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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.
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:
(snip)
(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 […]On March 6, 1836, the Battle of the Alamo ended, after 13 days of fighting. 1,500 to 3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelmed the Texan defenders, killing at least 182 Texans, including William Travis, Jim Bowie, and Davy Crockett. — Today is the birthday of Georg Johann Luger (March 6, 1849 – December 22, 1923). He was the Austrian designer of the famous Luger pistol and the 9×19mm Parabellum cartridge. — March 6th was the birthday of Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper Jr., born in 1927 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Cooper died at age 77 at his home in Ventura, California, October 4, 2004. …
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Time to start the garden and not spend time watching world news. I can’t change a thing that is happening, but I can grow food and pray. I must stay focused on the farm and move forward rather than spend time fretting and scanning “the news”. Fear can be paralyzing. Growing food and praying are the most important things I can do, at this time, in this place. Unless we get a surprise Spring cold snap, which is likely, the weather should be fairly mild temperature wise, from here on out for my location in Tennessee. Our long range weather forecast looks mild (in …
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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. This week, a map of solar farms, wind farms, and battery farms in the United States. The thumbnail below is click-expandable. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) Economics & Investing Links of Interest The slam-down of precious metals prices on Day 3 & 4 of the Iran War defied logic. Spot silver was down 7.92% by Tuesday afternoon. This was just after the Strait of Hormuz was closed. Logically, at such a time, most would expect …
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“The power vested in the American courts of justice of pronouncing a statute to be unconstitutional forms one of the most powerful barriers that have ever been devised against the tyranny of political assemblies.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1835
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Several years ago I got this Ruger Single Six Magnum Vaquero chambered for .32 H&R Magnum. Because of the color case hardening and the faux ivory grips, I nicknamed it the "Cowboy Pimp Gun."
TBH, I haven't shot it a lot because typical .32 H&R loads with 85 - 100 grain bullets shoot low and I didn't want to file the front sight shorter to raise the point of impact. It also had a really stiff trigger. I recently remedied both of those issues.
To fix the heavy trigger pull I got a spring kit from Wolff Gunsprings, which included a reduced power trigger spring and several hammer springs. I installed the Wolff trigger spring and replaced the factory 23 lb. hammer spring with an 18 lb. spring. This is a major improvement giving the gun a light trigger pull. I don't have a trigger pull gauge so I can't really say what it is now.
To raise the point of impact I loaded up some 120 grain cast RNFP bullets from Matt's Bullets over 3.2 grains of HP-38. They probably run around 800 FPS, but I can go up to 3.7 grains of powder. Because I wanted to ensure that the gun will reliably set off whatever ammo I put in it, I used CCI primers which are harder than other brands.
I brought the gun to the range today and did the Old West Shootist's drill, and was pleased that this load shoots to point of aim at 10 yards, and that it reliably set off the CCI primers.
I love it when a plan comes together. Now that I've got the issues worked out with the gun I expect to shoot it a lot more.
The 1980 film assembled an all-star cast of musicians. This was perhaps the weakest song in the movie.
She frames it simply: an abusive husband who beats his wife while she begs the neighbors to intervene. “We can’t do it alone,” she said. “The Cuban people are unarmed.”
Amazon has a tremendous number of FREE ebooks on their website. You can find thousands of free kindle books on Amazon’s site every day. These books can be downloaded to a Kindle reader or a free App on your phone or personal computer. Even if you don’t have a Kindle, you can download a free […]Cool video here about what purports to be an F-16 dropping munitions on an MLRS (Multiple Launch Rocket System). Personally, I have no clue what an F-16 cockpit looks like. He could be flying a Beechcraft for all I know.
Still, it's cool video and that MLRS site ain't a threat anymore.
The English language has evolved for basically as long as there has been English. A great book on this subject is Robin MacNeil (and company) in The Story Of English (highly recommended if you are a history nerd like me).
Well, via a link from someone I've forgotten (sorry! Midwest Chick? A Large Regular?) there is a fabulous demonstration of this where the writer starts in the present and where each paragraph goes backwards in time 100 years. I started getting lost around 1200 AD, and I've messed around casually with Old English before. I would catch the odd word before 1200 but the overall gist was a mystery.
And I love the URL for his site. LOL.
But at the end of his post he links for a Youtube video of a guy who speaks the different versions of English, starting in 400 AD and going forward 100 years at a time. I found this a lot harder than reading, only starting to pick up some comprehension around 1500 AD. But when he turns on transcriptions it's amazing how far back I recognize a lot of words.
Wild. I've embedded it here. Highly, highly recommended. And I guess I'm not the only one who's interested - 1.2 Million views in two months? Yowser.
You never know what you might find on the "used" shelf of your local gun store or pawn shop. Normally, it's trash. Sometimes, it's treasure!
We live in a golden age which far surpasses all previous golden ages. Some call it the industrial revolution. Some say it is the digital revolution. This correspondent calls it the petroleum age.
The cost of firearms and ammunition, in terms of labor, is near an all time low. .22 Long Rifle cartridges can be had for under six cents a round, with free shipping, on the Internet. The all time low, in constant dollars, would be about five cents per round, not including sales and seconds, from 1993 to 2006. Nominal prices are higher, but costs in labor are much lower.
A .22 caliber semi-automatic rifle can be had for $150 or less. A serviceable AR15 type rifle can be had under $300. The cost of effective arms for the common man has never been so low. Multiple, effective centerfire pistols are available for less than $200, on sale.
Those who live in golden ages seldom consider themselves to be living in a golden age. To them, having been born in, and growing up in a golden age, it is simply normal, what is. Some, perhaps after the golden age is gone, may reflect on what was lost.
The petroleum age differs from all previous ages because it is where we learned to extract energy from the earth, and make that energy available to the vast majority of people. The precursor was the age of coal. Coal replaced wood for heating in many cities by 1850. 270 million short tons were being produced in the United States by 1900. That was 3.5 tons for every person in the United States. But coal was not nearly as accessible to most people as petroleum has become.
Enormous benefits accrued to many people during the age of coal. The benefits are small compared to those brought by petroleum. Coal is still important in the petroleum age. Today we consume 27 tons of oil and 1.7 tons of coal for every person in the United States every year.
The benefits accrued from the availability of cheap energy have become common in the golden age of petroleum. They include:
- Indoor plumbing and clean indoor pressurized water supply.
- Electric utility service capable of powering our many labor saving devices, including safe, flame free lighting, air conditioning, and communication devices which work at the speed of light.
- Fresh, healthy food available all year round. Food checked at multiple points to insure the absence of parasites, germs, and toxins. Malnutrition is a rarity caused by mental illness, drug use, or war.
- Clothes so cheap many people keep large closets full of apparel. Specialty shoes, weather gear, and "sports" clothes are common.
- Medical care available to nearly all for most ailments. Numerous diseases have been conquered and nearly eliminated. Many current diseases are the product of prosperity. Obesity is not a problem in countries subject to famine. Obesity was associated with wealth, not poverty.
- Increase in life span. The average lifespan has increased from 48.0 years in 1900 to 78.7 years today, an increase of 64%, or 30 years gain in 125 years.
- The ability to search and find information thousands of times faster than any library system which existed before 1980.
- Individual to individual communication throughout most of the world, easy quick, and relatively reliable, cheap enough for the common man or woman.
- World commerce with the ability to buy and sell between continents with ease.
- World wide travel is available to most, with intercontinental travel time measured in hours, not years or months or weeks, or even days.
- The average person in the First World has luxuries commonly available which pharaohs, kings, and emperors before 1800 could barely comprehend or dream of.
- "Retirement" is available to most. Between 1880 and 2000, old people "outside the labor force" grew from 22% of men over 65 to 82.5% of men and women over 65. In 1880, "retirement" meant a "few years of dependence on children at the end of life". In 2000, "retirement" meant an "extended period of self financed independence and leisure".
In the 134 years between 1890 and 2024, the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita increased from $3430 to $45,742, in 1996 dollars, or more than thirteen times as much. Nearly all of this growth has happened because we have harnessed energy which exists under the ground, to benefit people today. The United States has done this better and more efficiently than any other nation on the planet. In this correspondent's lifetime, the gdp/capita increased 4X!
Will the petroleum age end? Of course it will. The amount of petroleum available is finite. We do not know how long it will last. The golden age need not end for a very long time. Nuclear fission can supply energy for a couple of hundred years, and nuclear fusion, once harnessed, offers thousands of years beyond that, just from resources available on planet earth. Elon Musk is showing we can access the resources of the solar system. The Moon, alone, offers the potential of fusion energy for a hundred thousand years. In the next hundred or thousand years, we may find a way to access the stars. As Elon Musk has noted, solar energy in space is continuous and reliable. The optimum orbit to harness solar energy changes constantly with available technology.
This correspondent believes God, not man, is ultimately in charge. Perhaps God's plan includes using humanity to spread life across the universe. God has work for us to do in the new heaven and on the new earth.
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A burglary involving a knife-wielding man changed course dramatically when the homeowner pulled a gun and took the suspect prisoner, according to investigators in North Carolina. It happened around 11 p.m. Sunday, March 1, in Aberdeen, and ended with a 21-year-old suspect facing multiple felony charges, Aberdeen police said in a March 4 news release.
Today is the 75th birthday of Texas singer/songwriter Willis Alan Ramsey. He was born March 5th, 1951. He is best known for his songs Northeast Texas Women and Muskrat Candlelight (aka Muskrat Love.) The latter became a hit when it was covered by both the bands America and Captain & Tennille. Oddly, Ramsey only had one released record album. — This is also the birthday of Howard Pyle (1853-1911) an influential American book illustrator, painter, and author. He was the mentor of many great American artists including Thornton Oakley, Frank E. Schoonover, Allen Tupper True, and of course his most …
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Before I begin this analysis of the situation in the Middle East and its consequences, I want to warn people that this examination is going to be largely secular and nuanced; which means people on both sides of the divide are going to be perturbed and moan about it. Frankly, I don’t care. To be clear, I’m not interested in the “plight” of the Palestinians, the Islamic regime in Iran or the conspiracy theories of “groypers.” I find appeals of empathy and compassion for Islamic societies to be naive – They are perfectly indifferent and hostile to the west, they …
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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, hopes of a proper interpretation of the Hughes Amendment. Re-Opening the Federal Machinegun Registry? Reader D.S.V. flagged this good news: States Working on Gamechanging Plans to Give Civilians …
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“Let us never forget that our constitutions of government are solemn instruments, addressed to the common sense of the people and designed to fix and perpetuate their rights and their liberties.” – Joseph Story
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I posted about this 15 months ago. Midwest Chick has an update:
The New Zealand navy was so proud and happy to have a lesbian from Britain come on board that they gave her a $100M survey and dive vessel, which she crashed and sank.
The lesbian “diversity hire” captain of a Royal New Zealand Navy ship that ran aground and sank off Samoa has been charged with negligence along with two other officers over the loss of the vessel.
The $100 million HMNZS Manawanui, which was under the command of UK-born homosexual Yvonne Gray, crashed on the south side of Upolu on October 5, 2024, due to human error including failure to turn off autopilot, an inquiry found last year.
This is the official inquiry report which is leading to Commander Gray's Courts Martial. Obviously the entirety of His Majesty's New Zealand Navy is a bunch of dirty misogynists ...
Midwest Chick adds this tidbit that I had missed:
This isn’t the first time that a NZ naval diversity hire damaged a ship. It happened in 2024 with a different female captain.
And that’s what happens when you choose diversity over competence. Wonder if the New Zealanders will actually learn from this??
Now maybe our own Navy could do something about our (multiple) female commanders who run into ships on the high seas.
Iran the air conditioner in the shop today. Came in the house and turned the thermostat from heat to cool. Looked outside and noticed that a little shower had popped up. I wasn't expecting that.
Looking at the news, I see that the Navy's Mark 48 torpedoes seem to be working. First time since WWII that a submarine has taken down a ship with torpedoes. I bet that crew was pumped! Years of maintenance and training comes down to one good war shot. The Iranian frigate Sulemani is now on the bottom of the Indian ocean.
By Dave Workman In the wake of Monday’s historic Supreme Court hearing on whether the federal prohibition on gun ownership by marijuana users should be allowed to continue, NBC News reported that the justices “appeared sympathetic” to the challenge. The Los Angeles Times reported the high court seemed “skeptical” about the Trump administration’s defense of […]
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By Dave Workman Did Minnesota House Democrats conducting a hearing on two gun control bills—crafted in response to last year’s fatal shooting at the Annunciation Catholic Church and School in Minneapolis—because it didn’t follow their narrative? It appears that way, but they ultimately allowed Amy Swearer, a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, speak […]
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A cruise ship got stuck in the ice off Antarctica, and the Coast Guard (by chance) had an icebreaker nearby. Well done.
Texas held their congressional primaries yesterday, and I see that Jasmine Crockett lost her bid to become a US Senator. Republicans John Cornyn and and Ken Paxton are headed for a runoff in May.
We're going to miss Jasmine. She gave us some incredible sound bites.
Watching game-tape has been a proven method of improvement for decades, but doing that through your scope isn't easy. Until now.Absence of a gun is not usually a problem:
Rockville, Md. (1968)
01/25/1969: The son, 15, murdered his mother and three siblings with “a hatchet, knife, croquet mallet and kerchief garrot.”
Category: family
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: blunt, knife, hatchet, strangle[1]
Cyprus: Drones struck the British Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus, pulling the U.K. and the European Union into the conflict. Cypriot press reported the strikes likely came from Hezbollah.
And Starmer had refused to give U.S. permission to use bases in the U.K. Fat lot of good it did them.
NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. It was unclear whether the missile was targeting Turkey, a NATO member state bordering Iran.
An attack on Turkyie (or however they want it spelled now) seems unlikely. Perhaps the Iranians in their confusion are just pressing red buttons at random. But such an attack requires NATO members to come to their defense.
It is fashionable to imagine that ICE is engaged in random arrests of people who it thinks are illegals. 3/3/26 KTVB:
BOISE, Idaho — Nearly a month after a father was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) near a Boise daycare, the agency is responding publicly for the first time, saying the arrest was targeted and tied to a prior conviction.
In a statement to KTVB, ICE said the man has a 2024 conviction in Boise for “theft by alteration.”
The agency described the arrest as “targeted” and said officers were never at a preschool, adding that the man was detained about 200 yards away.
The man’s family has asked that his name not be released at this time for privacy reasons.
Attorney J.J. Despain said theft by alteration typically involves switching price tags in a store to pay a lower price, rather than removing merchandise without paying.
Despain said even relatively minor offenses can draw renewed attention from immigration authorities.
“It could be, I haven’t seen this happen so much in Idaho, but in other places in the country, they really are just looking up old cases because they want to boost their numbers,” Despain said.
Or enforce the law. If you are here unlawfully, you get immediate deportation. Even if you do not break any other laws, you are here illegally and are subject to immediate deportation.
3/4/26 Reuters:
GALLE, Sri Lanka/WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off the southern coast of Sri Lanka, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday, dramatically widening Washington's pursuit of the Iranian navy.Sri Lanka's deputy foreign minister said at least 80 people were killed in the attack on the frigate IRIS Dena, which was heading back to Iranfrom an eastern Indian port.
I am sorry for the sailors aboard. I have no idea if they were conscripts or not. Unfortunately, Iran has been at war with us since 1979 and we are finally dealing with it.
According to Sec. Hegseth, this is the first submarine sinking since 1945.
- IRIS Dena, an Iranian frigate, has been torpedoed and sunk by US submarine off the coast of Sri Lanka.
- White House arranges evacuation of some social media influencers from Qatar.
- The Royal Navy is dispatching the HMS Dragon, a Type 45 destroyer, to assist in the defense of Cyprus from drone and missile attack.
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According to the Las Vegas Metropolitan police, when officers arrived, they found a man suffering from gunshot wounds who died at the scene. A second man, identified as 39-year-old Robert Aguilar Jr., was found a few blocks away on Kell Lane suffering from gunshot wounds and transported to the hospital with critical injuries.
Police said the victim who died at the scene was openly carrying a firearm and had just left a business when he was approached by Aguilar, who demanded the victim’s gun. The victim pulled his firearm, and the two shot each other.
On March 4, 1774: The first sighting of the Orion nebula by William Herschel. — March 4, 1908: A fire at Lakeview Elementary School in Collinwood, Ohio, killed 172 students and two teachers: a boiler room blaze trapped many victims in the building, prompting changes in school design and procedures nationwide. — Today’s feature article is by SurvivalBlog Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson. — We still need reader-written articles 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 contest. Round 123 ends on March 31st, so …
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(Continued from Part 1. This concludes the article.) LinuxLite Attempt One Since I was more satisfied with the Linux apps that I was running under Chrome OS Flex than with the native Chrome apps, I decided to experiment with another Linux OS. I went to www.linuxliteos.com and attempted to downloaded LinuxLite 7.4 . That was easier said than done. That site was so choked with ads and deceptive links leading to other software that it was virtually impossible to find a link leading to the correct download. After more than 30 minutes of searching, I finally gave up and decided …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. — In the Leftie/Greenie Washington Post: Good night, stars. We are on the cusp of turning darkness into day. o o o Reader H.L. mentioned that she found some cogent analysis on the Iran War, over at the Gold and Geopolitics substack. JWR’s Comments: Obviously, the global oil market and the precious metals …
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“The tyranny of a prince is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.” – Charles Montesquieu, 1748
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