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We just finished up the shoot in Mobile, AL and we are ensconced in the hotel room. The host put on a very good shoot at his home range. Hats off to the local club, Benders Bandits Good shooting, good food, good people, who could ask for more.?
Your scribe, known here as PawPaw, is known as Major D in the CFDA. We all have an alias, and because I am a retired US Army Major, and because that is what my troops called me during Desert Storm, I answer to that alias reflexively.
Today, I came in 7th place by the simple expedient of hitting the target. In this game, one cannot miss fast enough to win. You gotta hit the damned target.
- City raccoons are evolving to look like pets.
- Your own personal Jesus.
- Apparently DJT and MTG are all broke up now. Currently.
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“The employee, she believed that they were armed at the time,” added Short. Surveillance footage shows one of the robbers with both his arms extended out as if he were holding a weapon before jumping across the counter, grabbing necklaces in handfuls. The other men, simultaneously smashing cases and making off with more than $170,000 worth of jewelry, according to Madera Police.
“During that time, the store owner retrieved a firearm and began firing at the subjects.” The family put up a good fight; one employee is seen attacking a robber from behind.
“He’s within his rights to own that firearm and did what he had to do to protect his family and his property there at the store.” The owner chased after them, firing a few more rounds as the robbers drove away.
“I heard the door being kicked open,” Johnson said. “[The suspect] was already in the house. I told him to get out.”
After rushing to get his gun, Johnson described how the suspect rushed at him, giving him no choice but to open fire. He said he fired four shots, hitting the suspect at least once. His wife then called 911.
“We had blood on the walls,” Tonya Johnson said. “We don’t know this guy.”
The suspect was identified by Raleigh police as 26-year-old Christian Beasley. He was taken to the hospital for treatment and will be charged when he is released.
This song is an anthem from Old America. I listened to this as a teenager, and you (Old Farts) know how old I am. This is from a time when politics was not Uber Alles, and when Americans could have civil conversations even if they were in opposite parties.
ASM836 has been posting about how he went on a road trip and found that Old America is sill here. This song sings to that, even if Arlo was a Commie Bastard - and son of a Commie Bastard - but he endorsed Ron Paul (!). Because back then we were always America First, even back in the 1970s. I think that this proves my point, that we shouldn't hate Americans because they are in the other political party.
Arlo Guthrie, City Of New Orleans (Songwriter: Steve Goodman):
City Of New Orleans (Songwriter: Steve Goodman)
Riding on the City of New Orleans
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail;
There are fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors, twenty five sacks of mail.
They're all out on a southbound odyssey
The train rolls out of Kankakee
Rolling past the houses, farms and fields,
Passing trains that have no names
Freight yards full of old black men,
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
Singing, "Good morning, America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when day is done."
I was dealing cards with the old men in the club car,
It's a penny a point, there ain't no-one keeping score.
Won't you pass the paper bag that holds that bottle,
You can feel the wheels a-rumbling through the floor.
And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers
Ride their fathers' magic carpet made of steam;
Mothers with their babes asleep, rocking to the gentle beat,
The rhythm of the rails is all they dream.
Singing, "Good morning, America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when day is done."
Nighttime on the City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
It's halfway home, and we'll be there by morning,
Through the Mississippi darkness rolling down to the sea.
But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream,
The old steel rail it ain't heard the news,
The conductor sings his song again, it's, "Passengers will please refrain..."
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Singing, "Good night, America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
And I'll be gone five hundred miles when day is done."
Singing, "Good night, America, how are you?
Say, don't you know me? I'm your native son.
I'm the train they call the City of New Orleans.
And I'll be gone a long, long time when the day is done."
As with all great songs about America, this is bitter sweet. This was once the artery that pumped blood between America's different regions. Now - in the 1970s - it was dying as a passenger system.
But people remembered what it was. Here's the Highwaymen who did this almost as well as Arlo. Waylon makes this almost what it was. Sure, Willie carries this, but watch Waylon.
America is not gone. Art tells us what it was, and is, and can be.
That's what ASM826 is telling us. America is here. Just look around.
On November 15, 1720, pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read (pictured in a woodcut), and Calico Jack were captured by Captain Jonathan Barnet and brought to the Spanish Town of Jamaica, for trial. — Today is birthday of David Stirling. (15 November 1915 – 4 November 1990.) He was a Scottish officer in the British Army, mountaineer, and the founder of the Special Air Service (SAS). He saw active service during the Second World War. — Today’s feature article was too short to qualify for the writing contest judging. — We need a few more articles for Round 121 of the …
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In the past if anyone had asked me if it were possible to reload aluminum-case autoloading pistol rounds I would have said no. Is it possible? Yes and no is my answer now. It’s not a good idea though, in my opinion. In the milder seasons of the year we do a lot of pistol shooting. Recently, at a spot that at least three generations of shooters use I noticed a pile of spent aluminum .45 ACP cases. I knew the ammunition existed but had never seen any for sale in this area. Examining one, I noticed that it had …
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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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“In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day all their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel. And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there. When they were …
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By the time Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from an underage girl, he had established an enormous network of wealthy and influential friends. Emails made public this week show the crime did little to diminish the desire of that network to stay connected to the financier.Thousands of documents released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday offer a new glimpse into what Epstein’s relationships with business executives, reporters, academics and political players looked like over a decade.
It is certainly constitutional. Indeed, it is one a few punishments expressly mentioned there.
I cringe at the lackof Undo, if you discover later, "Whoops!" The evidence must be pretty overwhelming. Our legal system has made a wrongful conviction pretty near impossible in a way that life imprisonment does not. This execution in South Carolina seems to not have much doubt.
My current research project has led me to read some pretty awful news articles. One from 1967 involved parents charged with poisioning their seven children with parathion, an insecticide of the nerve agent family. The sheriff was investigating the suspicious death of the father's six previous children. Yes, he had life insurance on them. Some monsters are so horrible that letting them live seems hard to justify.
CNN’s review of thousands of pages of Epstein’s emails shows that Trump was one of the figures he returned to often. Across exchanges with lawyers, journalists, business contacts and familiar acquaintances, Epstein repeatedly invoked Trump — sometimes to offer analysis of his behavior, sometimes to gossip, and sometimes simply to position himself as someone with rare insight into the man who had become president.
The emails suggest that Trump remained a fixation for Epstein, as he’s frequently mentioned numerous times over a span of nearly a decade — including long after their friendship ended.
And now Democrats are obsessed about Epstein and Trump. The CNN article lists lots of emails but mostly deals in innuendo:
In one exchange with former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler, discussing Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer who had flipped on him, Epstein added, “i know how dirty Donald is.”
The Democrats are reading pedophilia into that. I could read real estate development practices into that. Or adultery. There is nothing the Democrats can seem to find.
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee has officially dropped three charges out of dozens in Georgia's election interference case against President Trump and others.
On Friday, McAfee ordered that Counts 14, 15, and 27, conspiracy and criminal attempt to file false documents and filing false documents, respectively, should be dismissed. Mr. Trump had been charged with two of the counts, 15 and 27.
McAfee had signaled in September 2024 that he wanted to remove the charges, arguing that they lie beyond the state's jurisdiction. He was not able to officially drop the charges until the case was remanded to him, which did not happen until Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis's disqualification was finalized by the Georgia courts.
In Friday's ruling, he said that the defendants' remaining motions challenging the indictment over the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution were denied, meaning only the three were quashed at this time.
The judge had previously quashed six counts in the indictment, including three against Mr. Trump, in March 2024....
The ruling comes on the same day that Peter J. Skandalakis, the director of the Prosecuting Attorneys Council of Georgia, announced he would be filling the position left vacant by Willis after she was disqualified from the case.
Skandalakis said he had appointed himself to lead the prosecution after his organization could not find another prosecutor before McAfee's Friday deadline. If a prosecutor had not been found, the judge said he would have dismissed all charges.
I think everyone can smell how bad Willis' lawfare case was.
Russia’s first AI humanoid robot collapsed on stage seconds after making its debut at a technology event in Moscow.
Video showed the robot, Aldol, staggering onto the stage to the soundtrack of Gonna Fly Now from the film Rocky during a showcase of Russia’s emerging robotics sector on Tuesday.
But as the humanoid lifted its hand to wave at the crowd, it lost balance and fell to the ground, shattering into pieces.
Developers were seen hastily trying to pick the robot back up before giving up and trying to cover it with a black cloth. But this ended up being tangled up with the robot, which was moving erratically on the ground.
Putin drove most of the young techies out of Russia with the Ukrainian War. Stupidity has consequences.
Migrants granted asylum will no longer automatically get a permanent right to stay in the UK, Shabana Mahmood is to announce.
The Home Secretary will unveil reforms on Monday to increase deportations and reduce Britain’s attractiveness to migrants, describing the reforms as “the most significant changes to our asylum system in modern times”.
At present, asylum seekers granted refugee status are given automatic permanent settlement in the UK after five years, with some rare exceptions.
Under the new proposals, refugees will only be granted a temporary right to stay subject to regular review. They will be sent home if officials deem that their country is safe to return to.
The changes are inspired by Denmark, which initially gives refugees only a temporary two-year stay. The country’s centre-Left government has reduced the number of asylum applications to their lowest in 40 years and successfully removed 95 per cent of rejected asylum seekers.
Planaria can learn from electric shock, and even Labour can learn from Nigel Farage's success. American progressives seem to not learn from the shock of Trump.
Immediately after the St. Paul, Minnesota City Council adopted a restrictive gun control measure—in defiance of the state preemption statute—the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus (MGOC) filed a lawsuit challenging the measure. According to CBS News, St. Paul is part of a coalition of 17 Minnesota cities planning to adopt what proponents are calling “a comprehensive gun […]
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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Here’s the current list of every story I’ve written about Patrick “Tate” Adamiak, who is serving 20 years in prison for crimes he never committed, which were filed against him by the ATF. There are 30 stories total, which should tell you all you need to know about this […]
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And the best way to keep killers from succeeding is by being able to stop them. [More] Prohibitionists will do anything to avoid the obvious– besides, it ain’t their money.
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A few weeks back, I complained that Delrin was too slick for my mill vise to hold, No. The problem was that the piece was not square. You cannot get much grip in a vise on a part that is not square. Even some CFC parts were failing to hold for this reason.
The former aide of Gov. Maura Healey charged with cocaine trafficking can now post bail after a previous judge ordered him held without bail following a dangerousness hearing. [More] You wanna talk about dangerous, how about the criminal underworld he enabled? That and “illegally owning a firearm and ammunition” makes it pretty easy to understand … Continue reading "Strong Hypocrisy Endangers Lives"
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Don’t call yourself an active defender of RKBA unless you’re willing to get familiar with what he has made readily available for your study and use. [More] Here’s who “he” is. I’m posting here to promote the comment by DDS, not by the article author, whose opinion of concealed carriers is helpfully curated with links … Continue reading "Knowledge Being Power ‘n All…"
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Zohran Mamdani wants social workers responding to 911 calls — but test program is already failing [More] Everybody stocked up on popcorn for January? [Via Michael G]
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Republicans are licking their chops after progressives helped drive Democratic Maine Rep. Jared Golden to retire from Congress, with local operatives and party consultants telling the Daily Caller it gives them a clearer path to victory in Golden’s red-leaning district.
“Bottom line on Maine’s 2nd Congressional District: It’s a Republican-leaning district, now absent the one Democrat who could hold it,” a Republican consultant who has worked on congressional and statewide campaigns in the state told the Daily Caller.
Maine has been long regarded as a moderate state Golden is viewed as one of the few Democrats capable of effectively representing the rural 2nd District’s constituents.
“The district has been getting more and more difficult for the Democrats to win for a decade now,” a longtime Maine political operative told the Caller.
Trump won Maine’s 2nd all three times he ran for president, including by almost ten points in 2024.
In 2024, Golden’s campaign messaging straddled both sides of the political spectrum. His ads simultaneously called former President Joe Biden “unfit to serve” while highlighting Republican opposition to abortion. Ahead of Trump’s election last November, Golden said he’d be “OK” if Trump won, accusing his own party of “pearl-clutching” about the ramifications of a Trump presidency. He was one of a handful of Democrats to join Republicans in a vote to reopen the government earlier this week.
Who were the 30 pu$$!e$? [Via Michael G]
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They have removed their post but they’re still getting knocked around on X and this will follow them around forever. No doubt some legal risk management type thought they’d better get ahead of potential product lawsuits with a disclaimer, kinda like Glock distancing itself from add-on switches. It won’t work, of course, because lawfare in … Continue reading "Flash in the Pan"
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The Department of Justice is continuing the prosecution of Tim Durkin of Durkin Tactical. Durkin was charged with “engaging in the business” of selling firearms, without making a single gun sale. [Watch] Are they trying to alienate gun owners before the midterms? Leaving gun owners wondering if the Trump administration is bipolar or just frauds … Continue reading "Going for Broker"
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I saw a very well-done video on polishing CFC. He was doing a bicycle frame and my, what an improvement! I tried the technique he showed. The results were disappointing until I remembered something I learned making telescope mirrors: polishing requires a pretty smooth finish. His bicycle frame was probably nicely finished at the factory. When I ran some #60, #320, #600, and #5000 over the surface, polishing with Mother's Mag Wheel Polish produced a nice finish. This is something so laborious that I think I will only do this to bare plates before machining.
I need to replace the belt and face sander sheets first to get down through #320, then hand power sander for #600. Hand sanding #5000 is not bad. Polishing I did by putting the polishing tool in the drill press, holding pieces in vise and lowering it down to the surface.
Further investigation revealed the 53-year-old man had been cleaning a shotgun when he set it down on the bed before the dog jumped up and caused the gun to fire. [More] How this guy made it to 53 is beyond me. [Via Steve T]
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BREAKING! NEXT TRUMP SCOTUS JUSTICE FRONTRUNNER IS A HUGE GUN GUY! [Watch] He’s shown great promise. Will he answer some real questions? Will he side with us against Bondi? [Via Jess]
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This Supreme Court has unexpectedly made another move on Duncan v. Bonta, the mag ban challenge out of California. This twist now erases our chance to see a conference on November 21st and puts the case in limbo. [Watch] As repeatedly noted, all SCOTUS has to do to let bad law stand is… nothing. [Via Jess]
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We’re going north to Alaska this morning. I’ll be joining the show at 10 AM Eastern. Nothin’ in particular, we’re just gonna talk. Live Stream here.
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If you haven't trained with Craig, you really should.
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A recent Wall Street Journal article makes claims about justifiable homicides using false, or at least unproven assumptions. From wsj.com:
It’s easier than ever to kill someone in America and get away with it.
In 30 states, it often requires only a claim you killed while protecting yourself or others.
There are several assumptions wrapped up in the opening sentences. First is the assumption it is never necessary or justified to kill someone. The phrase "get away with it" implies the person was not justified. Even though the article is about justified homicides, the authors, in the first sentence, imply justified homicides are not justified. Why the literary double speak? It is because the premise of the article depends on convincing the reader justified homicides were not justified.
This is a progressive article of faith. It is not sustained by the facts. In a previous article at AmmoLand, this correspondent explained two different models of how homicide happens, at least in Western society. From AmmoLand:
The first model, which I call the “Progressive Elite” model, has these basic assumptions about criminal homicide and its causes:
1. The majority of people, except for the exceptional elite, are just moments away from committing a criminal homicide. They have poor impulse control and fly into rages which escalate into homicidal rages if a weapon happens to be present. For this reason, only those in the elite, who have become experts in government through the attainment of public office, employment by police agencies, or attendance at ivy league schools, should be allowed access to weapons that might be use when these uncontrollable, emotional fits, strike. Just a few months ago, it was reasonably summarized by David Frum at thedailybeast:
Most gun casualties occur in the course of quarrels and accidents between people who would be described as “law-abiding, responsible gun owners” up until the moment when they lost their temper or left a weapon where a 4-year-old could find it and kill himself or his sister.
2. The second model, which I call the “Trust the People” model, holds that the vast majority of criminal homicides are committed by a tiny fraction of society, that they are easily identified by their past history of violence, cultural set, and lack of civilized values and discipline instilled by a stable home life.
John Lott notes that it is the second model that has triumphed:
Actually, as I showed in More Guns, Less Crime, about 90 percent of adult murderers have a violent criminal record. About 89 percent of juvenile murderers have a criminal record for serious crimes.
— In 2010, there were 36 accidental deaths involving kids under age 10. Most of those children were also shot by adults with criminal records. Accidental deaths are very small portion of total gun deaths.
A well known academic on the dynamics of homicide, who has written books on how to reduce murders, David Kennedy, agrees that most homicides come from a very small percentage of the population:
While homicides result from a variety of factors, the vast majority are committed by a small, violent and often gang-affiliated segment of society.
The Wall Street Journal article embraces the first philosophical view, no matter how much the view has been discredited. From the article:
With more guns in more hands, families are grieving loved ones lost to quick-tempered killings, often involving law-abiding civilians, with no one held accountable.
In the above quote, another progressive assumption is revealed. The assumption is more guns equal more problems. There is no proof more legally owned guns equal more problems. It is more correct to say the rate of legal gun ownership is not related to the rate of illegal homicides. A recent paper from Europe reinforces this fact. In the United States the number of firearms per capita goes up and up while the rate of homicides goes up and down. The progressive model for homicides assumes ordinary people commit most homicides. It is a false assumption.
The Wall Street Journal article states a person can "get away" with killing someone with "..only a claim you killed while protecting yourself or others." This is incorrect. All homicides are investigated. Claims of self defense have to be consistent with the physical evidence.
Under the "Trust the People" model of homicide, the death of violent criminals reduces the number of people prone to homicide, protecting others from their attacks. The death of violent criminals at the hands of victims acts as a deterrent to others prone to violent attacks.
The Wall Street Journal article posts examples where the authors frame the justifiable homicides as not necessary. A detailed examination shows a different view, where the examples likely stopped illegal homicides
The Journal authors refuse to use an example where murder and/or maiming were stopped, and justice served by the laws protecting victims. Consider the Gabriel Mobley case in Florida in 2008, where a black man was viciously attacked. He shot and killed his two attackers. Video evidence confirmed Mobley's actions as justified. Mobley had a concealed carry permit. Mobley escaped unjust punishment because Florida law provides self-defense immunity.
The numbers used by the Wall Street Journal article are highly suspect. The FBI definition of justifiable homicides comes directly from the progressive model. The FBI collection misses about 80% of justifiable homicides. The WSJ article admits the data is incomplete.
In essence, the WSJ article is a symptom of the different models of understanding homicide. the WSJ article exemplifies the "progressive" leftist model. Understanding of justifiable homicide as defense of the innocent exemplifies Natural Law philosophy as used by the proponents of lawful self defense.
Most murders are not committed by ordinary citizens, but by violent, out of control people with a violent criminal history. Most justifiable homicides are by people protecting themselves from the small fraction of violent offenders in society.
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Gun Watch
At the scene, deputies learned the man who was shot lives in the complex and was reported as a neighbor of the suspected shooter.
Sgt. Sidney Miller with the sheriff's homicide department said the suspect and his family were inside the apartment when they were awakened by the breaking of glass. The suspect then saw a person breaking into his apartment and shot him multiple times.
According to deputies, the victim was able to run away before he fell and died. The suspect who fired the weapon has been detained, Miller said.
On Tuesday, deputies from the HCSO, along with Henry County Public Safety, responded to 84 Sand Stone Court in Axton, Virginia, for a report of a gunshot victim around 11:35 p.m.
When they arrived, first responders said they found a man, later identified as 46-year-old Ronald W. McGugan, suffering from a gunshot wound. Officials said he was pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials said the shooting occurred after an argument with his brother and other family members.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Laying Down On The Job – American Cop When is the last time you shot a handgun from the prone position? I don’t do it often, but I think it’s important to know how […]On November 14, 1908, Albert Einstein presented his quantum theory of light. — On November 14th, 1985, the Nevado del Ruiz Volcano erupted in Colombia, killing over 20,000 as nearby towns are buried in mud, ice and lava. Scientist studying the volcano believed an eruption was imminent and had recommended an evacuation of the area which was largely ignored, resulting in the high number of casualties. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three Day Course Certificate. This …
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This article gives another perspective on understanding ballistics charts. Introduction I am not much of a hunter. Over the past five years going up to my in-law’s place, I’ve taken about a dozen shots at the feral pigs that root up sections of their land. I have zero hits on running pigs. If you line up a handful of soda cans filled with water at 25 yards, I can go town on those. But with the pigs out at 200 yards, I am about useless, even when the neighbor has lent me his really nice hunting rifle. A few weeks …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, video links, or occasional news items of interest to preppers. The map image below, showing Unemployment Rates, By County is from Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, posted for unrestricted use by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. It is click-expandable. For a detailed and zoomable view, see: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?m=1wm8j And here is some related data that explains some of the gray-shaded patches seen in the otherwise low-unemployment western states: Native American Labor Market Dashboard. — Reader T.M wrote to recommend the book The Great …
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“The Second Amendment is a God-given right to self-defense for every American – it’s non-negotiable.” – The Late Charlie Kirk
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Since President Donald J. Trump signed the “Protecting Second Amendment Rights” executive order in February, his Department of Justice has done exactly the opposite—relentlessly defending the federal government’s unconstitutional gun control regime. Instead of using the Justice Department’s vast power to secure Americans’ right to keep and bear arms, the Trump DOJ has used it … Continue reading "Where the Buck Stops"
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So, in the spirit of text, history, and tradition, Democrats are still all in for slave labor. Not that Bruce “Maybe they’re hungry” Harrell would have been better choice… Communists know a thing or two about hunger.
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Actor Woody Harrelson Fantasizes About Murdering President Trump With Cyanide [More] What is it about actors and Republican presidents…? Sounds like someone’s got Daddy Issues… [Via bondmen]
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Federal agents in Chicago are facing a nightmare most of us can’t imagine: a violent street gang has literally issued a “shoot-on-sight” order against them. According to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Latin Kings have targeted immigration enforcement officers working in the city, leading the agency to warn its teams to use “extreme caution.” … Continue reading "Enemies Foreign and Domestic"
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Pharmacy Student Gunned Down by ‘Friend’ During Birthday Celebration – Suspect Says it Was an Accident and Blames Marijuana But Inconsistencies Emerge in Her Story [More] Boy, that gun sure sounds dishonest, cowardly and evil! [Via bondmen]
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Long-time police chief pleads guilty in connection to $150K embezzlement case [More] Hey, when they said “to serve and protect,” they never specified “who”… [Via bondmen]
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How one of the country’s loudest anti-gun doctors gets data for his anti-gun stories [More] I suppose it beats stalking gun shows with hidden cameras and recorders to spy on private transactions…
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Belle and I are leaving tomorrow morning for a shooting competition in Mobile, AL on Saturday. I spent this morning getting the guns ready. A Colt SAA has 10 screws on the exterior of the gun. I found at least one loose screw on each of the guns we're taking. Nothing destroys confidence like having a gun come apart on the firing line. It really throws off your timing.
Now, the guns are clean and tight, the ammo is packed and I'm working the list. Boots, guns chairs. Luggage, update the GPS. The list is fairly long, but we've been doing this for years.
This is a very minor competition, a Jackpot Shoot at a local club. Those are normally the most fun, because there is less competitive stress. Just people having fun. What I enjoy about these local shoots is getting to see folks I don't normally get to see. It's like going to a family reunion with people we actually like.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for review in Grant v. Rovella, SAF’s challenge to Connecticut’s so-called “assault weapons” ban. [More] What are they waiting for? Republicans to blow the midterms?
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Seeberger has since resolved to support “whatever it takes” to make Minnesota safer. “I’ll be yes on anything and everything that comes through that will really make a difference to reduce gun violence here in the state of Minnesota,” she said in a recent interview. [More] So why is this oath-breaking useful idiot still being … Continue reading "None Dare Call It Treason"
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- The original (and best) reportage on the 24 Hours of LeMons...
- "The China the World Sees Is Not the One I Live In"
- AI slop videos of phony ICE raids clog social media.
Choosing the best safe for your home and needs isn't easy, but we have some tips and information that will help!It might the Cougars, the Owls, the Warriors, or any other of a thousand team names. When you get to the outskirts of a town with a high school, there will be a sign, a statue, or a billboard with the team mascot welcoming you. When you walk into the gas station or the grocery store, there will be pictures of the team. High school football matters to these towns. There's history and bragging rights on the line.
In Oakley Kansas, it was the Plainsmen.
Subsequent investigation revealed that the deceased male, who had succumbed to a single gunshot wound, was a former boyfriend of a female witness at the scene. The injured male is currently in a relationship with the same female. Investigators established that prior to the incident, the deceased male had been sending threatening text messages to the witness and her new boyfriend. The situation escalated when the deceased male broke into the female’s apartment armed with a pistol and a shotgun, resulting in an exchange of gunfire between him and the surviving male.
According to the statement, “The victim turned a corner and observed a subject walking back into the residence through an open door on the side of his house.” The suspect immediately fled the scene. No shots were fired.
The case is being investigated under California Penal Code 212.5, which pertains to residential robbery. The Victorville Police Department is handling the ongoing investigation.
On November 13, 1789, in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin wrote: “…in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes” — Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, was born in Scotland on November 13th, 1850. — And on November 13, 1861, a letter was written by Reverend Mark R. Watkinson petitioning the Treasury Department to “recognize Almighty God” on American coins. The department eventually decided on the motto “In God We Trust”. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 121 …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) The Dakota Lithium Power Bank can supply up to 2,400 watts by itself and can supply you with 4,800 peak AC when needed. This is according to their user’s manual that comes with the unit. That 4,800 watts is a rating given when a second power bank unit is set up in parallel with the first unit. The bank came with the necessary connector to link it with a second bank, and I am planning to buy a second unit to add to the setup I have now. Here are the statistics …
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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, we look at Russia’s new hybrid mechanized warfare. Putin’s “Mad Max” Infantry In the UK Daily Mail: Putin’s “Mad Max” Infantry. (The screenshot above is courtesy of Kanal …
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“In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.” – Walter E. Williams
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