You’ll benefit from spending some time reading “Top 10 Reasons You Should Own an AR-15,” by Mark Overstreet writing for the Federalist. One of the major misconceptions with the AR-15 is that it’s “automatic.” This is false. If you pull the trigger of an AR-15 and hold it in for five or ten seconds—one round will be fired. That’s it. No more. You control the pace of the next round fired—not the rifle. One more point, I own a Colt AR-15 and can tell you it shoots as smoothly as a hot knife through a stick of butter. You don’t have to reload it, taking your eye off the target after firing … [Read more...]
Red Flag: SWAT Team Confiscates Your Guns
You have a natural born right to self-defense. The Second Amendment guarantees it. But as we move into 2019, gun control advocates at both the state and federal level are coming for your guns. Are you familiar with a “red flag” order? “Every state has a slight variation in standards, but in general these confiscation laws allow courts to issue emergency ex-parte orders based on the lowest ‘reasonable cause’ evidence that the subject is an immediate danger to himself or others,” writes Kelley Vlahos at The American Conservative. Fourteen states, including D.C., have some version of a red … [Read more...]
Brazil’s Mob Lynchings and Murders
If you have teenage children or grandchildren, then you know about social media and how it can become an online version of Lord of the Flies. What’s terrifying is that, in a lawless society like many in South America we’re seeing how messaging services like WhatsApp facilitate a rule by mob hysteria. Now is the time to get your guns and your training. Thankfully in Brazil, for example, President Jair Bolsonaro has recognized innocent people deserve to be able to defend themselves from violent gangs. It’s a lesson for you and me on how a polarized society can break apart at the seams. … [Read more...]
Tucker Carlson Says What You’ve been Thinking about Trump
This Christmas when your family is gathered together in conversation, will you stick your neck out yet again in defense of President Trump? The answer might be worth pondering for a moment. Because with Trump, there are only two camps: love him/hate him. The love him camp may not like what he tweets, but they like his pro-business policies. The hate him camp barely acknowledges him as worthy of discussion. Pass the peas please. What has worked for Trump is his laser-like focus on Main Street and the Forgotten Man. His tax cuts delivered big time to his base, especially small business … [Read more...]
5 Survival Stocking Stuffers That Will Make You More Secure
Readers liked my 2018 Stocking Stuffer so much, I thought I should repost this post from December 2016 with five more stocking stuffer ideas. This Christmas, you can make someone you love happier and more secure by loading up their stocking with one or more of these 5 survival stocking stuffers. Batteries: Not only are batteries essential on Christmas for powering toys and gadgets for the kids, but they’re an essential part of any survival kit. Having a portable source of power is an immense advantage to anyone in a survival situation. Check out this combo pack from Energizer of AAs … [Read more...]
A Survival Guy Stocking Suffer
Merry pre-Christmas from Your Survival Guy, bringing you holiday cheer and good tidings. How, you may ask? Well, imagine you accidentally drive off a bridge and are trapped in your car. Not necessarily the way you want to get the day started. You may find yourself in need of cutting away your seatbelt and shattering your window as water seeps through the floorboards. Worry not. This little tool called the Resqme, will aid in your peaceful egress and makes for a great stocking stuffer and for an even better story. … [Read more...]
Bad Guys and Their Guns
Restrictive gun laws don’t keep guns out of the hands of bad guys. They’ll get their guns on the black market, or simply make them as you’ll see below. J.D. Tuccille details the efforts of various criminals, rebels, insurgents, and enthusiasts to produce their own firearms. He writes: The types of weapons people produce for their own use range widely in sophistication: "from crude, improvised single-shot guns to semi-professionally manufactured copies of conventional firearms." The trend is toward more advanced weapons—including mortars, recoilless weapons, and grenade launchers—to satisfy … [Read more...]
Rich Man, Poor Man and the Greatest Generation
You may have read Rich Man, Poor Man—one of my favorite pieces ever written by the late great investment writer Richard Russell. It’s one of those timeless pieces that makes me feel like he’s still with us. And with the passing of President George H.W. Bush, I’m reminded of the sacrifices of the “Greatest Generation” and their unique perspective on life. You see, Richard Russell served in World War II, like President Bush, and knew what it felt like to worry about survival. He knew what it felt like to not know if he’d get out alive. And he remembered, for the rest of his life, those who … [Read more...]
Brazilians Excited to Get Their Gun Rights Back
Brazil is very near to becoming something of a gun rights unicorn, that's a country in which citizens have had their rights harshly restricted, but then they have taken them back. With the election of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilians are optimistic that they'll be allowed, once again, greater freedom to protect themselves on streets that have become some of the most violent in the world. Despite strict gun control, Brazil's murder rate is six times higher than that of the United States. Cartels have been battling each other on the streets, endangering disarmed innocents caught in the middle of … [Read more...]
Congratulations to Boston Bruins Legend Rick Middleton #16
Last night was a special night at TD Garden Boston, as former Boston Bruin Rick “Nifty” Middleton had his number 16 raised to the rafters, only the 11th in the history of the franchise. I remember going to the old Boston Garden in the 80s with my dad. The first time walking up the concourse and then into the Garden is a memory I’ll never forget. It was just one of those moments you remember as a kid, and how incredible it was to be in the building. Even when we were seated in the nose bleed seats high up in the rafters you felt like you were part of the game. Middleton was simply … [Read more...]