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A screen grab from a YouTube short, it seems that this bear has climbed a utility pole and is resting on the cross bar.
"It appears that Juliun [Stokes] was standing beside the open driver's door reaching into the vehicle when Carl [Loubeau] approached him from that same side of the vehicle and opened fire on him," Chief Niemczyk said. "Dwayne [Walker] was in close proximity, probably around the trunk of the Mustang when he was approached."
Walker, who investigators say is a close friend of Stokes, was also in the driveway. Detectives say he immediately returned fire, shooting Loubeau in what they believe was self-defense.
Investigators say Stokes never fired his weapon. Detectives also believe Loubeau may have mistaken Stokes for Walker, who police say was involved in some type of relationship with Loubeau's girlfriend.
"A lady was saying, 'He's got a knife, he's got a knife," a witness who wished to remain anonymous told CBS LA. "Then he started dipping and dodging in between the lines, and then you hear two shots."
LASD officials say that the suspect, who remains publicly unidentified, was confronted by the customer, who was "lawfully armed and possessed a valid concealed carry permit."
"The customer ordered the male adult to drop the knife. The male adult then charged toward the customer while still armed with the knife, and the customer discharged their firearm," the release said.
Plaquemine Parish is bracing.... well, acknowledging that TS Bertha is about to come ashore. It ain't much as tropical storms go, but if you're going to be hit, this is the one to get hit by.
Otherwise, it is just Wednesday. We had some friends drop by after lunch and it is too damned hot to work outside anyway. Current atmospherics are 96F with 60% humidity and a heat index of 115. It's warm out there. Wind is out of the NE, steady at 8, gusting to 13 and feels like a blow-drier.
I think I'll stay my butt indoors.
Knife Rights v. Bonta (9th Cir. 2026). This being the 9th Circuit, they upheld California's ban on concealed carry of switchblade knives. I am disappointed that I was not asked to provide expert declarations or rebut the other side's expert declarations. I am not sure how much difference it would have made. At the core of this decision is the concept of how and why:
In assessing whether a law is "relevantly similar under the Second Amendment," courts are instructed to compare modern and historical regulations in terms of "how and why the regulations burden a law-abiding citizen's right to armed self-defense."...
Other states and territories continued to adopt concealed carry restrictions on Bowie knives and other dangerous knives and weapons during and after the Civil War. These states punished unlawful concealed carry with imprisonment, fines, or both.[10] In addition, the record includes prohibitions on the concealed carry of knives from several cities in the post-Civil War period.[11]
The record also includes evidence as to why jurisdictions prohibited the concealed carry of Bowie knives and other knives. One of California's experts, Dr. Robert Spitzer, explained that "Bowie knives were widely used in fights and duels," and were known to be "fighting knives" intended for "[interpersonal] combat." Another expert, Dr. Brennan Rivas, explained that "[a]s rates of violence rose during the nineteenth century, people were more likely to carry and use large knives; the increased presence of knives . . . had the regrettable consequence of exacerbating the problem." This problem was "especially notable in southern areas, where Bowie knives were quite common and known to be associated with needless bloodshed."
The problem here is why those laws were adopted. The decision acknowledges that these laws adopted in the 1950s because of criminal use.(Perhaps largely in West Side Story.) The why for the antebellum period was not members of the criminal class but the people who would become legislators, judges, and militia officers. My book Concealed Weapon Laws of the Early Republic examines this odd situation in more detail.
I am planning disaster against this people,
from which you cannot save yourselves.
You will no longer walk proudly,
for it will be a time of calamity.
In that day people will ridicule you;
they will taunt you with this mournful song:
"We are utterly ruined;
my people’s possession is divided up.
He takes it from me!
He assigns our fields to traitors."
Therefore you will have no one in the assembly of the Lord
To divide the land by lot." (2:3-5)
What goes around comes around: You defraud your fellow Israelites out of land with no remorse. "Your" (you took it from the poor) land will now be taken from you. Who will do this? The Assyrians. You will be as to them what the poor has been to you.
God is warning His people that their callous injustice has blinded them to the storm clouds that are gathering around them. They are so busy scheming that they do not see nor care that there are other people who are scheming against them.
There is a message here for many. Steal from the taxpayers and do not be surprised when it is taken back. Ignore the legitimate needs of those in whose names those frauds took place and it will not go well for you.
Tuna sends in another one:
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You don’t need a budget like the Trump family’s to get a high quality, reliable, super-accurate hunting rifle. Here’s an article I did in 2008 for Backwoods Home magazine on the Savage 110 series. The Savage catalog has descendants of the Model 110 series today that are better than ever. Anti-gun novelist Evan Hunter, who […]
Wombo-combo of a 9mm PCC and a tucked suppressor, the JAKL-9 could be a contendor. But simple blowback might hold it back...
The first step in the decision cycle is Observing. This is analogous to the “situational awareness” that is often mentioned but rarely defined.
If it’s described at all, it’s with phrases like “Checking one’s six” or “scanning the environment”, but it’s entirely possible to look around and not see, and even seeing isn’t the same as observing. Reducing it to the simplest example, if you are lying on your back in your bed and you wake up and open your eyes, then photons are going to bounce off the ceiling and hit your retinas. You are looking at the ceiling, you are even seeing it, but you are not observing the ceiling, let alone the entirety of your room...
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| How many people in this picture are really aware of their surroundings? |
A 40-year-old man was found shot at the bottom of a stairwell, along with a knife. Paramedics with the Phoenix Fire Department tried to help the man, but his injuries were too severe, and he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two women, aged 27 and 30, were also found suffering from severe stab wounds inside an apartment. They were immediately transported to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Dig deeper:
Detectives said the deceased man had arrived uninvited at the apartment and assaulted one of the women. When a second woman, who is related to the first, tried to intervene, she was stabbed. One of the women was romantically involved with the suspect.
"The disturbance drew the attention of neighbors, and one neighbor shot the suspect as he continued attacking both women," according to police.
This could be a dismissed as a incredible fantasy dream come true: “The US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, has agreed to hear en banc the question of whether Congress has the constitutional authority to enact federal gun control laws.” … Continue reading →
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By Dave Workman It has been called “gun safety legislation,” “gun reform,” and “gun responsibility,” but it all boils down to the same thing: gun control. And lately, the gun prohibition lobby and its allies in government from town councils to Congress have been using a new bit of grammatical camouflage to make the same […]
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Tropical Depression Two got its act together for a few minutes last night and became Tropical Storm Bertha. She ain't much as tropical storms go, but she will limp along the coast and cause havoc. Eventually going into Texas and becoming a rain maker. The weather weenies tell us that she is getting a lot of wind shear from the northeast, which is ripping the north side of the storm apart.
It is what it is, and if this is the worst storm we see this season, I will be mightily pleased.
LG's Smart TV features being overly intrusive is common among smart TVs, but LG's newer UltraGear computer monitors are now also taking liberties with user privacy and security.
On some Windows systems, connecting a new LG monitor will spur Windows Update to download drivers and the LG Monitor App Installer, which will then display pop-up ads for other LG applications or even McAfee antivirus software. This is disappointing news to say the least, but fortunately my LG UltraGear 27GL850-B doesn't seem to be impacted.
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"Great-great-grandpa survived malaria, typhus and Spanish Mauser bullets and came home with his trusty Springfield floptop. In the intervening years, the wooden forearm had been shortened and the barrel had been chopped back to a more manageable length for stalking whitetail in the laurel groves of the Appalachians, and at some point, a Lyman peep sight had been added to the old tomato stake, but that timeworn militia rifle had been making meat every autumn since William McKinley was in office. It was just in for a checkup."Bringback firearms, both captured war trophies and issued... uh, "souvenirs" ...were common among our nation's citizen soldiers for most of two centuries.
Leupold and Hornady just brought some writers out to Nebraska to train carbine skills, play with some new toys and see how world-class ammo gets made.
CTV News recently published an article about "crime guns" traced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Careful analysis of the information provided shows the article is as much about spin as enlightenment.
Only 8% of firearms crime result in a firearm being recovered. Of those, only 20% of firearms seized by police are sent for tracing. Of the ones sent in for tracing, the sample in the CTV News article excluded most of the traces done in Ontario and Quebec. Of those, the definition of a "crime gun" is broad, and includes many non-violent crimes.
Ontario and Quebec have their own firearm tracing systems. Information from those systems was not included in the article. Quebec and Ontario contain about 61% of Canada's population. Information from the most populated parts of Canada was not included. The sample for the article for CTV news was not representative of the Canadian population.
The way the numbers are used is confusing. For example: the article says the RCMP completed 6,951 firearm traces. Then it says 4,197 of those were identified as "crime guns". Of the 4,197 "crime guns" it says 2,814 had a known source. The implication is: of the 4197 "crime guns" 1,384 did not have a known source. If the 1,384 did not have a known source, how could a trace have been completed? Perhaps the author meant to write the RCMP attempted to trace 6,951 firearms, but was only successful in tracing 67% of those.
The article then states 71 percent of the firearms traced in 2024 (by the RCMP) were domestic long guns. Long guns are the vast majority of firearms in Canada (89%). We know 2,654 of the 6,951 guns "traced" were not crime guns. Those would be 39% of the firearms traced. If the vast majority of those were long guns, as would be expected, over half of the 71 percent of long guns traced were not "crime guns".
The definition of "crime guns" is broad and worth considering. From the article:
The RCMP centre defines crime guns as firearms that were used or suspected to have been used in criminal offences, guns whose serial numbers have been obliterated or altered, firearms that were found but not reported lost or stolen, and replicas, toys, 3D-printed guns, pellet or air guns that have been used in criminal offences.
The article does not break out the numbers of toys, replicas, pellet and air guns from the total. The article lists 67 home manufactured guns or "ghost guns". Those can be made in a number of different ways than 3D printing. 3D printing can be used to make replicas or toy guns.
Of the guns which were traced, or perhaps attempted to be traced, 17% were identified as smuggled handguns, or 1,165. Presumably, these were all classified as "crime guns", because they were smuggled. Handguns in Canada are required to be registered. Nine percent (616) were domestically sourced handguns. This probably means they were registered in Canada at some point. Handguns do not appear to have been commercially manufactured in Canada since Para-Ordinace moved to the USA in 2009. From the above numbers, about 65% of the handguns were smuggled handguns. 9+16 = 26, so only 26% of the total firearms mentioned in the RCMP traces were handguns. Only two percent (137) were smuggled long guns. Almost 1% (67) were privately manufactured firearms sometimes called "ghost guns".
Of the 2,814 "crime guns" where the source could be identified, 86% were found to have come from within Canada. Only 14% were smuggled. The number may be biased because Canadian guns are more likely to be successfully traced. The vast majority of traces for the largest Canadian urban centers were not included. This could explain the relatively low handgun figures.
In an official Canadian government report published in 2025, 49% of violent firearms crimes in Canada were committed with handguns. It is obvious "crime guns" includes a great many non-violent crimes. When firearms are involved in violent crime, very few are recovered. From the article referenced above:
Where these data were available, more than nine in ten (92%) incidents of firearm related violent crime did not involve the recovery of a firearm, eight in ten (81%) did not involve the seizure of a firearm and nearly all (99%) did not involve a firearm being reported as stolen.
In a separate Parliamentary report using data from 2020, 58% of firearms traced in Canada were reportedly from Canada, and half of those were handguns. This means 29% of the firearms which were traced were handguns from Canada. The same report states 28% of handguns traced were domestically sourced. If 29% of all firearms traced are handguns from Canada, and 28% of handguns traced are from Canada, then 29% of firearms traced cannot be long guns from Canada. The use of percentages instead of raw numbers allows many statistical games to be played.
The percent of successful traces done by the RCMP in 2024 matches precisely with the report for all of Canada for 2023. 67% of traces were successful.
The raw numbers show there were only 277 firearms homicides committed in all of Canada in 2020. Less than half of those, only 135, were committed with handguns. 135 deaths, or even 277 deaths of the 300,000 annual deaths in Canada is a very small percentage. Homicides are shocking events, but less than .1 percent of deaths is a very small number. For handguns alone, it is .044%. Nearly three times as many people die in drowning accidents each year in Canada.
Analysis: One of the ways to lie with statistics is to pick a sample which delivers the result you want. When the Canadian government wants to ban handguns, the reports emphasize the percent of homicides committed with handguns. When the Canadian government wishes to ban large numbers of long guns, the article attempts to frame firearms crime in Canada as mostly involving long guns. Firearms in Canada are not a serious problem.
In Canada, 80% of firearms related deaths are suicides, about 19.8% are homicides and .8% are accidents. The numbers of Canadian suicides by firearms were listed at 80% without precise numbers. Rounding results in slightly over 100% total.
Draconian firearm restrictions may reduce the number of suicides committed with firearms. They do not reduce the total number of suicides. Draconian firearm restrictions may reduce the number of homicides committed with firearms. They do not reduce the total number of homicides. The per capita rate of firearms ownership in the United States is unrelated to the homicide rate.
Playing games with the number of firearm traces reduces the credibility of the source.
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Once the two were face-to-face arguing, victim/suspect #1 lifted his shirt to show a firearm in his front waistband. Police said victim/suspect #2 started to reach for the firearm, and the two began fighting.
They said that’s when a third man, later identified as the brother of suspect #2, came into the store, pulled out his firearm, and began shooting at victim/suspect #1.
Police said video also showed victim/suspect #2 pulled a handgun from his waistline and started shooting at victim/suspect #1, and his brother picked up victim/suspect #1’s firearm, and the two left the scene in a White GMC.
This Week in History July 21, 1403: The Battle of Shrewsbury. An army led by the Lancastrian King of England, Henry IV defeated a rebel army led by Henry “Harry Hotspur” Percy of Northumberland thus ending the Percy challenge to the throne. This was also the first battle English archers fought each other on English soil. — 1669: John Locke‘s constitution for the English Province of Carolina was adopted. — July 23, 1764: James Otis published “The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved,” in which he argued against taxation without representation. — And on July 24, 1847, Brigham …
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Most people live in a state of perpetual psychological comfort known as Normalcy Bias. This is the deeply ingrained, warm, fuzzy assumption that the systems keeping us alive today will function indefinitely tomorrow. We unconsciously believe that the grocery store will always hold a fresh supply of organic kale, the kitchen tap will never run dry, and the wall outlet will indefinitely pump electricity on demand. Spoiler alert: It won’t. When we analyze why individuals, organizations, or entire societies collapse during a crisis, the root cause is rarely a complete lack of preparation. Instead, failure occurs because someone mistook a …
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“As the twilight drew on, [the dog’s] eager yearning for the fire mastered it, and with a great lifting and shifting of forefeet, it whined softly, then flattened its ears down in anticipation of being chidden by the man. But the man remained silent. . . . [The dog] caught the scent of death.” (Jack London, “To Build a Fire”). Fire is important. It is so important that I recommend carrying at least three different tools for starting a fire while in the field. I recommend that one of these tools be a ferrocerium (ferro) rod. The Fire-Fast Trekker Fire …
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Today’s graphic is a map that shows U.S. counties by the number of weeks experiencing extreme drought, as of mid-July, 2026. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest Wall Street expert says a massive stock market crash is coming and this tech company will be the ‘first domino to fall’. Mapped: Where Food Inflation Will Hit Hardest in 2026. 30-Year Fixed-Rate Mortgage Reaches Highest Level In Almost A Year. A 28 Item Grocery Order From Target That Cost $64.50 In 2020 Now Costs $158.30. At Contrarian Thinking: The Delusion Premium. CBS: Student loan defaults hit record highs in wake …
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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, Data Center Power Demand. Normalizing Martial Law in America Reader Mark in Florida recommended this article: The Great Normalization (Nobody Declared Martial Law… Yet America Began Looking Like …
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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. — First up, over at The Washington Post: The death of the stick shift is almost here. “Driving a manual vehicle is a lost art. Hopes of a revival have fallen flat. With the rise of EVs and autonomous vehicles, only a few die-hards are holding on.” o o o House passes Trump’s plan …
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REDOUBT NEWS LINKS Video of a classic graceful plane in gorgeous scenery: Catalina splashing in Priest Lake. (Ignore the inane, tipsy chatter.) “Princess of the Stars” is one of North America’s last flying Catalinas. Oregon petition to ban hunting, fishing fails first round of signature vetting. The latest video from Expedition Rove in North Idaho: We’re Building This From the Ground Up… Jackson Couple Gives Historic Flat Creek Ranch To Longtime Caretakers To Save It. Two structures lost in over 6,000-acre wildfire southwest of Inchelium in Ferry County. This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: I Voted… But It Was For Huckleberries Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“I don’t believe in luck. I believe in preparation.” – Basketball coach Bobby Knight (1940-2023)
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