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Hard to tell what the UK Mail makes of it

(Via the Drudge Report) The UK Mail has a story on the Mormons and their teaching of storing food against hard times, and how that…

December 31, 2013February 15, 2021
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Worried yet?

(Via the Drudge Report) So, when Wall Streeters are recommending stocking up on canned food and shotguns, do you suppose it’s time to take this…

December 26, 2013February 13, 2021
Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas

From our house (yeah, don’t I wish this was it) to yours, we at the Freehold would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.  Don’t…

December 25, 2013February 15, 2021
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Mikhail Kalashnikov has died

Russia Today is reporting that the designer of the ubiquitous AK-47, Mikhail Kalashnikov, is dead at age 94. Not a big fan of the AK…

December 23, 2013February 15, 2021
Guns

Nancy Pelosi just ruined a pair of undies

(Via the Email List with No Name) It’s evil, it’s black and it’s magazine fed.  Best of all it looks like an AR.  Now all…

December 14, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

And once again, “the question”

So we have another spree killer (fortunately an incompetent one this time) who decides to go to a gun free zone in a state that…

December 14, 2013February 15, 2021
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Something different this December 7

Normally, on December 7 I will post something about the attack on Pearl Harbor.  I still am, but in a different sort of way.  While…

December 7, 2013February 13, 2021
Guns

Armed self defense–you don’t automatically win

One of the things that those of us who go armed probably don’t like to think about is what would happen if it all goes…

December 5, 2013February 15, 2021
Urk?
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Urk?

I saw this this morning on Drudge and just about ruined a keyboard. Yeah, buddy.  I want me some 18% interest rates, 65o thermostats, even/odd…

November 29, 2013February 13, 2021
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Karma is a bitch

Port Marion, PA po-po closes the doors after paying out damages, including damages for one for serial offending officer.  Locals worry that the lack of…

November 29, 2013February 15, 2021
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Happy Thanksgiving, Internet

One could think from some of my recent posts that I would not be the person to find much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.…

November 28, 2013February 15, 2021
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Security Theater, Act IV: Abandon all hope, ye who enter here

A part-time security researcher works out how to create some nifty MacGyver-ish weapons from items allowed in airport secured areas and, good guy that he…

November 26, 2013February 13, 2021
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Well, now they’ve done it

It seems that the Evil Party has decided to push on with the job started by the Seventeenth Amendment–they have broughtmore Democracy (capital “D”) to…

November 23, 2013February 13, 2021
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This guy wins the Internet today

Don’t know if the story is true or not, but if it isn’t, it should be.  Call it The Iron Law of the Unintended Consequences…

November 21, 2013February 13, 2021
Modern Medicine Prepping

It’s the cold and flu season

Along with more than a few other…interesting…diseases.  HealthMap will keep you updated on the latest hacking, puking or whatevering bug in your area. If, in…

November 21, 2013February 15, 2021
Prepping

It could be useful

And it’s definitely better than putting on a tinfoil hat. Electromagnetic Pulse Protection by Jerry Emanuelson, BSEE I’ve got no way of telling if it’s…

November 16, 2013February 15, 2021
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The hell with that pesky Fourth Amendment

Some of you may have heard of the case where a number of Duke University lacrosse players were accused of rape–falsely as it turns out. …

November 12, 2013February 13, 2021
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent
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On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the guns fell silent

Thank you, gentlemen, and now, ladies and gentlemen, for your courage and your sacrifice.  Despite our current trying times, we do not forget, and we…

November 11, 2013February 13, 2021
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In which Dick Metcalf is

Unless you’ve been hiding from the Intertubz, if you’re any manner of gunnie you’ve heard the story about Dick Metcalf, who decided that his excrement…

November 9, 2013February 15, 2021
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I’d say that genie is well and truly out of the bottle

The world’s first 3D printed gun–in metal.  Gun grabbers all over the world have just felt a great disturbance in their bowels the Force.

November 8, 2013February 15, 2021
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Found this tidbit on Facebook, of all places

I guess, like so many other things, they were for it before they were against it, so now it’s easy to be for it again.…

November 3, 2013February 15, 2021
Self Defense

The long version

Say Uncle points us to the long (as in highly complete) version of what to do after a self defense shooting. Lawyering up is Step…

November 1, 2013February 13, 2021
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Blegging Time

OK, all three of you loyal readers, my aging memory has failed me and my GoogleFoo is weak.  I throw myself on the mercy of…

October 29, 2013February 15, 2021
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In which Bill Whittle learns to think like the Viet Cong

(Via Michael Bane) Those of us who are of a conservative/libertarian bent are facing the same problem as the Viet Cong–the enemy  controls the ultimate…

October 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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If John Mauldin is correct

Then we had better take all our money out of the bank and turn it into food, precious metals or anything else that will hold…

October 27, 2013February 15, 2021
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Tam goes on a rant

These epic events are always worth a read, because she is an excellent writer and a clear thinker.  This one in particular is worth it,…

October 26, 2013February 13, 2021
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“As good as money in the bank!”

(Via Survival Blog) Remember that saying?  That was before years of Federal Reserve-driven inflation turned a dollar into $0.04. (Don’t believe me?  Go here, enter…

October 24, 2013February 15, 2021
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Read and take heed

On gun fora and blogs around the Intertubz, there has been endless discussion on how one should act after a self-defense shooting.  You might want…

October 19, 2013February 13, 2021
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I knew it…I just knew it!

I knew the Republicans were going to cave.  Not because they always cave, but because that is how the game works when a “two party…

October 17, 2013February 15, 2021
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Watching

I’ve been watching with interest the “festivities” in Washington, DC this morning as the Million Vet March on the Memorials kicks into gear.  While this…

October 13, 2013February 13, 2021

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