I am reminded that 82 years ago today, Operation Overlord kicked off. The crusade to retake Europe focused on five beaches on the Normandy coast.
Eisenhower had prepared a press release in the event that the landings failed. He was prepared to accept full blame if the operation failed. That was the ethical choice. He was the Supreme Commander. It was his show.
We can draw parallels to more recent military disasters and the lack of accountability.
...soldiers, sailors, and airmen of the Allied forces embarked on the Great Crusade.
Quote of the Day We think it is going to be the worst delivery of regression in the history of the country in terms of gun violence prevention. Kris BrownPresident of Brady: United Against Gun ViolenceJune 5, 2026What’s in the …
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Wednesday saw the
official retirement of the AV-8B Harrier II V/STOL ground attack aircraft by the USMC after four decades of service.
People who have concealed carry permits are one of the most law-abiding groups in the United States. Police officers have crime rates far below the general population. People with concealed carry permits are more law-abiding than police officers.
The arrest rate for the overall adult population in the USA is about 2,100 - 2,200 per 100k in recent years. The arrest rate for police officers has been about 170 per 100k. This may be low because no one tracks police arrests officially. Officials may be reluctant to charge police officers. The conviction rate for concealed permit holders is about 17.6 per 100k in Texas, according to an academic paper by John Lott, Moody, and Wang published in 2025. From the paper:
Of the 43,932 total convictions in the Texas DPS 2023 report, only 284 — or 0.6 percent — were convictions of LTC holders, a conviction rate of
17.6 per 100,000.37
Convictions are not the same as arrests. Arrests for felonies tends to result in about 65% convictions. Arrests for misdemeanors results in about 45% convictions. A conviction rate is likely to be about half of the arrest rate. If we double the conviction rate to approximate the arrest rate, concealed permit holders have less than one fifth the arrest rate for police officers. Concealed carry permit holders have 1.7% of the arrest rate for the general population.
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) sums up how law-abiding permit holders are for convictions of firearm related violations:
Concealed handgun permit holders are extremely law-abiding. In Florida and Texas, permit holders are convicted of firearms related violations at one-twelfth of the rate at which police officers are convicted.
Minnesota tracks the number of carry permits which are revoked each year. A look at the Minnesota numbers shows revocations of permits are close to what concealed permit convictions are in Texas. The numbers and methodology may be significantly different in the two states. In 2024 the number of permit holders in Minnesota were about 400 thousand. The number of permit revocations was 47. That is a rate of revocation of 11.5 per 100k in 2024.
The crime rates of permit holders are much, much lower than that of the general population and much lower than that of police officers. In terms of other population groups, permit holders crime rates are about as law abiding as Asian Americans as a group. Both groups show high levels of civic responsibility and respect for the rule of law.
Analysis:
Very few people believe disarming the police is a good idea. Police officers, even retired police officers have the legal right to carry in most places where most people are prevented from carrying weapons. Police officers have the legal right to carry in all states and territories of the United States. The Congress created the LEOSA act as a way to protect the public with more responsible armed people on the streets. They also created it as a way to protect police officers. The same logic applies to people with concealed carry permits. Those people are much less likely to break laws than even police officers are.
It is common sense to increase the number of such protectors by 15X. There are about 700 thousand sworn police officers. There are about another 500 thousand retired officers. There are over 20 million Americans with concealed carry permits.
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Graham then continued to assault the man, police said.
“An uninvolved witness in the Summit Avenue area observed the
incident and believed the male was in immediate danger. In response, the
individual retrieved a handgun and shot Mr. Graham,” the news release
said.
The person who shot Graham stayed at the scene and “complied with officers during the investigation,” police said.
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Police Chief Dennis Stevenson says a man
reported firing his gun at another man, who was allegedly vandalizing
his car. The suspect then ran off into the woods behind a nearby store
and daycare.
The search took place
just off Bowen Street. The daycare which police were searching near was
unoccupied. Surveillance video from a nearby business showed the suspect
limping with a wound to his right leg.
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I like pretty much all guns. I like to shoot pretty much all guns. I, like you, only have 24 hours in a day, and often it seems like I have a lot less. As much as having a lot of guns is cool, and having experience shooting a lot of guns is cooler, it […]
The cat got let out of the bag this morning, and some of you are still processing what is 6.5 Creedmoor + Peak while others might be hearing it for the first time. This isn’t just another magnum. It’s not someone simply stuffing too much powder into a case and making a dangerous hot load. Federal really went into the lab on this one to make a scorching fast version of the 6.5 Creedmoor that is actually safe to shoot out of your normal 6.5 Creedmoor rifle. Let’s dive in to see if the hype is real, or if this is something you will want to pass on.
The clock is ticking. With the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicking off in Houston in a matter of days, with seven matches at NRG Stadium, an estimated half a million visitors, and a 39-day Fan Festival in East Downtown, the city's law enforcement community is making sure it's ready for anything. The Harris County Sheriff's Office SWAT team has been training hard, and this set of images gives a rare look at what that preparation actually looks like at scale.
Before World War II, and especially before World War I, the rifles of the whitetail-hunting world looked a lot different from today. Lever-actions ruled supreme, and they were often chambered for rounds that have fallen from favor. These include .33 Winchester, .303 Savage and even .44-40. But to me, the most interesting of them all is the .250-3000. This round served many hunters very well, and was one of the best choices in the first half of the 20th century—and now it’s long, long gone from popularity.
I mowed grass today, for the third time this season. I'm not proud of that, but we've had a wet May and my yard holds water. I timed it perfectly, because when I finished mowing, it started raining.
I don't have a lawn in the traditional suburban sense. I have a mixed-grass pasture. The Bahia was going to seed and was nearly knee-deep in places. It used to drive the HOAS crazy. When I moved here 20-something years ago, we had an HOA. I and some like-minded neighbors decided to ignore the sonsofbitches and see if they could make their treats work. They had no heart for conflict and folded up like a cheap pocketknife.
I'm not opposed to mowing grass, you understand, I am opposed to rutting up my yard. I raised beef cattle for 20 years and know that the proper use for good grass is feeding beef. I don't object to keeping a lawn, I am just baffled that anyone cares.
Tomorrow I'll break out the weed eater and trim around the culverts, then go to Popeye's. Belle has a yearning for fried chicken.
When SIG Sauer launched the P211 GTO in 2025, it made a statement: a steel-framed, double-stack 1911-architecture 9mm with an integrated compensator and the kind of fit and finish that makes serious competitors stop and take a second look. The obvious follow-up shot (pun intended) was: what about everyone who doesn't want a comp? The answer is two new variants, the P211-GT4 and the P211-GT5. Names that sound like they belong on a Nürburgring racing entry list more than a gun, but here we are.
The 686 Silver Pigeon I lineup is now complete. Beretta has announced the final wave of its refreshed 680-series offering, bringing the updated sub-gauge field models and the first-ever sub-gauge Sporting configurations in Silver Pigeon I history to market.
Federal has accomplished something truly clever with this latest introduction. Their “new” cartridge, 6.5 Creedmoor + Peak , has taken the stalwart 6.5 Creedmoor round to new heights by adding 200+ FPS (feet per second) to it, and it is not as simple as dumping more powder in a casing and making a dangerous hot load. By using Peak Alloy technology and casings, along with other premium components housed by Federal, they’ve given 6.5 Creedmoor owners a faster, flatter, and more lethal cartridge on game and steel targets alike.
This 1965 Chevrolet Impala Super Sport, complete with rumbly 396-cube big block under the hood, was absolutely eye-catching.
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During our Italian vacation, we spent two nights in Bolzano, in South Tyrol. Situated at the gateway to the Dolomite Mountains, Bolzano has the look and feel of an Alpine village, with spectacular mountain views in every direction. Making the region even more intriguing is the strong German influence in its culture, food, and architecture — at times, it feels more like Austria or Bavaria than Italy.
The area was part of the Austrian Empire for centuries before becoming part of Italy after World War I. After the war, Mussolini’s Fascist government attempted to “Italianize” the region by encouraging Italian migration and suppressing the German language. Those efforts largely failed, and the people of South Tyrol still proudly maintain their German heritage and language today. The result is a fascinating blend of cultures where espresso bars and aperitivo traditions coexist alongside Alpine customs, German dialects, and Austrian-style mountain cuisine.
The bar in our hotel offered a couple of locally made, German-style beers, and naturally I was eager to try them. On the first evening, I joined some fellow travelers to enjoy pours of
Felsenkeller Bier from
Birra Forst. Served in a tall chalice, the cloudy, unfiltered, and unpasteurized beer delivered notes of sweet bread, yeast, and a touch of banana. It was remarkably refreshing and easy to sip.
On another late evening, after a day spent hiking wooded trails and wandering the city streets, I settled into the hotel’s outdoor garden to enjoy another local beer — this time paired with a cigar. I selected the V.I.P. Pils, also from Birra Forst. The crisp pilsner, brewed in the German tradition with a notably dry finish and refined bitterness, proved especially refreshing in the cool Alpine evening air. I paired it with a Las Calaveras Edicion Limitada 2025 LC52 that I had packed from home.
I’ve long enjoyed the annual Las Calaveras releases from Crowned Heads. The 2025 version features a mid-priming Mexican San Andrés wrapper that shows a lighter appearance than the darker maduro tones usually associated with San Andrés tobacco. Beneath that wrapper are Nicaraguan binder and fillers. The cigar treated the palate to notes of coffee and espresso, touches of cocoa, and mild pepper. Underlying it all was a gentle sweetness that softened the richer flavors.
Ideally, the cigar might have paired even better with a darker ale, perhaps a German Dunkel or Bock. However, that wasn’t an option at the time, and I found the combination thoroughly satisfying nonetheless. The crisp bitterness and clean, dry finish of the V.I.P. Pils highlighted the cigar’s cocoa and espresso notes without adding competing sweetness. The cool evening air and tranquil garden setting only enhanced the relaxing atmosphere.
The region’s German influence is readily apparent in the food as well. During a stroll through the market area of Bolzano, we stopped at a vendor’s cart to enjoy some Weißwurst. The sausages were served on paper with a generous dollop of spicy mustard and a hard roll — simple fare, but immensely satisfying.
One evening, we enjoyed dinner at
Batzen Häusl, a local brewery and restaurant — not exactly the experience we had expected to find in Italy. I ordered a
Batzen Bräu Bock alongside a South Tyrolean bratwurst platter. The beer was rich with dark caramel malt flavors and a mild sweetness.
The sausages were equally delicious, served with roasted potatoes and sauerkraut. I especially enjoyed the creamy sauerkraut, which struck a pleasing balance between sweet and sour flavors.
The food, the beer, the architecture, and the dramatic scenery of the Dolomites towering above the town — not to mention the ever-present German dialect — often made it easy to forget we were in Italy at all. Yet that unique blending of Italian and Germanic cultures is precisely what makes Bolzano and South Tyrol such a memorable destination. It’s a place where Alpine traditions and Italian hospitality coexist seamlessly, creating an atmosphere unlike anywhere else we visited during the trip. For this beer enthusiast, it was like two vacations in one.
Cheers!
Because I work in the criminal justice system, some readers ask me why I don’t generally comment on high profile shooting cases that are in the news. I guess I owe them, and you, an explanation. In the past I worked as a police prosecutor, prosecuting misdemeanor cases. I was a cop for longer than […]
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This May 2026 study by Davidoff Law Personal Injury Lawyers examined travel risks across all 50 states to find where visitors need to be most careful.
Boot selection by assignment and climate, break-in realities, insole and orthotic considerations, and the long-term foot and knee impact of poor footwear over a twenty-year career.
"Glock switch" images from ATF, public domain.
Murders committed with handguns patterned after the extremely successful Glock line of pistols, equipped with "Glock switches", are extremely rare, according to research done by the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The research was published on May 27, 2026.
No database of cases where "Glock switches" are used to murder people is maintained by the federal government . The CPRC did what they characterize as "an exhaustive search" for incidents where such a "Glock switch" was used to murder people, from 2021 through most of May, 2026. They found 20 incidents where 43 people were killed over the more than five years studied.
Every murder is a tragedy. However, the number of murders committed with "Glock switches" is a tiny blip in the overall number of murders in the USA, over the five years examined by the CPRC. The CPRC carefully and correctly states they may have missed some murders committed with "Glock switches". It is the nature of crimes that some are not detected. It is the nature of the media that some events are not reported in a way which is easily found. The demonization of these devices works to insure most known events are reported.
Handguns do not make good automatic weapons. They are more difficult to master than rifles or shotguns, even when one shot is fired for every trigger pull. The yare much more difficult to control on full auto, especially a full auto with a high cyclic rate of fire. With modifications, expert users can use them effectively, with practice. Machine pistols, as they are called, have not been a popular item with military services because of these limitations.
"Glock switches" take an excellent handgun design and transform it into a bad machine pistol. As noted by the CPRC, the "Glock switches" are dangerous to the user and to everyone near the user, including the user's allies and confederates. "Glock switches" override the handguns disconnector, allowing the handgun to fire before it is fully locked. The difficulty of controlling a handgun in full auto, with an extreme cyclic rate, makes the danger of shooting in a direction which is not desired, a real possibility. This may be a reason the "Glock switches" are not used more commonly.
CRPC notes the total number of murders committed from 2021 - 2024 are about 80,657 murders in the USA, according the the FBI. The numbers for 2025 have not been officially released. Of those from 2021-2024, we know 29 were committed with "Glock switches". It is impossible to know if more or fewer murders would have been committed without the "Glock switches" being used. It is plausible, perhaps likely, the use of the switches prevented some murders because of the difficulty and danger of use, and the inherent lack of accuracy with such devices. If the first shot is on target, it is likely the second and following shots are not on target. The homicide rate in the USA has been falling since 2021. The murder rate in the USA is at an historic low, probably the lowest ever recorded in the USA.
As mentioned in the CPRC article, these devices are mostly used by criminal gangs. Most of the murders appear to be during gang wars. "Glock switches" are already illegal to produce or own for nearly all people in the United States. Only licensed machine gun manufacturers, law enforcement, and the military have the ability to legally possess them.
Analysis: The focus on "Glock switches" is another attempt at creating a crises where none exists. The purpose appears to be to pass legislation to make items which are already illegal to own, double or triple illegal. The desired effect seems to be to ban or make illegal ordinary Glock pistols. Glock type pistols may be the most popular pistol in American society, perhaps in the world.
Those who wish to disarm the population have never been worried about logic, facts, or cost/benefit ratios. Most people still value logic, facts, and cost/benefit ratios. The CPRC article sheds light on a subject primarily shrouded in myth and emotion. It is likely the emotion based laws against Glock pistols will run into difficulties as they are challenged in the courts. Commonly owned firearms which are used for legal purposes are protected by the Second Amendment. Glock pistols are common. They are overwhelmingly used for legal purposes.
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Police
said they believe Jordan was battering his girlfriend when the woman’s
brother heard the assault, went upstairs and saw his sister being
beaten.
“After several attempts to get the individual to stop, he produced a firearm and he shot the victim,” Price said.
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No injuries were reported in the shooting. According to the police
chief, a homeowner returned fire after allegedly being shot at. He said
one individual was taken into custody. The suspect has not been
identified.
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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, to say nothing of damage to some of the world's largest smelters, has aluminum prices skyrocketing.
Aluminium prices are at a four-year high, up more than 25% this year, as war in the Middle East and a blocked Strait of Hormuz choke off nearly a quarter of the world’s seaborne metal supply.
Not just aluminum, though. The global helium supply has been kneecapped as well, which will impact everything from microchip manufacturing to MRIs.
The war has also upended markets for products extracted from natural gas. Among the most critical is helium, an odorless element produced as a byproduct of natural gas extraction. Before the war, Qatar supplied roughly one-third of the world’s helium.
Chip manufacturers use it to cool machines that etch circuits onto silicon wafers. Pharmaceutical companies rely on it for quality checks of their products. In magnetic resonance imaging machines, helium cools superconducting magnets.
I've already had a couple people tell me that even though prices on everything from portable electronics to memory cards for cameras is up, if I have any I need to buy, I shouldn't be waiting for Christmas because it's going to be a year minimum once the shooting stops for things to even start getting back to normal.
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Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. The Allure of Accuracy “There are many reasons to train accuracy to a high level. First, it refines fundamentals—posture, grip, trigger speed, vision, and process—allowing a shooter to know they can hit a target […]
Are you joining the red dot revolution? Get some basic training tips and drills to help you master red dot pistol shooting!
The XD series of handguns from Springfield Armory have been available for over a quarter century: 25+ years now. Having seen multiple iterations and upgrades, this truly is a suite of varying pistols for evolving needs: XD, XD Mod.2, XDS, XDS Mod.2, XDM, XDM Elite, and the XD Mod.3 round out that burgeoning family. Now, there is another offering that can be entered into that family tree with the unveiling of the XD Mod.4 OSP this spring. So, today we are going to take a look at the Springfield Armory XD Mod.4 OSP 9mm to see how it performs out on the range. Let’s dive in!
China's state-owned arms giant Norinco has never been shy about reverse-engineering a good idea, and the NP7A is exactly what it looks like: a Glock 17 clone, made in China, sold at Chinese prices (at least kind of).
Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we took a look at whether the overall size of your carry gun really matters when it comes to comfort and concealability. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I think it's exciting to see Glock releasing the updated 15-round magazine for the Glock 43X and 48 models, making an interesting shake-up in the lineup when it comes to their concealed carry line of pistols. Let's take a look at whether or not the Glock 48 is the new standard.
This afternoon, I took it out and looked at the Sun. I must have gotten pretty well polar aligned because it was trqcking very well. Obviously, two star alignment was impossible, but i was able to use LURD (left, up, right, down) buttons to center the Sun in the eyepiece.
This evening, LURD was completely useless. It is random how ExploreStars app works.
I ordered a roof rack system from Amazon thst clamps onto the Hyundai's roof bars intended for that purpose. The left and right attachment mechanisms of course have locks to prevent theft. The key fits three of the four locks. It will not even insert into the fourth. The logical step would be replace one appropriately keyed, or even all four. No. All Amazon can do is send me a new unit. Keep the bad one. I may try and figure out to repair that bad lock.
It is hard to believe this is cost effective.
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That would be this Third World collectivist ingrate bent on turning the Founder’s Republic into the hellhole he escaped from…
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The American firearms industry is still going great guns after a minor slump in 2025, with the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) adjusted NICS numbers showing more than a million guns sold in the U.S. in May of 2026, as well as an increase over May’s numbers in 2025.
It was a god morning. I trimmed some trees, cleaned a fence line, fixed a lawnmower and did a litlte gunsmithing. Cooked lunch at noon. Not a bd morning's work for an old fart. I think I'll take the afternoon off.
I notice that we still don't have firm figures on the California races In this most advanced era of human civilization, the simple fact that California cannot count votes within hours of the polls closing is a damnable indictment of the way they conduct elections.
Four of the budget 2011-style pistols on the market, but is there a winner? We take a close look to find out!
Q has a well-earned reputation for building rifles that feel like they emerged from an engineering thought experiment, specifically: what's the minimum amount of rifle you need to accomplish the maximum amount of work? The Mini Fix in 6mm ARC is the latest answer to that question.
Mark Wahlberg completely unrecognizable in new movie ‘By Any Means,’ trailer goes viral [More] Are those real guns?
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“Cekada promised neither he nor the ATF will be ‘offended by the outcome of the courts,’ because he wants to make sure that Adamiak was ‘appropriately sentenced’,” Williams recounted. That’s mighty big of him. However, Second Amendment advocates should be offended by such a presumptuous response. [More] Focusing on the punishment being too harsh ignores …
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Never-Before-Seen 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre Photos [More] Backstory here… Yeah, well, at least they don’t allow human rights violations… [Via WiscoDave]
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P320 CASE DISMISSED IN COLORADO FEDERAL COURT [More] And: P320 CASE DISMISSED IN MASSACHUSETTS FEDERAL COURT [More] Guess they haven’t heard in New York… [Via Jess]
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I just ran across this old GOA newsletter: The threat hasn’t changed, so what has? And why are today’s “gun rights leaders” on the same side as what GOA once properly recognized as “the Left”?
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Embarrassment of the Week: ‘Islamophobic’ Killer Is Named… Yeah, You Guessed It [More] That presumes they can be embarrassed, that the initial allegations aren’t what stick, that the enemy doesn’t know and exploit that, and that PJ Media isn’t an echo chamber that is self-contained. 13 retweets. For a guy with 293K followers. Meanwhile, eating …
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Roni Corporation has added a new product to its pistol-to-carbine conversion lineup, and this one is built around a single priority: keeping things small. The Nano Roni is the company's most compact kit to date, designed to transform a compatible handgun into a braced PDW platform in the time it takes to hear two clicks.
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, the last newspaper where I worked, regularly provided outstanding journalism until Gannett bought it in 2019. Before the purchase, we had scores of reporters and dozens of editors. Our print edition could reach nearly 200,000 people on a Sunday. My editors were smart and community […]
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Gannett’s USA TODAY blasts guns, Second Amendment rights, sanity – New USA TODAY columnist brings new anti-gun message. [More] Nothin’ new about that…
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Outbreak of New World Screwworm Detected in South Texas… Oh, I guess the link would have gone to another story… [Via Sweet Babboo]
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How, when your Social Security check could be cut by $500 a month: Report [More] “Trust fund.” Right. Noting all the waste, fraud and abuse, and money spent on illegals… I sure wish I’d had the money they took from me all my working life (and forced my employers to cough up, thereby lowering my …
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Democratic unity, Republican crossovers shape Ohio Senate race [More] It seems like the whole damn state’s going Hudson Antifa, and it’s tough to find a Republican who’s not an uninspiring squish.
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Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website. You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day. These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer. Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a free […]
Now a teenager in Turkey Scratch, Arkansas, can get direct cultural input from Chicago’s Gangster Disciples. [More] What better example to show it’s not the tool but the person using or abusing it?
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Former NRA CEO must repay $4.3 million for misappropriating money, court rules [More] When I think back to how furious Fairfax über alles prags used to go after me ‘n Mike for insistently pointing out what is now “common knowledge”… (kinda like another issue I won’t let go in spite of deliberate indifference/ suppression/ hostility…) And …
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Debiase allegedly confronted a fellow officer who was “warming up fish in the microwave, causing an odor in the office,” the arrest warrant stated. During the confrontation, the detective allegedly “drew and pointed his department-issued handgun” at the other officer, the arrest warrant stated. [More] Don’t try this at home, “civilians.” This requires professional training …
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Raman is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has argued for steering the city in a more progressive direction. [More] Indian… Democrat Socialists of America…? 83%, eh? And yes, of course she’s for open borders/cultural terraforming. Ranjit…? Care to argue some more…?
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No, not a MAGA talking point. 6/4/26 New York Times:
But with every passing day, the world is learning to live without the Gulf’s seaborne exports.
1Just as the Covid-19 pandemic and President Trump’s tariffs forced a significant rewiring of global supply chains, the Strait’s closure has prompted a similar adjustment. You might be part of it. When gas prices rise rapidly, people start to limit their driving. Walmart just reported that customers are now buying less than 10 gallons of gas at a time on average at its filling stations.
The United States, Brazil, Canada, Kazakhstan and Venezuela are already increasing their oil production. Large releases of crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve are also helping to cover shortfalls. Like a stream that finds its way around a fallen log, markets locate new supplies when the old ones are suddenly cut off.
At some point, the Iranian crazies will get poor enough for their religious objections to evaporate. By then, Iran will be a less important source of oil. And on the bright side, reduced consumption of oil will make the world a better place for Greenies.
The Complete Combatant’s Shelley Hill describes how to use pepper spray correctly, and it involves practicing with inert spray first. Find out more and why.
Quote of the Day Twenty percent of likely voters hold a concealed handgun permit (20.2%), over double the rate for adults overall (8%). Constitutional Carry states have only a slightly higher permit rate than pure Right-to-Carry states (21.38% versus 19.81%). …
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The FM-9D continues to win over more shooters every month. For this week’s episode of Behind The Gun podcast, Adam from Freedom Ordnance joins us to talk company roots, the real development story behind their closed-bolt 9mm belt-fed upper, and why it’s seeing a major surge in popularity. What started as a somewhat boutique platform has become far more practical and downright addictive for civilian shooters thanks to the wider availability of forced-reset triggers and similar devices, including Freedom Ordnance’s own trigger-actuating grip . Adam breaks down the engineering choices, durability tests, ammo tests, talks to us about the proprietary belt system, and of course, options for those who don’t want ot mess with belts as often. Adam also takes some time to speak to the challenges of bringing a specialized firearm like this from concept to production while standing by his policy of only taking on orders he knows Freeodom Ordnance can fulfill.
Rhe element, not the planet. As part of thinning stuff we do not need in preparation for our move, a few items have turned out to be harder to dispose of then I expected.
Back in the 1960s, mercury was something with which most kids had some chance to play. It is incredibly dense (13x water; lead will float in it), very standoffish from almost everything, and with a weird negative meniscus. Unlike water which will slightly rise on the inside of a container, mercury will do the opposite.
It was not generally considered a particularly risky material to have on your hands. We always washed thoroughly after handling it and we all knew it did not belong in our bodies.
From the procedures required to dispose of it, you would think that it requires a haz-mat suit and air cover. We are having a hard time finding somewhere that will take it.
The uranium seems to be even harder to properly discard. This is radiation meter test sample, bought on Amazon, and delivered in normal mail, not a leadlined van. It is not uranium metal but a thumbnail sized piece of uranium ore.
It is an alpha particle emitter. Alpha particles are low energy and are stopped by a sheet of paper, your skin, or the metal can in which thus uranium sits. Like mercury, you do not want in your body, where even the short range of alpha particles can be a carcinogen.
Heck, small amounts of uranium show up in ground water in the Boise area. Yet that word radioactive causes worrywort paranoia, even at the very low levels and intensities of alpha particles.
Anyway, I do not need either the mercury or the uranium sample. I just need to get someone to accept them. The difficulty in finding a place to properly dispose of them suggests that for all the worrywortism, the powers that be want this stuff in a landfill.
One of you is scheduled to come take this 1983 Encyclopedia Britannica away Thursday or Friday. They are, in any rational sense, an obsolete marker of a 20th century literate middle class American family. You wanted a comprehensive overview of human knowledge not just for your own curiosity, but as a starting point for your kids when they started school. While encyclopedia are never a particularly good source for a research paper, like Wikipedia or Grokopedia, they were a starting point for enough knowledge to know what to ask next.
These were a uniformly bound and in the case of the Britannica beautiful above and beyond their content. They represented an attempt at presenting a consensus of educated academics at a time when that phrase still meant something positive.
Articles were usually anonymous but you would sometimes get surprised at identified authors for some entries. An article in the 1963 Americana (with which I grew up and which were a companion on many boring weekends when I was 10 or 11) about American English was by H.L. Mencken, about as expert a user of 20th century American English as you could pick. He is remembered today for the acerbic "Puritanism.—The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." This is not a fair statement of Puritan concerns but it captures well Mencken's wit, and style with a pen.
Another was an article about vigilantism by Glenn S. Dumke, for many years chancellor of the California State University system, back when that was a sign of education not Marxism or other forms of woke. His article observed what I have since discovered in my deeper reading: In Gold Rush California, vigilantism were an expression of popular justice often no worse than the legally constituted courts.
As the title of this posting implies, there is a sense of loss as these leave. They are the loss of an aspect of 20th century American middle class idealisn that for all its flaws aimed high and achieved much. They also carry a sense of wistful personal loss. My wife and I bought these around the time our daughter was born in 1983. They were expensive (about $1100, if I recall correctly) but something of a statement that we were going to bring our daughter up in a home that put knowledge and education at the core of her life. We already had a 1963 Americana, but the Britannica was always first in class so why not the best?
Goodbye, dear friend.
New USA TODAY columnist brings new anti-gun message.
Well, I do have to give them credit…they said theyd be there today and…they were there today. Apparently two of the corners aren’t an issue but they’re having to work a bit on the remaining two. I’m hoping this is …
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A brief look at the trashing of Tommy Massie of Kentucky. And GOP values (or lack thereof).
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Hearing is one of those things in life that you simply can't get back; once it's gone, it's gone. Growing up in the military, this was preached to us at every possible moment on the firing ranges, when operating around loud machinery and so on and so forth. Personally, I have always taken hearing safety very seriously, as I never wanted to rely on hearing aids in my later years. After becoming a helicopter pilot, I take hearing safety even more seriously. The problem is that most places I work now, I need to be able to communicate while also having hearing protection. The solution to this problem, headsets that can lower ambient noise while enhancing voice chatter, but also be able to plug into a radio communication system on a helicopter or PTT.
Microtech Knives just dropped the teaser image above, and honestly, it's enough or at least a really good start. The G19K is an OTF (out-the-front) automatic knife born from an official collaboration between Microtech and GLOCK, and the result looks exactly like what you'd expect when two companies with deeply devoted followings decide to combine their DNA into a single blade.
Heritage Manufacturing has expanded its Rough Rider single-action revolver line with a new centerfire chambering: .32 H&R Magnum. It's the first time the Rough Rider has stepped beyond .22 LR and .22 WMR since the platform launched, and it's a meaningful jump.
6/3/26 New York Post:
WASHINGTON — The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
Of course progressive racism, against whites and Jews (who are after all white) and Asians remains in high demand as well.
The primary election for governor has British-born Trump-endoraed Republican Steve Hilton in the lead. 6/3/26 BBC:
The California governor's race remains up in the air a day after the primary vote, with British-American former TV host Steve Hilton and onetime Biden cabinet secretary Xavier Becerra at the top of a crowded field.
The contest could take several days to decide due to the volume of postal ballots cast on Tuesday to pick the top two candidates for November's general election.
Becerra, a Democrat, has vowed to oppose President Donald Trump. Hilton is a Republican endorsed by Trump.
6/3/26 CNN headline of course misleads:
Spencer Pratt has spent months waging a guerilla campaign against incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, riding the buzz generated by AI-generated videos, viral moments and some big-name supporters as he seeks to capitalize on dissatisfaction with the way the city is being run.
He may now have five more months to make his case.
Bass secured a spot on the November ballot and Pratt was running in second place as of early Wednesday morning, ahead of progressive city councilwoman Nithya Raman and 11 lesser-known candidates as more ballots were being counted. No candidate appears likely to exceed the 50% threshold to win outright, which means the top two will meet head-to-head in the November election.
Not just ahead but likely beyond margin of fraud ahead of DSA #3.
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Tuesday for Alabama to use a pro-Republican congressional map that eliminates one of its two districts where Black voters make up a majority or near-majority, giving a boost to President Donald Trump as his party defends its control of Congress in November’s midterm elections. [More] OK, but …
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The Ruger 10/22 Takedown is already one of the more cleverly designed rimfires on the market, a rifle that breaks down in seconds and packs into a bag most people wouldn't look twice at. Samson Manufacturing looked at it and apparently decided the only thing missing was a folding chassis that makes it even more compact, more configurable, and, as one media personality put it at NRA 2026, "one of the unexpected hits" of the show. Meet the SAS/22 Takedown Chassis.
The June 2026 issue of Firearms News is now available at diverse, equitable, and inclusive newsstands throughout the Republic (of course you could just take advantage of lower subscription prices). I have two pieces in this month’s mag: A comment on that last one: Several “top men” in the RKBA “firmament” called me out on …
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Idaho-based Tenicor has released the CERTUM4 and CERTUM LUX4, the fourth-generation versions of its most versatile concealment holster. Both models are available now at $125 and support IWB hip carry as well as AIWB appendix carry from the same platform, a defining characteristic of the CERTUM line since its inception.
