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Nice to see that some things really don’t change

I can remember the first Clive Cussler book I ever read, “Raise the Titanic”.  It had this memorable line in it in which a heroine…

February 7, 2014February 13, 2021
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Out of sight

(Via Clayton Cramer) Is not necessarily out of mind, at least not when it comes to concealing a gun in a piece of furniture.  And…

February 2, 2014February 13, 2021
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You ought to learn something new every day

(Via Survival Blog) Today’s fun bit o’ knowledge:  The Dozier Drill.

January 31, 2014February 13, 2021
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Another noted Communist passing

And a dried up old one at that.  Say hello to the rest of them in hell.

January 28, 2014February 15, 2021
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Once more with feeling

At the risk of being called a cop basher, let’s take a look at something that happened recently in the local area. Local sheriff deputies…

January 24, 2014February 13, 2021
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Um-m-m…I don’t think so

It seems that a company “with roots in the Special Forces community” has decided that pistol sights aren’t hard enough to use and has come…

January 23, 2014February 13, 2021
Guns

Add a laser to your EOtech sight

(Found on Facebook) If you have a 512 or a 522 EOtech, by summer you’re going to be able to add a laser to it…

January 22, 2014February 15, 2021
Guns

Uncle says Sebastian says

(Via Say Uncle) That Joshua says there may be some gun registry-ing in our future.  It seems that language that has been routinely included in…

January 21, 2014February 13, 2021
Guns

Life in the firearms industry

(Via Frugal Squirrels) A sordid tale of a small successful company that is bought by a big successful company.  Personal experience tells me this goes…

January 20, 2014February 15, 2021
Guns

#winning

After ruling Chicago’s ban on firearm sales a breach of constitutional rights earlier this month, a federal judge is giving the city 180 days to…

January 19, 2014February 15, 2021
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It’s offical

(Via the Drudge Report) Over the years, I can’t tell you how many times on this or that Intertubz fora, while discussing some government excess, that I…

January 17, 2014February 15, 2021
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Methinks they doth project too much

(Via SurvivalBlog) L. Neil Smith pole axes leftists, progressives, communists, socialists and their ilk.  Not as if they don’t deserve it.

January 12, 2014February 15, 2021
Guns

Where’s the fun in that?

For a piddly ten grand, you to can be Mr. Bad Ass Sniper Guy–at least out to 500 yards. This technology turns even a neophyte…

January 10, 2014February 13, 2021
Guns

In other news, water is wet

It isn’t like we haven’t been saying this for years, but perhaps this time someone will listen: Gun Control Laws Do Not Reduce Violent Crime…

January 7, 2014February 15, 2021
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Fair warning–savers will not be spared

Time for more economic bad news. So you are one of those hopelessly boring folks who “did it right”.  You didn’t buy more house than…

January 5, 2014February 15, 2021
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And in a small yet significant victory for civil rights and common sense

Grass Roots North Carolina is announcing that Cherokee County, NC has revoked a law that kept citizens and county employees from exercising their right to…

January 4, 2014February 15, 2021
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Aaaaand…they’re gone.

As good as their word, Magpul Industries is bailing out of Colorado for Texas and Wyoming.  Colorado is going to take an $85 million dollar…

January 3, 2014February 15, 2021
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Happy New Year

Here is hoping that it is one of peace, growth and prosperity.

January 1, 2014February 15, 2021
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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
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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
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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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