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I was ordering some cleaning brushes and decided to go see what was available in .22LR. I found some Eley Target at a pretty fair price. It's about a third the price of Tenex. What the hell, I dropped a brick in the cart and checked out.
When it came in yesterday, I was a bit surprised at the packaging. I've bought a lot of .22 ammo over the years and bicks o .22 generally come in cardboard boxes. Not this stuff.
Police said 26-year-old Steven Ott opened fire on another person, prompting a bystander to pull out a gun and shoot Ott.
Both Ott and the other individual sustained gunshot wounds and were transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Ott was arrested Monday evening around 8 p.m.
On October 12, 2026, at approximately 2:20 p.m., Dallas Police responded to a Shooting call in the 9700 block of Whitehurst Drive. The preliminary investigation determined that the complainant was shot by an known individual at the location. The victim was transported by Dallas Fire-Rescue to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.
This case will be classified as a justifiable homicide and referred to a Dallas County Grand Jury.
The facts and circumstances surrounding this incident are currently being investigated and will be documented on case #150588-2026.
According to court documents, a separate altercation was occurring between 40-year-old Kejuana Bonner and the victim’s girlfriend. Officials said Bonner allegedly grabbed a stick from her vehicle and struck the victim’s nephew with it. Investigators said she then got into her vehicle and struck the victim’s girlfriend and her brother Stewart, who was standing nearby.
Investigators said video showed the victim pull a gun and fire five shots toward Stewart as he and Bonner left the scene.
When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
I remember reading about this in an early history of Pennsylvania prison reform but I could never find it again. SuperGrok thought long and hard and found it.
[ Section XIII.] Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the application of any of the said malefactors or any other in their behalf it shall and may be lawful for the court in which they were convicted at and before the expiration of their servitude to make inquiry as well of the sheriff, gaoler or keeper of the work-house or house of correction as of the keeper and keepers and others concerning the conduct and behaviour of such applicant during his or her servitude, and, if it shall appear thereupon to them that such person hath labored faithfully without attempting an escape and evidenced by a patient submission to the justice of their punishment a sincere reformation, then and in such case the said court shall grant to every such person a certificate thereof which shall also be recorded without fee in the proceedings of such court, and shall thereupon operate as a discharge from all claims and demands of the party injured and also as a pardon of the guilt and infamy of the offence, and give him or her a new capacity and credit.[12 Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania ch. 241 at 288 (1786)]
Clearly, the idea of lifelong disability is not as as straightforward as some imagine.
Williams v. Attorney-General of the U.S. (3rd Cir. 2026) decided that a second offense DUI conviction (which had a potential sentence of five years) is not a valid basis for disarmament:
The Second Amendment is a primary protection against tyranny, a strong bulwark securing American liberty, and an indispensable means of defending the public good. So courts testing restrictions on these “most sacred” and “necessary” rights must consider the history and tradition of firearm regulations with care and rigor.1 Edward Williams had two convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol in the early 2000s, the second of which (unbeknownst to him) triggered 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which purports to make it “unlawful” for persons convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” to possess firearms. Seeking to restore his rights, Williams filed for a declaratory judgment to confirm that § 922(g)(1), as applied to him, runs afoul of the Second Amendment. The District Court agreed with Williams, and we will affirm that judgment.
This is a very detailed examination of the constitutional basis for disarmament. It examines how even the definition of felony is full of ambiguity:
But the Justice Department’s apparent attempt to broaden discrete crimes justly punished by death to include all felonies, much less all crimes punishable by more than one year imprisonment, misses the point. The word “felony” has roots in mortal sin. But as time passed, felony’s substance was lost, as it came not to be defined by the character of the wrongdoer, but by the potential punishment. By Blackstone’s age, it was a crime punishable by death, encompassing “no less than a hundred and sixty [offenses].” 4 Blackstone *18. More recently, commentators have given up trying to apply any independent, substantive meaning to “felony,” admitting that it means whatever the legislature says it means. “[F]elony . . . has derived so many meanings from so many parts of the common law, and so many statutes in England, and has got to be used in such a vast number of different senses, that it is now impossible to know precisely in what sense we are to understand this word.” 6 Nathan Dane, General Abridgment and Digest of American Law 715 (1823).
These sources reveal that the modern regulatory label of felony—a crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment—is not even close to the proper “level of generality at which to define [the] historical practice.” Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 724 n.4 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring). It captures conduct that would have commonly justified exclusion, and a host of less significant acts. So simply pointing to Williams’s felony because it is labeled “felony” does not do. We must move to a more granular comparison, assessing Williams’s conduct against the Justice Department’s proffered analogy.
It points to habitual drunkard laws and how irrelevant they are to this case:
Nor does the Justice Department explain “how” the habitual drunkard laws ameliorated the threat of firearm misuse in a way relevant to the operation of § 922(g)(1). As Bruen clarifies, “if earlier generations addressed the societal problem, but did so through materially different means, that . . . could be evidence that a modern regulation is unconstitutional.” 597 U.S. at 26–27. That is the case here, and why the analogy to the permanent bar in § 922(g)(1) breaks down. Most statutes capped the commitment of habitual drunkards to the state inebriate asylum, prison, or hard labor to a few months or years. Others provided for an indefinite period of incarceration, but had no indication that upon release individuals continued to forfeit their arms. Rather, once someone was “safe” to “go at large,” Act of Mar. 27, 1876, ch. 208, § 7, 1876 Va. Acts 249, they were restored to the status of a full rights-bearing citizen. See Range, 124 F.4th at 231 (“[I]n the Founding era, a felon could acquire arms after completing his sentence and reintegrating into society.”).
I am not keen on DUI convicts possessing guns. The risk that someone so irresponsible as to drive drunk has access to guns, cars, or sharp objects, seems high. I also read that Williams' last conviction was in 2005. It appears that he has learned his lesson and reintegrated into society.
I get packages, just like everyone else. Sometimes UPS, sometimes FedEx, sometimes Amazon.
UPS is problematic. Their drivers are lazy, ignorant, or both.
Today, for example. I ordered some ammo and some cleaning brushes from MidwayUSA. UPS sent me a delivery notice. "ON THE PORCH". I have two porches, so I went out to the front porch. The one by the front door. No package. I went out to the back porch. No package. Honestly, I doubted that the driver would have left it on the back porch, because that requires opening a gate. Still, no luck.
Belle and I started looking, and she found it leaning against the garage door. Which is not a porch, nor is it near a porch, nor is it where they said they left it. So, the driver is either lazy, ignorant, or both.
When I picked up the package, I found a hole in the box. Luckily, nothing had spilled out, but I doubt that Midway shipped it with a hole in the box.
On the second floor, among the many collections of tools, a lovely woman in period costume named Susan demonstrated the art of weaving from flaxen thread to make linen, as well as the meticulous process by which the strands of soft flax emerged from a course stalk.
One of the room depictions in the grist house, which included a kitchen and room where the spinning wheels worked, was a little girls room. The furniture was adult furniture, carefully crafted in miniature, the bed, one in which her parents would watch her sleep, praying that she never knew fear or hunger. On the bed was a doll, a small, clothed artifact of that innocent corridor that is childhood.
Yes, the lives of past history are seldom easy, but there would be riches of experience we can not see, the accomplishment of crafting something that would last for generations. There is the pride in your teaching your own family. You teaching, not a school, not a "village", teaching the skills they would need to not just survive, but to prosper beyond the scope of your life. There was also the saving, not perhaps love or riches, but what is left behind in a human spirit when everything else has been taken away.
But they did not.
In the basement, there was something that made me stop and quietly think. A room that at one point was part of the Underground Railroad, a runaway slaves stop on the way to freedom in Canada, by a miller who himself sought freedom in our country, leaving his native Germany long behind him.
How many slaves did Mr. Graue shelter there in the basement of his gristmill? How many people passed through this room, putting their trust in a strangers hands, hesitant perhaps to take hold, as a hand too near the stove remembers pain. How difficult must that have been, trust replacing the whip of whistling air, the blow.
As I walked up the narrow stairs from that small and once dark place where women and men ran for their freedom, out into the light, an echo spoke which was not mine but rather all of the lost immutable "should haves" which haunt all dwellings, all the enclosed walls of home or heart. It lingers in the air as a hand takes mine to guide me safely away.
I left the mill with some bags of grain, but even more, with a renewed sense of thankfulness. Not just for my lightweight iron and the luxury of a long, hot, solitary bubble bath, but for something else. I left with a sense of enduring hope for that which is the human spirit, the recognition of a life lived by ones own hand and choice. - Brigid
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Cheers!
- Consumer price index continued its steady climb in September.
- Blue check? Nah, AI deepfake.
- Using your data to charge you more.
New York, N.Y. (1927)
04/18/1927: A quarrel between three acquaintances “after a night of cabereting” led to an exchange of gunfire. One of the dead was holding a revolver with one shot fired, suggesting he attempted self-defense. Police found a partly loaded revolver near his body.
Category: residential
Suicide: no
Cause: quarrel
Weapon: pistol[1]
Investigators found that the woman who had previously left Greenhill’s home contacted two men for a ride back to the home to retrieve her vehicle, officials said.
The woman was dropped off at the intersection of Highway 612 and Southern Oak Drive, where the men waited in their vehicle while she retrieved her own vehicle, GCSO said. Officials said Greenhill then left his home and approached the men’s vehicle.
Investigators found that Greenhill was wearing brass knuckles when he hit one of the men multiple times in the face, officials said. That man, who had a gun, then fired two shots, hitting Greenhill, officials said.
A father was injured in a Durham shooting on Saturday morning while trying to break into the home of his child’s mother, according to police.
The incident was reported just before 9:45 a.m. at the Magnolia Pointe apartments in the 4800 block of Danube Lane, just off Hebron Road in northeast Durham, according to a Durham Police Department news release.
During the break-in, the woman’s brother happened to be at the apartment, and there was a “struggle” between the two men, police said.
During the altercation, the brother shot the father of the child, officers said.
Cecil Burch, a third-degree Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt, founder of Immediate Action Combatives, and member of the ShivWorks Collective, joins host Tom Marshall on the RECOIL Podcast!
Tom Selleck is one of my favorite actors and favorite celebrities. I can’t think of a part he’s played that isn’t a role model for decency. I’ve never met the man, unfortunately, but I’m happy to say he is One Of Us.In addition to his many years as a director of the National Rifle Association, […]Police said Kurtae’vious Earl Tyson, 22, of Oxford, and Daronte Collins, 22, of Oxford, attempted to rob a 25-year-old Tuscaloosa man. Shots were fired during the incident, leading to Tyson being shot and critically injured.
Collins was charged with felony murder, first-degree robbery, attempted murder and shooting into an occupied vehicle. He is being held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail without bond.
This Week in History: The Battle of Kappel was fought on October 11, 1531. Swiss Roman Catholic cantons defeated the Protestant forces of Zurich. In the battle, reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli leader was killed. October 12, 1773: America’s first asylum opened for ‘Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds’ in Virginia. October 12, 1901: Theodore Roosevelt renamed the “Executive Mansion” as “The White House”. And on October 13, 1773, the Whirlpool Galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Charles Messier. — I recently added more than 250 rifle and pistol magazines to the Elk Creek Company inventory. Many of these were dusted …
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I’ve had several more readers contact me in the past week, asking about the Guidance from the BATF regarding SBRs, SBSes, Suppressors, and AOWs, in light of the August, 2026 Silencer Shop (and related Jensen) decision. For non-licensee private individuals, here is the the most portion of the new Guidance is (with emphasis added): “Although the district court’s injunction applies only to plaintiffs and certain other specified persons, the Department has determined to exercise its enforcement discretion to create greater uniformity, consistent with the Attorney General’s statement today. Consequently, effective October 9, 2026, ATF will no longer require individuals to …
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Some SurvivalBlog readers may be familiar with “Grandmother’s Song” by Steve Martin. I heard that song for the very first time back in 1979. It was part of Martin’s album “Let’s Get Small”, played from a vinyl LP on a stereo belonging to one of my college roommates. One of the lines of the song is, “Live in a swamp and be three dimensional.” I never dreamed that one day I would be living that line. But now, almost 50 years later, I find myself living in a home surrounded by wetland. One facet of wetland life is the need …
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Today’s graphic: Sunrise lights up the Cirque of the Towers, Wind River Range, Wyoming. (A public domain photo by “gmiphone”, at Openverse.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. I can of course credit you …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today’s graphic shows the relative size of teh U.S. and European economies. The US GDP used to be smaller than Western Europe’s combined, but today it is larger than Europe’s entire economy. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit and GeoUniverse.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest Reader D.S.V, recommended this piece over at Lew Rockwell’s site: Prepping for a Cashless Control Grid: How Digital Currency Becomes Digital Control. Trump …
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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. Today’s column outlines some new cyber threats. Android Malware Stealing PINs and Logins Reader C.B. sent this alert, from FoxNews: RatHat uses AI to take deep control of Android phones and …
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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. — Ukraine’s surprise robot offensive exposes a vulnerability in Putin’s war machine. o o o American Lasers Now Destroying Iranian Weapons and Infrastructure. o o o Courts Just Ruled the Gospel “Psychologically Harmful” — and Pastors Are Being Told to Shut Up. o o o Travis in Southern Idaho wrote: “Mr. Rawles, I …
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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. This week a map showing the population percentage increase between 2020 and 2025 in a few Northwestern metropolitan areas, and a few micropolitan areas. The image below, courtesy of Reddit, is click-expandable. REDOUBT NEWS LINKS Over at Cowboy State Daily: Landowners Fed Up With New Breed Of Trespassers Who Think Rules Don’t Apply To Them. Some familiar faces, in north Idaho: We Brought a Military Truck to …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: If You Cannot See The Irony Of This, Then You Are More Dense Than Osmium: Men, Armed With Guns, Sent To Disarm People Armed With Guns Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“During COVID I watched the Democratic Party turn against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party. Democrats turned away from gold standard research and blindly defended industry-sponsored, agenda-driven science written by corrupt and captive regulatory agencies. And the Democrats, which were once the champions of the American Constitution, systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights. And particularly beginning with the First Amendment, under the guise of combating misinformation, Democrats censored hundreds of scientists and physicians who questioned the government’s dubious COVID pronouncements and orthodoxies [Thirty-seven] hours after President Biden took the …
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It's been a wild weekend. Belle got home late Friday afternoon. Her brother survived surgery and is doing well in recovery. We hosted a club practice on Saturday. One of our oldest friends was there to shoot.
Bill is a founding member of the club. If the doors are open, he is there. He had a scare with prostate cancer a couple of years ago, but beat it with treatment. It slowed his draw down a lot and he has been working on his speed. On Saturday, he was showing his old style, and making hits in the high 4s. About one o'clock he took off his revolver and went home.
Bill's wife called on Sunday morning. Saturday night, Bill had a heart attack and died. Just like that. Gone. It's been two days and I'm still processing the news.
It was a cray weekend. I need to take my suit to the cleaners, and I'll do that tomorrow. I'll soon have a funeral to attend.