On May 9, 1754, the first newspaper cartoon was published in America. It depicted divided snake with the words “Join or Die” by Benjamin Franklin. It was published in The Pennsylvania Gazette. — May 9, 1916: A wind-blown fire in Ellendale, North Dakota destroyed three blocks of businesses, a church, and 21 homes. — Today’s feature article is a guest post from our friend Brandon Smith, the editor of the Alt-Market.us blog, which we highly recommend bookmarking. – JWR — We still need entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have…

Long a popular option for concealed-carry use, revolvers have seen something of a comeback in recent years, and one of the brands that has capitalized on the resurgence of the carry revolver is Diamondback Firearms. For our latest “I Carry” episode above, we paired the six-round Diamondback SDR DA/SA snubnose revolver with a simple leather holster from Galco, along with one of the latest EDC flashlights from Streamlight. “Diamondback launched its SDR line of revolvers a few years back,” American Rifleman Executive Editor Jay Grazio said. “They started off with your very traditional .38 Special/.357 Magnum and branched out into…

The Glock design is to semi-auto handguns what the AR-15 design is to semi-auto rifles. TriStar Arms, an importer of rifles, shotguns and handguns, introduced its APOC pistols, a striker-fired, semi-automatic pistol that shared compatibility with the Gen3 Glock, last year. New for 2026, the company is taking the APOC in its own direction with the APOC Pro. The APOC Pro takes the APOC pistol introduced last year and makes it optics- and suppressor-ready. Like the original, the APOC Pro is a striker-fired, polymer-frame, semi-automatic pistol chambered in 9 mm Luger that approximates the size of the Glock 19. Magazines…

It doesn’t take long for two duck hunters to fill a limit when the conditions are right. Seven birds per person can come together quick, especially on a good morning in Montana.John Carullo of Simms and Matthew Krekelberg of Bozeman didn’t stop at a daily limit, or even a possession limit. The two are now facing felony charges for allegedly killing and stockpiling 223 ducks on the Sun River in January, according to court documents first reported by the Billings Gazette. That’s roughly ten times the legal possession limit.Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks game warden Per Wolfisberg was granted permission…

Henry Repeating Arms founder and CEO Anthony Imperato has been named Law Enforcement Supporter of the Year by New York State Fraternal Order of Police Memorial Lodge 100. The honor was presented at the Lodge’s 22nd Annual Awards Dinner, held in Howard Beach, N.Y. The award recognizes his decades-long commitment to supporting the men and women of law enforcement, their families, departments and the charitable organizations that support them. “I stand here to reaffirm something I have believed in my entire life—my support for law enforcement is unwavering, unconditional and grounded in deep respect,” Imperato said while receiving his award.…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: In the marshes of northeastern Wisconsin, a game warden stepped out of his truck one September evening and never came back. What investigators found the next day was a crime scene so brutal it would haunt the state of Wisconsin for decades to come. But catching the killer would require a brand new investigative technique, a hidden rifle, and a manhunt that stretched from the north Woods to the state capitol. That’s next on Blood Trails. On September twenty fourth, nineteen seventy one, Wisconsin State game Warden Neil la Fave had every reason to be hopeful. The…

On a January evening earlier this year, I walked around the corner from our kitchen towards the bathroom and smelled smoke. My wife had just returned home from a meeting and I had spent most of the afternoon juicing frozen plums saved from last fall. I ask my wife if there was a wood smoke smell outside when she came in expecting her to confirm that a neighbor either had a fire pit going or that there was a brush pile burning nearby. When she said that she had not noticed smoke while walking into the house, I stepped out…

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On May 7, 1697, Stockholm’s medieval royal castle was destroyed by fire. The Codex Gigas (pictured) — the world’s largest extant medieval illuminated manuscript) — survived by being thrown out a window. — May 7, 1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patented dynamite in England. This was the first of three patents he would receive for the explosive. — We are running a two-week-long sale in all of our percussion revolvers at Elk Creek Company, with deep discounts. This sale will end on Monday, May 18th, 2026. Please note that there are cartridge conversion cylinders available for many of these guns…

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