It wasn’t “gun violence” that killed Fairfax and his wife, it was him. [More] Why is it those who demand to control us can’t — or won’t — control themselves?

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Everytown/Moms Demand Action being sued by former employee for racial discrimination [More] Why wouldn’t that be the case? The boss has been doing it for years. And yes, of course everything’s documented. [Via Non_Fudd’s Ghost and Tacticool Memes]

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Ohio governor candidate’s event canceled over ‘pro-Nazi’ remarks [More] That’s the narrative the media is going to run with all the way up to the primary. I can understand the restaurant backing out– most operate on such slim profit margins ait probably doesn’t take much to scare them. Nonetheless, they said a lot more than … Continue reading "Everyone We Don’t Like is a Nazi"

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Principle takes down Attempted school mass Murderer. 

Security video shows Oklahoma principal Kirk Moore tackle a would-be school shooter. Principal Moore was wounded in the leg during the take down.

According to foxnews.com, on April 7, 2026, at about 2:21 p.m., in Pauls Valley High School, a former student, Victor Hawkins, entered the school and pulled a semi-automatic pistol. He appears to rack the slide to chamber a cartridge. About 4 seconds later, Principle Moore appears from the left and rear of the suspect, in full charge mode. Hawkins turns and manages to point the pistol toward Principal Moore, but Moore drives directly into Hawkins, driving him backward and down onto a bench in the school foyer. In two seconds Moore took Hawkins down and gained control of Hawkins gun hand. About nine seconds later, another person comes from the same area Moore came from, and picks up the handgun from the floor of the foyer. The slide of the handgun is locked back. It appears the magazine has been emptied. There is no audio in the video, so it is difficult to know exactly when or how many shots were fired. Speaking to KOCO-TV, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokesperson Hunter Mckee stated the multiple shots were fired, but only Principal Moore was wounded in the leg.

Analysis:

When looking at the video, it appears Hawkins has the handgun in his right hand inside the airlock. As he takes two steps into the school, he racks the slide. There was opportunity for Principle Moore to see the problem, formulate a plan, and take explosive action in those few precious seconds.

Principle Moore does not appear to be a Bruce Lee level martial artist or a Hulk Hogan body builder. He has something more important. Strong motivation and the ability to take decisive action almost instantly. It was the correct decision. Yes, Principal Moore took a bullet. It could have been much worse. He could easily have been killed, along with other innocents. His direct, high speed action short circuited the former student's plans. Most mass killers expect their victims to cower. Principal Moore did not cower. He acted.

In the military, this correspondent remembers something from an officer's training. A good plan, executed now, beats a perfect plan executed too late.

We cannot know if Principal Moore would have done better with a handgun of his own. That is not the way it happened. Hats off to a brave man who did not hesitate to do what was needed in a dangerous situation.

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I already submitted a draft to AmmoLand, so I’ll post the link when it’s up.

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Received via email: Springfield, VA — Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Gun Owners Foundation (GOF) are proud to announce a major win in our ongoing legal battle against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosive’s (ATF) Biden-era “Engaged in the Business” rule. The Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss … Continue reading "DOJ Surrenders its Appeal in Fight Over ATF “Engaged in the Business” Rule "

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BFA-PAC endorses Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor [More] I guess they think the idea of Heritage Ohioans is loony. [Via JG]

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Do “combat-trained Islamists in Britain … now outnumber the British Army”? [More] Another reason not to send a gun… [Via Michael G]

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Kentucky Lawmakers Override Beshear’s Vetoes, Delivering Two Major Pro-2A Wins [More] Great. Now impeach the oath-breaking traitor.

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NRA 2.0 and “the Enemy Within”: What Members Should Expect in Houston [More] If I were going, which I’m not, I’d expect a pretty good gun show. Outside of that, I’m trying to work up a … hoot to give.

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Bernalillo County Sheriff John Allen said the sheriff’s office fired a deputy after his county-issued AR-15 was used in a New Year’s Day killing. [More] So, at what point did it magically morph from a “patrol rifle” to a weapon of war only suitable for killing as many people in as short a time as … Continue reading "We’re the Only Ones Transubstantiating Enough"

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Army Testing New XM8 Carbine (No, Not That XM8) [More] So showing us something we can’t have is supposed to make us do what? Wave a flag?

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NRA’s partnership with @LoxandLoadedLlc is helping expand access to training, education, and community-based self-defense. [More] That’s terrific. I approve. Now detail the plane and resources you and your partners are effecting and expending to out-influence the bagel brains, counter the dominant influencers, and reverse that 79% ratio. Because we know what ADL is telling them. … Continue reading "Such a Deal!"

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After 67 years, Cuba’s marriage to a Communist government has not yielded the promised dream. Dissidents are disappeared; refugees flee into shark-infested waters. Cubans are living in a nightmare. [More] Made not just possible, but inevitable by “¿Armas para que?“ Making Cuban American Democrats supporting citizen disarmament traitors to both countries. And speaking of which, … Continue reading "Spider & the Fly"

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Trump and his trolls trying to primary this informed patriot are being destructive asses. Tangentially-Related UPDATE At a Senate Homeland Security hearing on the Second Amendment, Senators Rand Paul, Ron Johnson, and Josh Hawley question witnesses over concerns about efforts to weaken constitutional gun rights. The exchange highlights sharp divisions over how far federal policy … Continue reading "The Gold Standard of Politicians"

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Target and Whole Foods LEAVE NYC… as Mamdani Launches 5 FREE GROCERY STORES [Watch] “Free”… But good. Let the rope-selling capitalists see what life under politicians they enable will be like. And I can’t wait to see flash mobs, rioters, arsonists, and looters running wild at MamdaniMarts, especially if security opens fire on them. [Via Jess]

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The momentum for expulsion comes after a House ethics subcommittee found Cherfilus-McCormick guilty of more than two dozen ethics violations in March, including allegations related to stealing millions of disaster relief funds to finance her congressional run. She is also facing a separate federal criminal indictment that could result in more than 53 years in … Continue reading "Excreting Sheila from the Body Politic"

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Hunter Biden’s attorney says he is living outside the US and unable to cover mounting legal bills [More] I thought he was above such mundane things the rest of us are held accountable for… Can’t The Big Guy kick some back?

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A Department of Homeland Security official was killed in Georgia by a naturalized U.S. citizen with a prior criminal record, a case that is raising new questions about the federal government’s vetting process after the agency recently acknowledged significant screening gaps. [More] It’s just now “raising questions”? Y’know, I read somewhere that the Preamble offers guidance on … Continue reading "Adventures in Rigorousness"

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A Rebuttal to Cam Edwards’ Article ‘Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea’ [More] By disparaging thoughts on what a “pathway to citizenship” means for future “gun votes,” widely followed “gun rights influencers” are discouraging even discussing the issue.

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The Battle of Culloden was fought on April 16, 1746. Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeated the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil. — April 16, 1866: Nitroglycerine exploded at a Wells Fargo & Company office in San Francisco. This reportedly shattered glass in a half a mile radius. — April 16th is the birthday of libertarian novelist J. Neil Schulman. He was best known as author of the novel Alongside Night. — I just heard that famed mountaineer Jim Whittaker passed away, at age 97. — Today’s …

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(Continued from Part 4.) Preparations for Sons After spiritual preparation, the number one thing a parent can do is to prepare their son for life is to teach him how to make and control money. Money and resources create options. Lack of money limits opportunities. I have a collateral or lineal relative in every conflict from the Revolutionary War to the present. If you go back far enough in history, you will find multiple great-grandfathers at a distant generational level. For instance in the time period of the American Civil War, I have multiple grandfathers and collateral relatives who served …

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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, some more troubling implications of AI and digital ID. Pictured above is the Dallas, Texas Fusion Center. The Digital Gulag of America: AI and Digital ID Despite its …

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“There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” – Homer

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 Painfully manual and inefficient processing to get gold out of computer circuit boards. It looks like they are adding sheets of lead, probably to bind non-gold materials. I am pretty sure that making aqua regia (hydrochloric and nitric acids) which dissolves gold. I do not want to see the livers of these Indians or Pakistanis doing this awful work. The only advanced technology I see is a 5L Pyrex beaker.

Here's an obit. A good fellow.

Eighth grade student kills 9 people, wounds 13 in Turkey’s 2nd school shooting in 2 days [More] Boy, that’s a lotta “commonsense gun safety laws.” [Via Roger J]

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DODGE COUNTY, Wis. (WLS) -- Law enforcement officials are saying a Chicago-area woman's claims of being detained for two days were a hoax.

A Wisconsin sheriff is now suing Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi for defamation, claiming she lied to the public last month, when she said she was held in the Broadview U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility and transferred to Dodge County, Wisconsin....

Schmidt, in his lawsuit, outlined what he calls a hoax allegedly carried out by 28-year-old Naqvi.

Naqvi's supporters spoke out last month, after the Evanston native claimed she was detained at O'Hare airport by Customs and Border Protection for 30 hours.

Her family said she was then sent to the ICE detention facility in Broadview and later taken to a facility in Dodge County, where they said she was released Saturday, March 7.

According to the lawsuit, Sheriff Schmidt says Naqvi was actually staying at a hotel near O'Hare and allegedly sending text messages from her room.

"She checked into the Hampton Inn and Suites in Rosemont, Illinois for the entire duration of this alleged event, traveled from the Hampton Inn and Suites in Illinois to the Holiday Express in Beaver Dam, (Wisconsin), was done to complete this hoax. She scammed a victim out of thousands of dollars in pursuit of this hoax against the federal government and the Dodge County Sheriff's Office," Schmidt said.

From plumbingpermts@delair.com

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 4/15/26 KETV. Police responded to a kidnapping:

Investigators said officers arrived at the location and immediately found 31-year-old Noemi Guzman near the southern parking lot entry, standing by a shopping cart with the child inside.

Omaha police said Guzman was making multiple threats with the knife, and officers gave multiple verbal commands for her to drop the knife. She refused to drop it and cut the boy, officials said.

Two officers shot the woman, Noemi Guzman, after she cut the boy and refused to drop a knife she had stolen from the store, the police department said in a news release....

Omaha police said Guzman is the same woman accused of stabbing her father and breaking into the rectory of an Omaha church.

In 2024, investigators said Guzman doused her father with a flammable liquid and cut him with a knife.

That previous crime ended up:

Guzman pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, arson, burglary, and criminal mischief. She was later found not responsible by reason of insanity. The case is still open. KETV Investigates is continuing to examine the court documents.

I understand that there may have been good reason to find her not guilty by reason of insanity. (This incident seems to confirm it.) But why would you put someone out on the street with a history of insane violence? She could not lawfully buy or possess a gun, but as she demonstrated, getting hold of deadly weapons is not hard. In addition to risk to others, it is hard to imagine that she would be safe on her own. She certainly was not in this situation. 

On April 10, 2026, a three judge panel published an opinion in Morris v. DOJ. In it the Court re-enforced the standing precedent: A tax which does not require a person to pay money to the federal government is not a tax.  The precedents cited in the case apply to the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Firearms Act regulation of silencers, short barrelled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons.  For those items, the tax has been reduced to zero.

The case in the Fifth Circuit is Morris v. DOJ. It is about the ban on home distilleries in federal law, put in place in 1868. The ban does not require a person to pay a tax to produce distilled spirits in the home. Instead, the law prohibits home distilleries altogether.  The relevance is there is no tax to be paid. From page 12 of the decision:

  “Congress’s authority under the taxing power is limited to requiring an individual to pay money into the Federal Treasury, no more.” 

The National Firearms Act (NFA) has always been justified under the authority of the Congress to raise taxes. It has not been justified as authority given to Congress by the interstate commerce clause. This was emphasized by Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Attorney General, Homer Cummings, as shown in a previous article on AmmoLand:

Then-Attorney General Cummings was clear about this in his testimony to Congress during the debates over the bill in 1934:

Courts have consistently upheld the NFA, and its registration provision, on the grounds that it was a tax.

Another Fifth Circuit case is directly challenging the constitutionality of the NFA registration requirements now that there is no tax on silencers, short barreled rifles and short barreled shotguns. Brown v. ATF is at the district court level. Issues of standing are being addressed. If the case proceeds to the question of constitutionality, Morris v. DOJ, the home distillery case would be binding precedent for the NFA zero tax case.  Because the home distillery case opinion was filed on April 10, it is possible an appeal to the case will be filed. If an appeal is filed, the case would not have as much precedential value until the appeal is completed.

Analysis:  The congressional power to tax was used as a work-around in 1934 to avoid the Second Amendment. The NFA has always been justified as a tax act, not a use of congressional power under the commerce clause. In 1934, the commerce clause had far less reach than it has been given in later years. In 1934, the Supreme Court had yet to rule the power to tax could not be used to subvert the Bill of Rights. In 2026, there is long standing precedent the power to tax cannot be used to destroy the Bill of Rights, and long standing precedent the taxing power has to actually have a tax in order to be legitimate. The NFA tax has been eliminated for silencers, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons. The question is: how long will it take for the Supreme Court to recognize this? This correspondent is not a lawyer. The contents of this article is not legal advise.

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Brewer is accused of making verbal threats toward family members at the residence and then later firing a gun multiple times.

Troopers said Brewer, who was shot by his father in reported self-defense, was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital and booked in Southwestern Regional Jail. No charges have been filed against the father.

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On April 15th, 1621, Hugo Grotius arrived in France after escaping prison in a book chest. Grotius is renowned primarily for his work in philosophy, political theory, and law. This work laid the groundwork for an international law rooted in Grotius’ understanding of natural law, stemming from his Protestantism. His books with the most significant impact were De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) and Mare Liberum (The Free Seas). — April 15th, 1912, is the anniversary of the sinking of the “unsinkable” Titanic. 1,517 people lost their lives on the ship’s maiden voyage. — …

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(Continued from Part 3.) Health considerations There is a saying which encapsulates a large percentage of the preparation: “If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” Health is much more critical for a young woman versus a young man. I have known of individuals whose fathers died before they were born as the female’s time contribution to pregnancy is on average 65,000 times greater than the man’s contribution. In nature, male bees (drones) do not live that long after successfully mating with the queen as the insemination act if successful is the male’s swan song. Even if they …

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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — At Clark Howard’s site: Food Expiration Dates: What You Need To Know.  The included charts are quite useful. Here is an excerpt: “Here are the most common terms you’ll see: Best If Used By/Before: Peak flavor or quality, not a safety deadline Use By: Last date for best quality (safety only applies …

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“In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.” – William Penn

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 Let's talk about Eric Swalwell, the California congressman who is recently the subject of an intense sex crime investigation. I believe that five women have provided evidence to the police recently.  Last week, Swalwell was the leading candidate in the California governor's race. Now, he has resigned from Congress and has dropped out of the race.  How quickly we fall from grace.

I would remind everyone that he is accorded the same presumption as any other accused.  He is presumed innocent until convicted in a competent court.

I would also remind everyone that I worked with sex offenders during the 1990s Everything I have heard this far fits a standard pattern.  Sex offenders are always serial offenders. If someone is convicted of only one offense, it is because the prosecutors can only prove one offense. This far Swalwell has five accusers.

But, he is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

 4/14/26 Science Alert:

Adults who have never been married are at a significantly higher risk of developing cancer than those who are married or have been in the past, new research suggests.

A team from the University of Miami found that incidence rates of cancer were 68 percent higher in never-married men and 85 percent higher in never-married women.

Interesting especially when you get into the details:

Some of the biggest differences were seen in anal cancer for men (around five times the rate in never-married men, compared to men who were married or who had been previously), and cervical cancer in women (nearly three times the rate in never-married women, compared to women who were married or who had been previously).

Why do single men get anal cancer. Because some single men get something that carries HPV in close proximity to their anus, just like women who are single and get that same high-risk HPV carrier in intimate areas. 

I know it is unpopular to say this, but STDs spread with the square of the increase in sexual partners per period of time. Double the number of different partners per month and you quadruple the STD spread rate. Quadruple the number of partners and it spreads at 16x the rate. 

I would not make a means-end argument for the constitionality of traditional laws against sodomy and extramarital sex. But the left keeps making the means-end argument for gun control laws. I rather doubt that they would find this argument persuasive.

We’ve identified at least ten cases in which chatbots, primarily ChatGPT, fed a user’s fixation on another real person — fueling the false idea that the two shared a special or even “divine” bond, roping the user into conspiratorial delusions, or insisting to a would-be stalker that they’d been gravely wronged by their target. In some cases, our reporting found, ChatGPT continued to stoke users’ obsessions as they descended into unwanted harassment, abusive stalking behavior, or domestic abuse, traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

Though Dr. Marzbani didn’t know it, Joe was routinely asking questions about his cancer to several generative A.I. tools, which often struggle to give accurate medical advice. He told them to list the early signs of Richter’s, interpret his lab results and explain complicated research about the treatment his doctor recommended. He knew not to trust A.I. unilaterally. He often read the scientific papers the tools cited and — as best he could without medical training — tried to verify that they aligned with what the tools had said.

He came away feeling so confident in his understanding of the science that declining treatment seemed to be the obvious choice.

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA

One theory about defending against bear attacks is this: Defenders must be careful not to shoot a bear without immediately killing it, because wounded bears are more likely to attack. The theory has been put forward for many decades. One of those who put the theory up for consideration was Stephen Herrero in his book: Bear Attacks: Their causes and Avoidance. On page 241 of the 1985 edition, Herrero writes:

Of course, if an aggressive bear actually attacks you or a companion, a firearm may be a lifesaver, or it may cause a wounded bear to intensify its attack. 

Herrero puts forward the theory.  He does not appear to have data to determine how common such reactions may be. His speculation is shared with numerous others over the last hundred years. With over 200 documented incidents where a handgun was fired in defense against bears, this correspondent has numbers which indicate 21% of bears continue to attack after they are shot. Of 175 incidents where bears were shot, they stopped attacking in 138 cases and persisted in 37 cases. Warning shots were effective in 23 of 44 cases. In 8 of the 23 cases the positive effect  of the warning shot(s) was temporary. There were four cases where it could not be determined if the bears were wounded or if the shots were effective. Of the 175 incidents where bears were shot, 29 were shot after a person was already injured by the bear. Of  the 146 incidents where shooting the bear occurred before a person was injured, the bears persisted after being shot in 31 cases, also 21%.

Bear attacks are often complicated. Some incidents fall into multiple categories.  For example, two experienced outdoorsmen were archery hunting in Montana in 2019. A grizzly bear attacked without provocation in dense cover. One of the hunters was being mauled before any shots were fired. The other hunter fired a shot from his 9mm and drove off the bear, wounding it. The bear persisted in coming back, twice, and the mauled hunter fired his 9mm, driving the bear away. Those shots probably missed, but stopped the persistent attack. In some cases, shooting can precipitate an attack.

In cases where bears persisted after being shot, over half the attacks were stopped before a person was injured. In the cases of persistence, the defense was successful in stopping the attack in all cases, even after a human was injured, except for one, the case of the .22 rimfire defense against a polar bear. To put it another way, when you only look at cases where the bear was shot, the success rate rises to 1 failure in 175 cases, or over 99%.

In the three other failures of handguns fired in defense against bears, it seems likely the bears were not shot. One was a failure of warning shots fired to drive off a polar bear. No humans or bears were injured. In the other two cases, it seems likely the bear was not wounded. Extreme speed and accuracy are not required for a successful defense in most cases.

Bears do not like to be shot. Most bears stop attacking when shot, or they are killed. Most bears which persist in attacking after being shot are killed. One of the societal advantages to killing these aggressive bears is their genes are removed from the gene pool. Bears in their generation learn that attacking humans is dangerous. The site where a human killed a bear is like scent version of a neon billboard in the woods. As the erudite Valerious Geist has written, this is a valuable outcome which protects everyone who uses wildlands in bear country. It must be noted, hunting bears is different from defending against bears. Hunters who wound bears are morally bound to follow the wounded bear to finish it off. Defenders are not so bound. A wounded bear is more likely to attack a hunter which is following it after it has been wounded. This is a different situation than a wounded bear continuing to attack when the bear initiated the attack.

Bear spray has been widely touted as more effective than firearms. The studies used to the compare the two were not designed for such comparison. The studies have serious problems with selection bias, acknowledged by the authors. A better comparison is the number of people who have been killed when bear spray was sprayed against a bear compared to the number of people killed when a handgun has been fired in defense against a bear. These incidents tend to be widely reported, reducing or eliminating selection bias. This correspondent has found eight documented cases where nine people were killed by bears where bear spray was used during the attack.  This correspondent has found one documented case where one person was killed by a bear where a handgun was used during the attack, the polar bear incident with the .22 rimfire handgun in the Svalbard archipelago.

Warning shots can work.  In one third of instances, their effect is temporary.  They buy time for the defenders. Seconds can be precious in preparing a more effective defense.

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The victim said they heard a backseat passenger asking questions, but could not understand exactly what was being asked. The person reportedly asked why he was being so hostile by displaying a handgun with a red laser.

As the victim is said to have tried to walk away, he heard gunshots, with him claiming he returned gunfire as the vehicle fled. The vehicle then turned back around and proceeded south, the victim said.

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By Dave Workman A new Rasmussen survey shows overwhelming opposition to the “weaponization” of government to punish political enemies, and underscoring this threat is a quote from Susan Rice, national security advisor to former President Barack Obama, warning companies who “take a knee” to President Donald Trump can expect to be “held accountable” if Democrats […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Patrick “Tate” Adamiak is serving 20 years in federal prison even though the ATF found nothing illegal during a search of his home. All Adamiak possessed were legal guns, gun parts and collectibles. Prosecutors originally sought a 30-year federal prison sentence by introducing questionable evidence—977 uncut pieces of […]

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On April 14, 1849, Hungary declared itself independent of Austria, with Lajos (Louis) Kossuth as its leader. — On this day in 1865, just after the effective end of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth while attending a production at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., and died the next morning. — April 14, 1881: The famed Four Dead in Five Seconds gunfight in El Paso, Texas. — Today’s feature article is a guest post from a long-time SurvivalBlog reader. Because it is partly self-promotional, it is not part of the writing contest …

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(Continued from Part 2.) Give Up the Fantasy A daughter may need to move, bend, compromise, and pivot. Those are all signs of maturity and embracing reality. A successful farmer looks at changing conditions across soil health, larger economic forces, and continues to refine their decisions onwhat crops are planted, and when. Young women and their families need to give up on fantasies and embrace reality. Fantasies are very dangerous delusions that often leading to negative long term consequences. When preppers think their food supply is adequate, but it would not feed a 19th Century waif for a fortnight, it …

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This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. Today’s feature photo: The Blitzen River Wilderness Study Area (WSA) is located 60 miles south of Burns (less than 1 mile south of Frenchglen), in Harney County, Oregon. Frenchglen is named after Pete French, with whom my Shirk family cousins had a well-publicized range war. The northwestern edge of the WSA is adjacent to Oregon State Highway 205. (A public domain photo, courtesy of the BLM.)  The thumbnail …

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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” – Michel de Montaigne

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 Over the past several days, the usual contenders have issued their annual hurricane forecasts for the2026 season.  This year is supposed to be less active than normal with maybe nine (9) named storms and up to three (3) major storms.

We'll see.

The thing to remember about hurricanes is that it takes only one to completely screw up your weekend.

For those of you who take procrastination as seriously as I do, tax day is upon you.  This is the first year in many that I have not yet picked our my BAG day gun.  Perhaps because I already have my guns.  I have heard good things about Springfield Armory's clone of the Browning Hi Power.

 Let's say you want to cut a piece of aluminum angle in 1.5" segments on a chop saw with a 100 tooth blade. It is rough on blades but cuts well.) I would prefer 1.5" wide -0", +.05". Can anyone suggest a method of doing this? Yes, I should use a band saw but I do not have one right now.

Solution: dig through my scrap pile to find a 1.522" wide piece that I milled. Put it against the blade. Press a piece Delrin against and clamp it in place as a stop against the back fence. Remove 1.522" piece. Push workpiece against stop.

The first two slices after running over the belt sander were 1 517" and 1.509". Taking them down to 1.50" on the mill will be easy