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 Watching a YouTube video today I was reminded of a Supreme Crout case that basically says that the police can use deception in the furtherance of justice. This sounds odd, until you realize that undercover cops very existence depends on deception.

Once upon a time, I was able to take a class on fingerprinting.  As past of that class, we had to learn to lift prints off of various surfaces and process them on a latent card for later analysis.  As part of the class, I made a latent card of my own fingerprints.  That card found its way into my briefcase.

When interviewing a suspect, I might lay that card on the table and make no reference to it. It was just there, along with case notes and a tablet for notes.  Invariably, the suspect's eyes were drawn to it, and as long as the suspect said nothing, neither did I.  If he asked about it, I'd dismiss it.  They were, after all, my fingerprints.  But he didn't know that.

The suspect would look at the latent card, and I'd notice him looking at it, and I'd ask if had anything he wanted to tell me.  I made several case...

Public Intellectual Eric Weinstein (originator of the “Intellectual Dark Web” moniker) recently appeared on Chris Williamson’s podcast, titled “Compete Systemic Collapse” It’s a three-and-a-half hour podcast, but the first twelve minutes are truly exceptional. I’ve transcribed it:

Eric Weinstein: “I don’t know whether Donald Trump will be allowed to become President. I think that there’s a remarkable story and we’re in a funny game, which is “Are we allowed to say what that story is?” Because to say it, to analyze it, to name it is to bring it, uh, into view. I think we don’t understand why the censorship is behaving the way it is. We don’t understand why it’s in the shadows. We don’t understand why our news is acting in a bizarre fashion. Let’s just set the stage. Given that that was in February, um, there is something that I think Mike Benz has referred to as “The rules-based international order.” It’s an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, clandest...

This is an Inland Taipan aka Fierce Snake, the deadliest snake in the world.

The maker of the video was bitten shortly later. At last report, he was alive on life support.

I’m still pretty covered up right now, but let’s start to look at the ideas I posted last week. The mental side of shooting is incredibly important if you want to develop real skills. The kind of skill you can call on when you need it, not just when everything is going your way. To […]

“Law enforcement cannot do this alone. We need to engage software developers, technology experts and leaders in the 3-D-printing industry to identify solutions in this fight.

Lisa Monaco
U.S. Deputy Attorney General
September 6, 2024
Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices (msn.com)

See also ATF demonstrates 3D-printed ‘machinegun conversion devices’ (msn.com).

How about, “No.”?

Not an acceptable answer? How about, “HELL NO! And screw you and the horse you came in on.”

In a few years machines guns are going to be legal. Even if it were practical to stop the 3-D printing of machine gun parts, which ...

One of the downstream consequence of my Gun Curious book proposal being rejected by 30+ liberal cultural gatekeeping publishers in New York is that it is also being ignored by liberal cultural gatekeeping newspapers, magazines, and other review outlets.

Kent Police are investigating a shooting that occurred during a residential burglary early Tuesday morning, Sept. 3, 2024.

Police said that at around 1:27 a.m., officers were dispatched to a home in the 26600 block of 134th Ave SE (map below) after a 34-year-old homeowner reported shooting at a burglar who had entered his bedroom.

The homeowner, his wife, and their children were inside the residence at the time of the incident.

The homeowner, a 34-year-old Kent man, advised that he had been sleeping in his bedroom with his wife, when an unknown adult male entered his bedroom and turned on the light. The homeowner stated that his children were also in the residence, and he was unable to determine if the suspect was armed, or if he was alone. The suspect fled the room when he noticed the couple, allowing the homeowner to retrieve his gun. He advised responding Officers that he shot at the suspect but was unsure if he had struck him. He stated that he last saw the suspect running out of their backyard. The homeowner has a CPL and was legally in possession of the gun at the time of the shooting.

Officers located items sto...

TULSA, Okla. — FOX23 heard from the brother of a man who Tulsa Police said shot two people in self defense, killing one of them.

Tulsa Police said the two people shot were part of a group that went after the man on Tuesday night in a north Tulsa neighborhood near Apache and M.L.K.

The second person shot is in critical condition.

FOX23 spoke with the brother of the shooter who said this has been an ongoing issue with this group that unfortunately escalated.

”I'm sorry for that family, and whatever is going on with them, but I told them not to mess with him. They kept doing so it just escalated from there,” said Anthony Hall, brother of the homeowner.

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 FOX23 sat down with TPD Capt. Richard Meulenberg on Thursday who explained what went down.

 “About five individuals came on to the homeowner's property and kind of rushed him and pinned him up against his car and started to assault him. With overwhelming odds against him he did pull a pistol out and started firing,” Meulenberg said.

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Having decided that I do like the Arex as my new carry pistol after all, but really don’t like the optic it’s attached to, I did something extremely bourgeois…

I purchased another, better optic. The optic of my dreams, actually, if I started having one of those. And it had the appropriate adapter plate and everything. Unfortunately I was forced to conclude, after half an hour of fiddling followed by another half hour of trying to deny reality, that it did not have the appropriate bolts. Nor could I find any elsewhere.

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…is the big event for the day, and I have to go do that in a few minutes. I’ve just been sitting around most of this week, no special reason, just stocked up on dowanna, hence the sparse blogging. But just to prove I’m not a total couch potato…

…and to placate Generous Reader MM, I did wash Tobie’s bed cover yesterday.

Tobie has become less neurotic about his bed than when he was younger…

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I'm still trying to sort out the mess at Apalachee High School in Georgia, but a few things reveal themselves.

The school had two resource officers assigned, and by all accounts, they did a magnificent job.  Yes, four people were killed, but the shooter wanted many more victims.  We will be studying this shooting for years, just as we study Uvalde, Parkland, and Columbine, and hopefully we will learn lessons from it.  One big take-away is that Apalachee already had officers on the ground. 

In an active shooting, every second counts. Within minutes the resource officers had located, identified and attacked, taking the shooter into custody and beginning the life-saving response.  Tragically, four people died, but it could have been much, much, worse.

I spent 16 years as a resource officer.  I don't know how many lives I saved, because it is impossible to know how many bed ideas were thwarted simply because I was there.  It's impossible to know.  I do know that resource officers take a psychological beating, because hanging out at a school is not exciting, it's not "real police work".  I do know that I once put a step-c...

Finnish Brutality 2024 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again – this was the best match that I have ever had the chance to shoot. Run by Varusteleka, a Finnish military and outdoor good supplier, it was ten stages of shooting over two days and took place a bit north of Helsinki. There were 235 competitors this year, and two thirds of them were in the Armored division, shooting with rifle plates and other gear (mandatory minimum of 26lb total). Of those, a third also opted to join the Breacher subset, which required completing a physical challenge after each stage, just to make things harder.

I was in Armored Breacher myself, using a semiauto clone of an RK 62 M3 Finnish military rifle (full video coming Sunday) and a Creator series Laugo Alien. I ended up taking 30th of 23...

I have enough interest to place another shirt order. Now that I know what it costs to mail them out, here’s the pricing:

Size S-XL: $30 including shipping

Size 2XL-4XL or XLT: $33.50 including shipping

Women’s sizes are available. I’m quite pleased by the quality of the shirts and the printing.

Please let me know as soon as possible. I plan to place the order next Friday, Sept. 13 It takes about 2 weeks for them to get to me, and another week or two to get to you. Payment through PayPal or Zelle.

On September 7 AD 70, the Roman army under General Titus occupied and plundered Jerusalem. Thus began the Great Diaspora. Just as Jesus predicted, all of the walls of the Jerusalem Temple were destroyed and scattered. Only the foundation stones remain. The best- known foundation stones are at the Western Wall, also known as The Wailing Wall. (Pictured.) On September 7, 1876, the Younger Brothers, a group of American outlaws who were often allied with Jesse James, were captured following an unsuccessful bank robbery. Today is the birthday of novelist Taylor Caldwell (born 1900 – August 30, 1985). And September …

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(Continued from Part 4.) More on the 6.5 Creedmoor In its development, many aspects of the 6.5 Creedmoor were combined to produce a very accurate cartridge. The 6.5×55 barrel twist rate is 7.8:1 and the twist rate for most 6.5CM rifles during its introduction was 8:1. This is ideal for the heavier 140 to 160 grain 6.5mm projectiles that give both of these 6.5 cartridges very desirable ballistic properties and fine accuracy. The long bearing surface of heavy-for-caliber bullets impart stability inside the barrel and outside the barrel as yaw rates are lower and the bullet settles down and could …

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“And David assembled all the princes of Israel, the princes of the tribes, and the captains of the companies that ministered to the king by course, and the captains over the thousands, and captains over the hundreds, and the stewards over all the substance and possession of the king, and of his sons, with the officers, and with the mighty men, and with all the valiant men, unto Jerusalem. Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of …

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Her and their actions are contemptible and unforgivable. If these snakes prevail, there truly will be no reason to vote (politically). [More] Liz to whores: Hold my beer.

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We all know (or were) the child who is constantly asking, from the moment the car pulls out of town on the journey, “are we there yet?”

Many of us feel like that when it comes to the 2024 election here in the States for Massa – and are upset when we realize that the actual election day is still almost two months away (sigh – the cup is half empty, right?). And even more when we realize that day is probably just phase ONE (or TWO) of the election melodrama this year.

Melodrama? Why? Phase ONE is the pre-election day voting madness. No we are not talking about military personnel overseas, who must mail in their absentee ballots by Saturday, 21 September, to ensure they are counted. We are talking about States like Minnesota and Virginia which allow “no-reason” voting in person or by mail starting on Friday the 20th of September.

Phase TWO is actual “Election Day” of Tuesday, 5 November. (Only for Libertarians, Green, Prohibition, and Natural Law Party members: Republicans vote on Wednesday and Democrats vote on Thursday of that week: unless they are already dead.) Seriously: that actua...

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The more mature a technology is, the harder it is to release a really jaw-dropping product:

So even if the engineers manage to improve an already near-perfect model, the new camera will not really be all that different.

That is exactly what happened in case of the Nikon D6: Like the D5, it still is a lighting-fast camera, it still has incredible high ISO performance and it still is indestructible. On top of that, the autofocus was improved significantly, but no one really took note of that, as the D5 was already practically infallible.

It is important to understand that major breakthroughs in physical engineering are far less likely to happen and if they do happen, they often go relatively unnoticed.

Always keep the Pareto-principle in mind: An improvement of 20% requires 80% of total development resources and is neither needed nor noticed by 80% of all users.

 Fox News is reporting that the father of the Georgia school shooter has been arrested.

Colin Gray was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of second-degree murder, four counts of involuntary manslaughter and eight counts of cruelty to children, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI). Investigators have yet to provide specific evidence related to the charges but have alleged that he knowingly allowed his son to possess a weapon. 

I'm still not ready to opine, but it seems that there were parenting issues in the house.   It will be interesting to see how this plays out. 

Newer AI models are now being trained, more and more, on content either generated by itself or other AI models.

A researcher that works with Monash University, Jathan Sadowski, recently described a hypothetical self-trained AI as an “an inbred mutant, likely with exaggerated, grotesque features.”

More recently, a study was published in Nature that tested the capabilities of AI trained on itself, and the results were concerning.

By the 5th cycle, the degradation had become stark, and by the 9th, it was almost completely nonsensical.

Benjamin Carter
August 27, 2024
Model Collapse: Why AI Is Probably Getting Worse, And It May Be Fatal (msn.com)

See also AI Appears to Be Slowly Killing Itself (msn.com).

One of the tr...

I am teaching my Sociology of Guns seminar at Wake Forest University for the 10th consecutive year this semester, dating back to 2015. The highlight of the course for the students, if not for me, is our class field trip to the gun range.

On the first day of class, rather than meeting on campus, we take a mandatory trip to the gun range where students are given the option (but not required) to shoot a .22LR semi-automatic pistol, a 9mm semi-auto pistol, and a .223-caliber semi-auto rifle.

I am only partially joking when I say that the class goes downhill from day 1. Look at these smiles.

DAVIESS COUNTY, Ind. (WTHI) - One person is dead after what appeared to be a self-defense shooting in Daviess County.

The Daviess County dispatchers sent deputies to a home on State Road 257, north of the East Fork of the Wabash River bridge.

The caller said a man, later identified as Kevin Wilson, 59, from Washington, pulled into the driveway, armed with a gun, and started arguing with her husband, David Goble.

When Goble said he noticed Wilson was pointing a gun at home, Gobile fired his weapon twice at Wilson. Wilson got back into his vehicle but later died due to his injuries.

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A 64-year-old retired U.S. Army colonel was shot three times during the purchase of a dump trailer brokered on Facebook Marketplace.

The shooting happened late Sunday afternoon in Cullman County, and the 21-year-old suspect entered the country illegally roughly two years ago, said Cullman County Sheriff Matt Gentry.

“I’m pissed off today,’’ Gentry said during a Wednesday press conference. “I’m pissed off that we’re even having to have this conversation.”

The suspect was identified as Abel Medardo Sacrab-Chen of Guatemala. Sacrab-Chen was shot by the victim during the incident.

Sacrab-Chen is charged with first-degree robbery and certain persons forbidden to possess a firearm. More charges are possible.

SARCOXIE, Mo. — The Jasper County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a Sunday afternoon shooting in Sarcoxie.

Around 1:30 yesterday afternoon, Sarcoxie Police and Jasper County Deputies responded to a report about a person with a gunshot wound at a residence on 12th Street.

That’s where they found Bryan Jones, 39, of Sarcoxie suffering from a gunshot wound. Police say he was shot once in the stomach with a handgun. Jones was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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A South Carolina man is issued hefty bond after a domestic situation that led to him getting shot.  According to Chief Investigator with the Hart County Sheriff’s Office, Chris Carroll, on Sunday night around 11:30, deputies responded to a call on Royston Highway 29 near Frank Crook Road.  Upon arrival, officers learned that the man had been shot and a female had been stabbed.  Witnesses stated that the man was attacking the woman, who is his mother of his girlfriend, with a knife cutting her several times.  Another man came to the house and found the suspect outside choking the lady while she screamed for help.  The second man pulled out a gun and shot the first man.  The man who was shot ran into the house where he was found by deputies holding a knife in a back room. 

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Finnish Brutality 2024 took the standard for practical shooting matches and raised it again – this was the best match that I have ever had the chance to shoot. Run by Varusteleka, a Finnish military and outdoor good supplier, it was ten stages of shooting over two days and took place a bit north of Helsinki. There were 235 competitors this year, and two thirds of them were in the Armored division, shooting with rifle plates and other gear (mandatory minimum of 26lb total). Of those, a third also opted to join the Breacher subset, which required completing a physical challenge after each stage, just to make things harder.

I was in Armored Breacher myself, using a semiauto clone of an RK 62 M3 Finnish military rifle (full video coming Sunday) and a Creator series Laugo Alien. I ended up taking 30th of 235 shoote...

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 Some favorite scenes from old X-Files episodes.  Please note there will be none from the episode 'Home'.  I had just moved to rural PA when that episode dropped and it squicked the hell out of me.  Even the thought of it still gives me the icks.

My favorite episode was Jose Chung's from Outer Space with Charles Nelson Reilly.  Humbug came in a close second.  Clyde Buckman's Final Repose is up there too.

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On September 6th, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie rolled off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons. The tank often got stuck in trenches. It crawled over most rough terrain at only two miles per hour. Improvements were made to the early prototypes and tanks eventually transformed military battlefields. — September 6th, 1757 was the birthday of Marquis de Lafayette (often known simply as Lafayette), a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. (Sept. 6, 1757 – May 20, 1834) came to America …

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(Continued from Part 3.) 7×57 Mauser Here is one good 7×57 Mauser load: Federal Power-Shok Jacketed Soft Point 175 Grain 7mm Mauser.  It has a muzzle velocity of 2,390 fps. 6.5×55 Swedish Mauser My preferred roundnose 6.5×55 Swedish Mauser load uses a Hornady 160 grain RN at 2,400 fps. Round nosed bullets are falling into disuse. I was only able to find one manufacturer offering loaded 6.5×55 round nosed soft point ammunition and it was at an excessively high price. Reloaders have either Hornady or Sierra RN bullets to choose from. I have plenty in stock. Brace for sticker shock …

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Here are the latest news items and commentary on current economics news, market trends, stocks, investing opportunities, and the precious metals markets. In this column, JWR also covers hedges, derivatives, and various obscura. This column emphasizes JWR’s “tangibles heavy” investing strategy and contrarian perspective. Today, another look at pennies and nickels. (See the Base Metals section ad the Commoditoes section.) Precious Metals: When I last checked (Mid-day on Thursday, September 6th): Gold $2,519.20  (Up $9.90) Silver $29.10  (Up $0.65) It seems that the short sellers are losing this fight. The Asian long traders are dominating the global markets. The shorts …

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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.” – George Orwell, 1984

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If you’re tired of waking up while tent camping with a sore back, keep reading. We found a bunch of tips from our friends at Tent n Trees to help make camping cots comfortable.

Whoever said, “Sleeping under the stars sounds dreamy,” clearly forgot to mention the rocks, creepy crawlies, and the perpetual fear of becoming a burrito for the local bear. If you’re new to camping, you might have wondered how such an idyllic adventure could feel like a knight’s sleep on a medieval torture rack.

John Lott's research suggests it's a lot more often than either government or the media want you to think.

"The FBI dataset is missing so many defensive gun uses that it's hard to believe it isn't intentional and the fact that they never correct mistakes that are brought to their attention is even more damning. All the while, the news media unquestioningly reports the FBI's numbers, actively distorting the truth regarding the pivotal rule responsible gun owners have played in preventing crime and limiting casualties during mass public shootings."

Due to his age, the murderer who took the lives of two 14-year-old students and two adults at Apalachee High School, and wounded nine others, in Winder, GA on Sept. 4th, 2024, is not likely to get life in prison without parole. So he could theoretically be turned loose when he is in his 40's or 50's. And that would be way too soon.

Navy finds hidden Starlink dish on ship:

Still, the ambassador had nothing on senior enlisted crew members of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, who didn't like the Navy's restriction of onboard Internet access. In 2023, they decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to secretly bolt a Starlink terminal to the "O-5 level weatherdeck" of a US warship.

They called the resulting Wi-Fi network "STINKY"—and when officers on the ship heard rumors and began asking questions, the leader of the scheme brazenly lied about it. Then, when exposed, she went so far as to make up fake Starlink usage reports suggesting that the system had only been accessed while in port, where cybersecurity and espionage concerns were lower.

Well, it is a pain in the rear end to get hooked up to SIPRnet ... 

Of course, there's been a general helping of Courts Martials to everyone involved.

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After changing the bedding first thing this morning I had a bunch of laundry to wash. Brought it up to the washing machine at Ian’s Cave and this was going to take a while, so there was no point heading straight back to the cave after our regular morning walkie. So I said, “Let’s go for a ride in the Jeep.”

Tobie approved. I don’t often do joyrides, and since chicken chore...

People save pennies, but don't spend them. They pile up in coffee cans and pickle jars around the country and once in a blue moon someone gets arsed to roll all theirs and take them to the bank, or go dump the jar in a CoinStar machine.

How do you stop an astronaut's baby from crying? 

You rocket.

Mountain of Fire came out this week. This was written by my friend and MH: Fever co-author Jason Cordova.

Mountain of Fire

This is set in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising zombie apocalypse universe. Jason is an awesome writer who tells great stories, so check it out.

I thought I was going to get more work done today, but reality had other plans. We spent last night in a hotel and will be doing the same tonight because the water’s been turned off. I’m in the midst of having all the plumbing in my house replaced, an expensive three-day job they started … Continue reading "Pipe Dreams"

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[More] “Automatic weapon”… Way to be perpetual tools, “real reporters.”

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I’m on MoveOn.org’s email list, and this solicitation just came in: Vice President Kamala Harris has taken the lead in national polls. But pollsters have a big warning. Presidential elections are not won at the national level; they’re won in a small number of battleground states that decide the Electoral College. And one survey showed … Continue reading "An Interesting Admission"

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Honolulu: Man Stops and Kills Mass Shooter, and Is Promptly Arrested…for Murder [More] Chief “Joe” sounds like he belongs under banana leaves at a luau. [Via Roger J]

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It Was a Setup… REVEALED: Most Agents Protecting Trump During Attempted Assassination Were Homeland Security Personnel Who Received Only a ‘2-Hour Online Webinar’ Beforehand [More] Some hadn’t even passed the basic holstering course… [Via bondmen]

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Harris leading Trump by 12 points among Latino voters in bilingual households: Poll [More] Good thing this has nothing to do with that “single issue.” And I have that on good authority. Happy talk proponents take note. [Via bondmen]

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Gunman shoots up pro-Trump pastor Greg Locke’s house with children inside in terrifying attack [More] So, a Harris citizen disarmament supporter…? And take that “automatic weapon” reference with a grain of salt until it’s proven. Lotta that going around… [Via bondmen]

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Thomas Crooks – The American Antifa – Part One [More] Turns out there’s more to this “registered Republican” than meets the eye. Not that you’ll learn about it from the DSM… [Via bondmen]

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Liz Cheney says she’s voting for Harris [More] This Liz Cheney? And the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree: Son of John McCain joins conservatives endorsing Harris over Trump: See the list [More] Anybody see any “conservatives” in that gaggle of Quislings? Republicans, they thirst for death. [Via Steve T]

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…a militant moonbat named Hashim Coates claims that a mom at a school board meeting gripped his shoulder and called him a “dumb n*”… Surveillance video that the school tried to suppress confirms Coates has been lying through his teeth. [More] Even if she had, I can see how that could be a punchable provocation … Continue reading "They Wouldn’t Have to Make Hate Crimes Up If We Weren’t So Racist"

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Gun Owners of America Inc. demands removal of museum’s firearm-free zone [More] What does the uiniversity think they are? A rural fair? [Via Jess]

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[More] I guess Newmax decided its readership wasn’t ready to see its initial sentiments, because the current version at that url, which looks like a complete rewrite, doesn’t include this. Truth be known, I’ve never regarded it as a reliable “conservative” media alternative, ever since Chris Ruddy gushed about his admiration for Bill Clinton. [Via … Continue reading "On Reconsideration…"

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This is a fun read:

Gun clubs are becoming the new bingo halls for seniors. They’re places to meet friends, learn new skills, and swap stories. Who knew that gun oil could be the new smell of friendship? These clubs often organize social events beyond shooting, creating tight-knit communities for older adults.

It is a little over the top, but that appeals to my inclination to rub the noses of anti-gun people in a different view of things.

We are going to make the case to the American public that he [Biden] is wrong, anti-gun liberals are wrong, and that the right to self-defense is fundamental to every law-abiding American.

Cris Cox
Senior Advisor to The Secure Our Freedom Alliance
September 3, 2024
New gun group launches to fill NRA vacuum (msn.com)

Cris Cox, if you don’t remember, is the NRA’s former political director and chief lobbyist.

Here are a couple of The Secure Our Freedom Alliance’s ads:

Verbal de-escalation is a mode of communication used on/with people who are showing signs of hostility. In simple terms, de-escalation is a practiced “language” to reduce the intensity of the event in a nonviolent manner and to re-direct a potentially antagonistic situation. 

I think it is safe to say that 100% of WON’s readers have been in some sort of argument with a loved one. I can also safely assume that many of you wished it would have never happened or that you thought the outcome could have been better … if only, perhaps, you had handled it with a little more respect and tact. I know I have. We all battle our responses to conflict due to power struggles, egos/pride, feelings of disrespect, and stressful factors that impact our deci...

It was 52 years ago that the world watched in horror as the “peaceful falestinians” who just wanted to raise the visibility of their cause kidnapped 11 Israeli athletes as they were in Munich to compete against the best athletes from all over the world. The whole security set up for the Olympic village was probably put together by Kimberly Cheadle and Ron Rowe’s DEI predecessors in Germany. Inadequate and unarmed guards barely competent to arrest a drunk Canadian for spitting chewing gum onto a sidewalk. But upon further reflection, none of the guards at the Olympic village broke into anyone’s places of business without permission, covered their security cameras and allowed people to use their restrooms. Nor did any of the agents leave while on duty to breast feed. So perhaps the Olympic guards were of better quality than the American Secret Service. But the American Secret service allowed multiple people to be shot and killed, including a former President they were sent there to guard. The guards at the Olympic village allowed 11 athletes to be brutally tortured and killed, all while refusing the help of those athlete’s home country. A home country that was more than qualified ...

On September 5th, 1781, during the  American War of Independence, the French fleet of 24 ships under Comte de Grasse defeated British forces under Admiral Thomas Graves and Samuel Hood at the Battle of the Chesapeake (aka Battle of the Virginia Capes), thus trappping General Lord Charles Cornwallis. — Today is the birthday of the late comedian Bob Newhart. He was born on September 5th, 1929.  He died on July 18, 2024, at age 94. — On September 5, 1698, Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. — SurvivalBlog Writing Contest Today we present another entry for …

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(Continued from Part 2.) Two .30 Caliber Big Game Hunting Loads My bolt action rifles are in two separate groups, precision rifles, and hunting rifles. All of my 6.5mm rifles are precision rifles capable of extreme long-range shooting. They will be handled with care and not bumped around while hunting. They are too valuable because of what they can do. Of course, the ammunition they use can also be used on deer out to 300 yards, and elk in a pinch with well-placed shots inside of 200 yards, yet they are not suitable for bear and elk when the angle …

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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, we look at The FBI’s updated report on “Militia Violent Extremists”. FBI Considers Gun Owners Militia Violent Extremists First up, over at Ammoland: FBI Document Leak: Gun Owners …

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“Wish not so much to live long as to live well.” – ​Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1738

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