22 are web server vulnerabilities that are over 20 years old, and I've posted about them before.
17, 19, and 21 have been known since before I was in this industry. Call it the 1980s, although it's likely older.
I guess it's nice to see a shout-out to DoS (number 25) although geez, this is depressing.
So that's half the list having been known for literally multiple decades. So what gives?
I blame Agile Software Development. I guess I'm the cranky old guy yelling at the sky here, because this is how all software is developed these days. Product Managers (my old field) are to blame here, having spent the last 20 or 30 years pushing Go Ugly Early - get working product shipping as soon as possible and let customers tell you how to improve it. Essentially, a lot of what you would have the developers spend their time fixing are things that customers just don't care about.
This has led to a pushback of sorts from software professionals, particularly the Software Craftsmanship movement. Their manifesto is interesting:
As aspiring Software Craftsmen we are raising the bar of professional software development by practicing it and helping others learn the craft. Through this work we have come to value:
- Not only working software, but also well-crafted software
- Not only responding to change, but also steadily adding value
- Not only individuals and interactions, but also a community of professionals
- Not only customer collaboration, but also productive partnerships
So what's missing from this? How about don't keep making the same dumb security mistakes that people have been making for decades?
And what do Product Managers miss in their rush to go ugly early? How about don't keep making the same dumb security mistakes that people have been making for decades?
And so here we are. The IT infrastructure of the 21st Century has been constructed out of moonbeams and cotton candy.
I don't see anything changing here, as the incentive structures are all stacked against good security.
The Prohibitionists say you don’t need guns for self-defense because murders outnumber bad guys killed by armed citizens in self-defense. Those Prohibitionists are a bloody-minded lot, aren’t they? They prefer to ignore the fact that most citizen defensive gun usages end without anyone being killed, when the bad guy(s) flee or occasionally surrender. They also […]Garcia was previously convicted of murder in 2013 and later released. He is accused of killing a 58-year-old man in Philadelphia on Nov. 12 and is also wanted for questioning in a Nov. 28 homicide in Florida.
Garcia suffered stab and gunshot wounds during Sunday's incident and is in critical condition. A second victim, a 34-year-old man, arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm and was listed in stable condition.
Police said another man told investigators he shot Garcia after Garcia allegedly shot the 34-year-old victim during a physical altercation. The man said he struck and stabbed Garcia while trying to protect others and during a struggle over a gun.
According to investigators, four suspects kicked in the rear door of the residence and forced their way inside. During the break-in, one of the occupants inside the home shot and wounded one of the intruders.
The suspects fled the scene immediately after the shooting. Anderson Police later located and arrested three of the four suspects, while the fourth was located when a medical facility notified officers that someone was being treated for a gunshot wound.
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January 6, 1799 was the birthday of Jedediah Strong Smith, one of America’s greatest trapper-explorers. He was born in Bainbridge, New York. Smith explored a huge area of the American West during his short life. “He began his western voyages in 1822, when he joined the pioneering fur trader William Ashley on a trip up the Missouri River. Unlike earlier fur traders, who depended on Native Americans to actually trap or hunt the furs, Ashley eliminated the Natives as middlemen and instead sent out independent white trappers like Smith to do the job. To escape dependence on Native Americans, though, …
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(The photo above, courtesy of Openverse, was taken by “Terren in Virginia“, a witness to a 2008 baseball team “fan rivalry” brawl at a New York sports stadium.) The following is what I learned about security at lunch one day: Scenario One Tuesday, about six weeks ago, I stopped for a late lunch at a local upscale family restaurant in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that is part of a well-known chain. It was about 3 o’clock in the afternoon and it seemed to be a quiet place to have lunch and prepare my Sunday school lesson. I selected a seat near …
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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. The photo above was shot from the east side of the Snake River Canyon. The United States Congress designated the Hells Canyon Wilderness in 1975. It measures 217,927 acres, with about 83,811 acres in Idaho, and 134,116 acres Oregon. The wilderness is jointly managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service. (Photo courtesy of the BLM.) Redoubt News Links: Adventuring down the deepest …
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