Prepping doesn’t have to cost a lot of money if you know how to look for bargains. Garage sales and yard sales are great places to scoop up cheap survival items you might need for an emergency. The old saying that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure certainly applies here. Many people holding garage sales don’t know the true value of what they’re selling, or they simply don’t see items for how useful they are and end up selling them for next to nothing. Yard sale season is here, so now is the time to get out there and…

A deadly shooting in Montreal has reignited Canada’s gun control debate, with Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada calling on the federal government to “go further” even as critics question what additional restrictions would accomplish. The comments came after a tragic incident Monday that left a Montreal police officer, a civilian, and the suspect dead. Following a visit to the city’s Côte-des-Neiges district, Ferrada offered condolences to the victims’ families and praised first responders who responded to the scene. “You can feel the pain,” she told reporters. But while discussing ways to prevent future tragedies, the mayor also argued that Canada should…

Battlefield 6 spent the opening act of Season 3 making a very loud argument about scale. Railway to Golmud, the season’s first major map, reset expectations for the game’s largest environments as an enormous, vehicle-saturated reimagining of the beloved Battlefield 4 original, with more airspace and flanking routes for flavor. But Blastpoint, Season 3’s second update, arrived with the return of the Obliteration mode and Cairo Bazaar, Battlefield 6’s take on fan-favorite map Grand Bazaar from Battlefield 3, trading one sense of scale for a different focus — tight, infantry-focused shootouts across arms-length alleys. Yet as Battlefield 6 pivots to…

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…

We’ve spilled a lot of digital ink on the new gun control laws coming to Virginia, and not without reason. They’re egregious infringements on the right of the people to keep and bear arms. They’re awful. California, on the other hand, is where we’re used to seeing such egregious infringements. Yes, we’ve talked about them, but California could come out tomorrow and say they’re going to round up all of the guns in the state, and no one would be particularly shocked. They’d be outraged, yes, but not totally surprised.However, bad ideas from California are…

If you’ve ever wanted to channel your inner cowboy without spending a fortune on ammo, Winchester Air Rifles has something worth a look. The company recently announced its new Single Action Western Revolver, a CO2-powered six-shooter that looks like it rode straight out of a dusty frontier town. Built from metal with a gunmetal finish and nickel-plated accents, the revolver features a functioning hammer, loading gate, and extractor. In other words, Winchester didn’t just make another BB gun. They leaned hard into the Old West theme. The revolver shoots both BBs and pellets using included cartridges. Winchester includes six BB…

Research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine found that COVID-vaccinated veterans had nearly 24 percent fewer all-cause cardiac events — not just those linked to COVID infections. The result suggests that the vaccines may be broadly cardioprotective, according to the researchers. The large study using VA health data found that COVID-19 vaccination significantly reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and other major cardiovascular events among veterans — including a reduction in cardiac events with no documented COVID diagnosis, a finding that surprised the researchers themselves. The study, published June 15, 2026, in JAMA Internal Medicine, followed more than…

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadIn preparedness, your mindset is the foundation for every action you take. It can be the tool that ensures your safety or the trigger that invites disaster. As preppers, we often talk about having the right gear along with tactical and homesteading skills, but what happens when your own thinking becomes the biggest threat? This isn’t about complex survival scenarios. It can happen on any given morning when a simple decision goes wrong. It’s easy to get locked into a false sense of “I’ve got this,” where you override your better judgment. This is…

A new United States screwworm case brings the total in the country to sixteen. Mexico has nearly 30,000 reported cases since November 2024, with 1,800 still active, meaning this could quickly escalate if failures to eliminate the parasite persist. According to a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) screwworm dashboard, the U.S. cases thus far involve cattle, sheep, goats, and one dog. The case confirmed on Monday was in Terrell County, Texas. On Sunday, another case was confirmed in Edwards County, Texas. “The case was identified in a castration site wound. NWS only infests open wounds — it does not…

Milton Friedman once said that he didn’t believe that the solution to all our political problems is to simply to elect the right people. Instead, he claimed “the important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing.” For Arizona gun owners, Gov. Katie Hobbs is hardly the right person for the job. She has used her veto power to block numerous pro-2A reforms during her time in office, including campus carry legislation and a measure blocking the use of…

A bizarre and tragic incident in Arizona has left one man dead, a homeowner recovering from injuries, and investigators working to determine exactly what happened. According to reporting from ABC15 Arizona, 34-year-old Jewell Vaughn died after crashing his vehicle into a residence in Pinal County before being shot by the homeowner during the chaotic aftermath. The incident unfolded around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when Vaughn’s vehicle slammed through a neighboring home’s wall and into the backyard, causing extensive damage. Images from the scene show the vehicle buried deep inside the structure, leaving a gaping hole in the home. What happened next…

More than 125,000 veterans have enrolled in VA health care so far in 2026, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced in May. It was the fastest pace of enrollment the system had seen in years, and the number continues to climb as more veterans learn they may now qualify under expanded eligibility rules put in place by the PACT Act. The VA reached the 100,000-enrollee mark on March 31, faster than it hit that milestone in six of the past seven years. The enrollment wave is being driven in part by expanded outreach and new facilities, and in larger part…