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Shotguns: How to Make them Better

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Over at the Loadout Room, Travis Pike outlines some solutions to the weaknesses faced by your average shotgun. He writes: Addressing the Weakness The first weakness is range. We can’t change the principle of the weapon, we can’t give a shotgun the same range as a rifle. So what we have to do is mix […]

Is Your Software Up to Date?

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At the heart of the Equifax breach was a bit of outdated software on the company’s systems that its administrators had missed. This obviously has led to a large-scale disaster, potentially exposing the identifying information of up to 143 million Americans. But is your small business computer system updated? Many of the updates you receive […]

Are You Ready for Range Day?

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If you’ve just purchased your first gun, or you haven’t been to the range in a long time, there are some basic bits of etiquette you should remember when heading out to shoot. Rachel Hernandez lays out a nice intro at the Loadout Room: Follow the rules of the range.  Once you arrive at the […]

Equifax Breach: How Did it Happen? What Does it Mean?

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When a company’s business is solely devoted to collecting your most valuable information, you would hope that its security is up to the challenge of a world full of criminal hackers looking to exploit your data for their gain. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case with Equifax. The company allowed months to go by before plugging […]

A Former Democrat Takes Missouri to the Right

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Over the decades the official political affiliations of President Donald Trump have shifted at least five times according to the Smoking Gun. Now another party flipper is the governor of Missouri, Eric Greitens, and he’s becoming a GOP star. Greitens is a former Navy SEAL, who, since switching to the GOP and winning the governorship has […]

The Best Way to Carry This Essential Survival Tool

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Marines carry it, SEALs carry it, and you should too. Duct tape, it holds what needs holding. At the Loadout Room, Scott Witner explains a great way to carry a bit of duct tape in your everyday carry kit. He writes: If something doesn’t move that is supposed to then use WD-40. If that something […]

Apple’s iPhone: Food for Thought

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Is there an Apple without the iPhone? With the bulk of sales coming from iPhones, Apple is dependent on the smartphones to keep growing. The new iPhone X is an attempt to keep the momentum by offering a more advanced phone at a higher price point. This is new territory for Apple, but necessary to […]

Benny’s to Close Stores

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A cornerstone of New England retail, Benny’s, is going out of business. After serving New England shoppers since the 1920s, the Bromberg family has decided it’s time to close up shop. Emily Clark reports in the Patriot Ledger on the death of yet another brick and mortar retail institution: On Friday, the company announced that […]

Key West Survivor: How to Flush With No Running Water

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Across Florida right now people are living the reality of no electricity, and no water. The Keys were hit particularly hard by Hurricane Irma, and now it looks like thousands who weathered Irma may be evacuated from the chain of islands.  There’s no power, there’s not much water, and with trees down there’s little mobility. […]