Hawaii's refusal to recognize fundamental human rights (like our right to defend ourselves and others) is put paid to by a 6-3 SCOTUS decision.
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Tennessee must be close to refineries.
Quote of the Day Elon created $4tr in wealth for himself, his investors and employees. Politicians have created $39tr in debt for you, your children, and all the whiners complaining about Elon. Which is preferable? PFrost @Niio1111Posted on X June …
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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back to TFB’s Silencer Saturday, brought to you by Yankee Hill Machine, manufacturers of the new Victra 20-gauge shotgun suppressor . Revolvers are the least suppressed type of firearm, thanks to the issues with gas leakage around the cylinder and barrel. But Revolver Seal has a new method for quieting down your wheel gun.
Both men were asked by a gas station employee to take their argument
outside, according to the incident report. The argument continued
outside in the parking lot where Moody changed shoes at the back of his
vehicle and confronted Nixon, according to both witness testimony and
review of surveillance video.
During the confrontation, Nixon allegedly pulled a gun and shot Moody
in the leg. Moody then, according to the incident report, also pulled a
gun and fired in Nixon’s direction while fleeing.
A 31-year-old man who was in the vehicle with Nixon and nearby the
argument when the shooting took place was also struck by gunfire in the
exchange.
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Police said an apartment tenant told officers he saw a man in all black wearing a ski mask trying to take his TV.
The tenant said the suspect turned around, looked at him, and reached into his bag, trying to pull something out.
He then took his gun out and shot the suspect twice, the tenant told
police. The suspect took off running from the rear side of the
residence.
The tenant shot two more times towards the suspect, and the suspect
dropped his back and kept running towards the apartment complex, police
said.
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We can learn many lessons from the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand). If we can remember history, we are less likely to repeat it. Whether in Iraq, Afganistan, Iran, Canaan, or again in Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. Here are a few.
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The Walther PDP has quickly become a pistol of choice for all manner of applications: defense, recreation, and competition. Like many stock handguns though, it can leave much to be desired in the way of iron sights and even the adaptation of optics. So, in this TFB Review, we are going to take a look at the XS Sights Walther PDP Tritium Sight Set and RMR Optic Plate Bundle to see how much of an upgrade it actually is for a factory Walther PDP. Let’s dive in!
The replacement of the G36 has been a long time coming for the Bundeswehr, and at Exercise Reliable Lion on the ranges at Grafenwöhr, Panzergrenadiere of Panzerbrigade 12 "Oberpfalz" are now putting rounds downrange with the rifle that finally closes that chapter: the G95KA1. Or how many optics can you stack on top of each other?
This week for Fudd Friday, I need your help. I drew a deer tag for Utah’s “restricted rifle” hunt. The rules are simple: the rifle must be manually operated and only equipped with iron sights. If you were going on a mule deer hunt out west and had to take an irons-only setup, what would you pick? Let’s discuss.
Switzerland’s B&T has regained full control of the B&T brand in the US. Legal disputes between B&T AG in Switzerland and its US subsidiary, B&T USA, emerged in 2025, with $15 million in B&T AG products reportedly unpaid for by B&T USA. The B&T AG has now revealed that they have regained control of their US trademarks and will be launching a wholly Swiss-owned U.S. operation later this year.
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy cigars.
So after nine years one of the two batteries (the smaller of the two) on
the cordless lawnmower gave up the ghost.
The label said "Poulan" but it wasn't. It was a relabeled... well, WORX and Greenworks are the electric lawn appliances still in circulation from those days.
I think we definitely got our money's worth out of it (and it still works, it's just the smaller of the two battery packs crapped out) so we're taking advantage of Prime Day and buying
a replacement. The old one can stay as a backup unit.
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I hate flying in a cattle car. Charter only. Probably at the $5 million invested level.
Luke C sits down with Jeremy Deadman, President of @Xtechtactical at GunCon to talk through what's new at the company — a fresh line of magazine wells, an expanded SKU list for Glock and Smith & Wesson magazines, and the LDR-2000, a speed loader designed to work across nearly every pistol magazine body size on the market.
“So where should I start with your books?” is a question that I get a lot on social media, and the answer is it depends on what you’re into because I’m a multi-genre kind of guy. So here is a list of all my series, the genre, what they’re about, and where to start. (I …
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The Meat Tray, praised be its memory, is a thing of the past and its never coming back. But, my local Albertson’s still ‘remainders’ meat at 30-50% off when it hits the ‘sell by’ date. This invariably results in me …
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Luke C talks with Earle Pope, owner of Chestnut Mountain Manufacturing, at GunCon 2026 about the company's OKP-7 reproduction optic — a faithful recreation of the classic Russian-pattern reflex sight right down to the real Russian manual (obviously translated into English, too). Built for real AK-platform rifles and pistols, not airsoft replicas, the OKP-7 will also be getting an upgrade in the form of a more common battery type and other improved features over the original to make it that much better.
I've never followed soccer, but I am told that the World Cup has come to America and lots of tourists are over here getting their minds blown. In a good way. Little things that we take for granted. Like restaurant portion size, like American barbeque, like yellow school busses. They seem to be baffled by gallons of sweet tea.
Many of these games are held in smaller towns, and mid-America friendliness and hospitality seems to have made a favorable impression.
Perhaps this is a good thing.
My wife and i have toyed with the idea of renting a
small motor home for our cross-country trip with deranged doggies. While there are one-way rentals available, they are from high-demand cities to others in the same category: Los Angeles to Chicago, etc.
Do any small towable trailers have bed, stove, and toilet? The attraction of bringing home with us is the prospect of trying to get our dogs to not bark in our hotel rooms.
6/25/26 Free Press reports on Trump’s deputy director of the Bureau of Prisons, a former inmate Trump patdoned during his first term. (Another beneficiary now runs the pardons office at the White House.) Behind a paywall; open a private tab.
John Smith (yes, really) found God in prison and used being in a white collar prison to learn about finance and credit. This happens a lot. One of my nephews did likewise and now is a successful businessman in Portland.
Among the interesting facts is that federal inmate population is falling under Trump as he attempts to right the wrongs of Biden's superpredator crime bill.
Luke C speaks with Josh at GunCon 2026 — a former suppressor engineer from Advanced Armament Corp (AAC) who's now putting that legacy industry experience to work at LayerX Suppression, a newer company out of Livonia, Michigan, building suppressors with aerospace-grade manufacturing techniques. Josh walks Luke through how the LayerX manufacturing background translates into modern suppressor design and what separates LayerX's approach from the legacy designs around which a lot of the suppressor market is still built.
Big picture ideas and methods from the best Frenchman to pick up a handgun, the 9-time IPSC world champion Eric Grauffel!
A coalition of five leading recreational fishing organizations has joined forces to support a new scientific initiative led by researchers at Stanford University to better understand and protect Pacific bluefin tuna (PBT), one of the most ecologically significant and recreationally important species in the Pacific Ocean.
BoatUS Foundation for Boating Safety and Clean Water has just launched their 90-day temporary boating certification course for Florida boaters in Spanish. This course will make it easier for Spanish-speaking boaters to get on the water year-round in the boating capital of the U.S.
The gap between classroom de-escalation performance and street application, what the research shows about verbal technique under stress, and what distinguishes training that transfers from training that produces a certificate.
Quote of the Day In systems engineering terms, reliability improves most when the human is treated as a probabilistic cognitive processor surrounded by deterministic support systems that compensate for the specific interface properties humans satisfy poorly. The human remains in …
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Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Enigma Micro I’ve long been a fan of the Enigma beltless carry system since it was originally introduced. Their latest model just dropped this week. It is for smaller pistols, has a smaller footprint, […]
By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief History and common sense have twice again prevailed in the Second Amendment arena this year, where the gun control lobby and their allies have suffered two significant losses in as many weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court, in two important cases, United States v. Hemani and Wolford v. Lopez. This continues […]
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The vampire rule was struck down by SCOTUS today. The FPC announced it with this: I like the Firearms Policy Coalition. They get things done in the courts and they are extremely entertaining. For a more scholarly take see: And …
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We recognize and honor the Lakota and Cheyenne who fought for their freedom and land at the Little Big Horn 150 years ago. And recognize that Congress and the FedGov continue to behave as poorly today as they did in 1876.
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A few years ago I bought this 20 gauge flintlock Caywood Northwest Trade Gun smoothbore. Because I want this primarily for shooting ball and don't care about NMLRA trade gun match rules, I dovetailed a rear sight into the barrel. (A lot of originals had them added, so it's historically correct anyway.)
Today I took it to my club with the intention of finding an accurate load that is powerful enough for deer hunting. It didn't take long, shooting at 50 yards from the bench.
My first target was using a .600" ball, .010" patch lubed with October Country Bumbing Bear Grease, 80 grains of Scheutzen FFg black powder. It's certainly minute-of-whitetail.
I then shot a group with .015" patches and couldn't believe my eyes. It put three shots into about 2", from a smoothbore. When I viewed it through my spotting scope I was wondering where 2 of the shots went because I was not expecting such a small group from what's basically a shotgun. I had to walk downrange to confirm it. (Luckily, I had the place to myself today.)
After this I used a Wyoming Sight Drifter* to move the rear sight over, and also took a finer bead with the front sight buried in the rear notch to drop the POI. After moving the rear sight I repeated the small group 2 or 3 more times.
My point of aim on both of the targets was at 6:00 to ensure I got as precise a sight picture as possible.
I made this gun holder several years ago for when I'm doing small home gunsmithing jobs. I brought it along today because it makes sight drifting or filing at the range a lot easier.
I'm very close to having this dialed in for deer out to 50 yards. I need to get some more offhand practice in but I'm looking forward to carrying it in the Fall.
* If you shoot a muzzleloader or lever action rifle with traditional drift-adjustable sights, buy a Wyoming Sight Drifter. It's been worth every penny, IMHO.
Meprolight is a name that most shooters have heard of, whether for tritium night sights or reflex sights like the venerable M21. But over the last few years, they have been expanding their product lineup to include magnified optics as well. The newly released MVO 6-36x56 is the highest magnification model yet, lining up against some heavy hitters in the long-range scope world. Let’s see how it stacks up.
Tampa Bay turned into a live battlespace on May 20, 2026, as U.S. Special Operations Forces and personnel from 10 partner nations executed the annual "Battle in the Bay" capability demonstration along the downtown waterfront. The scenario centered on a simulated kidnapping and rescue operation, with helicopters, rigid-hull inflatable boats, drones, ATVs, and combat divers all converging in a compressed one-hour window that gave both conference attendees and members of the public a rare look at how modern SOF elements operate in coordination. Above a P320 with a FLUX Defence chassis can be seen.
Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry Corner. Last week, we discussed the benefits and potential issues of carrying customized pistols. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. A common consensus in the comment section is buying higher factory options of carry guns, so everything is sorted from the factory. While I completely agree with that train of thought, it's important to understand the realities of carrying concealed and what those potential drawbacks are in the world today.
The state government in New York continues to find new ways to complicate the lives of gun owners and residents in general. Their latest attack on 3D printers will make at least some of these modern tools effectively impossible to buy legally in the state.
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The region is suffering a record-breaking, early-summer heat wave with temperatures soaring as high as 40–44°C, the way the French reckon it, or 104–111°F in actual degrees. This is when Americans would set the thermostat to 68° (actual degrees) or maybe go see a movie at a theater where they keep it that temp all the time.
But at the École Primaire La Planette school in Nîmes, they have no air conditioning — naturellement — and according to Miss Jo on X and other sources, a child there "recently fainted because of the heat," even while "classes were being taught in corridors to get out of the heat."
Parents of the students there did what parents in America would almost certainly do in a similar situation, and they raised money to buy five portable air conditioning units for the school. The community got so involved that the parents needed just three days to raise the required €2,000.
So far, so good.
But Mayor Vincent Bouget is an actual member of the Parti communiste français (PCF), and if there's one thing Communists can't stand, it's the community doing stuff. Bouget ordered the school to remove the A/C because "it sets a precedent," and "in some neighborhoods, parents don’t have the means to act."
Over on X, snippy French response was thst Americans can't complain about this because we have a mass murder problem in our schools. But mass murder in schools in a problem in several European nations at higher rates per 1000,000 people as is mass murder
Although you all might question my sanity, I’m happy to report that I just graduated from THE Ohio State University for the third time…kind of. I got my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from OSU. When I finished my grad degree in 2003, I vowed I would never attend another university class. […]
Luke C. catches up with Dave Kiwaka from Inland Mfg at GunCon 2026 to talk about the new Model 1910 suppressor, a faithful homage to Hiram Percy Maxim's original 1910 offset-bore design built to keep the can out of your sight picture. Inland's version, available in .30 caliber and .357/9mm, uses a modern monoblock build that makes it easy to run and even easier to service. Once it's on the barrel, it never has to come off, even for cleaning.
Mullin v. Doe (2026) ruled that the Administration has authority to end TPS as, in their opinion is warranted by changes in the conditions that justified TPS for those nations. TPS for Haitians started in 2010 because of the eathquake. It is no longer 2010. Syrian TPS is from 2012 when the Assad regime's brutal oppression and murders. Millions of Syrians have since returned home.
The TPS law also says that non-constitutional questions about TPS and the President's authority to grant TPS are not subject to judicial review. Clear enough?
By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief On a 6-3 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down Hawaii’s restrictive concealed carry statute requiring people with carry permits to first get permission from businesses before they enter their premises—referred to as the “default rule” or “Vampire rule” in a case known as Wolford v. Lopez. The Los Angeles […]
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Wolford v. Lopez (2026) footnote 3 cited some of my published work. Hawaii's law that prohibited concealed weapon licensees from entering a business without express permission of the owner violates the Second Amendment. Other states with similar rules are going to have to come up with some other way to discourage licensees from carrying. Perhaps requiring them to wear a yellow emblem of a gun on their clothes.
Also nice, a congratulations email from a DOJ official.
In case you haven’t noticed, the United States of America has a very big birthday coming up—a 250th birthday, on July 4, 2026. Magnum Research reckons this is a birthday worth celebrating, and they’re putting out a special-edition Desert Eagle to honor the country hitting the two-and-a-half century mark!
Wraith Metalworks takes a different path to high-quality suppressors! We sat down with them to get their thoughts on design, industry, and more.
It's Thursday and I realize that I haven't pasted anything since Sunday. The reason is simple. There ain't nothing happening worth commenting on.
The weather is confounding. Lots of rain, very little sunshine. The humidity is always at or above 90%. The ground is saturated. With this amount of rain, it is nearly impossible to keep the pool chemistry in balance. Abut the time I get it right, we get another deluge of fresh water, throwing everything out of balance.
Thankfully, the tropics are quiet. No identifiable hurricane threat.
It's just been a quiet week.
One of the nice things about a detailed narrative history like this is how many ideas sloppily or simplified elsewhere get clarified. I have read descriptions of the Glorious Revolution that describe King James II Revolution the Great Seal of England into the Thames before boarding a ship to the continent. Also impulse in some references is that Parliament requested William of Orange come over and replace James in a peaceful and bloodless coup. Both of these seemed dramatic enough to make me skeptical.
The Blazing World corrected my understanding. James did indeed throw the Great Seal of England into the Thames but some days before he escaped custody of William's forces and slipped out of the country. Parliament did not invite William to take the throne, followed by a peaceful entry. William and a small army landed on the Kentish coast and marched to London.
If you are need of knowledge of this pivotal set of events that leads to our Revolution, Healey's book is detailed and interesting.
Andi Bogard tells us what works best for concealed carry on her “fun-sized frame.” Learn more about the clothing, caliber and carry platform this mama chooses daily for personal protection.
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the Skills division at the NRL Hunter Leupold Relentless Rifleman match , and I’m already sold on this new sport. On this episode of TFB Behind the Gun podcast, I’m proud to welcome the founder and president of the NRL Hunter series, Travis Ishida . A longtime National Rifle League participant, Travis is spearheading one of the fastest-growing practical precision shooting disciplines in the country. As he explains, the NRL Hunter series is about far more than fancy gear. It focuses instead on perfecting the shooter’s performance, no matter what the environment throws at them in the field and on perfecting them as not just a marksman but a hunter as well. If you have been looking for a competition that emphasizes precise shot placement and real-world hunting skills over pure speed and the latest boutique PRS cartridges, this may be exactly what you need.
Quote of the Day Tick tock! On July 1, CA plans to impose an unconstitutional “Glock Ban.” Today, I notified @CAGovernor & @AGRobBonta to drop the unconstitutional restrictions on law-abiding citizens’ rights to purchase legal firearms before the ban goes …
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Officers were called to a home in the 3000 block of Wedgewood Drive
on a reported shooting at about 9:06 a.m. after a caller told
authorities that he had shot a man who had attacked him.
Police say that 44-year-old David R. Young of Columbus was treated at
the scene but eventually died. He was identified by the Bartholomew
County Coroner’s Office.
According to their investigation, police say that Young was known to
the residents of the home. He drove himself to the home Monday morning. A
fight broke out near the front door and Young was shot.
The incident remains under investigation. A forensic autopsy has been scheduled.
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