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Long-range shooting has a way of exposing the strengths and weaknesses of both rifles and ammunition. It’s easy to look good on a single lucky hit, but sustaining impacts over an entire day of shooting is what really tells the story. For this range session, we brought four very different rifles chambered in three different […]
The post Four Rifles. Three Calibers. One Goal: Ring Steel at Distance – 800 to 1000 Yards first appeared on Day At The Range.The SIG Spear LT has earned a reputation for being one of the most refined modern sporting rifles available, but how does it perform when chambered in the legendary 7.62×39 cartridge? That’s exactly what I set out to discover. Rather than relying on internet opinions, I headed to the range with three commonly available ammunition […]
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Hubbard said a man confronted him, falsely accusing him of assaulting the man’s brother earlier this month — an unhoused individual Hubbard said he has gotten to know.
Hubbard denied the alleged assault and said the man pulled a gun, fired at him, but missed. Hubbard said he fired back.
“I needed to know that my daughter was going to live. I needed to know my fiancée was going to live. We’re talking about my family. I’ll do what it takes. But I did not want this,” Hubbard said.
Sources say the delivery driver fired several rounds at the teen during the alleged carjacking attempt. Rounds were recovered near the vehicle and a short distance down the road from where it was loaded onto a flatbed truck.
A neighbor described what she heard and saw from inside her home.
Welcome back, Range Fans! If you just watched the latest video review of the Griffin Armament MK2 equipped with a 14 inch barrel, the Griffin Dual-Lok 5 suppressor, and their 1–10x LPVO you saw us take this short barreled setup all the way out to the 800 yard steel silhouette. As promised in the video, […]
The post Griffin Armament MK2 Review 800 Yard Steel Accuracy Test & Long Range Performance first appeared on Day At The Range.Done and done. The new AC unit is in the wall. I used a long sawsall blade to get between the chassis and cabinet. When the crew arrived (one son, two grandsons), we slid out the old chassis and slid the new AC unit into the hole. Plugged it in and adjusted for max cooling.
Now, it's Happy Hour.
Now I'm a simple guy, one who believes that the Bill of Rights means what it says, and applies even to whack environmentalists who don't like cops. And so this seems like something that the Courts should swat down:
The U.S. Justice Department is prosecuting an American for allegedly providing U.S. border authorities with a
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
passcode that wiped the contents of his phone, according to an indictment and media reports.
This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software.
According to The Guardian, which covered the story earlier this week following the court’s first hearing on Monday, Atlanta resident Samuel Tunick is fighting the charges. Tunick’s attorneys said that it was unlawful for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seize his phone as he arrived back in the U.S. last year and that any evidence — including the alleged wiping of his phone — should be thrown out.
The Einsteins at DoJ say that the Border Agents didn't need a warrant to search his phone because he "hadn't entered the US" - even though this all took place at Hartsfield Airport in Atlanta. Oooooooh kaaaaaaay.
It looks like they guy has some pretty high powered legal help - including the Electronic Frontier Foundation - so hopefully the right precedent will get established here: i.e. that the 4th and 5th Amendments mean what they say.
This is all about a software feature called a "Duress Passcode":
The case centers on a feature included in GrapheneOS, a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices. Tunick’s attorneys confirmed GrapheneOS was running on his phone.
The software feature allows the device owner to set a passcode that deliberately wipes the contents of that device if entered instead of the user’s unlock passcode.
The Border Patrol dudes asked him for his passcode while holding him in durance vile for hours. Eventually he gave them the Duress Passcode.
IANAL, but just because he's an activist for anti-cop activities doesn't mean he doesn't have rights.
And yeah, the scare quotes in the post title are intentional.
I have a very good friend, a buddy, a pard, who is a retired Master Electrician. He came over yesterday to help me with the new shop air conditioner. We didn't do any lifting or toting. What we did do is open the panel, ensure that the wiring and breaker could handle the load, then went to the wall and installed a new 230v/30 amp receptacle. I know now that everything is up to code and the shop can handle the load. We are golden on the electrical side.
Next, I called my crew and set it up to have stout men available late this afternoon. Three good men, plus me, be sufficient for getting that AC unit in the wall.
I have done the measuring. The plan is to slide the old chassis out of the cabinet in the wall, then slide the new unit, cabinet and all, into the old cabinet. This plan worked fine last year. It's the same plan as last year. The new unit is just a wee bit smaller than the old unit, and there is no real reason to remove the old cabinet, which is braced and screwed to the building.
The one glitch is that I used, eight years ago, a common product to seal the unit to the building to make it watertight. Great Stuff foam sealant, to keep rain out.. That product is aptly named; it is very good at sealing cracks and crevasse. It has also glued the chassis into the cabinet. I have been on a ladder this morning, digging it out of the gaps.
The crew will be here late this afternoon. We'll get the old one out and the new one in.
On April 18, 2026, a mass murderer killed six people in Kyiv, Ukraine. He took hostages and barricaded himself in a supermarket. Two police officers fled the scene. He killed the victims with a legally registered assault rifle. The killer was 58 years old. Police attempted to negotiate for an hour before storming the position and killing the murderer.
One day later, on April 19, 2026, Ukraine's Interior Minister, Ihor Klymenko showed his support for relaxing Ukraine's controls on firearms, to allow citizens to have firearms, including handguns, for their defense. Klymenko promised the mass murder would not be used to conduct mass checks of weapons owners. He deplored the action of the two police officers. He said he supported the loosening of restrictions on the ownership of defensive firearms, especially handguns. Civilian ownership of handguns is banned in Ukraine. From Ukrainska Pravda:
On the question of granting civilians the right to possess firearms, including handguns, the interior minister said: "I believe that people must be given the right to armed self-defense. Especially after the experience of the early days of the full-scale invasion, when civilians received weapons for national resistance".
The push to liberalize the Ukrainian law on the ownership and carry of handguns did not start with Kylmenko. Ihor Friz, who is with the ruling Servant of the People Party, proposed a reform in 2022. Polls on the subject indicate 59% of the public support the right to carry a handgun for self defense. Only 22% reject the idea entirely.
Klymenko's words have been followed with actions. On May 6, 2026, President Zelensky said he had been briefed by Interior Minister Klyenko. He supported a reform law. From kyivpost.com:
“Ukraine needs a modern and strong law on civilian firearms that will protect citizens without weapons and realistically regulate the situation for those who own weapons,” Zelensky said.
The Czech Republic serves as an example. It has some of the least restrictive firearms laws in Europe. In the Czech Republic, a permit to carry a handgun for self protection is shall issue. According to Wikipedia, about 83% of gun owners were authorized to carry concealed weapons at the end of 2025. Once authorization to own guns is approved, the permission is for the lifetime of the owner. The total number of gun owners in the Czech Republic is a little over 3% of the population. The Czech Republic has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe.
A major motivator to reform the Ukrainian law is the number of firearms which exist in the Republic because of the war. It could be difficult to keep them out of citizens' hands.
As of 11 June, 2026, a published report shows Ihor Klymenko signed an order to create a working group to consider how to regulate citizen ownership of firearms, how to obtain permits to own firearms, and how to address issues of responsibility and self-defense. Once rules are drafted, they will be presented to the Ukraine parliament to be considered.
Eastern Europe has trended toward a more liberal model of firearms ownership than Western Europe. The Czech Republic, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Montenegro have shall issue or permissive "may issue" concealed carry laws. Permits to carry concealed weapons are almost impossible to obtain in the rest of Europe.
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In a separate shooting incident early Tuesday in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood, a fight among a group of people resulted in three being shot around 12:07 a.m. in the 3700 block of Washington Avenue.
Police said after the fight broke out and appeared to conclude, one man “retrieved a firearm” and began to shoot, striking an adult man and adult woman. Someone managed to shoot back, wounding the first shooter.
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San Diego Gun Owners recently brought me to their stomping grounds to teach a Deadly Force Instructor class. While there, I sat down with some of their folks to discuss current issues.Catch it here: or watch video here. San Diego Gun Owners have been spectacularly successful as grassroots advocates for the civil rights of firearms […]- Some Substackers are big mad about the automated AI flag.
- A student wrote a piece for his California high school newspaper looking into local connections in the Epstein Files. Some people got big mad.
- I will henceforth be referring to CVS as "shampoo jail". I hope it makes them big mad.
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The other day I finally did something I've been meaning to do since I first moved to Indianapolis almost twenty years ago.
I booked a room for two nights at a Holiday Inn Express on the east side of Dayton, Ohio. While it's only a little over two hours away, this allowed me to drive out there at a leisurely pace around noon on Tuesday, grab a late lunch, and check into the hotel so that the next morning I could get to the USAF museum about the time it opened, walk until my feet couldn't take any more walking, then go back to the hotel and drive home all nicely rested at a leisurely pace on Thursday morning.
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When I went to Udvar-Hazy back in 2015, I was shooting a Nikon D200 with an 18-140mm f/3.5-5.6 consumer zoom lens, backed up with the Coolpix P7000. Relatively speaking, I had no idea what I was doing. This time I not only had better bodies and lenses, but more importantly I had eleven years more experience taking photos.
Now to sort through the images on the cards and see what I have.
These two images are straight-out-of-camera JPEGs shot with the Canon EOS R5 and RF 24-105mm f/4L IS zoom lens.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. School shooters are content creators. Will they wear Meta Ray-Ban glasses to livestream their attacks? Important information for parents and teachers. This may be a very useful way to interdict some of these attacks […]A University of Minnesota project to create “therapeutic” transgender dolls for children as young as 4 is officially launching this year.
However, the project continues to face criticism from medical leaders, as well as questions about whether public funding is involved.
“Join the waitlist” and “Launching in 2026,” the MyGender Dolls website tells visitors.
“Grounded in gender-affirming clinical practices,” the dolls will be a “therapeutic” resource for clinicians and educators who work with children ages 4-10, it states.
The new website only includes a few details about the dolls, a years-long project by faculty at the university’s Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health. Some of the links on the site are not working yet, but there is a “waitlist” form that people can fill out “to be kept up to date about the MyGender Dolls.”
The College Fix contacted the email address listed on the website and the project organizers via email on July 2 and 5, asking for information about the product and launch date. No one responded.
Previously, the university had a webpage dedicated to the project, but it was removed at some point after The College Fix first reported on it in December 2024.
According to the page, MyGender Dolls mimic classic paper dolls, featuring drawings of children of different ages, shapes, and skin colors to represent “all” kids. Children will be able to choose different internal and external genitals, clothes, and other accessories to help them “visualize their anatomy and genders,” the page stated.
Stunning video taken by a covert sea drone shows a Chinese warship lingering inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone.
The 42-second clip shows a ship identified by Reuters as a Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy Type 052D guided-missile destroyer, floating 65 miles off Luzon Island in the Bashi Channel on June 16.
The ship was identified by “the deck layout, superstructure, crane and mast,” according to the company, “which matched archive imagery.”
Seasats, a San Diego startup, told The Post its drone, the Lightfish USV, was “conducting a commercial operation to prove the feasibility of autonomous operations in the Taiwan Strait.”
I hope this is a company either with, or on its way to, a government contract. Swarms of sea drones might make invading Taiwan so clearly impossible that we can avoid war with China.
Article – Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole
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Investigators say the victim arrived at the business and got into an altercation with another man. Police say the victim pointed a handgun at the other man, and the man then shot the victim.
Police say the shooter drove himself to the Mobile Police 2nd Precinct to turn himself in and was detained for questioning. No arrest has been made at this time.
The case has been turned over to the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office for review, and police said no additional information will be released right now.
Sunny left us yesterday after a short battle with a very aggressive T-Cell Lymphoma. She had just turned 3. We adopted her as a puppy when she was released to a shelter with bowed legs that made her "unwanted" in some's eyes.
A Vet from Indy, where Barkley got his care for years, had moved to the Chicago area as her husband got a position with a big hospital here as a doctor. She took care of Lorelei and Abby Lab at home at the end for us and did the same for Sunny. In a moment that reminded me that even with this pain, God's watching over me - she told me her husband's new job is at one of the biggest hospitals in Chicago, one known world-wide for it's transplant services.
He's on my Transplant team.
In Memory
Sunny D. Lab
May 11, 2023 - July 29, 2026
Words from my husband:
"Back when we hadn't had her very long, I was just getting her past the overstimulation phase so I could walk her all the way to the tracks and back. On one of these trips, I ran across a neighbor from the next block. He and I had spoken before when Lorelei was still happily begging for pets up and down the street. He liked dogs; he used to have great Danes, and he had fitted his little shoebox SUV with a bulldog hood ornament from a Mack truck.
That day he was walking with his wife. They stopped and waited patiently for Sunny to go through the cautious sniffing phase. After a few minutes Sunny decided they were her new best friends and was happily getting pets and doing little jumps when she wanted more attention. The wife was particularly enthralled with Sunny and praised her, saying she loved how, "She looks you right in the eye!" After more pets and wags we went on our way.
You wouldn't notice it from a distance, but if you watched carefully, you could tell the lady was a bit frail. It was several months later when I saw them both again. They were going up the steps to their bungalow and she was leaning heavily on her husband. They apologized for not being able to stop and pet Sunny, but I told them Sunny was just happy to see her friends and she wagged and gave a little woof.
Back in the spring I bumped into the husband on the street. He stopped me to let me know that his wife had passed. He didn't say what the illness was, but it had been a long journey. He said that she had her favorite comfortable chair next to the front window of the house and that she would always smile and remark when she saw Sunny on the street. It was always a moment of happiness for her.
That's how I would like to remember Sunny the most. The dog who always brought a smile to a neighbor's face in her dying days."
