This article was originally published by Michael Matulef at The Mises Institute. “The State is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”—Frédéric Bastiat Bastiat’s insight grows more prophetic by the day. Watch what happens in any crisis. The reaction is predictable: people fracture into warring tribes, each certain it’s fighting for survival. Neighbors become informants, families split over ideology, and communities turn against themselves. While citizens exhaust one another in moral crusades, something else advances quietly—the concentration of power. Bureaucracies expand, authority tightens, and the machinery of control grows ever more intricate.…
For the past several years, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has been demanding the Democrat-controlled legislature deliver an “assault weapon” ban to her desk, and each and every session her fellow Democrats have declined to do so. In Grisham’s last year in office, though, Democrats are poised to deliver exactly what she wants; a bill that would take almost every semi-automatic long gun off the market in the Land of Enchantment. SB17, the omnibus gun ban, passed the Senate 21-17. It now moves over to the house side where we have to stop the…
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AAAA maple glam with real teeth. In 6.5 Creedmoor, the X-Bolt 2 Medallion Maple stacked tight groups, ran smooth, and looked like a custom without the custom bill. This beauty turns into a beast with ammo it likes, and you do not have to be a Fudd to appreciate it. Stunning Maple Looks That Hunt When I requested a Browning X-Bolt 2 Medallion Maple rifle for testing, I expected an ordinary X-Bolt 2 with a wooden stock somewhat lighter colored than Browning’s walnut-stocked rifles. I was wrong. When I unboxed the gun, I was stunned. The richly figured maple stock…
This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: It Is Starting! Layoffs Highest Since 2009, Job Openings Plummet, and Bitcoin And Other Major Cryptocurrencies Are Crashing Hard Look out below, because the dam is beginning to break. Many of us were projecting that our economic problems would accelerate during the early portion of 2026, and that is precisely what has taken place. Employers are conducting brutal layoffs all over the nation, the number of job openings continues to decline, stores and restaurants are closing everywhere we look, and now cryptocurrencies are crashing hard. We…
I understand why some people don’t want gun rights for felons. The popular image of a felon is someone who was arrested for armed robbery, murder, or something equally violent. Still others figure that many felons are guilty of far more than they were convicted of, so you’re just covering your bases by treating them all the same. But the issue is that our system isn’t meant to work like that. Yeah, a lot of non-violent felons may well have been violent as hell without being caught, but others weren’t, and we don’t have a…
Let’s be honest: most CCW sling packs look exactly like what they are. You might as well wear a sign that says “please rob me first.” Elite Survival Systems thinks they’ve cracked the code with their new Sentinel Cross-Body CCW Pack, and at $69.95, it won’t require a second mortgage to find out if they’re right. The Sentinel is Elite’s answer to the off-body carry dilemma: how do you keep a gun accessible without advertising it to every soccer mom and mall ninja in a three-block radius? Their solution is a cross-body sling that actually looks like something a normal…
(Featured image courtesy of www.guidefitter.com) Michigan’s House just passed legislation that would allow bow hunters to carry a pistol for self-defense without needing a CPL. Yes, you read that correctly. In 2025, Michigan still required a concealed carry license for bow hunters to have a sidearm in the woods — even if they carried it openly. Because apparently, the state legislature believed Bambi was the only thing lurking in Michigan’s forests. House Bill 4855, introduced by Rep. Dave Prestin (R-108th) and backed by fellow Upper Peninsula representatives Karl Bohnak (R-109th) and Greg Markkanen (R-110th), passed Thursday with bipartisan support. The…
The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments in U.S. v. Hemani in less than a month, and by July the Court will have given judges across the country instructions on how to apply Section 922(g)(3) to individuals charged or convicted of possessing firearms as “unlawful” drug users. In the meantime, though, lower courts continue to draw their own conclusions about the constitutionality of the statute. While no appellate court has found 922(g)(3) unconstitutional in all its aspects, several have concluded that the law violates the Second Amendment rights of at least some defendants. That…
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We stepped inside Beretta’s living headquarters in Gardone Val Trompia to see 3,000 historic firearms, cutting-edge Industry 4.0 lines, and a subterranean range that dives two hundred meters into the mountain. Beretta’s Living History In Gardone Val Trompia By any reasonable metric, Fabbrica d’Armi Pietro Beretta occupies rare ground in the firearms world. Founded in 1526, Beretta is the oldest continuously operating gunmaker on earth, and after touring the company’s Italian headquarters and manufacturing facilities in Gardone Val Trompia, it is clear that history here is not something preserved behind glass alone. It is something still very much alive on…
