Summary:  A Sunday night Axios report on a US-proposed 45-day ceasefire has, by Monday morning, been rejected by Iran: diplomatic talks are “absolutely incompatible with ultimatums, crimes, and threats to commit war crimes,” the Foreign Ministry said. Iran rejects apparent US fresh proposal as Israel strikes large petrochemical plant at South Pars. There’s been another extension of what had been a 10-day deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz – a deadline that was initially set to expire on Monday evening. Now Trump says Iran has until 8 pm on Tuesday. Trump warned Iran on Easter Sunday to ‘Open the Fuckin’…

The annual election of the National Rifle Association Board of Directors has concluded. The 2026 results are in and 36 director candidates have been elected to available one-to-three year terms. Annually an election is held for the NRA Board of Directors. Under normal circumstances there are 25 three-year director spots up for grabs each year. An additional 76th director who is elected at the NRA Annual Meeting would serve a one-year term. Candidates in the 2026 election had a near clean sweep, with all but two securing a spot. Due to multiple resignations from the…

The Dark Energy Basecamp Bundle is not some soft-handed campsite gadget pretending to be field gear. It is a serious off-grid power system for hunters, shooters, and backcountry travelers who need real battery capacity, real solar input, and gear that can take a beating. Why the Dark Energy Basecamp Bundle Hits Different There is no shortage of tech companies trying to sell gear to hunters and shooters. Most of them couldn’t care less about our world. Dark Energy is different, and that matters more than people realize. Garrett, the owner, is a gun guy. You’d see Dark Energy at NRA…

Paul Ivnitskiy from Ammunition To Go makes a straightforward claim: most shooters think they have their rifle zeroed when they’ve really just copied popular advice. Generic 25-meter, 36-yard, or 100-yard zeros can work okay for general use, but they frequently fall short on modern setups once barrel length, velocity, and especially optic height enter the equation. Ammo To Go’s new Zero Tool should help you accomplish that much more easily now. In the video above and article (posted in full below), Ivnitskiy explains that a real zero should maximize Maximum Point Blank Range (MPBR) — the distance over which a…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog under the title: “The Everything Meltdown”: Global Supply Chains Are Collapsing, And Most People Cannot Even Imagine The Pain That Is Coming When global supply chains collapse, the pain is not felt immediately. Tankers that left their destinations before the war with Iran began are still arriving at their destinations, products that were manufactured prior to the war still fill our shelves, and we are still eating food that was produced last year. So even though global supply chains are collapsing all around us, most people don’t…

National Park Service (NPS) employees keep our parks running. Whether they’re manning the entrance stations, offering hiking advice at the visitors’ centers, or leading ranger talks and programs, NPS staff are key to visitors’ experiences and the daily management of these protected places. On April 3, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for the 2027 fiscal year, which would significantly reduce both NPS budgets and staff for public lands nationwide. The proposed cuts would affect national parks, national monuments, battlefields, rivers, seashores, lakeshores, parkways, and more. Congress alone can approve spending, so, for now, these proposals essentially amount to…

There are times when a one in five failure rate is perfectly acceptable. For example, in a difficult STEM subject in school, 20 percent of the students failing is considered normal. It’s a hard class, and the stakes may feel catastrophic to the student, but it’s really not. They can take the class again in college, or if it’s high school, summer school can fix that problem right up. It sucks, but it’s not the end of the world. But what if there was a similar failure rate for a law that suspended someone’s civil…

My Seekins PH3 in 6.5 Creedmoor didn’t just print one pretty group. After a quick factory tune, it drilled repeatable sub half-inch clusters and held that precision to 775 yards.https://gunsamerica.com/listings/search Seekins PH3 6.5 Creedmoor: Predator Rifle Goals Met I recently purchased a Seekins PH3 in 6.5 Creedmoor. While all of the new features on this rifle are exciting and fun to talk about, I wanted to do a review on what matters most on a high-end rifle. How accurate is it? All the new features are worthless to me if a gun is not accurate enough for my shooting demands.…

Images by the author I recently took a mini-break to North Carolina to visit friends and was able to stop by Trailblazer Firearms (TF) in Fletcher. I wrote an introductory article on this innovative company… look for it here soon. I also reviewed their fold-up, single-shot .22 pistol, the breath-mint-box-sized LifeCard… again, look for that review here, as well. This third article on TF is a review of their other product, the Pivot. This is a truly unique folding 9mm pistol-caliber carbine (PCC). Folding Carbines… A Trend I am no stranger to PCCs, especially ones that fold. I’ve shot the…

For gardeners with poor soil, hungry wildlife, poor sunlight, or all of the above, container gardening provides several answers. You can manipulate the soil in your container to be just what you need for the type of plants you are growing. Container gardens can be moved anywhere you like. They can be transferred to follow seasonal sunlight changes, and they can be placed in an enclosure, on a porch, or a protected location to deal with hungry pests like rabbit, deer, and squirrels. Want to save this post for later? Click Here to Pin It On Pinterest! Hay Bales Hay…

I pulled myself onto the airy arête in the morning sunshine on one of Colorado’s more obscure ridgeline scrambles. The air was frigid; the rock was cold and brittle after the season’s first snowstorm the night before. A careful hand placement, followed by a delicate toe, as we progressed toward the summit, the mountain plummeting thousands of feet on either side. It was a semi-technical day in terms of gear loadout, but extra layers were a necessity with so many hours in the exposed alpine, quickly transitioning to winter. I hauled it all in Gregory’s new Alpinisto 30 backpack, an…

Most people are completely unprepared for a disaster. And I’m not talking about being prepared for some end-of-the-world scenario. Most people aren’t even prepared for common disasters that happen all the time. Hurricanes. Floods. Earthquakes. Wildfires. Chemical spills that force an evacuation. A winter storm that knocks out power for a week. Sudden disasters don’t care whether you’re ready or not. And when one hits, the last thing you want to be doing is scrambling to find flashlight batteries or realizing you don’t have a single gallon of clean water in your house. The good news is that basic preparedness…