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First responders found a man and a woman, the only occupants of the vehicle involved in the crash. The man, Corey Beaddles, 32, was found to be suffering from an apparent gunshot wound, according to police. He was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The woman was checked for injuries by medics on scene.

Police say they determined that just before the crash, Beaddles was driving recklessly while reportedly assaulting the woman. He was apparently shot during the incident, according to police, who haven’t revealed specifics.

Beaddles is charged with assault and battery, reckless driving, abduction and attempted malicious wounding.

Police say they found a gun at the scene and they are not seeking anyone else believed to be involved. They say there is no ongoing threat to the community.

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Rochester police said a disturbance broke out inside Condado Bar and Grill around 1:30 a.m. The man was removed by security and left the area.

Police said the man then went to a parked vehicle, retrieved a handgun and returned to the bar while holding the weapon. As he approached the entrance, security confronted him and attempted to stop him from re-entering.

Multiple verbal commands were given, but police said the man ignored them, pointed the gun at a security officer and opened the entrance door. The security officer then fired multiple rounds from a legally possessed handgun, striking the man.

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 Back in May, I got into a little fender-bender.  Got a ticket.  I called the Sheriff's office to see whart I owed them.

"Oh, no, PawPaw" says the lady on the phone.  "You have a mandatory court date."

I admit I was a bit baffled. No one injured, just a little bent sheet metal which the insurance covered, and I had to be in court.  So, this morning I showed up in court.  I waited about an hour for my name to be called, then went to the bar and told the judge what happened. She asked if insurance had covered it, and I said Yep.  she gave me a small fine, which I happily paid. Court costs are exorbitant, but I still got out of there for under $250.

The lady collecting the fines seemed a bit surprised that I wanted to pay it all at once.

I was a cop for 37 years.  The first 20, I spent a lot of time in the court room.   Today was the first time in maybe 15 years I had been inside a court room.  After the Oyer we said a pledge of Allegiance and Her Honor got down to business. The bailiff was a bit Foghorn Leghorn, but that is part of the job. All in all, it was not totally unpleasant.

Jacob e3mails to point out an interesting article discussing the various AP rounds that the Department of War uses. If you're interested in this sort of thing, you'll find this interesting.

The one thing that the article doesn't discuss is the type of "Armor Piercing" ammunition that normal citizens can get.  There's a brief discussion of this on this Reddit thread. (Yeah, yeah, I know - Reddit.  But the info seems reasonable)

He also has an interesting post up comparing .300 Blackout with 5.56 NATO. 

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In January, 2012, Glenn Villeneuve was attacked by a pack of 20 wolves. It was a very unusual event.

Villeneuvea detailed the event, including pictures of the extremely large pack. He gave an extensive interview to Joe Rogan. Villeneuve has been one of the stars of the reality show, Life Below Zero. The attack event is discussed starting at 13:30 on the video.  Villeneuve explains he never expected such an attack to happen. It was far outside many years of experience dealing with wolves. He does not know why the wolves came after him that day. They had never been aggressive toward him before.  The reason for the attack may have something to do with the extremely large wolf pack.

The discussion of the wolf event starts at 13:30 on the video. Glenn Villeneuve sees a pack of 20 wolves on a kill on the lake ice, 500 yards from his cabin. This is an extremely large pack of wolves for the area. It is very unusual. His cabin is far above the arctic circle. In January, it is twilight in the middle of the day.

At first, Villeneuve grabs a camera and walks to about 350 yards from the pack of wolves to take pictures.  It is not clear if he is armed on this first foray. His batteries go bad and he starts to go back to cabin to get fresh batteries.  Villeneuve looks back and the wolves are running at him. He is 30 yards from the cabin. He sprints to the cabin and gets inside. He looks out the window. The 20 wolves are milling around 50 yards from the cabin. In a short time, the wolves go back to the kill on the lake. Villeneuve goes back out to take more pictures. This time he has his rifle with him, but no spare ammunition.

Villeneuve goes out about 150 yards from the cabin. The wolves are about 350 yards away. Some of the wolves start moving toward him, but slowly, hesitantly. He slowly retreats. The wolves move a little closer. When he is about 100 yards from the cabin, they start galloping toward him. Again he sprints to the cabin. He drops the camera tripod. He has only 4-5 rounds in his rifle, and is unsure whether he could stop the attack.  Again the wolves are milling around 50 yards from the cabin when he is inside. Again the wolves go back to the kill on the ice.

Villeneuve thinks about the situation. He needs to teach the wolves he is not prey. He needs to teach them he is a dangerous predator to be avoided. He decides to see if he can lure the wolves closer to the cabin before he starts shooting. He makes sure he is ready. He checks his rifle, a .30-06, and grabs extra ammunition. He goes outside the cabin. To lure the wolves closer, he starts running back and forth from the cabin to the lake shore, about 50 yards. The wolves come running at him again. This time he sits down at the lake shore and takes aim.

He starts shooting when the wolves are 264 yards away, killing one wolf. He shoots two more as they keep coming. They are no longer all galloping toward him, but continue coming in spurts, some milling about. As the third wolf is hit, the wolf pack has had enough. The "prey" is far too dangerous; they run off. The tracks show some wolves came as close as 50 yards from Villeneuve before they all retreated.  The shooting probably took less than a minute. It took that long because Villeneuve had to reload with individual cartridges while the wolves were coming at him. His rifle only has a four round magazine. He does not say how many shots he fired, presumably somewhere between six and nine. One wolf's back had been broken, but it was still alive. Villeneuve ran back to the cabin to obtain his .22 rimfire to finish off the wolf which was wounded, becuase  it is important to minimize destruction of the fur. Wolf fur is valuable to construct parka hoods. He discovers the animal they had killed on the lake ice was a 1 1/2 year old bull moose.

Glenn Villeneuve is very careful to explain this is an extremely rare event. The circumstances remind me of the case of Crist Kolby, who was almost certainly killed by wolves in 1939, at his trap line on the Thorn River, on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska. When Kolby did not return as expected, an investigation was mounted. The evidence recovered indicated Kolby was on his trapline when he found the mainspring on his new Smith & Wesson .357 magnum revolver was broken. On the way back to his cabin, he was pursued and attacked by wolves. His remains were found near the shoreline of a lake, just short of trees he might have been able to climb. These sort of attacks are very rare, but consider what might have happened to Glen Villeneuve if he was miles from his cabin, and did not have a working firearm. No one knows why the wolves came after Villeneuve or Kolby. Perhaps it was because he retreated. Maybe the size of the pack is important. Perhaps this was what happened with Kolby. A single man, without firearms, can be brought down by a pack of wolves. A small team of men, even two or three, armed with spears and clubs, presents a far more difficult problem for a pack of wolves.

Wolves have learned over many millennia to respect and fear humans. Historically, as recounted in "The Gray Wolf Revealed" by Kaj Granlund & Will Graves, p.127, most wolf attacks on humans are on children, then on women, then on lone men. The vast majority (88%) of human victims of wolves were people under the age of 20. Above the age of 20, 86% of the victims were women.

A person with a working firearm, if they have rudimentary skill, will nearly always win in a fight against wolves.

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A Sunday evening shooting at a Tuscaloosa gas station could be a case of self-defense, authorities said.

Tuscaloosa police responded at 6:41 p.m. to the shooting at Circle K at 6718 Highway 69 South,

Violent Crimes Unit Capt. Jack Kennedy said one person was found with critical injuries and taken to DCH Regional Medical Center.

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This is cool:

After a secret trip across the English Channel, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil for the first time since it was made 900 years ago. It has been loaned to the British Museum by France after a major conservation project to stabilize the fragile textile

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The wool thread embroidery-on-linen tapestry created as a visual record of the William of Normandy’s invasion of England in 1066, was woven in the Canterbury area around 1077. It was commissioned by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux, William the Conqueror’s brother, so when it was complete, the tapestry moved to Normandy and has stayed there ever since.

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It will be exhibited at the British Museum from September 10, 2026, until July 2027. Pre-sales of tickets are already through the roof, with 100,000 sold since tickets for the first four months of the exhibition went on sale July 1.

In exchange for the loan of one of the greatest historic artifacts in French and English history, museums in Normandy will be loaned of the British Museum’s most famous objects, including pieces from the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial and the Lewis Chessmen.

The tapestry is so famous that people make memes using it.

If you're planning a trip to London in the next year, this should be on your list to see.  Or you can go see it in Bayeux  in Normandy and see the D-Day beaches.

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On July 8, 2026,Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan gave presents to the other leaders of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nations. The gifts were given at the meeting in Turkey. The present appears to be a rare Gümüsay .357 revolver, which was made by the Turkish company MKE about 30 years ago. Giving presents to NATO leaders is not unusual.

Giving firearms to leaders of other countries was not unusual before WWI. Over a hundred years of demonization of civilian ownership of firearms has made it unusual. The revolver came in a presentation box which seems to have a lower compartment. What might be in the lower compartment has not been revealed.

While most of these revolvers will never be fired, the present has been reported to include live ammunition. Reuters reported the revolver presented to Prime Minister Kier Starmer included 500 rounds of ammunition and a cleaning kit. This is a wonderful joke and poke in the eye to England, which has outlawed the possession of handguns by its citizens.

Reaction to the gift varied considerably by country. Reuters reported some leaders are waiting to have the revolver deactivated before sending it to their home, others are having it processed by their customs services. All appear to be careful to follow the legal procedures their governments have in place. It appears all the revolvers are identical except for the engraving. They were likely made in one run of presentation revolvers for such purposes. As such, they may be one of the rarest of production revolvers in existence.

Armyrecognition.com reports the Gümüsay is not a clone of the Colt Python .357 revolver, but has a simplified lockwork. Overall production of the Gümüsay   revolvers in all barrel lengths is unknown and estimated at between 500 and 10,000. The revolvers are reported as being produced with 2.5, 4, and 6 inch barrels.  Also unknown is whether the presentation revolvers were a batch which was held in inventory, recovered and refurbished from some other stock in government or private hands, or newly manufactured using previous drawings, tooling or components created for this one run.

As shown, the revolver has a bright finish. It seems unlikely to be made in stainless steel. This correspondent has not found any information to indicate if it has a nickle plated or chrome plated finish.

The Turkish firearms industry has established itself as a major exporter of rifles, shotguns, and handguns in the international market. The United States has the largest market for civilian owned firearms in the world. It seems likely a large portion of Turkish made firearms for civilian use end up in the United States. Reviews of various Turkish made pistols have revealed them to be serviceable firearms. Much depends on individual models and manufacturers.

Turkey is exporting .357 magnum revolvers made by Sarsilmaz at present. The Sarsilmaz revolvers look very similar to Smith & Wesson revolvers. The internal parts of the mechanism may be different. Colt is making a new version of the Python in the United States. A bright finished Colt Python with a six inch barrel has a suggested retail price of $1,699.00.

Analysis: The gift of presentation revolvers by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been a master stroke of marketing. The exposure of Turkish firearms to the world has been on a viral scale which is difficult to achieve without expenditure of enormous amounts of money. There may be another unintended consequence. Other world leaders could follow Erdogan's example. It might again become a mark of prestige for a firearm to be presented to world leaders as a gift.

©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.

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The shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. in the area of Bixby Road and Orange Avenue.

Long Beach police say two suspects approached the off-duty officer and tried to rob him. One of the suspects was reportedly pointing what appeared to be a firearm, while the other robbed the off-duty officer.

That's when police say the off-duty officer fired shots at the suspects.

The men fled, and it's unknown if either of them was shot. The officer was not hurt.

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 Barnett v. Raoul Nos. 24-3060, 24-3061, 24-3062 & 24-3063.(6th Cir. 2026). Curiously:

Contrary to the dissenting opinion's efforts (often without citation) to conclusively link Bowie knives to criminality, however, Bowie knives were both widespread and used for lawful purposes. One expert in the history of arms in America, for example, explained that in the nineteenth century, "European visitors who ventured beyond the Appalachians found [the Bowie knife] such an integral part of the American way of life that they felt compelled to comment on it at length in accounts of their adventures.... In many communities, no man, whether hunter, gambler, tradesman or political leader felt himself fully clothed without one." Peterson, supra, at 25. Similarly, the historian who (literally) wrote the book on Bowie knives noted they were "widely carried by Americans of all stripes"; "served everyone equally, upstanding citizens and villains" alike; were "wide[ly] popular[], in the North and South" during the Civil War; and were "common[]"—"a weapon carried by men of all walks of life." Norm Flayderman, The Bowie Knife: Unsheathing an American Legend 20, 125, 130 (2004). Other scholars agree. See David B. Kopel, Clayton E. Cramer & Joseph Edward Olson, Knives and the Second Amendment, 47 U. Mich. J.L. Reform 167, 184 (2013) ("During the nineteenth century, Bowie knives were commonly present in many areas of the United States. Contemporary sources leave no question that Bowie knives, Arkansas Toothpicks, and similar knives were a common part of American life until well after the Civil War....").

The test that Heller imposed recognized that arms in common use are protected. Their dangerousness did not matter; their commonness did matter.

Did you know that 10 + 10 is the same as 11 + 11?

10 + 10 is twenty; 11 + 11 is twenty, too.

(From The Queen Of The World)