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This has perhaps the greatest jazz violin of all time, by (sometimes
trumpeter) Ray Nance. Ozzie Bailey does a spectacular job on vocals in
both French (written by poet Jacques Prévert) and English (by Johnny Mercer). The music was composed by Joseph Kosma.
Fun fact: this was Yves Montand's signature song. Just about everyone
recorded this (Sinatra, Doris Day, Andy Williams, Miles Davis, Joan
Baez, and Nat King Cole who recorded it in Japanese), but I love this
version.
The news is buzzing with reports of a school shooting in Band, Oregon yesterday. Three students and a teacher are dead, along with the suspected shooter. This is a tragedy, but one that might have been amplified if not for the courageous action of a community member. According to CNN:
A community member who saw the teenager entering Silver Rail Elementary School at about 1 p.m. followed him in before engaging him in gunfire, killing him before responding officers arrived, Krantz said.
Well Done, community member. What we have here is a "good guy with a gun". My thoughts and prayers are with the victims, along with deep respect to that "community member". Without that intervention, this could hae been much worse.
I spent the last 15 years f my career as a School Resource Officer. It is my considered opinion that every school in the nation needs at least one Resource Officer, trained in this very demanding specialty of law enforcement.
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Now-retired Federal Judge Roger Benitez made so many pro-gun decisions that many in the gun owners’ civil rights movement came to call him Saint Benitez. At the 2026 Gun Rights Policy Conference in Dallas last month, sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation and the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms I […]
On Monday, August 24th, 2026, an deputy of the Eagle County Sheriffs Department shot and stopped a charging cinnamon color phase black bear near the River Run Apartment Complex. The bear was an adult with two cubs. From the video, it appears the deputy drew and fired the first shot in less than a second, with three followup shots following in fractions of a second after that. The Eagle County Sheriff's Office released the body camera video on September 8th, 2026
The video shows officers dealing with a difficult situation: An adult bear with two cubs and dozens of onlookers, was very close to where an adult bear with cubs had attacked and injured a man on August 17th, one week before. While not proven, it is highly likely this is the same bear with cubs. Watching the video, it is obvious these are human habituated, food conditioned bears. They have no fear of humans. It is highly likely some person or persons had been feeding these bears. This produced an extremely dangerous situation. Tom Smith, the famous bear researcher and self-acknowledged lover of bears, in an interview on Youtube, (about minute 37) stated about problem bears:
... the ones that are down here causing problems in the villages. You could cull them out, and quite frankly, If I was king of the West, when they are down there eating garbage, sorry, I'd just euthanize them.
This is an unusual admission for Tom Smith, who claims hunting bears does not reduce human conflict with bears. Valerius Geist, another highly trained and credentialed animal behavior biologist, who, unlike Smith, is a hunter, takes an opposite view. Tom Smith, when talking about problem bears which have become habituated to surviving on human provided food inside human towns and villages, is correct. These habituated and human food addicted bears cannot be rehabilitated. They need to be killed. "A fed bear is a dead bear", is the slogan which sums it up.
Analysis: The deputy who was forced to shoot and kill the bear did everything correctly. The video should be used as a training video to promote officer safety and to incentivize officers to practice the skills they are taught. Proficiency comes with practice. When an officer has practiced transitioning from a non-lethal weapon to their duty weapon hundreds or thousands of times, the action becomes automatic, in muscle memory, and very fast. This officer was very fast, transitioning from the non-lethal shotgun to drawing his handgun and firing, accurately and effectively, in less than a second. Such a transition is not magical. It is the result of training and practice. The officer is not one in a million. He is likely in the top three percent of officers who take their profession and the potential to use deadly force seriously and train accordingly. This may be why he was called in to deal with the situation. Most people can reach this level of proficiency if they train to do so. Sam Kezar did so, and it paid off for him. It is a high, but obtainable level of proficiency. Fortunately, extreme speed and accuracy are used in less than 10% of the documented incidents where pistols were fired in defense against bears. The bigger factor is having the mindset to use the weapon before it is needed. This officer had made the proper decisions before they were needed. He did not have to debate what was the proper thing to do.
The officer did everything he could to correctly give the bear opportunity to leave the area it should not have been in. This correspondent believes, with a high probability, this bear had already attacked one person and had not suffered any consequences. This should have been enough information to qualify the bear and cubs for lethal removal. The cubs had already become habituated to humans and addicted to human food. The bears were given extreme care because of public opinion.
It is not logic which demanded treating the bear with such extreme care, putting the officer at risk. It is the false consciousness of suicidal empathy which treats bears as somehow angelic humans, and rational defense against bears as a moral sin. We did not have these problems with bears in our towns and cities when bears were recognized as dangerous animals. They were not allowed inside our residential territory. The problem was simply and effectively solved by killing bears which persisted in invading human territory. Bears did not disappear. They survived by learning to avoid humans.
Bears are not people in furry coats. They have no sense of morals. They are opportunistic predators and cannibals. They have no rule of law. They only understand force and domination. When they are not hungry, they do not expend energy disputing over food, but when food becomes scarce, they are willing to fight and kill over it. This bear had learned that humans are weak and easily intimidated. Then she applied her learning to a human who was not weak and easily intimidated. Then she died. The people who fed this bear did not do it a favor.
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The armed guard was working inside the shopping center when he saw the man breaking the kiosk’s glass, police said, according to Fox 4 KDFW. The guard then shot the man.
The man ran across the parking lot and collapsed near Seminary Drive. Responding officers began lifesaving efforts, and Fort Worth Fire personnel assisted, DFW Scanner reported. Medical personnel pronounced him dead at the scene.
A 63-year-old man reportedly called 911 to state that he shot at another driver who was chasing him in a white pickup truck. Shortly after the call was made, officials said another individual—identified as a 37-year-old man—called 911 from a home on Harlin Drive, claiming he sustained a wound to his face.
Detectives said the 63-year-old told them that the incident began after he turned onto Nolensville Pike from Thompson Place, which is when the driver of a pickup truck began honking, flashing his lights and told him to pull over. The 63-year-old said he didn’t know what he did to make the driver of the pickup truck upset.
A man is facing charges after Pennsylvania State Police said he was shot after forcing his way into a Juniata County home and threatening the resident.
State Police at Lewistown said Terry Burdge, 45, of East Waterford, allegedly “made threats of physical harm” to the resident, who then shot a single round, striking Burdge in the home along Laughlin Lane in Tuscarora Township around 11:20 p.m.
A man inside the house reportedly exchanged gunfire with the group. Two people were sent to the hospital, a GBI spokesperson said. One person was shot in the leg and was later released, while another was airlifted to a hospital and remains in critical condition.
Kassidy Allen, 19, Ziquel Easton, 24, Jordan Franklin, 17, Brianna Scott, 18 and Caleb Thomas, 18, were all arrested Monday. Their charges are listed below:
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. ATF Changes Course on NFA Items: What Gun Owners Need to Know The big news this week is the updated rules for NFA weapons. Here are a few articles summarizing the changes. Update to […]Belle clued me in to a rumor today that Ruger is going to discontinue a big part of their product line.
Guns.com has the skinny ,but if true, then the revolvers are gone, the 77 series rifles, the Ruger No 1, many of their carbines, and some others. They list the Ruger Vaquero as gone, and those of us who play Cowboy games are wondering if the New Model Vaquero is also on the chopping block?
Wow. It looks as if Ruger's catalog can now be printed on a leaflet. What's left? A few pistols and ARs? I guess we will have to wait and see.
UPDATE: The American Rifleman says this about that.
Effective immediately, Ruger is ceasing production of its LCR, SP101, GP100 and Bearcat revolvers. The company plans to complete its final production runs of the following models for 2026: SR1911, LC Carbine, PC Charger, PC Carbine, LC Charger, Redhawk, Super Redhawk, Blackhawk, Super Blackhawk, Single-Series revolvers, Vaquero, No. 1, 77-Series rifles, Hawkeye and Ruger Precision Rifle.
That is two sources.
Ahem:
A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark's Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company's account protected by the password "123456."
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I mean, don't these people go to movies?
So let me bottomline this for the Tech Nerds. Hollywood has known since 1987 that this is a bad password.
Hollywood.
1987.
So since the script was probably written in 1986, this has been the subject of silver screen mockery for forty years.
Sorry to the good folks of Denmark. It could be worse, though - Sweden has had people laughing at it for a good decade longer.
I was ordering some cleaning brushes and decided to go see what was available in .22LR. I found some Eley Target at a pretty fair price. It's about a third the price of Tenex. What the hell, I dropped a brick in the cart and checked out.
When it came in yesterday, I was a bit surprised at the packaging. I've bought a lot of .22 ammo over the years and bicks o .22 generally come in cardboard boxes. Not this stuff.
Police said 26-year-old Steven Ott opened fire on another person, prompting a bystander to pull out a gun and shoot Ott.
Both Ott and the other individual sustained gunshot wounds and were transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Ott was arrested Monday evening around 8 p.m.
On October 12, 2026, at approximately 2:20 p.m., Dallas Police responded to a Shooting call in the 9700 block of Whitehurst Drive. The preliminary investigation determined that the complainant was shot by an known individual at the location. The victim was transported by Dallas Fire-Rescue to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased a short time later.
This case will be classified as a justifiable homicide and referred to a Dallas County Grand Jury.
The facts and circumstances surrounding this incident are currently being investigated and will be documented on case #150588-2026.
According to court documents, a separate altercation was occurring between 40-year-old Kejuana Bonner and the victim’s girlfriend. Officials said Bonner allegedly grabbed a stick from her vehicle and struck the victim’s nephew with it. Investigators said she then got into her vehicle and struck the victim’s girlfriend and her brother Stewart, who was standing nearby.
Investigators said video showed the victim pull a gun and fire five shots toward Stewart as he and Bonner left the scene.
When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
CZ has just launched its new DUTY series of 9mm striker-fired pistols with serialized modular chassis.
I remember reading about this in an early history of Pennsylvania prison reform but I could never find it again. SuperGrok thought long and hard and found it.
[ Section XIII.] Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon the application of any of the said malefactors or any other in their behalf it shall and may be lawful for the court in which they were convicted at and before the expiration of their servitude to make inquiry as well of the sheriff, gaoler or keeper of the work-house or house of correction as of the keeper and keepers and others concerning the conduct and behaviour of such applicant during his or her servitude, and, if it shall appear thereupon to them that such person hath labored faithfully without attempting an escape and evidenced by a patient submission to the justice of their punishment a sincere reformation, then and in such case the said court shall grant to every such person a certificate thereof which shall also be recorded without fee in the proceedings of such court, and shall thereupon operate as a discharge from all claims and demands of the party injured and also as a pardon of the guilt and infamy of the offence, and give him or her a new capacity and credit.[12 Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania ch. 241 at 288 (1786)]
Clearly, the idea of lifelong disability is not as as straightforward as some imagine.
Williams v. Attorney-General of the U.S. (3rd Cir. 2026) decided that a second offense DUI conviction (which had a potential sentence of five years) is not a valid basis for disarmament:
The Second Amendment is a primary protection against tyranny, a strong bulwark securing American liberty, and an indispensable means of defending the public good. So courts testing restrictions on these “most sacred” and “necessary” rights must consider the history and tradition of firearm regulations with care and rigor.1 Edward Williams had two convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol in the early 2000s, the second of which (unbeknownst to him) triggered 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), which purports to make it “unlawful” for persons convicted of “a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” to possess firearms. Seeking to restore his rights, Williams filed for a declaratory judgment to confirm that § 922(g)(1), as applied to him, runs afoul of the Second Amendment. The District Court agreed with Williams, and we will affirm that judgment.
This is a very detailed examination of the constitutional basis for disarmament. It examines how even the definition of felony is full of ambiguity:
But the Justice Department’s apparent attempt to broaden discrete crimes justly punished by death to include all felonies, much less all crimes punishable by more than one year imprisonment, misses the point. The word “felony” has roots in mortal sin. But as time passed, felony’s substance was lost, as it came not to be defined by the character of the wrongdoer, but by the potential punishment. By Blackstone’s age, it was a crime punishable by death, encompassing “no less than a hundred and sixty [offenses].” 4 Blackstone *18. More recently, commentators have given up trying to apply any independent, substantive meaning to “felony,” admitting that it means whatever the legislature says it means. “[F]elony . . . has derived so many meanings from so many parts of the common law, and so many statutes in England, and has got to be used in such a vast number of different senses, that it is now impossible to know precisely in what sense we are to understand this word.” 6 Nathan Dane, General Abridgment and Digest of American Law 715 (1823).
These sources reveal that the modern regulatory label of felony—a crime punishable by more than one year of imprisonment—is not even close to the proper “level of generality at which to define [the] historical practice.” Rahimi, 602 U.S. at 724 n.4 (Kavanaugh, J., concurring). It captures conduct that would have commonly justified exclusion, and a host of less significant acts. So simply pointing to Williams’s felony because it is labeled “felony” does not do. We must move to a more granular comparison, assessing Williams’s conduct against the Justice Department’s proffered analogy.
It points to habitual drunkard laws and how irrelevant they are to this case:
Nor does the Justice Department explain “how” the habitual drunkard laws ameliorated the threat of firearm misuse in a way relevant to the operation of § 922(g)(1). As Bruen clarifies, “if earlier generations addressed the societal problem, but did so through materially different means, that . . . could be evidence that a modern regulation is unconstitutional.” 597 U.S. at 26–27. That is the case here, and why the analogy to the permanent bar in § 922(g)(1) breaks down. Most statutes capped the commitment of habitual drunkards to the state inebriate asylum, prison, or hard labor to a few months or years. Others provided for an indefinite period of incarceration, but had no indication that upon release individuals continued to forfeit their arms. Rather, once someone was “safe” to “go at large,” Act of Mar. 27, 1876, ch. 208, § 7, 1876 Va. Acts 249, they were restored to the status of a full rights-bearing citizen. See Range, 124 F.4th at 231 (“[I]n the Founding era, a felon could acquire arms after completing his sentence and reintegrating into society.”).
I am not keen on DUI convicts possessing guns. The risk that someone so irresponsible as to drive drunk has access to guns, cars, or sharp objects, seems high. I also read that Williams' last conviction was in 2005. It appears that he has learned his lesson and reintegrated into society.
I get packages, just like everyone else. Sometimes UPS, sometimes FedEx, sometimes Amazon.
UPS is problematic. Their drivers are lazy, ignorant, or both.
Today, for example. I ordered some ammo and some cleaning brushes from MidwayUSA. UPS sent me a delivery notice. "ON THE PORCH". I have two porches, so I went out to the front porch. The one by the front door. No package. I went out to the back porch. No package. Honestly, I doubted that the driver would have left it on the back porch, because that requires opening a gate. Still, no luck.
Belle and I started looking, and she found it leaning against the garage door. Which is not a porch, nor is it near a porch, nor is it where they said they left it. So, the driver is either lazy, ignorant, or both.
When I picked up the package, I found a hole in the box. Luckily, nothing had spilled out, but I doubt that Midway shipped it with a hole in the box.
On the second floor, among the many collections of tools, a lovely woman in period costume named Susan demonstrated the art of weaving from flaxen thread to make linen, as well as the meticulous process by which the strands of soft flax emerged from a course stalk.
One of the room depictions in the grist house, which included a kitchen and room where the spinning wheels worked, was a little girls room. The furniture was adult furniture, carefully crafted in miniature, the bed, one in which her parents would watch her sleep, praying that she never knew fear or hunger. On the bed was a doll, a small, clothed artifact of that innocent corridor that is childhood.
Yes, the lives of past history are seldom easy, but there would be riches of experience we can not see, the accomplishment of crafting something that would last for generations. There is the pride in your teaching your own family. You teaching, not a school, not a "village", teaching the skills they would need to not just survive, but to prosper beyond the scope of your life. There was also the saving, not perhaps love or riches, but what is left behind in a human spirit when everything else has been taken away.
But they did not.
In the basement, there was something that made me stop and quietly think. A room that at one point was part of the Underground Railroad, a runaway slaves stop on the way to freedom in Canada, by a miller who himself sought freedom in our country, leaving his native Germany long behind him.
How many slaves did Mr. Graue shelter there in the basement of his gristmill? How many people passed through this room, putting their trust in a strangers hands, hesitant perhaps to take hold, as a hand too near the stove remembers pain. How difficult must that have been, trust replacing the whip of whistling air, the blow.
As I walked up the narrow stairs from that small and once dark place where women and men ran for their freedom, out into the light, an echo spoke which was not mine but rather all of the lost immutable "should haves" which haunt all dwellings, all the enclosed walls of home or heart. It lingers in the air as a hand takes mine to guide me safely away.
I left the mill with some bags of grain, but even more, with a renewed sense of thankfulness. Not just for my lightweight iron and the luxury of a long, hot, solitary bubble bath, but for something else. I left with a sense of enduring hope for that which is the human spirit, the recognition of a life lived by ones own hand and choice. - Brigid
Mini-Recluse has a lot waiting under the hood that you won't expect, this is one PCC that is a must-see!The post US Navy MkVI Lewis Gun in .30-06 for the Marines first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
Cheers!
- Consumer price index continued its steady climb in September.
- Blue check? Nah, AI deepfake.
- Using your data to charge you more.
New York, N.Y. (1927)
04/18/1927: A quarrel between three acquaintances “after a night of cabereting” led to an exchange of gunfire. One of the dead was holding a revolver with one shot fired, suggesting he attempted self-defense. Police found a partly loaded revolver near his body.
Category: residential
Suicide: no
Cause: quarrel
Weapon: pistol[1]
Investigators found that the woman who had previously left Greenhill’s home contacted two men for a ride back to the home to retrieve her vehicle, officials said.
The woman was dropped off at the intersection of Highway 612 and Southern Oak Drive, where the men waited in their vehicle while she retrieved her own vehicle, GCSO said. Officials said Greenhill then left his home and approached the men’s vehicle.
Investigators found that Greenhill was wearing brass knuckles when he hit one of the men multiple times in the face, officials said. That man, who had a gun, then fired two shots, hitting Greenhill, officials said.
A father was injured in a Durham shooting on Saturday morning while trying to break into the home of his child’s mother, according to police.
The incident was reported just before 9:45 a.m. at the Magnolia Pointe apartments in the 4800 block of Danube Lane, just off Hebron Road in northeast Durham, according to a Durham Police Department news release.
During the break-in, the woman’s brother happened to be at the apartment, and there was a “struggle” between the two men, police said.
During the altercation, the brother shot the father of the child, officers said.
