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Gun: Pattern 1756 Long Land MusketManufacturer: Tower of LondonCaliber: .78Manufactured: 1762Condition: NRA Good (Antique Gun Standards)Value: Undetermined The British 47th Regiment of Foot arrived in Boston on Oct. 23, 1774, as one of several British regiments sent to quell the unrest that preceded the opening salvos of the American Revolution. Having compiled an excellent record during the French and Indian War, some veterans of that conflict remained in the ranks. The uniform was the standard pattern of the Warrant of 1768 with red coats faced with white and pewter buttons numbered “47.” The regiment was composed of eight battalion companies…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Despite the political backlash against it, The Endangered Species Act, ensuring that other species have a basic right, the fundamental right to exist, is one of America’s very best ideas. I’m Dan Flores, and this is the American West. How the Endangered Species Act saved the West and America. Here’s an inconvenient truth. Climate change is not the first time humanity has participated in remaking the Earth. 00:00:55 Speaker 2: Are resorted to a hail Mary to save it. 00:00:58 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy three, more than half a century ago as I write this, the…

This Week in History: As we prepare for the semiquincentennial celebration of the Declaration of Independence, Americans reflect on the meaning of our liberty and independence. — Happy birthday to actor/director Mel Brooks, who turned 100, on Sunday! — In June, 1786, Bishop Alexander Macdonell and more than 500 other Roman Catholic highlanders left Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. — June 30th is the anniversary of the tragic death of 19 hotshots in the Yarnell Hill Fire in 2013. — June 30, 1908: A giant fireball, most likely caused by the air burst of a large meteor, flattened…

Full Disclosure: After a conversation I had with Gene Kelly of American Gunsmithing Institute (AGI), he offered me this course at no charge in exchange for an honest review in a written article for SurvivalBlog. There were no other strings attached, and I was not pressured in any way about the outcome of this review. He did not ask for a preview of the article, nor was he offered one before publication. This review is my own opinion of the course after having spent time taking it and passing the tests involved. My Background I have been interested in firearms…

Armed Citizen® Today On the evening of June 21, a family in Medford, Ore., allegedly discovered a man who had broken into their home, and one of the residents shot the intruder. The family was able to exit the home safely, and police went inside to find the suspect still there, suffering from gunshot wounds. They transported him to the hospital and discovered that he was from out of state and had been staying in a nearby hotel room before the incident. (kobi5.com; Medford, Ore.; 6/22/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – February 1987 Shu Kun Lee was alone in…

00:00:10 Speaker 1: From Meat Eaters World News headquarters in Bozeman, Montana. This is Col’s Week in Review with Ryan cow Calahan. Here’s cal The Conservancy of Southwest Florida announced a record hall of invasive pythons. Biologists from the conservation group removed one hundred and seventy seven pythons totaling eight thousand to eighty pounds of pure serpent mass during the previous breeding season of November twenty twenty five to April twenty twenty six, and they did it all in a two hundred square mile area in Collier County. The group says it’s quote the greatest biomass of invasive Burmese pythons…

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