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Armed Citizen® Today A July road-rage incident ended when the armed victim opened fire on his assailant, stopping the man’s assault and leading to his death. The early-morning incident began when, at 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 6, when the 35-year-old driver of an Audi overtook a Prius and forced the car up onto a curb after pursuing it for two blocks. The driver of the Audi then exited his vehicle, armed with a metal baseball bat, approached the Prius and began striking the driver’s side door of the car with the bat. The driver of the Prius, fearing for…

Sturm, Ruger & Co. is making friends all over the place. For, in manufacturing as in life, who you know can be just as important as what you know. Quickly proving that the company’s partnership with Magpul to design and produce the capable RXM 9 mm Luger semi-automatic pistol was no mere one-off, Ruger introduced the second member of its burgeoning RX series of intra-industry collaborations at this year’s NRA Annual Meetings with the announcement of the two-model RXD suppressor line. And, yet again, Ruger’s choice of dance partner illustrates just how much care and deliberation the gunmaker is putting…

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JWR’s Introductory Note:  At just over 20,000 words, this is perhaps the longest single-topic contributed article ever serialized in SurvivalBlog. I consider it an important piece to ponder.  Please read all seven parts before sending your comments. I will post most of them in the Snippets column on October 29th. — I want to start with a brief but sincere thank you to all the article writers I have learned from here at SurvivalBlog.com. Your efforts have made a difference for me and many others. I hope my contribution can have a similar benefit to others. Thank you. Let me…

On October 20, 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara established the Tokugawa clan as Japan’s rulers (Shoguns.) — October 20, 1634: King of England Charles I levied the “Ship Money” tax on all English and Welsh counties. — October 20, 1906: Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube. (Soon commonly called a radio tube.) — Today is the birthday of the late Tom Petty. (Born October 20, 1950, died October 2, 2017). He was a great singer-songwriter and a passable actor. — Today is also the birthday of shootist Ed McGivern (born 1874, died December 12, 1957.) He was born…