Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday called the victims of a mass shooting in Texas over the weekend “illegal immigrants,” drawing searing backlash for “dehumanizing” them. Abbott announced on his personal and state Twitter accounts a $50,000 reward for the person who used an AR-15 rifle to kill five neighbors execution-style, including a 9-year-old boy, in Cleveland, Texas, on Friday night. The suspect, Francisco Oropesa, was at large Monday afternoon.Abbott, a Republican, said the reward was for a fugitive “who is in the country illegally and killed five illegal immigrants.” The post drew immediate backlash on social media from critics and…

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When the NRA gathered in Indianapolis for the group’s 148th Annual Meeting, Chad Enos of Kel-Tec gave OSG senior digital editor Lynn Burkhead a birds eye view of several new products including the KS7, a great home defense or back-40 varmint weapon that features a bullpup design, a carry handle and an 18.5″ magazine tube (with either 6+1 or 7+1 12-gauge shell capacity depending on shotshell size). Kel-Tec’s RDB Survival and RDB Tactical firearms – both featuring a bullpup design, smooth triggers with clean breaks, 1:7 twist barrels, adjustable gas piston systems, and downward ejection of the .223Rem shells – help…

“Stand Your Ground laws, which upend centuries of common law on self-defense and allow people to carry guns outside of the home…are increasing numbers of justifiable and unjustifiable homicides,” says Allison Anderman of the Giffords Law Center. https://t.co/KInxWHwCkT pic.twitter.com/qr2869r0uG — This Week (@ThisWeekABC) April 23, 2023 Nonetheless, [a Florida wrong-house shooting], along with a spate of recent shootings across the country which victimized Americans who approached property owners by mistake or for an otherwise innocent reason, did not only vividly illustrate how the US is flooded with guns. It all also showed how people who are made paranoid by the…

Designed for personal and home defense, the XS Sights for Taurus 856 and 605 revolvers provide dual illumination. Featuring the power of tritium with the photoluminescent glow dot, your aim point will offer enhanced low-light visibility. Not to mention remaining easier to see in a dark safe in the middle of the night.XS Sights for Taurus 856 & 605 RevolversCNC machined from solid steel bar stock, the housing on the sights provides durable protection during hard use. Additionally, the sight is ready to replace the sight on your Taurus 856 or 605 revolver at home. Designed specifically for the revolvers…

This article was originally published by Michael Snyder at The Economic Collapse Blog.  It should have been apparent to everyone that the dark clouds on the horizon would bring a storm, and now the rain is furiously falling all around us.  Our entire system is being viciously shaken, and the dominoes are going to continue to fall in the months ahead. Once Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank went down, we all knew that it was just a matter of time before more large banks started to implode.  Now First Republic has failed, and over the weekend U.S. regulators were…

While the Bruen decision did much to protect our Second Amendment rights, there is still a grave threat to them. We’re really only a couple quirks of fate away from seeing all that we’ve gained stripped away and gun control become the norm. As it stands right now, though, that simply cannot happen thanks to the Court’s ruling last year. But for some, all that shouldn’t matter because of “consensus.” The nation’s political divisions are one of the defining dynamics of our time. Reflecting on the results of the latest NBC News poll, Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research,…

CANBERRA, Australia — Taiwan intends to fight for itself in any armed conflict with China and is unclear as to what countries might stand beside it, the self-governing island’s foreign minister said. China claims Taiwan as its own territory, to be brought under its control by force if necessary, and concerns are rising about a possible armed conflict. In an interview last Friday with Sky News Australia, Joseph Wu said Taiwan, with a population of 23 million compared to China’s 1.4 billion, has to defend itself and is not asking other countries to fight for it. However, asked who might…

The youngest victim of the east Texas shooting that left five family members dead used to ride his bicycle to the school bus stop with the child of the neighbor who is now wanted for carrying out the massacre.In a telephone interview with NBC News on Monday, the uncle of 9-year-old victim Daniel Enrique Laso said he never exchanged words with the suspected shooter, Francisco Oropesa, 38. “But my nephew, he always would take his bicycle to where the school bus would stop,” Ramiro Guzman said. “Sometimes they went together, my nephew and his child.””They always went on their bicycles…

As tensions between nuclear-armed countries continue to rise, it’s becoming increasingly important for preppers to include nuclear war survival supplies in their emergency kits. One such supply that is essential to have on hand is Potassium Iodide (KI). The world is edging ever closer to a nuclear attack, if not an all-out nuclear war. Tensions between Russia and the US are leading us down the path toward the use of nuclear weapons. Likewise, the potential for conflict between China and the US over the fate of Taiwan is increasing by the day. Then, there are the hostilities between the nuclear-armed…

Two hunters are presented with back-to-back shots at big aoudad rams. The first is straightforward, the second steeply uphill and distant. Should they take the shots? The West Texas sun shone brightly on our little cavalcade, illuminating the desert vegetation and glancing off distant white cliffs. A fly buzzed briefly around my hat brim before deciding there were more interesting victims elsewhere. A large band of aoudad sheep fed along the cliff tops ahead and out of sight, tempting us onward. They were the only huntable sheep we’d seen in three and a half days of focused searching. A steep…

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