America is a wonderful place to live. We enjoy great prosperity and far more freedom than the citizens of most other nations. Our right to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution. But, as a union of 50 sovereign States, we also live with a patchwork of laws. Something that is perfectly legal in one State can be a misdemeanor or even a felony in another.  I feel fortunate to live in a very gun-friendly state in the Northern Rockies with permitless open carry, permitless concealed carry, and permitless vehicular carry. Here, nobody blinks an eye when they…

On September 20, 1945, under OSS (and later CIA) Operation Paper Clip and Operation Overcast (1945 to 1959), German rocket scientists began to work in the United States. For the sake of expediency, more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were granted immunity from war crimes prosecution and transported along with their families from the former Nazi Germany to the United States for employment with various government agencies and later, with defense contractors. Under these secretive and later publicly acknowledged and very controversial programs, the German contingent was most conspicuously led by senior scientist Wernher von Braun. (Pictured above,…

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On September 10, the Trump administration announced a proposal to reverse the Public Lands Rule, a Biden administration fingerprint on the Bureau of Land Management that affirmed conservation’s equal-footing status with other uses of BLM lands and established conservation and restoration leasing programs, incentivizing market-based solutions to issues plaguing landscape health and wildlife habitat.But the proposal revealed more than just how Trump’s DOI has misinterpreted the Public Land Rule’s basic functions — which, despite the agency’s claims otherwise, acknowledged preexisting grazing and mineral leases on BLM lands, left room for compatible extractive uses on lands entered into conservation leases, and…

Armed Citizen® Today A burglary that escalated into a full-scale assault ended when the victim defended himself inside of a Boise, Idaho, retail store. At about 9:30 a.m., an 18-year-old woman entered the store and began stealing alcohol when she was confronted by the store’s employee. Immediately following the confrontation, two other suspects entered the store, and all three began assaulting the employee, who was backed into a corner of the store and was “repeatedly punched, kicked and stomped as he remained on the ground,” according to the police report. At that point, the employee drew his firearm and shot…

A substantial search and rescue effort is underway in Southern Colorado after two elk hunters went missing. The hunters—Andrew Porter, a 25-year-old from Asheville, North Carolina, and Ian Stasko, a 25-year-old from Salt Lake City, Utah—have not been heard from since September 11, according to a Facebook post from Porter’s fiancée, Bridget Murphy.“They were hunting in Unit 81 of the Rio Grande National Forest off of the Los Pinos Trailhead and have lost use of [their] Garmin,” wrote Murphy. “While they are experienced hunters, bad storms and fog came in quickly and continuously until Sunday morning.”The hunters were reported overdue…

For most firearm enthusiasts, the Savage 110 is an action that needs little introduction. The design has been in production since 1958, making it the oldest continuously manufactured bolt-action rifle in North America. Even the original Savage 110s were designed to be light and field-friendly, but technology has come a long way in the past 60-plus years, and Savage built in some serious cutting-edge tech on this 110 Ultralite Elite. Watch our video above to get a closer look at this light and fast-handling bolt-action rifle from Savage. The Savage 110 bolt-action rifle platform has been a mainstay for the…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Smell of. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: Welcome to Meet tadcast. 00:00:26 Speaker 3: Hey, everybody, welcome to Meet Eater Radio Live. 00:00:29 Speaker 4: Uh it’s eleven a. I’m here in Bozeman, Montana at Meat Eater h Q. My wife, who just got back from the Dolomites in Italy, still thinks it’s two in the morning, but it’s eleven here. 00:00:40 Speaker 3: I’m your host, Brodie Henderson. 00:00:42 Speaker 4: I’m joined today by your favorite history buff and Frankfurter aficionado, Randall Williams and the world’s foremost wildlife and public lands conservationist Ryan cal Cally. 00:00:54 Speaker…

00:00:05 Speaker 1: Welcome to this country Life. 00:00:06 Speaker 2: I’m your host, Brent Reeves from coon hunting to trot lining and just in general country living. I want you to stay a while as I share my experiences in life lessons. This Country Life is presented by Case Knives from the store More Studio on Meat Eaters Podcast Network, bringing you the best outdoor podcast that airways have to offer. All right, friends, grab a chair or drop that tailgate. I’ve got some stores to share. Gravel roads and treasure. The gravel road was the first step toward…

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