If you are within the blast radius of a modern day nuclear weapon, you are pretty much dead on impact. There is no amount of prepping or body armor that will save you. Your bunker will probably prove useless as well considering there will be little to no warning. Also, it will probably come in the dead of night for the West coast. One long-term, high ranking, retired veteran told me, “Everything stays still at night; the targets stay still. Also, it’s daytime over there while we sleep.” While many preppers are preparing to survive a nuclear strike, I think…

A Connecticut man is facing criminal charges after he shot and killed a black bear earlier this month, and the outcome of his case may hinge on whether his chickens are considered livestock or pets.  The 39-year-old was charged with illegal taking of a black bear after it broke into a chicken run and ate some of his flock. The chicken owner said he actually saw the bear chowing down on one of his birds before he shot it. He also believes the same bear killed his goats back in August, and apparently realized this…

There’s something inherently wrong about lifetime gun bans for misdemeanors.Even if you think that lifetime gun bans are warranted for criminal behavior, why a misdemeanor of any kind? It would seem to me that if the behavior was so bad that it warranted a lifetime suspension of a civil liberty, it should be severe enough to be a felony in the first place. Since felons already have a lifetime ban that only just now has a pathway for being lifted, that seems like an easy fix. The problem is that anti-gunners have been doing more…

This morning, my wife sent me a story. There was a “mass shooting” with no fatalities in Macon, Georgia. We don’t live particularly close to Macon, about an hour and a half to two hours, depending on which of us is driving. She sent it to me, though, because it happened pretty much in front of the office of a doctor my daughter sees regularly.  And it was a serious shooting, with 12 people injured, two critically.I might have written about it from the start, but something jumped out at me in the reporting. It…

A jailed veteran has accused a veterans affairs coordinator of stealing approximately $65,000 from her while she was incarcerated. The unnamed victim allegedly hired Jessica McVay, a veterans affairs coordinator at the public defender’s office, to handle financial administration like paying her bills while she was in Manatee County Jail, according to local ABC affiliate WWSB in Sarasota, Fla. Police claim that the 48-year-old McVay accessed bank accounts, opened new credit cards and transferred the veteran’s money into her own account. Jessica McVay (Image provided by Sarasota Police Department) “Jessica McVay took it upon herself while this victim was in…

Federal law prohibits any government agency from compiling a registry of gun owners and the firearms they own, but one Second Amendment group and multiple members of Congress say the ATF has done exactly that. Rep. Michael Cloud sent a letter to President Donald Trump this week urging the administration to take action and destroy more than a billion firearm records the ATF has obtained from firearm dealers that have gone out of business, arguing that the retention of these records has resulted in a searchable registry of gun owners in violation of federal law. Gun…

BANGKOK (AP) — Taiwan’s defense minister said Tuesday that existing U.S. arms sales to Taiwan remain unchanged, and that Taipei remains in talks with the U.S. over individual deals. A record $14 billion arms package to the island, however, remains stalled. The minister’s remarks come as concerns mount that President Donald Trump could halt arms sales to Taiwan. China has pressed Washington to halt the arms sales, most prominently during a May summit in Beijing between Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping. The United States paused the $14 billion arms deal after that meeting. “As for arms sales, we are…

The war against so-called assault weapons might never be fully resolved. While the Supreme Court will hear the Veramontes case and likely strike down the assault weapon ban as we know it, we also know that anti-gunners will never go quietly into that good night. It’s possibly the only thing to respect about some of them, if we’re being honest, and only barely. There’s no shame in backing down when you’re wrong, after all. But that doesn’t mean that so-called researchers won’t try to justify it.This time, we’ve got a study in Nature that claims…

The rush to build the next generation of military technology has drawn startups, Silicon Valley investors and former employees of companies such as SpaceX into the defense industry. One longtime investor says some newcomers are entering a field they barely understand. Van Espahbodi, a former Raytheon employee who was a co-founder of Starburst Aerospace, a startup, told Crunchbase News that investors who were backing software and consumer businesses now want to head into the defense technology sector. He has also talked to those in the beauty industry that are also defense-tech investors. “It creates what venture does best: tourists and…

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and a coalition of 24 other attorneys general and state officials have filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court urging the justices to grant cert to Beckwith v. Frey, a challenge to Maine’s 72-hour waiting period for firearm transfers.  A district court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs but was reversed by the First Circuit, which held that waiting period laws don’t even implicate the Second Amendment. In fact, according to the appellate court, only when laws are so abusive that they effectively curtail the right entirely does the…

New legislation in Congress calls for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide rural veterans with direct loans so they can build their own homes. U.S. House Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.) and Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) introduced the Veterans Owner-Buider’s Rights Act on Monday to expand VA home loans and give veterans a new path to homeownership as part of a five-year pilot program. “Building our own home was one of the hardest and most rewarding things I’ve ever done. While many vets have the relevant skills, they functionally can’t use their VA home loans and leverage their skills…

Four U.S. Navy personnel and two sailors suffered non-life-threatening injuries after the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier suffered an undisclosed “mishap.” The Navy said in an X post Tuesday morning that issues affected the two-seater plane when it was trying to land on the ship off the coast of Virginia on Monday, causing two aviators to eject from the plane and four shipboard personnel to suffer injuries. One sailor was taken to the hospital. “Our immediate priority is ensuring all personnel involved receive the care and support they need,” the Navy said in its statement. “Carrier crews regularly train…