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Year: 2016

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Why I don’t look down on Hi-Point owners

There are two constant arguments in gunnie circles that just leave me cold–the incessant caliber wars and the elitist turd burglars who just love to…

December 30, 2016February 15, 2021
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That pesky Fifth Amendement

It isn’t’ only the Second Amendment that gets in the government’s way–the Fifth is an essential bar when it comes to railroading a citizen in…

December 30, 2016February 15, 2021
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Hide Fido

Because it’s now legal for the cops to shoot your dogs when serving a warrant in any state covered by the Sixth US Circuit Court…

December 28, 2016February 15, 2021
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Here I was, felling terribly guilty…

It’s been nearly two weeks and I’ve not written a thing here.  Yeah, holidays, the inevitable holiday family illness, so on and so forth.  Santa…

December 28, 2016February 15, 2021
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A fake solution to fake news

In the wake of Donald Trump’s thumping of Hillary Clinton and the need to find someone or something to pin it on (because it couldn’t…

December 17, 2016February 15, 2021
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Something to consider

For some, this is a time of year when stress seems overwhelming.  For others, the recent election has upset their calm. Still others look at…

December 17, 2016February 15, 2021
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We must note the passing

(Via Frugal Squirrels) The F-4 Phantom will be making its final flight on December 21, 2016 after 58 years of defending our country.  With some…

December 14, 2016February 15, 2021
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Today I make an exception

As a rule, I make a single post on December 7.  I’m making an exception today.

December 7, 2016February 15, 2021
Once again we remember Pearl Harbor
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Once again we remember Pearl Harbor

The number of Pearl Harbor survivors is dwindling fast.  But their sacrifices, and the sacrifice of those who did not survive the attack, are and…

December 7, 2016February 15, 2021
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Attention to orders

Fifteen essential General James Mattis quotations.

December 4, 2016February 15, 2021
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Ladies and Gentlemen

(As found on Gab) Meet our new Secretary of War.

December 2, 2016February 15, 2021
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Watch this video

Watch the video at the top of this story.  WATCH IT. This man and his family are on the run for their lives.  Obviously they…

November 30, 2016February 15, 2021
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Bro, do you even Gab?

There’s a new social media platform out there that is unlike anything so far.  Not so much technologically, although that is also true to some…

November 29, 2016February 15, 2021
Happy Thanksgiving
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Happy Thanksgiving

We here at The Freehold wish you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.  We hope that when you count your blessings that they outnumber your setbacks…

November 24, 2016February 15, 2021
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The “Get Home Bag”

One of the frequent topics in prepping is the “bug out bag”.  The bug out bag was originally conceived as the bag you had at…

November 21, 2016February 15, 2021
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Musing on my father

I’m not sure you ever get over the deaths of your parents.  I’m not even sure you ever get fully past them.  At odd times,…

November 19, 2016February 15, 2021
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The unintended consequences of gun laws, part n

We gunnies know that anti-gun laws have all sorts of unintended consequences.  Here’s a new one–laws that restrict temporary gun transfers may increase suicide rates.…

November 16, 2016February 15, 2021
Product Review:  Datrex Emergency Rations
Prepping Product Reviews

Product Review: Datrex Emergency Rations

Time to get off the election thing and back to the real world.  Just because we have Hillary bottled up somewhere doesn’t mean the rainbow…

November 14, 2016February 15, 2021
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Why, yes. Yes I am.

Yes, I’m enjoying Donald Trump’s victory.  I deliberately decided to (mostly) stay away from politics this cycle, but I’ve been a Trump supporter for a…

November 12, 2016February 15, 2021
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Heh. Maybe even double Heh.

(Via Michael Bane on Facebook) While the Extra Loopy Liberal side of the street is having a screeching meltdown because the adults took away the…

November 10, 2016February 15, 2021
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So…How was everyone’s day?

I promised myself that on Election Day, I wouldn’t watch the news until late evening.  There was no possible way they had any useful facts…

November 10, 2016February 15, 2021
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Go vote

(This post should have magically posted itself at midnight but didn’t.  Another Blogger herp.) Today is Election day (in the United States).  If you’re an…

November 8, 2016February 15, 2021
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Economic mobility and why it’s desperately important

(Yes, I said almost two weeks ago “in a day or two”.  I plead excellent fall weather.  There’s nothing like making hay while the sun…

October 31, 2016February 15, 2021
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Here’s a little something to keep you up nights

America descending into a Marxist state.  Yeah, that’s like an all meat pizza at 12:30 AM, minus the heartburn.  You still going to stay up,…

October 20, 2016February 15, 2021
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My Google-fu is weak today

I’m looking for a copy of the original Saturday Night Live opening theme by the Saturday Night Live Band, the one from the 70s or…

October 18, 2016February 15, 2021
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I am happy to announce

That the entire blogroll and all the pieces thereof has been restored, reorganized, dead wood pruned and all that.  Thanks for the patience.

October 17, 2016February 15, 2021
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Still at it

I’ve been working on things around the house lately, a part of the “new normal” for my no-so-old retired self.  Some of it has been…

October 12, 2016February 15, 2021
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Guns, the Second Amendment and what you should hear from Clinton and Trump

What John Lott has to say on the subject.

October 10, 2016February 15, 2021
Guns

What to do as a concealed carrier if you’re stopped by the police

Given yesterday’s events in Palm Springs, CA, I can’t help but expect that most police officers will be a little more on edge.  You can’t…

October 9, 2016February 15, 2021
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And the rebuilding fun goes on. And on. And on.

Still trying to get all the links back in.  If Blogger would cooperate, they would have been finished by now, but the last two attempts…

October 8, 2016February 15, 2021

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