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“After the shooting, the victim was alert and walking and did not appear to have life-threatening injuries when he was transported by EMS to a local hospital,” the city said in a release.
The police department said it believes the juvenile was targeted and that there is no indication of a public threat.
The juvenile reportedly fired shots back at the suspect, police said.
Officers were initially dispatched to the 900 block of 47th Place North following a report of a burglary in progress. While officers were responding, the call was upgraded to a report of shots fired and a person wounded.
When officers arrived, they found Hamilton suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. Birmingham Fire and Rescue transported him to UAB Hospital, where he later died from his injuries.
Someone asked recently about Cowboy Fast Draw shooting, what is the degree of angle that the muzzle has to fall in to hit the target. We know several things and the rest of it is just basic trigonometry.
Width of the base (target) is 17.1875 inches
Distance to target is 180 inches (15 feet).
So, it's a matter of doing the trig, or using a suitable calculator. By plugging in values, we learn that the apex angle of such a triangle is 5.47 degrees.
And now we know, mathematically. The muzzle of the revolver has to be within an arc of 5.47 degrees to hit the target.
🚨Report: North Carolina Democrats have withdrawn support for State House candidate Shelly Headen after she called for violence against Republicans and compared herself to Jesus Christ
— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) September 11, 2026
She said: “I think our only hope is an attack on US soil, preferably Alabama, Louisiana where the stupid people live.” pic.twitter.com/gj79PH3IPa
It gets worse when read in full. Fortunately, North Carolina has nothing in common with Alabama and Louisiana.
9/11/26 College Fix article about a law professor who claims
“care and accountability circles work better” than prison for those who have committed rape or other sex crimes...
More interesting:
Spade has been teaching at Seattle University, a private Catholic institution, since 2008, and has published numerous articles and books on transgender culture and abolition. Two years ago, the professor gave the talk “No Prisons, No Borders, No Cops, No State?” at New York University Law School’s Annual Rose Sheinberg Lecture. [emphasis added]
“No Prisons, No Borders, No Cops, No State?” Yes, anarchy leads to lynchings and private vengeance without the limiting protection of a judicial system. He also left out "No lawyers, no law schiool professors." Without prisons and cops, what purpose does a lawyer and therefore law professor serve?
"Is the Pope Catholic?" needs updating.
Rigby v. Jennings (D.Del. 2026). Delaware banned ghost manufacture, assembly, possession, sale, and digital instructions for making them. Digital instruction ban constitutional although I notice the ban seems pretty narrowly focused:
And that may very well be because § 1463(c)(2) is framed in functional terms, i.e., it is limited to computer files or code “that may be used to program a 3 dimensional printer to manufacture or produce a firearm, firearm receiver or major component of a firearm.”
That seems to not prohibit gCode for operating a CNC mill.
With that, the Possession Ban concerns “Arms,” and because it prohibits keeping arms and applies to all members of the political community, it is presumptively unconstitutional at Bruen’s first step. Wolford, 146 S. Ct. 2043-44.
Distribution ban:
The problem there is that the Distribution Ban does not regulate self manufacturing firearms and Plaintiffs have offered no evidence that any of these regulations limit their access to the items and materials necessary to self-manufacture firearms; all they provided was attorney argument. See Rigby, 630 F. Supp. 3d at 614 (“Attorney argument is not evidence.”). The Distribution Ban passes under Bruen’s first step.
Manufacturing and Assembly ban:
But prohibiting possession of firearms that are currently lawfully owned or future manufacturing and assembly of the same does place restrictions on keeping and bearing firearms. So the Possession and Manufacturing and Assembly Bans fail at Bruen’s first step.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has been charged with assault and burglary, and his alleged accomplice was shot and killed by the victim, police said.
It happened at a Frayser apartment complex on Madewell around 4:40 a.m. Tuesday.
When authorities arrived at the scene, they located a Devonta Johnson suffering from a gunshot wound, MPD said.
A shooting in a Florida parking lot several weeks ago sparked considerable debate in the armed citizen community. Our friend who on the internet goes by Colion Noir explains, here: Dr. Todd Grande weighs in here: The prosecutor’s office has announced that since they cannot prove she acted wrongly, she will not be charged.What’s y’all’s […]
It was a mental game I'd play at the turn of the century. My porch in Natchitoches Parish had a good view of the sky and I'd look at the contrails crossing the sky. Southwest to est northeast? Probably the Houston - Atlanta route. Southeast to Northwest, probably New Orleans to Dallas. It was just a mental game, wondering where all those people were going.
On the afternoon of 9/11 I went back to work, doing a night shift before a couple of days off. Getting off work on Wednesday morning, I stopped by Wal Mart to buy an American flag, but they were sold out. I headed home, ready for a nap, and when I got out of the truck, I looked up at the sky. Nothing. No contrails at all. The FAA had closed all the airspace on the United States.
Growing up in central Louisiana, there was always something in the sky. Commercial air, military traffic, general aviation. Even little crop dusters buzzing around. For the first time in my life I was looking at a sky without aviation. It was decidedly odd, and quiet.
This photograph to me perfectly captures the savagery of that day. I was working for a startup that was about to miss its first payroll. My wife called to tell me our son, who was 14, I think, came and told her that something big was happening: the first plane crashing.
I have no idea what I did for the rest of the day. I suspect I just kept hacking away at porting DHCP server to our idiosyncratic operating system. Things I do remember clearly:
1. The following Sunday was the most heavily attended church service that I could recall.
2. President Bush giving one of the strongest speeches of his career. Bush had always tried to come across as an "Aw, shucks" Texas country bumpkin. When he needed to do Leader of the Free World, he could and did. Even a friend from Texas who hated him for that country bumpkin act agreed that he did a fine job addressing the nation.
3. That Saturday, our local paper, the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, solved the sudden shortage of American flags by printing a full color back page.
4. There was a unanimity of purpose for a month or two that was doubtless what Americans felt after Pearl Harbor.
5. Canadians in Gander took in thousands of Americans whose flights were interrupted by the ground stop. We will always be grateful for that. We really want to be on good terms with Canada again.
Unfortunately, what people born after 9/11 know, if anything at all about it is likely:
1. We had it coming.
2. Bush did it.
3. The Jews did it.
4. It does not matter because this is "stolen land."
Remember.
Brooklyn, New York, in the early 1980s. A young man wants to buy his first firearm. The Iron Pipline will provide.The post Moroccan Unique Rr51 at the Hot Summer BUG Match first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
It has been twenty-five years — a quarter of a century — since followers of a demonic Islamist ideology attacked our nation and murdered nearly 3,000 people. For some Americans, memories have faded. Others choose to forget or forgive. Some never experienced the savagery of that day. Someone who was five years old on 9/11 is now 30. Someone born that day will turn 25. Roughly 26 million Americans alive today were five years old or younger on 9/11.
Still, the events of September 11, 2001 brought a horror to our shores that the world must never be allowed to forget.
On the one hand, it’s easy to understand why so many remain blissfully ignorant of the events of September 11. On the other hand, it points to a serious shortcoming in an American education system that may fail to adequately emphasize the most horrific terrorist attack on our shores in American history. Too often, I see the subject of 9/11 avoided out of concern that an honest discussion of what happened — and the Islamic ideology that motivated the attackers — might offend someone. However, it's impossible to defend America if we are afraid to name the enemy and the ideology that inspires him.
For a sad example of ignorance about 9/11, watch this video of uninformed students at the prestigious George Mason University.
This summer we visited the Flight 93 National Memorial in Shanksville, PA where the heroes aboard that plane fought back against their hijackers, causing the aircraft to crash there rather than reach its presumed target in the nation’s capital. I was genuinely surprised at the emotions and memories it evoked for me. I can honestly say I was not the only person dabbing at their eyes while walking through the museum. I hadn’t expected a place I had known about for 25 years to affect me that way.
The same ideology that fueled those attacks still continues to inspire violence and terrorism around the world, including here in the United States. And yet, many remain complacent, blind, or willfully ignorant.
Today we remember the nearly 3,000 victims of the terrorists, the first responders who ran toward danger, and the families whose grief has never faded. Their sacrifice and suffering deserve not only our remembrance but also our resolve.
Remembering isn’t merely looking backward; the ideology behind the attacks still requires vigilance. We must remember what was done to us on that bright September morning. We must stand firm against the ideology that inspired it. Be vigilant, for the evil one and his minions have not relented. The threat endures.
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A surprising number has been revealed from comparing the ratios of firearms found in over a hundred years of federal government data on firearms production, export, and import to the firearms reported to be owned by gun owners in the William English Survey done in mid 2026. Ratios validate the Survey's methods and numbers of firearms findings.
The survey paper, released in August of 2026 is the best designed and executed survey to date in an attempt to determine the extent of firearms ownership in the United States. The 2026 Survey has been designed to overcome minor defects in the original survey done in 2021. Questions have been sharpened and clarified. Ownership has been limited to the individual questioned. The Survey respondents are reasonably represented in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The survey participants were not volunteers for this particular survey. First, a national representative sample of 51,398 individuals aged 18 or over was chosen. Then a screening question was used to identify 18,206 individuals as potential gun owners. Then 16,688 individuals were validated as gun owners. In the middle of the survey, a question was used to validate the responses. Only people who read the entire question could answer it correctly. 98.2% of respondents passed the internal checks. Their responses were used to determine the numeric results of the survey.
The 16,688 respondents were found to average 5.2 firearms per owner, or about 87 thousand firearms. This is a very large sample. The smallest sample was in Vermont, with 28 respondents. California had 1,549 respondents. Texas had 1,686. It is reasonable to believe the floor for the number of firearms in the private stock in the United States is 461 million, as stated in the Survey. Such is the lowest reasonable number. It is a very conservative number because of choices made in the interest of caution. Owners reporting over 100 firearms of a particular type were trimmed from the estimate. Households with incomes of over $150,000 only showed in 9% of the respondents. They should be about 23% of respondents. A low share of high income households from surveys is said to be a common phenomena. This matters because the percentage of people owning firearms increases with increasing income, and the number of guns owned per person increases with increasing income.
The Survey estimates a total of 461 million firearms in the private stock of the USA, including 208 million handguns, 154 million rifles, and 99 million shotguns.
The comparison numbers are from figures compiled by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). They were placed into a spreadsheet available online by the Trace. Using the numbers in the data from ATF/Trace, we find 513 million at the end of 2024, including 231,263,816 handguns, 171,038,075 rifles, and 110,688,257 million shotguns. The numbers show there is some attrition of firearms lost, destroyed, thrown away, or worn out over time. The comparison is with the ratios of handguns, rifles, and shotguns from reports to the government of firearms manufactured - exported + imported over more than 125 years. The agreement is astounding.
The ratios are nearly identical, as shown in the graphic. The largest difference is in shotguns, where the difference is .1%. The numbers come from two completely different sources. One set is from the government statistics of cumulative firearms over more than 125 years. The other is from a survey of gun owners reporting what they have in 2026.
Skeptics may say: In a large sample of 87 thousand firearms selected at random, you would expect the resulting ratios to be extremely close. Yes. That is exactly what you would expect of a very large sample selected by random. That is the point. It is validation of the sample methodology. It is validation of the accuracy of the reporting by respondents.
The ratio validates the Survey method, respondents accuracy of reporting, and randomness of the sample.
If, as seems likely, further refinements in a future survey show higher numbers of firearms in the private stock of the USA, the ratio would not be expected to change.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
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Deputies said that shortly before 10 p.m., 30-year-old Daqwuantavest Taqwuan Barber was standing outside his apartment complex at 300 Furman Hall Road when he was approached by 41-year-old Jared Matthew Wakefield.
Officials said that, for reasons that remain under investigation, Wakefield fired at Barber, striking him at least once. Barber was taken to Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital, where he died around 10:40 p.m. During the incident, Barber and at least one other person fired at Wakefield, who was struck at least once during the exchange of gunfire and also taken to the hospital.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Social Aggression vs. Asocial Violence: Why Knowing the Difference Can Save Your Life Critical information for any of you interested in the topic of violence. Concealment vs. Cover: Teaching Kids the Safety […]Today is the 25th anniversary of 9/11, The most successful terrorist attack on the US mainland. Many living Americans don't remember it, simply because they had not been born yet.
Today is a good day to reflect and to remember the chaos.
Friday, September 11th marks the 25th anniversary of the brutal 9/11 terror attacks. Never forget, America, the magnitude of the losses. See the 2:10 mark, and beyond. – JWR. Today is also the anniversary of the Benghazi Embassy attacks, in 2012. (Those events were recounted in the Hollywood film 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi.) Please remember the sacrifice of J. Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, and CIA (former Navy SEAL) agents Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. Between them, Woods and Doherty reportedly dropped at least 60 of the attackers, before their position was overwhelmed. Please also remember the spineless …
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The heart of the capital was under siege. Everywhere, it seemed, was the wail of sirens, snarled traffic, milling crowds, police marksmen poised on rooftops, swarms of reporters interviewing one another in the glare of floodlights. Extra guards were posted at Government buildings; on the Hill each member of Congress was offered an armed police escort. The Washington Monument was temporarily closed to visitors: it was within the range of snipers. Affairs of state moved forward—cautiously. At the end of his visit with President Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin left quietly with no farewell ceremony; incoming British Prime Minister James Callaghan did not receive the traditional 19-gun salute, for fear it might trigger a slaughter. All this was the work of a mere dozen men who held 132 hostages in three Washington buildings for a chilling 38 hours. The terrorists made dramatically clear what has become all too obvious: anybody with a cause and a gun, be he mad or madcap, fanatic or eccentric, can seize and hold national attention by kidnaping and threatening to kill innocent victims.
The Washington assault was the culminating event of a spate of terrorist acts that have bedeviled the country. It proved again how vulnerable the society is to such attacks. Given the circumstances, it was wondrous that the drama ended with so little blood spilled: one dead and four wounded by gunfire, a dozen others cut and beaten. That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists—patience (see box). But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, Egypt’s Ashraf Ghorbal. Pakistan’s Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and Iran’s Ardeshir Zahedi.
The Washington siege was an explosive mixture of gangsterism, revenge, racial hostility and religious bickering elevated, as the participants proclaimed, to the level of a holy war. The terrorists were members of a sliver-sized religious organization called the Hanafi—a rival of the much larger Black Muslims, a group that has been plagued with violence over the years but has recently become more subdued (TIME, March 14).