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Know When To Walk Away Range Fans The First Challenge Of The Year. Hold’em or Fold’em Challenge Hosted by Dayattherange, sponsored by @TommyTwentyTwo, Rule Consultant Hazzbro Hide Rules of Engagement How Fast and Accurate Are You? Distance: Target is engaged at 50 yards Warm-Up: 5 warm-up shots only Warm-ups do not count toward your score […]
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It surprises some people that I’m not a fan of the death penalty, given my line of work. It was part of my line of work that showed me wrongful convictions do happen. In Patrick Radden Keefe’s book on criminals, “Rogues,” we find this quote on page 258: “The administration of capital punishment is notoriously […]- Children and Grandchildren of Immigrants Abduct a Native American
- This guy monitors the movements of the "shadow fleet" of sanctioned tankers from the rooftop of his home.
- ChatGPT wrote a suicide lullaby for this man based on his favorite childhood book, Goodnight Moon.
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Upon arrival at the scene, officers found the body of Terrance Rucker, 49, who had succumbed to a single gunshot wound.
According to officials, the shooter, identified as 68-year-old Frederick Rucker, allegedly shot Terrence Rucker in self-defense.
Witnesses in this case were interviewed at JPD headquarters, officials added.
This is an active and ongoing investigation.
According to police, four people tried to force their way into an apartment which resulted in a confrontation with the residents. During that confrontation shots were fired.
A spokeswoman for Thornton Police said a witness reported the shooting after hearing gunfire and provided a good description of the suspect's vehicle.
Officers spotted the vehicle and began a pursuit. They followed the vehicle on Federal Boulevard and the chase ended near 56th and Federal when officers successfully performed a PIT maneuver.
Four people were inside the vehicle - including a man who had been shot. He died from his injuries.
January 17, 1746: In the Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeated Hanoverian forces. — And on January 17, 1950: The Great Brinks Robbery. 11 men robbed $1.2 Million in cash and $1.5 Million in securities from armored car company Brink’s offices in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1956, eight of the robbers were convicted and handed life sentences in prison. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The prizes for this round include: First Prize: A Gunsite Academy Three-Day Course Certificate. This can be used for any …
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Editor’s Introductory Warning: The devices described in this article can cause great bodily injury. We live in a highly litigious society. Employing caltrops in any situation other than a “Without Rule of Law” societal collapse would invite a lawsuit that could potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars or perhaps even more than a million dollars in assessed damages, attorney fees, and court costs. There is also the potential for these to be stepped on inadvertently by family members, friends, pets, or livestock. So, ONLY use them in absolute extremis, and only in a fenced-off area that will prevent the …
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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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“I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones. He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. Also when …
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Effectively, a gun store that has experience and shipping prices to ship guns via UPS with better rates than UPS direct, as if they would deign to do business with mortal gun owners. ShipMyGun.
Back on 26th. Best I can do on phone.
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We know that the genes we're born with contribute to the risk of psychiatric disorders during our lifetimes, and a new study shows there is significantly more biological overlap across these conditions than previously thought.
The international team of scientists behind the research believes that their findings can help improve how these conditions are diagnosed and treated: not just through symptoms and behavior, but also through shared genetic factors.
"Right now, we diagnose psychiatric disorders based on what we see in the room, and many people will be diagnosed with multiple disorders. That can be hard to treat and disheartening for patients," says neuroscientist Andrew Grotzinger, from the University of Colorado Boulder.
"This work provides the best evidence yet that there may be things that we are currently giving different names to that are actually driven by the same biological processes."
BIpolar disorder and schizophrenia are one of those shared genes diseases.
I am cutting a 1.35" hole through a 2.5" x 3.0" block of Delrin. The CFC draw tube will slide through this. The original plan was for a 62mm recessed pocket that would slide over the end of the 60mm PVC tube. I am a little unsure if I can make this work in a 2.5" wide workpiece. The alternative is to cut it so it slides inside that tube.
1/15/26 Goldman Sachs forecast:
What’s the forecast for US economic growth in 2026?
US GDP is projected to expand 2.5% in 2026 (fourth quarter, year over year), versus the consensus economist estimate of 2.1%, according to Goldman Sachs Research. On a full-year basis, the economy is forecast to grow 2.8%. The probability of a recession in the next 12 months has fallen from 30% to 20%. All forecasts are as of January 11.
I gave this setup a try to see how comfortable it would be for woods carry, although today it got carried on my walk around the subdivision where I live. It's a Cimarron Pistolero .357 Colt SAA clone in a World War Supply canvas tanker holster that's actually intended for S&W Victory Models. It actually works well for the single action and the cartridge loops on the strap make it a nice grab-n-go setup.
It carried comfortably under my coat. Not how I'd normally carry concealed because of the slow draw, but it's not bad for a low threat environment, IMO.
Aside from the canvas holster I have this leather Tanker holster from El Paso Saddlery, built for a 4" S&W N-Frame. I bought it for my Model 28-2 but the Cimarron hogleg fits in it with about a half inch of barrel poking out the end.
You could add a belt slide with cartridge loops to the EPS rig and like the cheaper canvas holster, have a pretty good rig for fast grab-n-go.
Should President Trump use the Insurrection Act to send federal troops into Minnesota? I think not.
Better to use US Marshals. The oldest civil law enforcement in the US, successfully used in many such cases, where the local authorities don't want to bend to federal law. Like Lyndon Johnston used them to break Jim Crow.
The US Marshals are a better fit. They are civil law enforcement, and you don't run into Posse Comitatus.
How about stopping transfers of money to Minnesota instead. This would be at least as effective. When South Carolina seceded (and not even in protest of enforcement of federal law), they were, I am pretty sure, receiving no substantial funding from Washington.
If Minnesota objects to federal law enforcement, fine, no enforcement of federal gun control laws. If people in adjoining states want to sell Glock switches to the fine college-bound youth of Minneapolis, go ahead.
A micro compact pistol turned PDW with an ultralight brace and chassis! Add a dot and a 25-round magazine and carry it all day.A nearly 100-year-old federal ban on mailing handguns through the U.S. Postal Service is unconstitutional and cannot be enforced, according to an opinion released Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The 15-page opinion concluded that a 1927 law, which made it illegal to use the Postal Service to mail concealable firearms, such as pistols and revolvers, infringes on the Second Amendment.
“Section 1715 makes it difficult to travel with arms for lawful purposes, including self-defense, target shooting, and hunting,” wrote T. Elliot Gaiser, the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel.
“The statute also imposes significant barriers to shipping constitutionally protected firearms as articles of commerce, which interferes with citizens’ incidental rights to acquire and maintain arms,” the opinion continued.
The law has, as is usual, a nasty racist history. The Mailing of Firearms Act which prohibits use of the U.S. Post Office for shipping concealable firearms, now 18 USC 1715, was debated in Congresses before its passage in 1927. A sponsor of that bill in 1925 was Senator Shields (D-TN) who explained the need for this law as the high murder rate in Memphis, Tennessee:
Prohibiting mail order shipping of handguns was supposed to make it easier to enforce state laws regulating handgun ownership—of which the focus was apparently blacks.Fifty-three negroes killed by negroes. Only seven negroes killed [by] whites. Only two whites killed by negroes--one a white burglar and the other assassinated by negro bandits....
Here we have laid bare the principal cause for the high murder rate in Memphis--the carrying by colored people of a concealed deadly weapon, most often a pistol. Can we not cope with this situation?[1]
[1] 65 Congressional Record 3946. The bracketed “by” appears to have been left out of the transcript.
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Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Introduction to Tactical Flashlights for Concealed Carriers Some useful flashlight information. After you digest this, please listen to this excellent low light podcast with Dan Brady. An Official Journal Of The NRA […]CATASAUQUA, Pa. - The Lehigh County District Attorney's Office said a resident shot a suspected car thief overnight in Catasauqua, Lehigh County.
The resident shot at the suspected car thief multiple times, according to a news release from the DA's office.
The DA's office said the person was hit at least once.
"The only description we have is wearing all black with masks on," said emergency dispatchers during scanner reports.
Investigators said the person who was shot fled the area. The shooter reportedly fired a number of rounds at the suspected car thief.
The Salt Lake City Police Department said 23-year-old Shane Hagaman called 911 to report that a man stole his bike, and that he shot the suspected thief as he rode away. Hagaman said the man then got into the passenger side of a Toyota Tacoma that fled the area.
Investigators found a broken bike lock on a handrail outside Hagaman's home, where he lived on the second story.
Hospital employees later reported to police that a gunshot victim was dropped off in a Tacoma. The victim, 42-year-old Tyson Scott Babb, was pronounced dead at the hospital. He suffered one gunshot wound to his upper back.
By Dave Workman With the release of the 2025 update of Firearm Import and Export Data by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), and its annual roundup of National Instant Check System (NICS) data for 2025, the underlying message is clear: Gun ownership is very much “alive and well” in the U.S. NSSF’s Import/Export report […]
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On January 16, 1605, the first edition of “El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid. — January 16, 1668: The Infamous sword duel between George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and Francis Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury. They fought over Anna, Duchess of Shrewsbury and mistress of Buckingham. The Earl was mortally wounded. — The 20th Anniversary (2005-2025) SurvivalBlog archive waterproof USB sticks have arrived from the manufacturer! Orders will be mailed out starting next week, in the order that they were received. We expect to sell out …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) During winter, even the U.S. Embassy monitored the grid closely. The possibility of a complete system failure was taken seriously enough that commercial flights were placed on twenty-four-hour standby for potential evacuation of official personnel. We were nongovernmental residents. Those plans did not include us. Our planning had to be personal. Cold changed how time felt. Days stretched and compressed unpredictably. Waiting became a skill. Movement slowed, not from laziness, but from necessity. Mistakes in cold were costly. Dropping something, misjudging exposure, forgetting a step could mean numb fingers, wasted effort, or …
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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: A map of State Minimum Wages, in Dollars, as of January 2026. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest For the first time ever, silver touched $100 per Troy ounce in Shanghai on Wednesday (January 14, 2026.) Soon after, the spot price on the Comex briefly touched $93.98 per ounce — another all-time high! This brought to silver-to-gold ratio down to around 50-to-1. (Not trying …
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“The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.” – Thomas Jefferson
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The Second Amendment provides that “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” On Tuesday, in Wolford v. Lopez, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the latest chapter of the ongoing dispute over the scope of that right: a challenge to a Hawaii law that bans gun owners from bringing their guns onto private property that is open to the public without specific permission from the property’s owner. Four other states have similar laws: California, Maryland, New York, and New Jersey.
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We obviously don't think it's vital to our national security or else we wouldn't have closed all the bases we used to have there.
I would also point out that ratified treaties, such as the North Atlantic Treaty, have the force of law in the US.
So any order of hostilities against Danish territory is prima facie, de facto and de jure, cut and dried, no two ways around it and any way you slice it, definitionally an illegal order.
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The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) numbers, adjusted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) have dropped 3.4% below December of 2024 and 4.1% below the adjusted sales for 2024 for the entire year of 2025.
The pattern of adjusted NICS checks is remarkably similar to that of 2024, with slight variations. A minor variation is in 2024, August numbers were higher than in September. In 2025, the numbers climb from a low in July to a maximum in December. From NSSF:
The December 2025 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,587,049 is a decrease of 3.4 percent compared to the December 2024 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,642,270. For comparison, the unadjusted December 2025 FBI NICS figure of 2,220,852 reflects a 16.1 percent decrease from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,647,933 in December 2024.
The annual 2025 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 14,612,314 reflects a decrease of 4.1 percent compared to the 15,239,011 figure for annual 2024.
The chart of annual adjusted NICS numbers show a gradual decline in annual firearm sales from the peak during the tumultuous and hotly contested election of 2020 through most of the first year of President Trump's second term. President Trump has recorded success after success during the past year. Most people in the gun culture are seeing both greater domestic stability and a lower level of international chaos and crises. A form of shaky peace has been imposed on the middle east. Iran has been rendered nearly impotent, as have its proxies, the Houtis, Hezbollah, and Hamas. President Trump has had success in damping down hot spots between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, DRC and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. While peace has yet to break out between Ukraine and Russia, serious talks are occurring.
On the domestic front, Inflation is down, the stock market is up, GDP is increasing and energy prices are down. As the United States enters the new year, prosperity appears to be breaking out and violent crime has been falling. The numbers are not completed for 2025. The trend has been toward 2025 setting the record for the lowest homicide rate ever recorded in the United States. We will not know if a record has been set for another month or two.
An upturn in international and domestic affairs may have reduced motivations to purchase firearms. It is possible greater prosperity could incentivize people to spend more disposable income. Such potential is not showing up in the NICS figures at this time.
When the NICS adjusted figures are compared to the more accurate ATF figures from Firearms Commerce in the United States, the averages have been converging. ATF figures are reported a year and a half later than NICS, to respect manufacturers' property rights. The numbers from 2000 - 2023 show the number of firearms added to private stock to be 90% of the numbers shown in the NICS adjusted figures. When the last decade of available numbers are used, 2014-2023, the ATF numbers are 98% of the NICS adjusted numbers. It seems likely the last two years have added 30 million more firearms to the private stock in the United States. This equates to a total of 540 million firearms in the USA at the end of 2025.
How close is the United States to market saturation? Considerable growth is possible. If growth continues in the USA, a miracle may happen. The debt and budget deficit may be brought under control. Such would seem impossible for any president other than President Trump. It would be impossible if we were not on the brink of incredible technological breakthroughs such as fusion power, autonomous vehicles, breakthrough reductions in cost to orbit, and... even... increasingly powerful artificial intelligence. Any one of these technologies, if widely implemented, has the potential of enormous increases in productivity.
The elimination of the $200 tax on silencers, short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns, and any other weapons (AOW) in the National Firearms Act (NFA) has the potential to unleash significant demand. Such demand would be multiplied if those items are completely removed from the NFA, as seems possible, but not probable in the next year. Unconfirmed reports show applications for Form 1 and Form 4 from the ATF has reached over 250,000 in the first week of 2026. The table has been set for a more prosperous year in 2026.
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Gun Watch
According to DPS, the shooting happened when two men, including suspect
Marco Frazier, were inside the house arguing. The caller told law
enforcement that during the argument, Frazier shot the man, causing the
man to shoot back, hitting the woman as well as the infant.
Police say after a security guard broke up a fight inside the club, the suspects returned around 4:30 a.m. and opened fire on him.
According to investigators, two men in a nearby car thought they were being shot at, so both of them started shooting as well.
The security guard was shot in the stomach.
He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Police say all of the suspects are in custody.
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- We're the Only Ones Disorganized Enough: ICE accidentally extends job offer to Slate reporter
- We're the Only Ones Authoritarian Enough: Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
- We're the Only Ones Warrantless Enough: Federal Agents Used a Battering Ram to Enter a Minneapolis Home Without Valid Warrant, Video Shows
Updated, improved, and better than ever, the FN SCAR is back! We have hands-on with the all new rifle and take a deep dive into the changes.On January 15, 1907, the first 3-element vacuum tube was patented by American inventor Lee DeForest. — This is the anniversary of the 2009 “Miracle On The Hudson” engines-out emergency water landing. — Today is the birthday of Dr. Edward Teller who co-invented the H-bomb and worked on the Manhattan Project. — Today’s guest article was written by a gentleman who has expressed an interest in advertising in SurvivalBlog, so it will not be part of the writing contest judging. — We need a few more entries for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $978,000 worth of …
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We lived in Mongolia in the early 1990s, for a few years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, during a time when the system had officially ended but its habits had not yet loosened their grip on daily life. I was in my early thirties, married, with two young daughters, trying to build a life far from anything familiar. We were not passing through, and we were not insulated expatriates. We were attempting to function inside the local economy, under local conditions, with consequences that were immediate and personal. At the time, I did not think of what we …
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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: mutated bird flu viruses. Bird Flu Mutations Cause Concern Reader B.T. sent us this, from The New York Times: Bird Flu Viruses Raise Mounting Concerns Among Scientists. The article …
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“The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.” – John Muir
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Who would have guessed a hundred years ago that Stanley Baldwin was right?
I dunno - he looks a little Woodrow Wilsonish to me. But if you're right, you're right.
And Nota Bene: it seems that DuckDuckGo can't find the link to that last post. Strangely, Google can. Search sting site:borepatch.blogspot.com best worst presidents on each site. So long, DuckDuckGo, it's been fun. But I can't trust you, and neither should my readers.
I saw this meme earlier and didn't believe it. It was too inane, too fantasy-driven, too problematic to be anywhere close to the truth. Turns out, it is probably true. As it turns out, the first words scrammed by the passenger in the vehicle of the woman shot by ICE, screamed, "Why did you have real bullets?"
Did she think that this was some play-action fantasy?
The problem with these folks is that they cannot differentiate between Instagram reels, TikTok shorts, and the real world. In the fantasy of holding ICE accountable, everyone goes home safe. In the fantasy of video gaming, there is a reset button.
This gal who was killed is not some "white chick George Floyd", as I've seen her described. She is not a martyr to a cause. She is just the latest example of a lethal force encounter going very bad, very quickly.
For my entire police career, as I was getting ready for my shift, I'd look in the mirror and ask myself if I were willing to take a human life that day. We do a job in the real world with real consequences. Thankfully, I never had to take a life. I drew my weapon only four times in the line of duty. I never had to fire. For that I am thankful.
Today's "protestors" don't seem to understand lethal force. That is unfortunate, because the cops understand it very well. There is no reset button. It is forever.