gunbloggers.com 80 items from 78 feeds

Holy Week calls for the Big Guns of classical music.  Hector Berlioz was one of these, and his Messe Solennelle is one of the great works of religious music.  Astonishingly, Berlioz was only twenty years old when he wrote this, and then destroyed the music for Messe Solennelle (except for the Resurrexit portion).

A copy of the entire work was discovered in 1991. 

“We understand that there was a domestic issue for some time with the couple, and it’s a really sad situation. Thank God she didn’t get more than she did,” Guidroz said. “She did get some bruises and a broken nose, but other than that she’s okay.”

Deputies said the vehicle pursuit led to a home on Janet Road, where the suspect opened fire on a homeowner and his son as they stood in the yard. The homeowner returned fire in self-defense, striking the suspect in the groin as he attempted to enter the house.

“The suspect goes to the door and tries to gain entry, and that’s when the homeowner opens fire,” Guidroz said. “He shoots him in the groin, and the suspect makes it back to his truck, where he pointed the gun at his head and shot himself.”

More Here 

On March 29, 845, a 5,000-strong army of Danish Vikings invaded Frankish lands and only retreated after besieging Paris and securing a ransom from the Frankish King Charles the Bald. This was part of a series of devastating raids begun by the Vikings that began in the 790s. The Vikings were led by a man named “Reginherus” or Ragnar, sometimes linked to the legendary saga figure Ragnar Lodbrok. The Vikings easily overcame defences set in place by Charlemagne and are known to have attacked the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés just outside the city. The Vikings returned home with a ransom of …

The post Preparedness Notes for Sunday — March 29, 2026 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

  JWR’s Introductory Note: This is an update to a reply to a letter that I posted in SurvivalBlog back in February 2007.  Given the recent spike in gasoline and diesel prices, I thought it would be apropos to re-post it. — Every well-equipped retreat should have at least one “field expedient” 12 VDC fuel transfer pump. These pump rigs are popular with dirt bike, ATV, and snowmobile enthusiasts. They are very simple to construct. Here are the materials that you will need: 1 – An automobile or truck electric fuel pump. (The least expensive pumps come from automobile wrecking yards.) …

The post Notes on Constructing a 12 VDC Fuel Transfer Pump appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Re-Watching Die Hard Last Night Reminded Me of What Life Was Like in California, in 1988: Bruce Willis Had Some Hair, Gas Was Affordable, and Two Political Parties Were Vying to Control the Capitol — 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.

The post JWR’s Meme Of The Week: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

“These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give. Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses, Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his …

The post The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

 I mentioned that my wife put the kibosh on carbon fiber composite machining. The dust gets everywhere and it is not the healthiest stuff to have blowing around, even if you are wearing a respirator. Before I put these pieces on eBay, I though I would all of you a chance to buy these pieces. You will be amazed at its lightness, stiffness, and tensile strength. I do not really have a price for any of these. If you can pay me for postage, that would be fine. These are all Dragonplate Economy Plate CFC:

Random scrap, mostly 1/2" and 1/4" thick. I have no idea for what these little scraps might be used, but they are amazingly stiff and strong.

I never looked at it that way. 

The post Using Thermal in a Night Vision Match (Moons Out 2026) first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.

Police say the couple followed 62-year-old David Milan after he punched the husband in the face.

They say Milan fired several shots at the couple, and one of them returned fire, hitting Milan.

He was released from the hospital and charged with Battery with a Deadly Weapon.

More Here

On March 28, 1535, the Cistercian Bloemkamp Abbey (Oldeklooster) in Friesland was attacked and destroyed by a group of millenarian revolutionary Anabaptists. — March 28, 1774: Britain passed the Coercive Act against Massachusetts. — Today’s feature article is a guest piece written by our friend and fellow blogger, Patrice Lewis, the Editrix of the highly-recommended Rural Revolution blog. — We are now seeking entries for Round 124 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 get busy writing and e-mail us …

The post Preparedness Notes for Saturday — March 28, 2026 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

Editor’s Introductory Note:  This guest article was written by our friend and fellow blogger, Patrice Lewis. Her entertaining and informative Rural Revolution blog has been published several times a week since 2009. We highly recommend bookmarking it. – JWR — The price of beef has been on everyone’s mind lately. According to the USDA, the average price of beef jumped from $8.40 per pound in March to $10.10 by December 2025. A number of recent articles reflect these concerns: Food inflation in America RFK Jr. Urges U.S. Ranchers to Ramp Up Beef Production The cost of this grocery staple is …

The post The Price of Beef, by Patrice Lewis appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

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 …

The post Editors’ Prepping Progress appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and …

The post The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

 They do not realize that firebaseapp and on.microsoft.com in an email address means filter it directly into spam folder.

I s pent most of my career using Unix for software development or being sys admin for a herdof Sun workstationx. Unix/Linux has many virtues.

A friend who is not technical has just switched from Windows 7 (don't laugh, he is moving his email from AOL after 36 years).. He wanted a regular backup of his files to a USB hard drive.

Okay, how hard can this be? Somewhere there is a program either GUI or shell-based that does this, right?  Not that I could find. After a lot steps that brought back memories:

1. Set up mount of USB drive in /etc/mount. What? HNo atomount or autodiscovery? You run lsblk to see what devices are attached, determine which is the USB drive, copy its 8 hexadecimal digit UUID and several other close to magic fields. (I started to remember what UID and GID mean as I fiddled.)

You rediscover that mount is a very picky program. How many spaces between parameters, Running sudo mount -a may not identify errors, just silently fail. How would it be to make a mount editor that prompts you for the parameters ands adds them to /etc/mount?

3. The backup script using rsync was fairly straightforward.

#!/bin/bash

# Mirror backup to USB drive (vfat friendly)




BACKUP_BASE="/mnt/usb-backup/Backups"

LOGFILE="$HOME/backup.log"




echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Backup started" >> "$LOGFILE"




# Check if USB is mounted

if ! mount | grep -q " /mnt/usb-backup "; then

echo "$(date) - ERROR: USB not mounted at /mnt/usb-backup" >> "$LOGFILE"

echo "ERROR: Please run: sudo mount /mnt/usb-backup"

exit 1

fi




mkdir -p "$BACKUP_BASE"




# === Directories to mirror - Add more here if needed ===

declare -A DIRS=(

["/home/$(whoami)/Documents"]="$BACKUP_BASE/Documents"

["/home/$(whoami)/Pictures"]="$BACKUP_BASE/Pictures"

)




echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Starting rsync mirror..." >> "$LOGFILE"




for src in "${!DIRS[@]}"; do

dest="${DIRS[$src]}"

if [ -d "$src" ]; then

echo "→ Mirroring $src" | tee -a "$LOGFILE"

mkdir -p "$dest"

rsync -aAX --delete --info=progress2,stats2 "$src/" "$dest/" >> "$LOGFILE" 2>&1

else

echo "Warning: $src not found" >> "$LOGFILE"

fi

done




echo "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S') - Backup completed successfully" >> "$LOGFILE"

echo "✅ Backup finished successfully!"

echo "Log saved to: $LOGFILE" 

Adding an entry to crontab was simpler than mount but it still screams for a tool to help you add an entry. Some of why Linux remains user-indifferent is that for a lot of geeks it is the same theory as stick shifts: "It keeps the riff-raff out." 

In a move that is stunning even for a leftist Democrat like Pramila Jayapal, she is demanding the government, which has no money of its own of course, take money from taxpayers and give it to illegal aliens. [More] And wouldn’t you know: Jayapal was born on September 21, 1965, into a Malayali Nair family … Continue reading "You’re Welcome"

The post You’re Welcome first appeared on The War on Guns.

Should 2A Groups Make Opposition to Legal Immigration an Issue? A Response to David Codrea. [More] Cam Edwards gets involved in the kerfluffle and asks me to give him some answers. Nobody will still answer me throughout all this, but why not? It’ll be a few days, though, because there’s only one of me and … Continue reading "A Response to a Response to a Response"

The post A Response to a Response to a Response first appeared on The War on Guns.

With only one week left in Canada’s buyback-of-banned-arms program, Minister of Public Safety Gary Anandasangaree suggests police will go door-to-door during Spring and Summer to collect guns. [More] Gary Anandasangaree… Gary Anandasangaree… Isn’t he that immigrant from Sri Lanka? And he’s now making that threat against the people who welcomed him in and gave him … Continue reading "Emperor of the North"

The post Emperor of the North first appeared on The War on Guns.

The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on firearms possession in federal facilities operated by the National Park Service. [More] I’m just surprised no one is demanding another environmental impact study…

The post Ranger Danger first appeared on The War on Guns.

A former Massachusetts police officer has been found not guilty of attempting to shoot a brother in blue after she testified she was trying to kill herself as officers arrived at her home to serve a restraining order filed by her ex-fiancé. [More] More proof that only the police should have guns… Hey, I wonder … Continue reading "We’re the Only Ones Mental Enough"

The post We’re the Only Ones Mental Enough first appeared on The War on Guns.

Secret Service agent assigned to Jill Biden injured in ‘negligent discharge’ at Philadelphia airport [More] Shades of Lee Paige! Did “Dr. Jill” help him? Oh, wait– she’s not that kind of doctor? This seems like a fair question: What was he doing “handling a service weapon”?

The post We’re the Only Ones Paigeing Enough first appeared on The War on Guns.

WATCH: Liberal Hack Chris Hahn DISGUSTINGLY Blames ‘Guns’ for Illegal Alien Murder of Chicago Woman — Katie Pavlich TORCHES Him in Fiery Debate [More] Refusal to address facts and trying to redirect with a non sequitur argument reminds me of someone else’s “debating” style… OK, fine, but what’s this have to do with blueberries? [Via bondmen]

The post Where It Squarely Belongs first appeared on The War on Guns.

Tennessee Capitol 

On March 16, 2026, the Tennessee Legislature transmitted Bill SB0350 to Governor Bill Lee. Governor Bill Lee is expected to sign the legislation.  Governor Lee signed a Constitutional Carry Bill in 2021. Bill SB0350 guarantee's renters rights to keep and bear arms will not be subject to cancellation by rental contracts.  The bill does not apply to state and federal government leases or rentals of property.  The bill applies to both residential and commercial renters. While Governor Lee is expected to sign SB0350, if he does not veto the bill by the 28th of March, the bill will become law without his signature.

The Tennessee Senate passed the bill on February 27, 2026 on a 27 to 5 vote. The Tennessee House followed with a 72 - 22 vote on March 9, with an amendment.  The Senate concurred with the amendment on March 12, 32 -0. Governor Lee is term limited in Tennessee. His term will expire when a new governor takes office in January of 2027.  From the bill:

 SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 66, Chapter 7, is amended by adding the following as a new section:
66-7-113. 

(a) On and after July 1, 2025, a landlord shall not prohibit a tenant or a tenant's guest from lawfully possessing, carrying, transporting, or storing a firearm, any part of a firearm, or firearm ammunition in the tenant's home, apartment, or business; in a vehicle located in a parking area provided for tenants or tenants' guests by the landlord of the leased premises; or in other locations controlled by the landlord as necessary to enter or exit the tenant's home, apartment, or business, to enter or exit the leased premises, or to enter or exit a vehicle located on the leased premises or in a parking area provided by the landlord for tenants or tenants' guests.

The bill provides for remedies if the landlord insists on prohibiting firearms, Renter who have been damaged may file a civil lawsuit against a landlord for "actual damages, punitive damages, and recovery of attorney fees".  New leases may be placed into effect by July 1, 2026 as long as existing lease provisions against firearms are not enforced.

Analysis: The major effect of such bills are to remove from landlords any liability for damages which could be claimed in the event of use of firearms on the landlord's property, even when rented to another person. Because those who wish the population disarmed have failed to do so legislatively and judicially, the mechanism of civil suits has been employed to create bans which would otherwise be considered ridiculous.  Through zoning and the threat of lawsuit, landlords have been required to provide all sorts of services which they might otherwise not be required to do. This is part of the reason for increasing housing costs. Bills such as SB0350 do not require action on the part of landlords; they require inaction. An armed public is considered to be in the interest of the Republic. Actions making it difficult to maintain an armed public are thus against the interests of governments in the United States.

In reality, such bans are extremely difficult to enforce. They are primarily used to allow landlords to remove unwanted tenants. Failure to pay rent or damage to property should remain the primary reason to remove unwanted tenants.

©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.

Gun Watch 

More Here

Jesse Ventura Claims Trump Staged Assassination Attempt With Wrestling ‘Blade Job’ On His Own Ear [More] So much for a beautiful friendship… [Via bondmen]

The post I Ain’t Got Time to Think first appeared on The War on Guns.

‘The Era of Deportations Has Begun’: EU Parliament Approves Member Countries Setting up Return Hubs Outside the EU To Send Failed ‘Asylum Seekers’ [More] Good thing they don’t have a Second Amendment there… [Via bondmen]

The post Emptying the Pool with a Spoon first appeared on The War on Guns.

Received via email: Or as my critics are wont to say: “F___ mission creep… Holy s___ shut the f___ up. These issues are completely seperate… This has nothing to do with guns. Shut up and stay in your lane… F___. Off… No they aren’t, shut up.” Wine club, anyone…?

The post About That Single ‘Issue’ first appeared on The War on Guns.

Uh… point of order… Socialism IS fascism. They can’t get this Singham character on RICO charges or Logan Act violations?

The post Unclear on the Concept first appeared on The War on Guns.

Former Dolton, Illinois ‘super mayor’ pushes for federal troops in Chicago after father shot in neck – ‘Yes, it is true, my family has been directly affected by the senseless gun violence that continues to plague Illinois,’ Tiffany Henyard wrote [More] If that’s her plague diagnosis, she hasn’t learned a thing, but anything that causes … Continue reading "A Mugged Liberal"

The post A Mugged Liberal first appeared on The War on Guns.

This is the same Indian imigrant who fantasizes I’m a proponent of forced “reeducation camps” for “Indians already here.” The contortions some people will put themselves through, to where he’s ready to shoot people like me, “incl” the “Top Voice of the Second Amendment” over his loopy inferences rather than just addressing objective observations, is … Continue reading "For When I Turn Tyrannical"

The post For When I Turn Tyrannical first appeared on The War on Guns.

The post Austrian Mosin Nagant Rifles Rechambered for 8x50mm in WWI first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.

Democrats against ICE being there would rather this boy had died than been saved by that agent, just like Democrats who want to ban guns would rather those who have successfully defended themselves with one had been murdered instead of armed.

The post ICE Derangement Syndrome first appeared on The War on Guns.

On March 27, 196 BC, the Rosetta Stone and others like it were ordered to be inscribed with the Decree of Memphis proclaiming the rule of the King of Ptolemaic Egypt, Ptolemy V. — March 27, 1513: Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sighted the coast of Florida. — And on March 27, 1855 Canadian geologist Abraham Gesner patented kerosene. — Today’s feature post is a re-post from the SurvivalBlog archives. — Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest ends in just a few days. Get your entries in soon! More than $981,000 worth of prizes …

The post Preparedness Notes for Friday — March 27, 2026 appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

Editor’s Note:  This is a re-post of a SurvivalBlog article from May, 2008.  Given the recent fuel price spikes and the many e-mails that I’ve recently received asking about fuel storage, I thought that it was apropos to dig up this practical article from the blog’s early archives. Given that liquid fuel costs are climbing dramatically, and likely to continue rising, I would like to share some of the practices for fuel storage we employ. For our homestead, liquid fuel equates to four items, namely: Propane, diesel fuel, kerosene and last but not least gasoline. For each fuel, there are …

The post Homestead Fuel Storage and Rotation, by NC Bluedog appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest Several readers sent this: The Treasury just declared the U.S. insolvent. The media missed it. Newly released IRS data shows Red States GAINED $39 BILLION in net income in 2023 compared to Blue States LOSING $43 BILLION. The Private Credit Collapse Accelerates. Germany’s Economy At The Point Of No Return. Economics & Investing Media Tips: Please send your economics and investing links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact …

The post Economics & Investing Media of the Week appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

“I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don’t mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any …

The post The Editors’ Quote Of The Day: appeared first on SurvivalBlog.com.

 It's time for Texas State, and I'm remembering a song sung by Part Time at the 2015 Texas State

You can find it here.

I'm going to leave it here so that I can find it tomorrow.

By Dave Workman The Louisville, Ky. Metro Council is “urging” the State Assembly to “address common-sense gun regulation,” which translates to carving out Jefferson County and allowing it to set up its own gun control laws, which is currently not allowed under the sate’s preemption law. According to WAVE News, Louisville Councilman Ken Herndon has […]

The post Louisville Metro Council Wants Local Gun Control Authority appeared first on Liberty Park Press.

All the critics need to do to prove this wrong is to come up with numbers that credibly refute those given. [More] You can’t rebut contentions by avoiding them. It’s past time this argument was more widely noticed in the “pro-gun community.”

The post Gun Influencers Denying Immigration Impact on Right to Arms Ignore Truths They Can’t Refute first appeared on The War on Guns.

Abraham George is a living example of the American dream. Born in Kerala, India… [More] ,,, hes’ now chairman of the Texas GOP. Things that make you go “Hmmm”… Must be part of the 17%, right? [Via JG]

The post The American Dream first appeared on The War on Guns.

 3/26/26 Daily Caller presents an Instagram video (which is why I have not included it here:

Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”

It also calls for support for Hamas and Hamas. Remember who hates women. 

An embattled lawmaker facing five decades in prison will face the congressional spotlight Thursday during an ethics trial that could result in her expulsion from the House of Representatives. [More] So… she’ll be a “prohibited person”…?

The post The Company They Keep first appeared on The War on Guns.