The cult classic Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR) Cooler Jacket — aka “The Sixer” — is finally back. After an 8-year hiatus, 686 teamed up with PBR to revive the beer-toting, style-dripping, fan-favorite winter jacket — with a built-in six-pack carrier that originally launched in 2017. The jacket is just one piece of a full PBR kit that 686 dropped on Oct. 9, 2025. This time around, 686 roped in French artist Lucas Beaufort to add some hand-drawn artistic panache. The result is a stylish red, white, and blue homage to the 180-year-old beer brand. That’s enough to make any on-mountain hipster…

This past weekend I wrote about Richmond, Virginia Police Chief Rick Edwards pondering the idea of turning one of the city’s neighborhoods into a “gun-free zone”. Based on the reporting from WTVR, it was unclear whether Edwards had brought up the idea himself or if he was responding to a question from anchor Catie Beck.  Based on WTVR’s latest report, though, it’s now clear that Edwards himself (no relation, by the way) is the one pushing to make several blocks of residential housing and commercial businesses off-limits to lawful carry. Edwards held a press conference…

Reddit just dropped a bomb on the gun community. In a notice sent to moderators this week, the platform announced new restrictions to Rule 7, taking effect October 9, 2025, that will ban all user-to-user sales of firearm parts and enhancements — including optics. Reddit has banned user sales of all firearm parts and “enhancements”byu/kefefs_v2 inFirearms The change expands the existing rule against facilitating gun and ammo sales to now include: Firearms parts and enhancements (bolts, triggers, magazines, suppressors, conversion kits, etc.) Specific instructions or files for making those parts (like 3D printing). That means major trading subs such as…

WASHINGTON — Heather Campbell lost her job working for a food bank over the summer because of federal funding cuts. Her husband serves as an officer in the Air Force, but now he’s facing the prospect of missing his next paycheck because of the government shutdown.If lawmakers in Washington don’t step in, Campbell’s husband won’t get paid on Wednesday. Because the couple lacks the savings to cover all their expenses, they expect to survive on credit cards to pay the mortgage and feed their three children, racking up debt as the political stalemate drags on.“You’re asking us to put our…

Nearly a year after ruling that the case could go forward, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit blaming firearm companies for a 2019 mass shooting in California. On July 28, 2019, 19-year-old Santino William Legan opened fire at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, California. He killed three people and wounded 17 others before killing himself after a shootout with responding police officers. The case, Towner v. Century Arms, was filed by more than a dozen survivors of the attack and sought to hold Century Arms partly responsible since the murderer used one of the Vermont company’s WASR-10 rifles…

We self-reliant types spend a significant portion of our lives prepping for a long-term disaster. We grow our own groceries, cultivate backyard apothecaries, hone our shooting skills, preserve the garden harvest, hunt, fish, and harden our bug in or bug-out locations. But how many of us have really thought about what daily life would be like during a long-term disaster?Sure, we all know grocery store shelves will be empty within hours (not days, like FEMA claims), calling 911 for help won’t be an option, and the unprepared will panic, leading to the development of marauding hordes.All of that will happen…