In January, JPMorgan Chase joined Citigroup and Bank of America in rescinding policies discriminating against lawful businesses in the firearm industry—in this case, reversing their policy against lending to rifle manufacturers. This policy, along with many similar ones, was a legacy artifact from the Obama administration’s “Operation Choke Point,” which applied political pressure to encourage the “debanking” of the firearms industry. As explained on nraila.org at the time, both the DOJ and FDIC pushed an anti-gun agenda on banks, suggesting regulatory problems might result should they continue to do business with pro-Second Amendment organizations. They introduced “reputational risk” as a…

Hybrid-frame 2011-style pistols with double-column magazines are a bit of a thing now. While Alpha Foxtrot, the Georgia-based subsidiary of Korean manufacturer Dasan, makes those, too (along with traditional single-stack 1911s), in 2022, the company came out with something different. Its 1911-S15 was a compact 1911-style pistol based around the Shield Arms S15 magazine. New for 2026, Alpha Foxtrot is updating the 1911-S15 with the Attila. Like the 1911-S15, the Attila is a 9 mm Luger pistol that is a single-action, hammer-fired semi-automatic with a manual external thumb safety and grip safety, like a traditional 1911. Where it differs from…

For more than half a century, the U.S. Army’s standard infantry rifle has undergone a remarkable transformation, from the battle rifles of the World War II era to the compact, modular carbines carried by soldiers today. This evolution reflects advances in technology, as well as hard-won lessons from jungle warfare in Vietnam, urban combat in Iraq and counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan. Watch our “American Rifleman Television” feature segment above to hear the story of U.S. military small arms development from the 1950s until the present day. The M14: Refining a LegendBy the late 1950s, the M1 Garand, which had served…

00:00:07 Speaker 1: This podcast. 00:00:10 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet Eater Trivia, the only game show where conservation always wins. I’m your host, Spencer Newhart, and today we’re joined by Jannis, Randall, Brody, Laura, Nate and Marge. This is a ten round quiz show with questions from meat eaters for verticals which are hunting, fishing, conservation, and cooking. And there’s a prize. Meat Eater will donate five hundred dollars to the conservation organization of the winner’s choosing. For our last set of the week, we looked at performance in the hunting category over the last year. As a reminder,…

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Editor’s Introductory Note: The following is a re-post of a 2007 SurvivalBlog article. Given the recent spike in gasoline and diesel fuel prices, I thought that is was apropos to re-post a few articles related to fuel from SurvivalBlog’s early days. — The world runs on petroleum. Imagine a post-apocalyptic period when the local gas station is closed, and has been for two years. How will you carry out your daily activities? Generate electricity? Pump water? Plow your garden, or fields? All of these can be done by hand, and have been for thousands of years. Modern life has given…

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On March 18, 1850, Henry Wells & William Fargo formed American Express, in Buffalo, New York. — March 18, 1911: North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law. — And on March 18,1925: The Great Tri-State Tornado, a monstrous F5 (over 300 MPH) tornado roared 219 miles across southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and southwest Indiana. It killsed 695, injured over 2000, and destroyed 15,000 homes. — Today’s feature article is a piece from teh SurvivalBlog archives. — We need of entries for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $981,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we…

Just several months after moving to Kenai, Alaska, Ariean Colton, a mother of three, survived a shocking animal attack. Before heading to work as a medical assistant on the morning of August 26, 2025, Colton woke up early, started her Garmin Watch, and headed outside to go on a jog. Then her memory went black.“I had significant brain damage, so I don’t remember anything, but I can tell you the facts,” Colton told MeatEater. “I started my workout at 5:20 a.m. That’s the same time my neighbor’s camera picked up motion—most likely the bear. At 5:24 a.m. I pushed start…