In less than 24 hours, search-and-rescue teams had to fly to the same location in Colorado’s remote Elk Mountains four times to rescue the same group of backcountry skiers in two separate incidents. Temperatures across the state plummeted over the weekend. They dropped into the single digits and even negative degrees as a winter storm passed over the region. The frigid temperatures posed serious health risks. The entire party of seven skiers showed signs of frostbite, with four requiring medical evacuation and treatment at local hospitals. One was reportedly in critical condition. The First Call: Sunday, Jan. 25. — 9:40…
Just a day after White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt asserted that there’s no bigger supporter of the Second Amendment than President Donald Trump, the president himself echoed previous statements from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and FBI Director Kash Patel suggesting that it was illegal to carry a firearm at a protest, or at the very least, evidence of nefarious intent. So much for the Trump Administration walking back their media campaign against gun carry… https://t.co/LDaWzqol6O— Stephen Gutowski (@StephenGutowski) January 27, 2026The president made his comments as he was walking towards Marine One, and in the…
The Springfield Armory 1911 10‑8 Performance Master Class occupies the rarely addressed space between high‑end production pistols and full custom 1911 builds. A Hybrid Custom‑Production Philosophy Springfield Armory built the 10‑8 Performance Master Class as a collaborative project with Hilton Yam of 10‑8 Performance, a retired FBI Special Agent and longtime SWAT firearms instructor. Rather than mass‑producing another upgraded 1911, Springfield approached this model as a hybrid build. Each pistol begins with hand‑selected forged carbon‑steel frames and slides, which remain matched throughout the fitting process. Springfield precisely fits and blends major components before final assembly. The result lands above traditional…
In the 30 years that I’ve been visiting Las Vegas, this was the first time that I’d intentionally popped a wheelie on an e-bike — or really any bike, for that matter. But it was the end of a long day trawling around CES and I was up for some fun. Just after dusk, right in front of the Venetian, I met up with the folks from Future Motion, purveyors of both the OneWheel and a new e-bike, the Antic. The brand gave me a helmet and some initial instructions, and then let me hop on the reimagined, ’70s-inspired electric…
It’s perfectly legal to travel, even by airplane, with a firearm. I tend to avoid it because it’s such a pain in the posterior, but I don’t fly a lot anyway. Professional athletes, however, do fly a good bit, especially during the season. Half of their games are away, and it’s not like high school football, where your opponent is just a couple of hours away by bus. The Carolina Panthers aren’t taking a bus to play the LA Rams, after all.So, they fly, and for any of them looking to be armed while doing…
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers who had survived years of fierce combat against German forces entered a sprawling complex of barracks and barbed wire in southern Poland known as Auschwitz. What they found there would define how the world remembers the Holocaust.Today marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the 81st anniversary of that liberation. Commemorations are taking place at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Poland, at the United Nations headquarters in New York and at memorial sites around the world. The 2026 theme is “Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights.”The Nazi regime murdered six million Jews during the Holocaust, representing one-third…
Palmetto State Armory hit the ground running this year at SHOT Show, unveiling a number of new firearms that have already justified the time, effort, and fare for my annual visit to Sin City. With the company developing products at this pace, PSA either runs three 8-hour shifts around the clock, or they’ve simply outsourced production to the North Pole. How they do it, however, will take a back seat to the actual results, so without further ado… First up is the Sabre Key, an underbarrel-mounted short-barreled shotgun (SBS) that no longer requires a $200 bribe for access to the…
Portable wind turbines are easy to build — and easy to break. YouTube offers an abundance of tutorials for building your own DIY wind turbine. A quick Amazon search of “portable wind turbine” will bring up dozens of options, from a 5W miniature turbine for $12 to large-scale models made for home energy that cost thousands of dollars. For campers seeking mobile power solutions, wind turbines have long been seen as a finicky, unreliable option, especially compared to solar panels. But a Canadian brand claims it has built a turbine that’s sufficiently small, light, and durable to give wind power another…
Since 2004 the state of Florida has made it illegal for any government official or agency to “knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms.” Despite that, the city of Jacksonville kept a registry of everyone who entered City Hall while exercising their right to bear arms from July 2023 until April 2025. The city stopped entering the names of gun owners into its registry after complaints were made, and State Attorney State…
Alex Vindman, who became a key player along with his twin brother in President Donald Trump’s first impeachment, announced on Tuesday that he is running for the U.S. Senate as a Democrat in Florida.Vindman, an Army veteran, was serving on the National Security Council in 2019 when the Republican president pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden, then a Democratic candidate. He and his brother, Eugene, a lawyer on the National Security Council, reported their concerns and sparked investigations.Eugene Vindman now serves as a congressman from Virginia. If Alex Vindman clinches the Democratic nomination, he’ll challenge Republican Sen.…
This article was originally published by Joseph Solis-Mullen at The Mises Institute under the title: On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State Classical liberals, as well as some libertarians, have long placed great faith in constitutions as instruments capable of restraining political power. Particularly following the Renaissance and Enlightenment, written constitutions began to be celebrated by limited government political theorists as rational devices designed to bind rulers, limit coercion, and protect liberty through clearly-enumerated rules. Yet a persistent strain of skepticism—articulated most sharply by thinkers such as Murray Rothbard and Ralph Raico—has questioned whether…
On the SHOT Show floor, Bond Arms shared a collaborative suppressor project started by Third Echelon Development. Third Echelon has taken a bold leap in attempting to make a dual bore suppressor for Bond’s 9mm derringer. Instead of relying on a removable mount, this design integrates directly with a proprietary barrel developed by Bond. Wipe Baffle System This suppressor uses a wipe-based baffel system. Two removable pins retain the wipes inside the body, and the wipes seal each chamber as the bullet passes through. That sealing effect optimizes sound reduction while keeping the overall length short (just over 4”). The…
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On the SHOT Show floor, UltiClip showcased updates to its Enduo magazine carry lineup. The booth focused on the Enduo Universal alongside newly released magazine-specific baseplate models. Doug from UltiClip outlined how the system works and where each option fits within the company’s broader catalog. Enduo Universal Design and Function The UltiClip Enduo Universal is designed to work with most pistol magazines. It attaches directly to a magazine baseplate using a high-strength adhesive. Once installed, the spring-loaded clip allows the magazine to be carried more comfortably inside a pocket. The tiny clip hooks onto the edge of the pocket and…
Having experienced homelessness, Army veteran Chad King was searching for a way to help other veterans struggling to find affordable housing and benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs. He came up with a solution – Chief Bud – an AI assistant built to help veterans learn and apply for VA resources. King, a graduate student at DePaul University in Chicago, served in the Army for seven years, forging a brotherhood with his fellow comrades. “There are 18 million veterans in the United States, and I feel a connection to all those people,” King told The DePaulia, the university’s student newspaper. King, who…
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The Belgian troopship SS Léopoldville had just slipped beneath the English Channel after being hit by a torpedo. Gerald Howard went down with the ship. The 23-year-old rifleman nearly drowned under the frigid water like hundreds of his comrades. He fought his way back to the surface.”I was on the ship until it went down,” Howard recalled decades later. “It pulled me down, and when I came up I saw a life raft. They said ‘You can’t get on.’ I said, ‘Like hell I can’t.'”Howard woke up around midnight in a hospital in Cherbourg, France. He was among the lucky…
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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadA major threat during emergencies that is rarely discussed is the possibility that our own brain can work against us. We’d like to think that we would react quickly if something didn’t feel right, but unfortunately, our brains are wired to discount anything that goes against our routine. This mental tendency is called “normalcy bias.” It can cause us to ignore early warning signs, freeze in our tracks, or, worse, wait until it’s too late to act. For urban dwellers, recognizing danger quickly is one thing we can control if we can train our…
