In this episode I walk around my buddy Andy’s epic triple locked, supercharged and built out 97 FZJ80. We also take her for a spin … Watch full video on YouTube
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Curtez Riggs had an idea, a pitch deck and a request for $60,000. The answer wasn’t exactly encouraging. “They pretty much laughed me out of the room,” Riggs recalled. Nearly a decade later, the idea behind that unsuccessful pitch has become the Military Influencer Conference, or MIC. Its 10th gathering is expected to draw roughly 4,000 people, including veterans, military spouses, entrepreneurs, creators and companies trying to reach the military community. The road between those two points wasn’t a straight one. Riggs, a retired Army first sergeant, launched the first MIC with two borrowed ballrooms in 2017. The conference grew,…
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Ah, the Firearms Policy Coalition, one of the most persistent pro-gun organizations out there, one that actively celebrates its lawsuit printer as if it were a physical person and part of the team. It’s glorious. They also have excellent taste in gun rights writers, so you know they’re awesome.Anywho, it seems they have an issue in Texas.In particular, they have an issue with a handful of Texas gun control laws. That’s right, there are gun control laws in Texas, because while it’s pro-gun, it’s not as pro-gun as its reputation might suggest. Kind of like Florida.Anyway,…
We didn’t cover it all that much, in part because a fair bit was going on, but a shooting at a Minneapolis apartment building sent people scrambling last week as police descended upon it to deal with the active shooter threat. I wrote the original report and mostly moved on. The killer apparently decided he didn’t like the idea of being evicted, despite a history beyond not living up to his responsibilities under the lease agreement. Because you should never have to pay your rent, apparently.While we didn’t cover it, it was news, and the…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Ukraine is ready to halt its strikes on Russian territory if allies can secure a genuine Russian commitment not to hit Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. His comments came after U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a social media post that Russia and Ukraine had agreed “not to hit” each other’s energy infrastructure, though Trump did not offer further details on the purported agreement. Russia did not immediately comment on Trump’s claim. Previous efforts to broker even a partial ceasefire have repeatedly fallen apart within hours, with both sides accusing each other…
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a number of strong decisions in support of the Second Amendment in recent years, including the Hemani decision upheld by the Supreme Court that ruled the federal ban on gun possession for “unlawful drug users was unconstitutional as applied to a Texas man who regularly used marijuana. Now the appellate court may be ready to whittle away at Section 922(g)(1)’s prohibition on gun possession for those convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year in prison. The court has granted a request for en banc review…
Minnesota isn’t as anti-gun as you might expect, but it’s not for lack of trying. Despite the best efforts of Democrats in the state, they haven’t been able to go as far as they’d like, and that bothers them. It bothers them a whole lot. So, they decided to shore up their arsenal of weapons for the next session, and that includes what one might call a poll.I wouldn’t, but they might.You see, the Minnesota House of Representatives Public Information Services Office report that about three-quarters of respondents favor an assault weapon ban. But guess…
The Pentagon has invested $450 million into a company that develops tungsten, as part of a move anticipated to create 1,200 jobs. Tungsten is a dense, ultra-hard metal with the highest melting point of any element. It is used in critical components for missiles, munitions, aerospace, propulsion, naval, undersea, electronics, and industrial manufacturing applications. In a statement on Monday, the Department of Defense (DOD) said it would invest the money into U.S. company The Elmet Group to “strengthen domestic tungsten capacity, bolster U.S. industrial resilience and military readiness, and help secure an essential material for the defense industrial base.” “This…
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A Maryland man whose second-grade child brought a gun to school and shot himself in the finger was sentenced last week to six months of unsupervised probation, and gun control activists and politicians are highlighting the soft sentence to demand more restrictive gun storage laws. Those arguments ignore a couple of pertinent details which aren’t exactly helpful to their cause. For starters, Eashan Stefanski pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless endangerment, which comes with the potential for a five-year prison sentence. If the anti-gunners have a problem with the sentence that Stefanski actually received,…
For military families, travel isn’t always about getting away. Sometimes it’s driving across three states for a graduation. Sometimes it’s catching a last-minute flight home for the holidays. Sometimes it’s another PCS, another temporary hotel, another airport, another goodbye. And sometimes it’s simply trying to make the journey a little less stressful, if that’s even possible. I still think about the time I was flying home from Germany after the airport had been closed due to the weather. I had two kids under 3, eight bags, two car seats – and no husband because he’d slipped on the ice the…
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The Army is set to roll out a new fitness performance documentation mobile app this fall to streamline how Army Fitness Test results are recorded and entered into soldier’s official training records. The service said in a Sept. 9 statement that the new app, AFT Go, will allow soldiers to see their fitness test scores before they leave the physical training feed. The application aims to eliminate manual paperwork and data entry, per the service. It will allow individuals to view PT test schedules and results, see test participants, and check times when soldiers are scheduled to take or grade…
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A Memphis man who took part in a home invasion is now facing multiple charges after his accomplice was shot and killed by someone in the apartment they invaded.According to police in Memphis, Tennessee, Devonta Johnson and Zarian Sanders went to an apartment belonging to the mother of Johnson’s child. When she refused to answer the door, the pair kicked it in, and then allegedly moved a couch in front of the door to prevent anyone from leaving. Police say Johnson and Sanders then went into a bedroom and began beating a man they found…
Gulf War veterans keep running into warnings about a Dec. 31, 2026, deadline to qualify for disability benefits even though the language behind a particular regulation is expired. The warnings appear in online benefits guides, conversations with advocates, and across websites that help veterans navigate the claims’ system. However, the deadline they are describing no longer exists in federal law as Congress eliminated it more than three years ago through the PACT Act. Presumptive conditions, which let Gulf War veterans receive compensation for certain chronic conditions without proving that military service caused them, have caused some uncertainties. For veterans trying…
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