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I’ll be out Monday. Please hold off on sending news tips until I signal my return on Tuesday, otherwise it will probably be a wasted effort on your part.
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Several years ago when Ruger introduced their Ruger American Ranch Rifle in 7.62x39 I had immediate case of the wants. I have a large supply of the caliber and it would be very useful here in Pennsylvania. However, I generally don't buy right handed bolt action rifles unless they are a classic or military surplus. So, I've held off on getting one.
However, yesterday I got my hands on a suitable alternative in another caliber I stock with similar ballistics. It's a right handed boltgun but for this case I'll make an exception. It's a Savage Stevens 325B in .30-30 Winchester.
In 1947 or '48, Savage Arms' Stevens subsidiary introduced a new rifle, the model 325. It was designed to appeal to returning GIs who'd gotten used to shooting bolt action rifles and was chambered initially in .30-30 and .22 Hornet. After a few years it was renamed the Savage 340 and in addition to these two calibers, was chambered in .222 Remington, .223 Remington, and .225 Winchester. Savage sold the 340s until 1985.
These rifles used modern manufacturing techniques including many stamped sheet steel parts, to help keep the cost down. Instead of walnut the stock was made from birch. It sold for $38 in 1948, which an inflation calculator tells me is worth about $656 today.
The Stevens is rather plain, but a serviceable rifle. I imagine that many of them were working guns on farms. Over on the Gun and Game Forum, member Outpost75, who owns a Savage 340A in .30-30, described them, "These are good, sturdy, accurate little rifles, if a bit "agricultural" looking."
This Stevens 325B in .30-30 followed me home from the Oaks, PA gun show yesterday. It's in excellent shape for a 76 year old gun. It's stamped on the top of the barrel near the receiver with a B inside of a circle. This appears to be a Savage date code indicating it was built in 1950. The bore and crown are spotless. Along with the gun I bought a Chicom SKS sling. I like these because they are simple, light, quiet, and easy to adjust.
The unloaded rifle weighs 7 lbs. but feels a little lighter to me because it balances very well. The barrel is 21" long, and the length of pull is about 13-5/8", which fits me nicely.
If you're enamored with Jeff Cooper's scout rifle concept one of these would be a good scout-ish platform, keeping in mind that it cannot be rechambered for .308 and scope mounting requires a side-mounted rail. You won't get stripped clip loading but because it uses detachable box magazines, that's moot, IMHO.
The detachable box magazine feed also makes these ideal for truck gun usage. You can keep a couple magazines loaded and locked in a separate container from the rifle, but quickly load it when required.
The standard scope mounts for this series of rifles mounts to the side of the receiver, due to the split bridge design. My rifle was built before Savage came out with their side mount so it lacks the drilled and tapped mounting holes. However, it is drilled and tapped for a receiver peep sight. I setup a search on eBay to see if one turns up.
For now I'll rely on the open iron sights. Another possibility is to drill and tap the receiver ring for a short section of Picatinny rail and mount a small dot sight on it. That would help preserve the rifle's handling while giving a much better sighting arrangement.
Something to keep in mind if you buy one of these is that the bolt has only one locking lug, relying on the root of the bolt handle to act as a safety lug. Compared with, e.g., a Mauser, Mosin-Nagant, or Lee-Enfield, the action is relatively weak. That said, it is plenty strong enough for factory loads in the calibers for which it was built.
The Stevens feeds from a three-round detachable box magazine. I like such magazines on hunting rifles because they facilitate easy loading and unloading, and with a spare magazine in your pocket you're set for a day's hunt. I ordered a couple reproductions from Numrich Arms, which may require a little final fitting.
The magazine is also a limiting factor on those who want to use spitzer bullets in the .30-30. While rifles with tubular magazines can't use hard-tipped pointed bullets because of the risk of unwanted detonation in the mag, the short length of the Savage / Stevens pretty much limits cartridges to those with the same length as factory loads. Here's the mag filled with Remington 170 grain Core Lokt factory loads. You can see there isn't much room for a longer bullet.
An interesting feature on my rifle is a .30-30 case head inlet into the right side of the butt. The pictures I've found of the Stevens lack this so I'm guessing a previous owner put it there. Pretty cool.
The .30-30 cartridge is great for shooting cast bullets, which I plan to do. So I slugged the bore by driving a .32 caliber lead bullet through the barrel and then measuring the groove diameter, which came out to .30905". I have some .310" bullets from MOD Outfitters I'll be trying in the Stevens after I get the chance to load some .30-30s.
In my wanderings online to search for info about the Stevens 325 and Savage 340 rifle I ran across these two articles by Leeroy Wisner, which are worth saving if you have one:
- Stevens 325 and Savage 340 Bolt Action Rifle
- Gunsmithing the Savage Model 340 Rifle
And also this site:
I've always thought this series of rifles was neat and I'm happy to have finally acquired one. Now all I need to happen is for the weather to warm up so it's normal Southeast, PA winter instead of feeling like I live on Hoth, and I'll get to shoot it.
The Cowboy Fast Draw Association is shooting their national championship this weekend in St. Augustine, FL. This championship moves around, and this is the first time it has been on the east coast. About 150 shooters from all over the country are enjoying Florida weather and testing their skills.
Belle and I didn't make it this year, for a variety oof reasons. It just didn't fit into our schedule. We've pared our schedule back some this year. We'll do Texas in March, Georgia in April, and we are hosting Louisiana in May. We plan to go to Kentucky in September.
I'm told that there is some trifling football game tomorrow. I don't follow football as much as I used to, but the Super Bowl was one game I always watched. I met Belle at a Super Bol party in 2001. Back then, the big game was the last Sunday in January. Sometime since then, it has moved to February.
More currently, today is Saturday and I have things on my list.
Farewell to the Washington Post. Journalists never cared when mills across the land shut down and people and towns were wiped out; now it's wailing like the End Of The World by journalists, for journalists.
I'm having trouble summoning up sympathy. Welcome to the club, pal.
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Three people were inside the home at the time of the shooting — one woman and two men.
Homicide detectives spoke with the woman, who said she was visiting her 39-year-old boyfriend’s house when her 22-year-old ex-boyfriend showed up and began banging on the front door and window.
The woman told detectives that after a prolonged period of this, she decided to open the door to go outside. That’s when she said her ex-boyfriend forced his way into the house and walked toward her current boyfriend.
The woman said she then heard multiple shots, and her 39-year-old boyfriend left the scene.
“If you break into somebody’s home, you should beg to get shot. And that’s exactly what happened,” said Sheriff Bill Leepe, with the Nassau County Sheriffs office.
The sheriff’s office said the shooting was in self-defense. Investigators 18-year-old Anson Shawn Drew and a juvenile broke into a home on Clearwater Road in Nassauville. The report states the suspect pointed a flashlight at the homeowner, who then shot his revolver at the suspect in fear for his life.
The juvenile suspect is recovering at the hospital and is in stable condition after being shot in his lower back. Sheriffs office says both suspects tried to flee on foot after the shooting. The report states Drew left one of his shoes behind when he ran off. He was later arrested at his home.
On February 7, 1812, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake shook New Madrid, Missouri. The public domain photo above was taken in 2006. JWR’s Comment: I’d suggest woodframe rather than brick construction, for earthquake-prone locales… — And on February 7, 1904, The Baltimore Fire. An estimated 1,500 buildings were destroyed. Fires raged through 80 blocks. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 123 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 …
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We have all seen the media drama these past few weeks regarding the weather. Until about 10 years ago, I never even heard the term “polar vortex”, it was just winter. Living in Maine for the past 20 + years and making through the harsh winters has been a humbling and rewarding experience. Every spring you can hear people sigh in relief. I feel sorry for the lower portion of the country that has been experiencing the extreme cold, ice and snow. It’s something that takes getting used to and it helps to have the proper clothing and gear to …
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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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“And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them. Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying, Take …
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Tennessee Appeals Court Rejects Argument That Covenant Shooter Manifesto Must Remain Concealed to Avoid Copycats [More] So we’re children…? Who are the adults, and who decides? You could use that excuse to suppress just about anything. [Via Michael G]
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Stop Idaho Federal Constitutional Convention Resolutions HCR 23 and HCR 25 [More] It would help if they had a date on this and ID’d who the Republicans pushing this are. I can’t believe anyone representing himself as a “conservative” is still backing this nonsense. It’s tantamount to a proclamation that they can come up with … Continue reading "Con Game"
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Look who wants to send armed men to come for your guns. [Watch] I’d be interested in knowing who this spoiled child is and why he believes his opinion matters to any men. Anybody know? Does he have a following? Actually, what I find most disturbing is the amount of gun owners fixated on “10 … Continue reading "First You Cry"
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How They’ll Use Your Schools and Doctors to Disarm You [Watch] Maybe him, but not me. Defeatist titles send the exact wrong message. [Via Jess]
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Dad tried to grow a mustache once. It was in the early 70's, and was less than successful. Dad had fine, dark red hair that gave rise to a mustache that was thin and sparse. I remember my Mom looking at the final outcome and trying her darnedest not to giggle and failing. Dad looked at it with a wry smile, shrugged, and went back to the bathroom and shaved it off. Mom wasn't trying to belittle his efforts; her love fluttered over all of us like small wings, whisking away tears and brushing aside fears. She treated Dad the same way, but oh dear Lord, was that a sorry-looking mustache, and even Dad realized it.
I remember my Dad's ritual, which remained as long as he lived. After he did his morning workout (which he did six days a week for 80 years), he'd go shave. He would never use an electric razor or any shave cream in a can. No, Dad always had a mug of fine soap, a high-quality brush,, and a regular razor, with a straight razor when he wanted an extra-close shave for a special occasion.
I remember vividly those winter mornings of childhood, all of us dressing quickly, not so much that the house was cold, but hearts and blood and minds weren't quite awake yet, and movement was with willful purpose until such time as the chocolate milk or the caffeine kicked in. Dad would come through the kitchen from where he worked out, giving my Mom a kiss, the morning sun highlighting the freckles on her face, then a kiss for each of us, still in our pajamas, our faces innocent of either guile or water.
When he was done, he'd finish as he started, with a clean washcloth doused in extra hot water, laid on his face to steam it. Then he'd finish with a splash of aftershave. There were only a few that he would wear.
Then there was the Hai Karate. My Dad had some of that and was supremely disappointed, and he used to tease my Mom that his bottle must have been a dud, since he didn't have to fend off any supermodels with karate chops like in the commercials. I don't remember what it smelled like, but I don't think he ever had to fend off Mom wearing it, though, come to think of it, once, when he put on too much, she drove a golf ball from the back yard through the back kitchen window with a Five Iron.
Dad gave that up for Old Spice, which he wore from then on, though once in a while he'd put on "Stetson" cologne and give Mom this look, and she'd giggle, and we'd go have a sleepover with our beloved Aunt and Uncle.
Now, there's not just aftershave; there is cologne, shampoo, body washes, and shampoo/body washes (and what's the difference?).
Most advertise themselves as smelling like "fresh glacier extinguishing a giant forest fire full of deer in heat" or something like that. I think the perfect man's natural scent would be a mysterious combination of gun cleaning fluid, coffee, bacon, and woodsmoke, but I loved Dad's Old Spice and the sandalwood scent my husband wears.
When he is done, he'll join me on the couch in his bathrobe, the house quiet but for hundred-year-old sconces on the walls that lend the room an aura of timelessness. We won't talk much but of books we are reading, of things in our home that need repair, or simply our day as we sit and stroke the flanks of a rescue dog that lies beside us. Such rituals are as fine as a blade, as comforting as stone. Shared, they are as bright and uplifting as the flash of sparks as dulled blade and stone meet.
There won't be any trips back "home", Dad gone 5 years now, but I remember the last ones vividly. I dreaded the changes I would see in his physicality and changes in his world. But when I went home, and my frail Dad gave me an affectionate bear hug of welcome, he still smelled like Old Spice, and I was six years old again.
-Brigid
We already saw it wouldn’t leave. This is telling: In addition to their website’s “contact us” and “media inquiries” buttons being disconnected, replies their X posts are disabled. Like all gun control groups, they like preaching to the choir. I’d argue “mob,” not “choir,” but it’s a valid observation. Check it out: Their whole purpose, … Continue reading "The THING That Would Not Engage"
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Back during the Depression, Congress decided to protect poor people from investing in small companies by setting a minimum level of wealth you had to have to invest: one million dollars (excluding value of your home). Really, the goal was to make sure big opportunities were limited to those already wealthy. But of course, these being Democrats, they had to pretend they were helping the poor.
The only significant exception was Incentive Stock Option plans that were how those of us who worked for startups were allowed to enjoy.
In a recent appearance on The Iced Coffee Hour podcast, Robbins pointed to a recently passed House bill that he says could open the door to investing strategies once reserved for the country’s “very wealthy.”
“Did you see what they passed in Congress two days ago? It’s really important,” Robbins said (1), referring to the Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation (INVEST) Act, which passed the House of Representatives in December 2025 (2).
One of the most consequential changes, Robbins argued, involves who is allowed to invest in private markets.
“It used to have a minimum net worth you have to have, or a minimum income,” he said (1). “They just changed the rules … all you have to do is take a test.”
Under current securities laws, access to many private investments is limited to accredited investors — a designation that generally requires a net worth of at least $1 million (excluding primary residence) or annual income above $200,000 for individuals, or $300,000 for couples (3).
Those thresholds have historically restricted participation in private equity, venture capital and other alternative investments to institutions and high-net-worth households.
The INVEST Act includes a provision titled “Equal opportunity for all investors,” which aims to update that framework.
Instead of qualifying solely through wealth or income, the bill would allow investors to become accredited by passing an exam approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission — potentially expanding access to millions of Americans.
I am not thrilled about the test requirement, but it at least no longer actively discriminates against little people. Standard Oil made some pretty ordinary employees very rich.
Here is the Congressional elevator pitch for the law.
Republican women are 14% more likely to own guns than Democrat men. [More] That may not be a fair metric since one party knows how to define genders. Still, it’s telling. And it also illustrates why new gun owners are nothing to crow about. In terms of total numbers, I wouldn’t be starting any civil … Continue reading "Enemy Strength"
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Ready for your first SBR or SBS? Make the process easy and inexpensive by filing your own eForm 1 with the ATF! Here is what you need to know.This is the last component. It holds the lens in a cell that can be adjusted for tiny angles by set screws in the tube impinging on the outside of the cell.
The OD is 59mm to fit in a 59.28mm PVC tube. That lip near the bottom is 50.08mm ID (the original tube ID). The bored section above is 52mm ID. This is just large enough for the 51.90mm OD lens to slide with slight encouragement (not a hammer) down to the lip. I will put a rubber O-ring at the lip to cushion the lens, then another O-ring on top of the lens, then a 52mm retaining ring to keep it in position.
Lessons Learned
I cut a 1.30" section off the tube. Then I squared it and trimmed it to .875" long. Then I turned the exterior to 60mm OD where I discovered that the workpiece was not exactly centered in the 3-jaw chuck. Why? Aren't 3-jaw chucks self-centering? I had removed the jaws to reverse them. While reversing the jaws, I did not reinstall them correctly, so they were not centering the workpiece on the axis of rotation. The exterior trim had the jaws holding the interior of the tube and the 2.5" 3-jaw chuck cannot enlarge enough to firmly hold a 60mm tube.
Fortunately, one of the useful aspects of a lathe is minor discrepancies like this are not terminal. Once properly centered, turning the tube to 60mm OD meant that I could now hold the tube on the outside and turn the interior to a properly centered bore.
Once turned, I discovered the lens cell would not quire go into the PVC tube which was actually 59.28mm. So back to the lathe to turn off another mm. (I need a little slop so that the set screws in the PVC tube can move the lens cell.)
Cutting the tailpiece tube adapter from a 1" thick piece of Delrin was a win. I am not sure how much of the inability of the extension tube to stay square was that the adapter made of CFC was 1/2" thick and how much was that I bored the entry hole slightly too large, but with the hole 0.05" larger than the extension tube, it is now a snug fit that can be pulled or pushed with just a little effort before locking down with an 8-32 thumbscrew. (The extension tube is really just a coarse focus with a helical focuser in the end to provide fine focus, held by an 8-32 thumbscrew, so it does not need to move effortlessly.)
I had been worried that I might need to bore a compression ring channel on the inside of the tailpiece tube adapter. Telescope eyepiece holders can go cheap and use just a thumbscrew to hold the eyepiece in place. A little fancier model has a brass compression ring sitting in a channel inside the tube.
The thumbscrew squeezes down on the ring, applying pressure around the eyepiece barrel, thus avoiding marring the eyepiece barrel. These are boogers to do. You need to cut typically a 1/2" wide, .01" deep channel on the inside of the tube to accept the brass. I have done this once at special request for ScopeRollers for an Astro-Physics mount where the finish on the legs is so beautiful you do not want to scratch them. This required making a reverse rake boring bar.
The helical focuser is at lower left. Yes, the PVC tube needs to be painted bright glossy white again.
So I'm hearing about this kidnapping in Arizona and I admit that it is a compelling tale. The woman who has been abducted is in her 80s, and that simple fact alone puts this outside the standard bell curve. The locals and the Feds are working the case. From what little I've seen of the local Sheriff, he seems to be straight-arrow.
Hopefully, they will find this lady and bring her home safely.
RX: "'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in Spain'."Me: "I'm so glad that final consonant turned out to be what it was, because I was braced for 'Archaeologists find evidence of Hannibal's war elephants in space'."
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A young, left-leaning law professor from a very liberal family decides to become a cop. Where’s that gonna go? Why, into the 2021 book “Tangled Up In Blue: Policing the American City” by Rosa Brooks. When her mom learns her daughter is signing up as a reserve police officer with DC Metro, she is horrified: […]The post Reproduction GX-607 and XM-177 Moderators: Do They Work? first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
On January 28, 2025, Harmeet K. Dhillon filed an amicus curiae brief for the Trump administration, detailing the reasons the Massachusetts handgun roster is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Harmeet K. Dhillon is Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. The timeline for the lawsuit started almost five years ago.
In 2021, a number of Massachusetts residents and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) filed suit against then AG Maura Healey in Massachusetts, contending the Massachusetts handgun roster violated the rights protected by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. On May 19, 2022, the District Court granted a motion to dismiss the case, claiming the handgun roster regulations were allowed as "safety requirements". Plaintiffs appealed the ruling to the ruling to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. On April 7, 2023, the appeals court remanded the case back to the District Court, to be reconsidered under the Supreme Court Bruen Decision. On August 29, 2025, the District Court granted summary judgement to the Defendants (State of Massachusetts) for a second time. Plaintiffs appealed the ruling to the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for a second time on September 9, 2025. The lawsuit is now Granata v Campbell, as Andrea Joy Campbell is the current AG of Massachusetts.
The amicus brief filed by the Trump administration Civil Rights Division, makes several important arguments in the case. In particular, the brief shows the following:
- Supreme Court precedent: Arms which are in common use may not be banned.
- Regulations on the sale of arms may not be used to effect a ban
- Bans do not have to be complete to be unconstitutional
- The American people decide what arms are in common use, not judges.
- Some arms are clearly not in common use, such as ICBMs or nuclear weapons.
- Some arms may be at the margins of common use, but handguns are not at the margins.
- The right to keep and bear arms includes the ancillary right to acquire arms.
The brief by the Civil Rights Division makes clear how courts are to determine whether a law infringes on the rights protected by the Second Amendment. The procedure is spelled out in the Bruen decision. From the brief:
Bruen makes clear that whether a law “infringes” the right to bear arms is a legal conclusion, based on text and history. See Bruen, 597 U.S. at 79 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring) (“The Court employs and elaborates on the text, history, and tradition test that Heller and McDonald require for evaluating whether a government regulation infringes on the Second Amendment.”).
The Supreme Court has repeatedly stated, all rights have limitations. The limitations of the rights protected by the Second Amendment are dependent on what the right to keep and bear arms meant at the time the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. As examples, the right to keep and bear arms did not mean a person had the right steal a weapon because they did not possess one. It did not mean a person with a weapon had the right to use the weapon to murder another person without consequence.
The Civil Rights Division brief shows there were no bans on the purchase of weapons which were in common use at the time of the ratification of the Second Amendment. The Massachusetts handgun roster bans guns in common use from commercial sale in Massachusetts. From the brief:
It is thus undeniable that the weapons banned by the Massachusetts scheme are “widely legal and bought by many ordinary consumers” across the Nation. See Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos, 605 U.S. 280, 297 (2025). For this reason alone, the decision should be overturned.
The arguments put forward by the Civil Rights Division do not show if a weapon is not in common use, it may be banned. They show weapons in common use cannot be banned, even if circuitous and indirect means are used by a state government to effectuate a partial and incomplete ban.
The submission of an amicus brief by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice shows the Trump administration is committed to aggressively preventing state governments from infringing on rights protected by the Second Amendment. No other federal administration has been willing to do so.
The earliest federal infringement on rights protected by the Second Amendment appears to be the ban on the mailing of handguns put into place in 1927. The Office of Legal Counsel in the Trump Department of Justice has issued an opinion the ban on the mailing of handguns violates rights protected by the Second Amendment.
Restoring rights protected by the Second Amendment is a process which must be built in the law and the courts, bit by bit, because the infringements were put in place little by little, over time. Mark Smith, Constitutional Attorney, winner of two Gundie Awards for the Top Voices of the 2A , and AmmoLand contributor, explains the process in a video about the Civil Rights Division brief at his YouTube channel.
Analysis:
For the last hundred years, the federal government has been unwilling to enforce rights protected by the Second Amendment. The reasons are complicated and numerous. The people of the United States have been demanding the restoration of those rights, with building momentum, starting about 1968. The administration of President Trump is, in part, a political force put into place to effect the restoration of Second Amendment rights. The process is ongoing.
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The police investigation found an argument happened between the hospitalized man and his former girlfriend. The two have an adult son, who was there amid the argument.
This led to the father allegedly hitting the mother, when the son came to her defense, according to the Roswell Police Department. Investigators also believe he was shot after aggressively approaching the son.
The man complied, exited the car, and then there was an exchange of gunfire between the victim and the suspects, the news release states.
The victim shot two of the assailants; one in the leg, the other in the back, the news release states. “The injuries the suspects sustained are considered non life threatening at this time,” police said.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The Insurrection Intersection Michael Bane covers some ideas for optimally handling a protestor “checkpoint.” I’ve got two guns! — Citizen-Defender There are lots of articles out there covering “the best first gun […]By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty Park Press New York state native turned Floridian Robert Cekada spent just over two hours Wednesday along with four judicial candidates testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley. By all accounts, Cekada passed the test, and he […]
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On February 6, 1891: The first great train robbery by the Dalton Gang: Southern Pacific #17, near Alila (now Earlimart), California. Pictured are deceased Dalton gang members, following the failed 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas raid. Left to right: Bill Powers; Bob Dalton; Grat Dalton, and Dick Broadwell. — On this day in 1935, the board game Monopoly went on sale for the first time. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 123 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 …
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(Continued from Part 2. This concludes the article.) In Part 1 and Part 2, we hit a few of the “How it works” or “Why it works” stuff. Proven by experience, or our family ham antenna business would have failed immediately. So, what do you have laying around the house, farm, garage – that can be turned into a high performance antenna for just listening? In the basement / garage, Metallic stuff, old copper pipe that burst from freezing, Telephone wire, cable TV wire, Ethernet cable (4,6,8 strand stuff), Iron pipe… will work, again not as good. Old extension cords! …
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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. Today: A Map Showing the Largest Type of Electric Generating Capacity, By County. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest H.L. sent this very troubling news: The Great Taking: Global Looting of Humanity Imminent? Reader Tom H. mentioned this essay by Adam Sharp at The Daily Reckoning: Silver’s 27% Drop, in Context. Video from The Economic Ninja: Why I am pivoting from Silver investing into something …
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“Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.” – P. T. Barnum
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This is obviously a clumsy attempt at stirring the pot and creating divisions between the administration and Second Amendment supporters. [More] So… are trolls just doing it for kicks, or is there something more insidious at play here?
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Newspapers are a relic of a bygone era. In the 20tth century, every town had a newspaper. It's where we got the news, weather, and sports. Classified ads and legal notices. My hometown paper, the Alexandria Daily Town Talk, exists as a pale shadow of its former self. The press is gone; I'm not sure if they print anything at all. At one point, it was being printed in Lafayette, but now I'm not sure at all.
Other newspapers hang on, grimly. The news earlier this week was that the Washington Post was eliminating positions and laying off staff. That seems to be the trend in the newspaper business these days. However, those journalists still have employment opportunities.
That's funny, right there.
Cleared: The Palestine Action six whose raid on defence firm left woman police officer with a fractured spine [More] Some aren’t taking the news very well. Maybe if they weren’t willing to arrest their countrymen for social media posts there’d be a little more sympathy. And as for the commies, they’ll get theirs. I don’t … Continue reading "Meanwhile, Across the Pond"
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Dems embrace “law and order” in ICE shutdown fight [More] Sometimes you just gotta shake your head. This whole situation was created by their treasonous lawlessness. [Via DDS]
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I know I could be trusted with one. How about you? Anybody hear an answer? [Via Jess]
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News conference on repossession of Lorain County sheriff deputies’ cars – In a Facebook post, the Lorain County Deputies Association says Lorain County Commissioners have defaulted on their car loans with Enterprise Fleet Management. [More] Now try not paying the county.
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According to multiple sources who were in the room but requested we not identify them, the terrorism training involved dozens of actors, brought in by the school board, to act as Loudoun County parents. Those pretend “parents” sat in the gallery in the school board meeting room as actual families normally would. In this training, … Continue reading "Parent/Teacher Day"
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However, the students called the university police when one user threatened gun violence to stop the group’s event. In response to a question asking how long TPUSA will be on campus, the user wrote, “until I come with my gun.” Another user responded, saying, “I’ll be there to prevent anyone from stopping you.” A different user … Continue reading "Can We All Get Along?"
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NOW – Trump says he is adjusting his mass deportations policy to only go into cities if the mayors or governors “ask” and “say please,” adding, “I don’t want to go and force ourselves into a city, even if their numbers are terrible.” [More] And: NOW – Reporter: “Is your mission now to deport everyone … Continue reading "But I Have Promises to Keep…"
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We take a first look at the new ACE Ballistic Weather Meter from Vortex Optics! The first true alternitive to a Kestrel 5700, but is it better?With that as a backdrop, in between capitalizing on her notoriety through selling her story and her sex tapes, Fisher served a brief stint as an opinion columnist, where she advocated for the government disarming those of us who haven’t shot innocent people in the face.[More] Y’ever notice how those who can’t — or won’t … Continue reading "Recollections of Decades-Old Crime Omit Key Details about Assailant"
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In September 2012, The Times published an extensive overview of the phenomenon.3 The paper reported that for more than a decade, organised groups of men had been able to groom, exploit, and traffic girls across multiple towns and cities in Britain, often operating with minimal interference from authorities....
Yet, event The Times underestimated the scale of this. By early 2015, senior police figures were publicly acknowledging the scale of the crisis. One officer spoke of “tens of thousands” of current victims of grooming gangs. A Member of Parliament, representing a constituency widely associated with the problem, went further, suggesting that the total number of victims nationwide, past and present, could reach as high as one million.4
These figures are almost impossible to comprehend. They refer to school-aged girls systematically identified, isolated, and exploited over many years. And yet, despite the magnitude of the harm, perpetrators were able to operate with remarkable impunity.....
Across policing, social services, local government, and related professions, many officials felt unable to speak frankly about the defining characteristics of the problem. Not because those characteristics were unclear, but because acknowledging them carried perceived risks, to careers, professional standing, and social legitimacy. The boundaries of what could be said narrowed to the point where silence became the safer option.
This produced a self-reinforcing cycle. As fewer people were willing to speak openly, institutional inaction deepened, and the cost of dissent appeared ever higher to colleagues and peers.
In some instances, professionals were directly cautioned against drawing attention to ethnic or cultural patterns. In most, it appears such warnings were unnecessary. The fear of being accused of racism ensured that, for decades, there was little formal recognition of the grooming-gang phenomenon as a distinct and systemic form of abuse.
That the victims were overwhelmingly young white schoolgirls, while the perpetrators largely muslims with darker skin, proved decisive, not in prompting action, but in paralysing it. This dynamic allowed abuse networks to operate with remarkable freedom, even as evidence accumulated.
So again, to ask the central question: how could an abuse network of this scale persist for decades without decisive intervention?
The answer is stark in its simplicity. It was not fear of the crime that silenced authorities, but fear of a word: racist....
To understand the scale and nature of the grooming gang scandal, one must first confront the cultural context from which the perpetrators emerged. The statistical overrepresentation of men from Pakistani and other South Asian heritages in these specific group-based exploitation networks has been documented by multiple inquiries and judicial remarks.6 The abuse is rooted in a specific worldview imported from rural, patriarchal societies where the status of women is determined by rigid codes of honour (sharaf) and where non-Muslim or “out-group” women are viewed through a lens of religious and racial contempt.7
Central to this incompatibility is the existence of a dual morality within the perpetrator networks. While the women within their own communities are often cloistered and protected to maintain family “honour,” Western women, particularly those who are liberated or vulnerable are viewed as “immodest” and therefore “fair game” for sexual predation.8 This perception is reinforced by the use of dehumanising language, such as the term “kuffar” (non-believer) or “khal” (black/outsider), which serves to strip the victims of their humanity and justify their exploitation.9...
Perpetrators in Rochdale were explicitly told by Judge Gerald Clifton that their treatment of victims was influenced by the fact that the girls were “not of your community or religion”.10 This judicial acknowledgment confirms that the selection of victims was not random but was driven by an “us versus them” mentality that prioritised tribal and religious identity over the laws of the host nation. The victims were not only objects of sexual desire but symbols of a “conquered” or “inferior” culture to be dominated.11
The frequent use of racial slurs such as “white trash,” “white slag,” and “white meat” indicates a racialised hierarchy in which the victims were viewed as having no inherent value.12 In Keighley, a victim reported that when she attempted to stop working as a drugs courier for her abuser, she was called a “little white slag” and a “little white bastard” while being raped.13 These terms are ideological markers that define the victim’s place in the perpetrator’s worldview, a place of total subservience and worthlessness.
It is an article of faith in some circles that "outsiders" are only a small part of this problem. The vast numbers in Britain argue otherwise. Hat tip to Small Dead Animals.
If you think today’s Antifa ground troops are nuts, wait ’til these programmed zombies grow up. [Watch] Remind you of anything…? Hey, you don’t let your toddlers watch Ms. Rachel, do you…? Y’oughta stick with something safe, like Disney… [Via Michael G]
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That $2 million damages must have speeded up review of the "science." 2/5/26 Advocate:
The American Medical Association, which has long supported gender-affirming care for transgender youth, has now endorsed some restrictions.
The AMA recommended Wednesday that any gender-affirming surgeries be delayed until adulthood, The New York Times reports. While genital surgery is almost never performed on minors, some teens undergo top surgery or facial modifications. Gender-affirming care for youth more commonly includes puberty blockers, hormone therapy, social transition, and counseling.
The AMA’s policy shift comes a day after the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recommended that surgeons delay breast/chest, genital, and facial surgery until a patient is at least 19 years old.
Gender-affirming care for minors has been under attack from conservative politicians for several years. Twenty-seven states ban all or some such care for minors, and the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld Tennessee’s law restricting the treatment. A year ago, Donald Trump signed an executive order banning federal funding for any institution that provides the treatment to people under 19. He has also ordered the National Institutes of Health to study transition regret.
How long before the psychological, counselling, and social worker associations realize that they threw away their credibility supporting sexual mutilation to be among the "cool kids."
Teen linked to neo-Nazi satanic hate group accused of planning mass shooting at Wimauma church: HCSO [More] So, by definition, a leftist. And “Pagan”: Talk about an aptronym! What did Father Flanagan say? How do they find this crap? It’s not like there’s a TikTok page… I grok this stuff as much as I do … Continue reading "Today’s Low-Hanging Fruit Report"
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This is a fascinating breakdown of the (quite serious) engineering problems facing SpaceX as they attempt to build a Mars city.
Democrat Party Caters to New Base – Communists, Socialists, and Fellow Travelers [More] I’d question how “new” it is, although it’s true they’re a lot more open about it now.
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In Washington, Democrats in Olympia are looking at adding $100 to the nonrefundable fee for a concealed pistol license, jacking the cost up from $36 to $136… In neighboring Oregon, there’s a move on via House Bill 4145 which would raise the cost of a permit-to-purchase from the $65 maximum to $150. [More] What are … Continue reading "The Devil to Pay"
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- People toss "the OODA loop" (aka Boyd's Decision Cycle) around a lot, but what does it mean in the context of personal protection?
- Modifying a Mosin? Why? What do you expect the result to be?
Dean Weingarten in front of the Supreme Court
The filibuster in the United States Senate is not created by the U.S. Constitution. It exists because of Senate rules. From early in the history of the Senate, the ability of Senators to talk for unlimited amounts of time was used as a tool to slow down legislation, as a bargaining chip to gain concessions on bills, or to stop bills altogether. This extended use of "debate" became known as a filibuster.
For decades there was talk about changing the Senate rules to limit debate, but nothing was done until 1917, during the Wilson administration. In 1917, the Senate adopted Senate Rule 22, which allowed a 2/3 super-majority in the Senate to close debate and force a vote on an issue. The cloture vote was only used five times over the next 40 years. In 1975, the Senate changed the rule from requiring a 2/3 super-majority of the senators voting to end debate, to a super-majority of 3/5 of all senators correctly chosen and sworn in. A cloture vote to limit debate has come to require 60 votes. Use of the filibuster limited by a cloture vote has become more and more common over time. It has become a primary way for the party in the minority in the Senate to stop controversial bills.
The Senate rules can be changed with a simple majority vote. When the Democratic Party controlled the Senate in 2013, Majority leader Harry Reid orchestrated a rule change to exempt votes of all nominees except for the Supreme Court from the 60 vote requirement for cloture. When the Republicans took control of the Senate, they expanded the exemption to include all nominees.
Currently, a vote to stop debate in the Senate requires 60 votes for legislation. An exemption exists for budget reconciliation, as required in the Budget Reconciliation act of 1974. Limits on the time for debate are included in the act, which prevents a filibuster.
The filibuster has been used to stop and slow down gun control legislation and to stop and slow down legislation to restore Second Amendment rights. The filibuster does not appear to have been used in attempts to stop the gun control act of 1968. The Brady Act of 1993 was slowed by use of the filibuster, but was not stopped. The Universal Background Check gun control bill promoted by President Barack Obama in 2013 failed to overcome a the filibuster by Republicans. The vote was 54-46. The 2022 gun control bill had to overcome a filibuster. Cloture passed with 65 votes. It was a relatively weak bill. In 2025, removal of short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and Any Other Weapons (AOW) was stymied because of inability of Second Amendment supporters to overcome a Democratic Party filibuster.
The filibuster is a strong tool to slow down legislation, facilitate compromises, and limit governmental action. Support for the filibuster by Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia has been credited from preventing draconian measures proposed by far left Democratic politicians in 2021. Both Sinema and Manchin were purged from the Democratic Party, in large part for their support of the filibuster.
President Trump has called for Republican senators to eliminate the filibuster. His logic is clear: The next time Democratic politicians control the Senate, they will eliminate the filibuster. Republicans should pre-emptively do so in order to pass legislation to cement the Trumpian counter revolution against radical leftism. President Trump wants to end the filibuster in order to stop the current government shutdown. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin explains this. From newsmax.com:
"The Democrats purged the last two senators who held out and supported the filibuster," he said. "We know they have no respect for it. So we need to strike first."
Johnson said if Republicans move first, it should be "for the benefit of the American people."
"When the Democrats eliminate the filibuster, it'll all be about their maintenance of power," he said.
"If we're to do it, it will be to further secure our border, to secure our elections, and to pass good pieces of legislation," Johnson added.
He also warned Democrats would "pack the Supreme Court" and push for statehood for Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico if they regain control of the Senate.
The Senate has two senators for each state. For decades, far more Democratic Senators than seemed warranted came from what were expected to be "conservative" states such as Montana and North Dakota. In the last 20 years, states have tended to sort themselves out more consistently. This is likely because the left no longer has unquestioned dominance in the media. Conservative dominance in the Senate seems probable in the future.
The Republicans have both senators in the 25 states which voted for Donald Trump in all three of his presidential elections. This makes control of Congress by the Democratic Party very difficult. The Senate was designed, in part, to protect small states from being made politically irrelevant by large population states. Control of the Senate by the Democratic Party is probably diminished for at least a few years.
Legislation is important, but court decisions tend to be more durable. It is harder to overcome Supreme Court decisions than to pass legislation. The protection of the filibuster is less important if the Supreme Court has an originalist majority, such as currently exists.
Packing of the Supreme Court has been supported by the Democratic Party to overcome the originalist majority. To do this, they need control of Congress. They need to overcome a filibuster in the Senate. They can eliminate the filibuster anytime they have a majority in the Senate, so continuing the filibuster is not much of a protection against radical leftists. As Sinema and Manchin demonstrated, it has some value.
Analysis:
If the Senate Republicans eliminate the filibuster, they open the door to pass more of President Trump's agenda, more quickly. The potential of pro-Second Amendment legislation passing increases somewhat. Is this potential worth the loss of the protections of a filibuster? This correspondent tends to approve of limitations on government power. Limitations which are only applied to Republicans are worse than no limitations. It is a close call. This correspondent would keep the filibuster in hopes the radical left Democratic party is rejected by voters, at least in the Senate.
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Gun Watch
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A male suspect is dead after a robbery turned shooting at a gas station in Lakeland early Tuesday morning.
Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies say they were called to the Exxon gas station on 3548 Canada Road around 3:12 a.m.
They say the suspect was found suffering from a gunshot wound outside the gas station. He was pronounced dead on the scene by paramedics.
An east Fort Worth homeowner shot a man yesterday after police say the man tried to force his way into the residence. Officers responded around 3 p.m. to the 6000 block of Grayson Street, where they found the wounded man and had him taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. According to police, the resident said he fired a small‑caliber handgun to stop the attempted break‑in and stayed at the house to speak with officers. Detectives have opened an investigation into the confrontation.
On February 5, 1736 British Methodist ministers John Wesley (pictured) and Charles Wesley arrived in Savannah, Georgia. — Today is the birthday of Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim (5 February 1840 – 24 November 1916). He was an American-British inventor best known as the creator of the first truly automatic machine gun, the Maxim gun. Maxim also held patents on numerous mechanical devices such as hair-curling irons, a mousetrap, and steam pumps. Maxim claimed to invented the lightbulb. He was the father of Hiram Percy Maxim, who founded the ARRL. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round …
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(Continued from Part 1.) A typical Trucker’s dual-mount CB antenna has 2 coaxes down to one connection to the radio. We want the signal from both antennas, unified exactly for a nice strong signal / in phase voltage pulse, into the radio. Because the antennas are on the sides, like mirror mounts, the strongest, best signal (in phase), will come from the front and rear of the truck, while signals from either side, will cancel each other out (a little bit). The same thing happens with our Vertical antennas, 2-3-4-5-6-7-8 of them. We want to get rid of the noise …
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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, a report on some odd Russian snow camouflage. A Russian Snow Camouflage Failure Mike in Alaska sent this odd news: Russian Troops in ‘Penguin’ Camouflage Killed by Ukrainian …
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“Government has three primary functions. It should provide for military defense of the nation. It should enforce contracts between individuals. It should protect citizens from crimes against themselves or their property.” – Milton Friedman
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Investing.com -- Gold’s powerful rally across precious and industrial metals is increasingly showing signs of speculative excess, according to Peter Berezin, chief global strategist and director of research at BCA Research, who warned that prices may have moved “too far, too fast.”
In a new note to investors, Berezin outlined a long-term scenario where gold could theoretically lose almost all of its value.
Any commodity with irrational components to its demand either pretty or overhyped is easily manipulated
Joseph Wang left his job at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he came across an odd new research paper from his former employer. Wang had been a senior trader on the Open Market Trading Desk, carrying out the Fed’s monetary policy. In his five years there, the usual Fed research covered topics like inflation, labor markets, and bank capital. This paper, though, was titled “800,000 Years of Climate Risk.”“I thought that was very strange,” Wang recalled. “The Fed writing about CO2 concentrations."
The article lists other areas where the Fed seems to have branched from economics to leftist activism. Perhaps a bit more adult supervision is in order.
I needed stainless steel 8-32 x 1" thumbscrews. Amazon had them, and American-made.
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There is an old saying about "death and taxes" So far I've cheated death, but once again it is time to deal with the IRS. I despise those sonsofbitches.
Some ignorant twat I've never heard of was talking shit at the Grammys last weekend. Something about illegals and stolen land. Turns out, her house is on stolen land.
I can take the moral high ground here. My land isn't stolen. When this area was first colonized, a guy named Fulton bought a huge chunk of land from the Choctaw. Land north of the river was considered worthless, fit for nothing but pine trees and brambles. Fulton bought it and started selling homesteads. The Choctaw are still around. They own a casino north of here. That same tribe has a small reservation near Jena, LA. When that area went dry, they opened a package liquor store. That pleased the Baptists to no end.
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Special to Liberty park Press It appears the anti-gun nonprofit 97Percent has returned, although there have been massive internal changes and it is much less now than it used to be. We haven’t heard much from them since they plagiarized photos of top female shooters to gaslight the public […]
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This is a photo of Salt Lake City’s Delta Center arena taken when the arena was called under a previous name. A new proposal working through Utah’s state legislature could allow gun owners who carry their guns concealed to do so while attending professional sporting events in the arena. (Flickr photo) Among pro-gun legislative […]
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Podcasts are BACK! Tom Marshall sits down with Freddy Osuna, founder and lead instructor of Green Side Training!