Editor’s Introductory Note: The following is an excerpt from the book Armageddon Pharmacy: Herbal Medicine When the Drugstore Is Closed. Jennifer Rader is a SurvivalBlog reader and one of our writing contest prize donors. – JWR John D. Rockefeller, America’s first billionaire, is credited with saying “a pill for every ill.” Prior to his pervasive influence on medicine—prior to closing schools that taught natural medicine, herbs occupied a respected position in American medical practice. However, herbs can’t be patented, and Rockefeller was all about making money. Thus began our transition from herbal medicine to pills, from solving many of our…

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On May 8, 1792, British Captain George Vancouver sighted and named Mount Rainier, Washington — Also on May 8, 1792, Congress passed the second portion of the Militia Act, requiring that “…every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years be enrolled in the militia.” — Today is also the birthday of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. — The feature article today is a guest post from our friend Jennifer Rader — a name that  should be familiar to SurvivalBlog readers. We…

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Smith & Wesson has expanded into several different areas over the last several years, from its M&P 12 shotgun to its Model 1854 lever-action, the company hasn’t been afraid to explore new territory, and with its FPC, the Folding Pistol-caliber Carbine, Smith & Wesson entered the PCC market in a big way. Watch our “American Rifleman: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the FPC in action and hear the details of the design. “Within the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of pistol caliber carbines emerging onto the market, and for good reason. They’re easy to shoot. The ammo…

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…

The last presidential election has started to reverse the damage inflicted upon our Second Amendment rights by the Biden administration, but it would be foolish to think the cultural war against gun ownership has been won and the midterms are coming up which could halt the progress made so far. The mindset that Americans can’t be trusted with firearms or should only be allowed to defend themselves with a limited set of comparatively ineffective arms maybe temporarily contained, but hardly vanquished. The money flowing from Michael Bloomberg and George Soros to politicians who support civilian disarmament will continue unrelentingly while…