On May 2, 1918, General Motors acquired the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.  This synergy helped propel GMC to be a serious rival to Ford. — May 2nd, 1803: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France at a cost of four cents per acre for 828,000 square miles (2,144,520 square km), which soon proved to be a tremendous bargain. — Today’s feature article is a repost from the 2018 archives of SurvivalBlog. — We need more entries for Round 124 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $984,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started…

Armed Citizen® Today Around 5 a.m. on April 21, a man in Medford, Ore., called police to report a neighbor who was screaming and behaving erratically. As police were en route, the neighbor allegedly began chopping at another neighbor’s door with an axe. Fearing for their life, that neighbor shot the axe-wielding man, striking him in an [unreported] extremity. Police transported the suspect to the hospital for treatment; no others were injured in the incident. (krdv.com, Medford, Ore., 4/21/26) From the Armed Citizen® Archives – December 1991 Alerted when she saw a strange car drive up and the occupants knock on the…

On May 1, 1840 the “Penny Black” — the world’s first adhesive postage stamp was issued by the United Kingdom. It featured an image of Queen Victoria. — May 1, 1857: William Walker, conqueror of Nicaragua, surrendered to the U.S. Navy, in Rivas. — And on May 1, 1898 US Admiral George Dewey commanded: “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley” as the US routed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay. — An encouraging news flash: House Appropriations 2027 Funding Bill Ends Suppressor, Short Barrel Rifle Registration. JWR’s Comment:  Be sure to contact both your U.S. congressman and your…

Continuing its record of positive growth over the last several years, NRA partner PenFed Credit Union reported increases in capital and liquidity, earning growth and credit quality through the first quarter of 2026. “PenFed’s first quarter results demonstrate the strength of our member focus, digital banking and disciplined lending strategy,” said James Schenck, PenFed president and CEO. “Strong quarterly net income was driven by robust member demand and competitive pricing, as well as improved operating performance and credit discipline.” The credit union reported a net income of nearly $93 million, up 137 percent quarter over quarter and up 56 percent…

On Feb. 7, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) signed an executive order requiring the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to review all regulations or “actions by the Biden administration regarding firearms” and “to eliminate all infringements on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.” After more than a year of review, the (DOJ), and its sub-agency the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), released 34 notices of final and proposed rules to eliminate infringements on Americans’ Second Amendment rights. This is an effort to reduce unnecessary, and often unconstitutional, burdens on law-abiding gun owners and Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs), to modernize outdated regulations,…

Timothy Blyth was scouting for a hunt in Florida’s St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge when a chance encounter turned deadly.What started as an argument over access and safety escalated into gunfire. Minutes later, Blyth was found dead in the road.The man he’d been arguing with was gone, along with the weapon he’d used.Witnesses described an aggressive confrontation. Evidence tied the suspect to the scene. But his version of events told a different story: self-defense.Whichever version of events you believe, one thing is clear–Tim Blyth’s death left a father without a son, and a group of hunting buddies without the friend…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: What is going on? 00:00:00 Speaker 2: We’re back with another episode of Back forty. I’m your host Jake Hoefer. In this week, we’re diving into this whitetail dilemma of a serious tear hunter that sometimes people fall into the traps where you do all these different things, you work really hard, but you’re not necessarily seeing the results that you’re hoping to see. 00:00:18 Speaker 1: And so is this a behavioral thing? Is this doing too much? 00:00:22 Speaker 2: Is this not realizing as the harder you work, your goals also evolved. And we…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: I actually think a lot of I would say a lot of people probably under prepare. And then they do go out and they hike for eight ten miles a day, maybe for five or six days in a row. 00:00:12 Speaker 2: They go all, why is my back hurts? 00:00:14 Speaker 1: Say, well, you haven’t trained in those shoes, you haven’t walked that far, if you haven’t worn a pack that heavy, so like, yeah, of course your lower back hurts. You’ve been carrying forty pounds every day out here. 00:00:27 Speaker 3: The…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show everybody. This week, we’ve got cows not condos, a bit about housecat jerky, army tanks are using up all the turkey. Ammo Randall covers a chimpanzee war. An American hunter is killed by elephants. Spencer covers a war on cocaine, hippos, and more, including for real. This time, we cover the ongoing goofiness and cluelessness of Colorado’s animal rights movement. But first, Seth Morris is back from his year long paternity. He has a new baby. 00:00:36 Speaker 2: Yeah, a new baby kept me up all night last night. 00:00:40 Speaker…

Several months ago, I drove out to a place to hike and bike here in New Mexico. The last four miles of the trip were on a dirt road. Some parts of the road were in such bad shape that it seemed like I was driving over an old-time washboard. I slowed down for those portions of the road, but evidently I didn’t slow down enough, for my car started leaking oil and transmission fluid shortly afterwards. I didn’t hit anything in the dirt road; it was the vibrations from driving over those portions that caused the leaks. These definitely…