The first camera was simply pointed the wrong way. In early April 2025, Jerry Reina, leader of a local neighborhood watch in the Harbor View area of Suffolk, Virginia, noticed that one of their community’s six Flock Safety cameras had been turned away from the road it was installed to monitor, according to his testimony at a preliminary hearing reported by WAVY. A Suffolk police sergeant who helps oversee the city’s camera program soon found another aimed into a wood line. By summer, entire poles were down. Some cameras were thrown from the Hampton Roads Parkway onto Interstate 664 below,…

Health care workers helping treat and control the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo are threatening to strike as the hemorrhagic disease continues to spread.  Yesterday, healthcare workers in Ituri issued a 24-hour notice of an impending strike. Those working on the Ebola frontlines said that the working conditions were too poor to continue. They reported unpaid benefits, low wages, and inadequate supplies since the outbreak officially began in May. The DRC Ministry of Health has now confirmed 1,561 cases in the outbreak, with the epicenter in Ituri province and significant transmission in North and South Kivu provinces, as…

I’m a gear junky. To be even more specific, I’m a flashlight junky. After spending several months in the field with the Streamlight® ProTac® 2.0 HP, I’m pleasantly surprised. I recently did a rather extensive review of the Streamlight® ProTac® 2.0 HP over at my own site, The Square Reviews. The light made such an impression on me, I felt like the readers of Bearing Arms would love to learn about it. The ProTac® 2.0 HP is a high lumen, high candela flashlight. Is it suitable for everyday carry? Depending on your needs. What I…

The ATF is backing away from a controversial cell phone tracking program after lawmakers revealed the agency had used it hundreds of times without a warrant. According to a new video from Gun Owners of America (GOA), the ATF has canceled its contract with a data broker called Webloc, a company that provides geolocation information collected from mobile devices. GOA argues the move is a major win for both the Second and Fourth Amendments. The controversy began during a congressional oversight hearing when ATF Director Robert Cekada acknowledged the agency had purchased access to a geolocation tool capable of collecting…

Pickup trucks are workhorses; let’s not kid ourselves. We expect them to prioritize payload capacity and towing metrics over aesthetics, which only gives designers immense leeway to experiment with how a truck could/should look. Sometimes, those bold aesthetic end up being genuinely ugly pickup trucks. But as we have learned over the years, you should never judge a book by its cover, because many of the most polarizing designs hide brilliant engineering and undeniable capability. The information was correct at the time of writing. Ugly Trucks That Were Far Better Than They Looked 1. Ford Econoline (First Generation) Credit: Bring A…

Once upon a time, The Daily Kos was one of the premier blogs of the left. They’ve fallen off a great deal since their heyday, to say the least, but from time to time, I find some ridiculous takes on guns there. Often, it’s from non-staff members. One of the unique things about The Daily Kos is that it also provides a blogging platform for its community, where just about anyone can write whatever they want, and while I won’t say they won’t take stuff down, insane takes on gun rights aren’t exactly against their community standards. …