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On March 9, 1776, Adam Smith published the influential economics book “The Wealth of Nations”. — March 9, 1916: Pancho Villa‘s men killed more than a dozen in a raid on Columbus, New Mexico. — March 9, 1945, the U.S. Army Air Forces bombed Tokyo with napalm, causing fires that destroyed a quarter of the city and killed some 80,000 civilians. — Today’s feature is by SurvivalBlog Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson. — We still need entries for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $981,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this …
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The M3 Fighting Knife was designed with a single purpose: to kill the enemy. It was designed to penetrate deeply into an opponent during hand-to-hand combat, severing arteries and veins along the way, so that the opponent would quickly lose enough blood to cease to be a threat. The M3 and the KA-BAR were evaluated together for the US military in 1942 by civilians on the Smaller War Plants Corporation Board. It was adopted by that board based on civilian rather than military criteria. The chairman of that board was eager to select designs that could be quickly and economically …
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The following recipe for Roasted Asparagus with Garlic is from SurvivalBlog reader Callie B. Ingredients 1 large bunch of fresh asparagus, washed and with woody butt ends cut off 2-3 cloves of garlic, minced 3 Tablespoons olive oil Sea salt (to taste) Black pepper, preferably freshly ground. (To taste) Directions Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Place the asparagus spears in a large bowl then add the olive oil and garlic and toss to coat them. Season with salt and pepper (to taste). Transfer the asparagus spears onto a thick metal baking sheet and arrange in one even layer …
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Today’s graphic: U-Haul 2025 Growth Index. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) It is obvious that the Inland Northwest, the Southeast, and Texas are the winners, while the increasingly socialist California, Illinois, New Jersey, and New York are the losers. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.
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“Who’s going to trust the British media when we know now for a fact that the Trusted News Initiative is an organization of media partners that recognize that their real enemy is independent media? Their enemy, they’re not competing with one another anymore. They’re competing against independent media. It became very clear in COVID. It wasn’t a revolutionary moment. It was a revelationary moment where a lot of people saw for the first time [that] you can’t trust your government. You can’t trust your media. You can’t trust corporations. They’re there to control you. They require that you are ignorant …
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Click here too see an International Women's Day protest in New York City. The bigots were wrong but leftists screaming at the sky does nothing to refute it.
Man Fell in Love with Google Gemini and It Told Him to Stage a 'Mass Casualty Attack' Before He Took His Own Life: Lawsuit
Investigators said a woman tried to hold Reed back during the argument as Magee started backing away with his hands up, attempting to de-escalate the situation.
Reed pushed Magee and then acted like he was walking away before he turned back around, drew a handgun and fired multiple rounds at Magee, according to police.
Investigators said Magee then pulled his own handgun and returned fire as he was falling to the ground. Reed reportedly fled the scene in a car.
Reed was taken into custody at his home around 10 p.m. on March 5. He was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the victim claimed that Guy and the other man confronted him as he was walking home from the Target shopping plaza and assaulted him, repeatedly punching him in the face.
During the struggle, the victim allegedly retrieved a firearm from his backpack and fired it in self-defense.
The Sheriff's Office said that surveillance footage from the scene revealed Guy fleeing while discarding what deputies identified as Lewis’s stolen iPhone 13. He was also allegedly seen removing a firearm from a cross-body bag before being apprehended by deputies.
Investigators say 38-year-old Octavio Sanchez of Rio Hondo was beaten during a confrontation with Roel and Tristan Benitez. Sanchez told deputies he shot both brothers in self-defense during the alleged assault. The case is still under investigation, and no charges have been announced.
The incident occurred on Greentown Road in the McDonald Community around 1:20 p.m. Upon arrival, deputies located a male victim who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg and was airlifted to a regional trauma center for further treatment.
Another man at the scene, who deputies believe to be the shooter, has been detained for questioning. Deputies said that his statement appears to be consistent with self-defense, according to sheriff spokesperson Heather Pelham.
Here we go again in Louisiana. At 2:00 am, some of our clocks jumped forward to 3:00. Lots of folks are going to be late for church this morning. As for myself, I'm wandering around, changing the old-fashioned clocks.
At this point, the twice-annual change is simply tradition. I am convinced that none of the reasons we started this are valid today. It's tradition, the ay we've always done it.
Richard “Dick” Hyman turns 99 today! (He was born March 8, 1927.) Dick Hyman is a jazz pianist and composer. Over a 70-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, pioneering electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. — March 8th is also the birthday of famed revolver shooter, big game hunter, and gun writer Elmer Keith, who co-designed the S&W .44 Magnum and .41 Magnum cartridges. He authored the book Sixguns, which is still considered a standard reference. His fascinating life story is told …
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The need to be prepared to defend one’s self in an increasingly uncivil, hostile world is apparent. I strongly recommend the daily carriage of a defensive sidearm, backed up by a reliable edged weapon whenever possible, and I strongly encourage regular practice with these essential tools. More important than simply having hardware is cultivating the mindset of awareness and preparedness. But all too often, our increasingly intrusive nanny state governments, both national and local, enact laws and encourage policies designed to disarm us in public places. Some jurisdictions will go out of their way to prosecute any use of armed …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: The Amazingly Popular New Game: Ayatollah Whackamollah News Link: Who Will Be Iran’s Next Supreme Leader? Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore …
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His Majesty's fleet seems to be entirely unable to protect His Majesty's subjects abroad. There seems to be only a single ship (MHS Dragon) that can be sent to Cyprus for anti-missile defense, and it has taken more than a week to prepare to sail. And they still haven't left port.
The Royal Navy is no allied force worth considering. Perhaps HMS Defiant can comment on his place.
As they point out, the Royal Navy was ready to sail in three days when the Iron Lady Maggie Thatcher told them to stand ready in the Falkland crisis. And then they had something like 100 ships. Now they can't get a single one.
As Donald Trump would say, sad!
Although I like what he says about the "1000 ship Navy" at about 11:40 into the video. 'Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.
But after all, what today is the "special relationship" or even the transatlantic alliance? But it's really weird that we're getting more support from Germany than from Great Britain these days.
Whatever you do, don't mention the war. Gosh, the darn Krauts have no sense of humor ...
The Royal Navy is the fleet of Great Britain. You know Great Britain, right? It used to be where Britain is now. Sic transit Gloria Mundi.
On March 7, 1644 Massachusetts established the first two-chamber legislature in the American colonies. — March 7, 1707: The birthday of Stephen Hopkins, a Governor of Rhode Island. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. — And March 7, 1944 was the birthday of Townes Van Zandt, a gifted Texan singer/songwriter. (He died in 1997.) — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for Round 123 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 of their one, …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) Meat, Dairy, and Eggs My first cow to calve this year is due in a couple of weeks, and being that she is a first time heifer, she could calve any time now. So, I’m trying to finish up house projects, cleaning the farmhouse top to bottom. and get the garden going before I need to ensure a healthy calf, and train its mother to the milking machine. I’ll be honest. I’m apprehensive about training this particular heifer. She’s a big Guernsey, taller than me, and has long “kickers”/legs, and she’s a little skittish. Some heifers settle …
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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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“There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, …
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This is Jeremy Clarkson from 1998, four years before he rebooted the Top Gear show. They still had F-14s on the carrier. This is a very cool look back to Old America when it still was America.
Today I loaded up some food for my Ruger Single Six Magnum Vaquero:
- Missouri Bullet Company .313" 115 RNFP cast bullets
- 3.2 grains Hodgdon HP-38 powder
- CCI No.500 primer
- Starline cases
Yeah, my reloading bench is cluttered.
What looks like a copper wash on the bullets is Hi-Tek coating applied in lieu of a traditional bullet lube. The appearance of the loaded rounds remind me of oversized high velocity .22s, or the old Winchester-Western Lubaloy bullets.
By Dave Workman In a 2-1 split decision, a three-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has ruled that the District’s ban on ammunition magazines is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. The D.C. Court of Appeals—not to be confused with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit—is considered […]
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3/4/26 BBC. Let me also mention that the Conservative MP who savaged Starmer's failure was black.
Sir Keir said: "We're taking action to reduce the threat with planes in the sky in the region intercepting incoming strikes, deploying more capability to Cyprus, and allowing US planes to use UK bases to take out Iran's capability to strike.
"What I was not prepared to do on Saturday was for the UK to join a war unless I was satisfied there was a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan. That remains my position."
The PM said the government had also been pre-deploying capabilities in the region for a number of weeks, including radar systems, ground-based air defence, counter-drone systems and F35 jets.
He added that wildcat helicopters with anti-drone capabilities would be in Cyprus this week, with a Royal Navy warship, HMS Dragon, also deployed to the region.
However, Badenoch accused the PM of "catching arrows rather than stopping the archer" in his approach.
"I would say to Labour MPs, we are in this war whether they like it or not. What is the prime minister waiting for?" she added.
She pointed out HMS Dragon was still in Portsmouth and the government "should be doing more".
The Conservative leader also criticised the government for not investing more in defence....
A western official said that so far US bombers have not used the British bases of Diego Garcia or RAF Fairford - but said the UK was ready to accept them. The official said he expected them to arrive within the next few days.
Earlier, former Conservative Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said he thought the prime minister had "made a big misjudgement" by not allowing the US to use British military bases for offensive strikes on Iran.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that international law was "not settled on this issue" and depended on whether there was an imminent risk of attack from Iran.
Hunt said the Americans had a significant role in defending Europe and in this situation, "to weaken our alliance with the United States was a big mistake".
"President Trump is not interested in that rules-based order," Hunt said.
"He's said so absolutely explicitly. And we have to recognise the brute strength of the American military is something we depend on now in Europe and will depend on for at least a decade."
Hunt is obviously part of the reality-based system.
Chris Fountain brought to my attention this 3/5/26 CTInsider article:
DARIEN — A homeowner shot at three people attempting to break into his home on Five Mile River Road on Thursday morning, according to police.
As the masked trio began to break in through the front door of the home, the homeowner saw that at least one of the suspects had a firearm, Darien Detective Sgt. Mauricio Vigil said in a statement Thursday afternoon.
Vigil said the suspects fled after the firearm was discharged, and a juvenile potentially matching the description of one of the suspects arrived at the Bridgeport Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound. The juvenile was rushed into surgery and his condition is stable as of 2:15 p.m.
I am hoping this kid learns from this.
News reports are telling us that north Louisiana experienced a 4.9 magnitude earthquake in Red River parish.
We don't normally consider Louisiana to be earthquake country, but the times, they are a-changing.
I went out to tun errands this morning and saw that the car is covered in y3llow pollen. The pine trees are shedding pollen. Spring is just around the corner.
EDC medical equipment isn't sexy, but it's more likely to save your life than anything else you might carry. Find the right TQ for you!Benson v. U.S. (D.C.App. 2026) involved a probable ne'er-do-well charged with:
Benson was:
indicted for (1) possession of a “large capacity ammunition feeding device,” D.C. Code § 7-2506.01(b); (2) possession of an unregistered firearm, id. § 7-2502.01(a); (3) carrying a pistol without a license, id. § 22-4504(a); and (4) unlawful possession of ammunition, id. § 7-2506.01(a)(3).
Their summary conclusion:
To preview our answers to those central questions, they are that 11+ magazines are unquestionably arms, they are in not only common but ubiquitous use for lawful purposes, and there is no history or tradition of blanket bans on arms in such common use, so that the District’s magazine capacity ban violates the Second Amendment. Third, we reject the District’s argument that Benson’s facial challenge to the District’s ban on 11+ magazines should nonetheless fail because he in fact possessed a magazine holding 30 rounds....
Magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition are ubiquitous in our country, numbering in the hundreds of millions, accounting for about half of the magazines in the hands of our citizenry, and they come standard with the most popular firearms sold in America today. Because these magazines are arms in common and ubiquitous use by law-abiding citizens across this country, we agree with Benson and the United States that the District’s outright ban on them violates the Second Amendment. See generally District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008); N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 597 U.S. 1 (2022).
In more detail deeper in the decision:
The District next counters on the merits that 11+ magazines, by themselves, are “practically harmless” and of “no use” without ammunition and a receiver (the firearm’s core component), so that magazines themselves are not arms. That is not a defensible approach to identifying what constitutes an arm—a gun is also practically harmless and of no use without ammunition, but it is still obviously an arm. The District’s position that magazines are not arms has a couple of glaring flaws. First, it ignores Bruen’s clear explanation that arms include “instruments that facilitate armed self-defense,” which magazines clearly do by reloading the gun and enabling semi-automatic firing. 597 U.S. at 28. Second, the District’s view reduces to the absurd proposition that legislatures can prohibit all of the core components of firearms—the trigger, the hammer, the slide, the firing pin, the sights, etc.—because none of them do much good without the others, and none of them is strictly necessary to a functioning firearm. See Duncan v. Bonta, 133 F.4th 852, 897 (9th Cir. 2025) (en banc) (Bumatay, J., dissenting), cert. pending, No. 25-198 (U.S. filed Aug. 15, 2025) (“[T]he Second Amendment’s protection of ‘Arms’ must extend to their functional components,” or “the Second Amendment would be a shallow right—easily infringed by indirect regulation.”); id. at 917 (Vandyke, J., dissenting) (“[U]nder that logic, basically every part of a firearm is an ‘optional component’” and thus “not protected under the Second Amendment.”).
Really encouraging reminder the changes President Trump brought to this:
The United States, which prosecuted Benson in the underlying case and defended the ban’s constitutionality in the initial round of appellate briefing, now concedes that this ban violates the Second Amendment.
One other point" this creates a circuit split with the federal courts of appeals over this question. The Court now should hear the appeal of Duncan v. Bonta on this question.
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The Minnesota legislature is considering HF 3433. HF33 contains several significant infringements on the rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. The bill was introduced in the Minnesota House of Representatives on February 17, 2026. HF 3433 has been referred to the Minnesota House of Representatives Committee on Public Safety Finance and Policy. 35 members of the House have signed up as authors of the bill.
HF3433 bans a long list of firearms by name, bans firearms by specific features, requires people who desire to keep any of the firearms specified to register them, store them in accordance with requirements to be adopted, and agree to allow police to inspect the storage system. Registration will be required to be renewed every three years, and the firearms will only be allowed to be kept on the property of the individual. In addition, those firearms would only be allowed to be fired on licensed firing ranges.
Included in the list of specific features are items which sweep into the definition millions of common firearms owned by large numbers of Minnesota citizens at this time. Included in the definition of "Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon" are:
(2) semiautomatic pistol or any semiautomatic, centerfire, or rimfire rifle with a fixed magazine that has the capacity to accept more than ten rounds of ammunition;
The above definition includes enormous numbers of .22 rimfire semi-automatic rifles such as the Marlin model 60, Remington models Nylon 66, 550, 552, Winchester models 190, 290 and 77, and many other models of the popular tube-fed, semi-automatic .22 design. In addition, the ban includes semi-automatic pistols with common features such as a threaded barrel:
(3) semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and has one or more of the following:
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(v) a threaded barrel capable of accepting a barrel extension, flash suppressor, forward hand grip, or silencer;
The above includes many common and highly regarded pistols owned by millions of people across the United States, including many pistols by Ruger, KelTec, Sig Sauer, Taurus, Smith & Wesson, FN, Walther, and many more.
If you swap out a threaded barrel for a non-threaded barrel, you could be in compliance, as long as you do not keep the threaded barrel. This provision in the bill makes possession of parts which could convert a firearm into the broad definition of a "Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon" as a "Semiautomatic military-style assault weapon". As included in the bill:
(6) conversion kit, part, or combination of parts from which a semiautomatic military-style assault weapon can be assembled if those parts are in the possession or under the control of the same person.
The 35 authors of the bill are almost half of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party representatives in the Minnesota House. The DFL is the Minnesota version of the Democratic Party in the rest of the United States. The Minnesota Legislature is almost evenly split at this time, with a one vote majority belonging to the DFL Party. In the Senate, 34 DFL to 33 Republicans. In the House, the parties are tied with 67 representatives each.
As of March 2nd, HF3433 has been reffered to the House Public Safety, Finance and Policy committee. No votes have been taken on the bill. The Minnesota Gun Owners, particularly the Gun Owners Caugus has notified its members about the bill. A hearing was held in the committee. Here is a video link to the hearing. As of this writing, there have not been any recorded votes on HF2433.
Analysis: It is unlikely this draconian and almost certainly unconstitutional bill will pass the Minnesota Legislature this session. The parties are so evenly split, a highly controversial bill such as HF 3433 will bring enough attention by Second Amendment supporters to peel off a few DFL votes. Second Amendment supporters in Minnesota are well organized and active.
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Investigators found that the incident began when a man had stolen a personal item from his mother, before assaulting and injuring her. After the assault, the man’s stepfather notified the police, and the man confronted him, while allegedly armed with a knife.
That’s when the stepfather grabbed a gun and shot his stepson in the lower body, police detailed.
HORNSBY BEND, Texas — A woman was fatally shot Tuesday morning during a domestic disturbance in eastern Travis County near Hornsby Bend.
Deputies arrived at a residence in the 4500 block of Secure Lane at 11:27 a.m. after receiving reports of shots fired. Inside, they discovered the woman with a gunshot wound to the chest and a man who had sustained at least one gunshot wound.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Austin Terrorist Attack Austin PD does a really good job releasing video/audio of officer involved shootings as soon as possible. Here is what they just released on Saturday night’s terrorist attack downtown. Hit […]