“I’d say we’re selling eight to ten times as many firearms each day as we were prior to this [legislative] session starting,” Mitchell Tyler, Stateside Tactical co-owner—located in Roanoke, Va.—told WDBJ television. “That is going to change, though, after July 1st, because many of the most popular firearms that are commonly in use in Virginia are becoming unavailable.” “Right now, our new governor is the best gun salesman that we have,” Lee Starr, an employee at Windy Valley Forge & Armory in Marion, Va., told News 5 TV. “I mean every time we get something new it flies off the shelf. We…

Imagine yourself alone or with your family or a small group where you suddenly and without warning find yourself in a situation where a mob of irritated humans (perhaps “peaceful protesters”) start forming up around you and appear hostile. What are some recommended courses of action you can take on foot, at home or in a vehicle to reduce risk, break contact and get to safety? First off, you want to approach mob defense as a proactive measure followed by reactive measures (if needed). Before entering a potential threat area, do your homework and look for any upcoming events, protests,…

John Browning’s masterpiece 1911 remains a popular self-defense and concealed-carry handgun that sometimes overshadows his other masterpiece handgun, the High Power. Just as the slide and barrel of the full-size 1911 is sometimes shortened to make it more concealable, Springfield Armory is taking its SA-35 pistol and offering it with a shortened 4-inch barrel.  Springfield Armory is offering a new compact 4-inch barrel version of the SA-35, the company’s take on a Browning High Power. The idea to do a Commander-esque chop job on a High Power pistol originated with Argentinean manufacturer Fabricaciones Militares (FM). In the 1970s, the company…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host Tony Peterson. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, welcome to the Wire to Hunt Foundation’s podcast, which has brought to you by first Light. I’m your host, Tony Peterson, and today’s episode is all about who you keep in your white tail circle and whether you’re better off hunting alone. As I get older, I find…

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00:00:01 Speaker 1: The famous geographic dictum space plus culture equals place is nowhere more vivid than on the high plains of the West, where a succession of human cultures have repeatedly inhabited a setting already changed by previous inhabitants. I’m dan Flor’s and this is the American West, thinking about big history in one Western place. On a blessery gray day in March twenty years ago, Stephen Ranella and I spent an afternoon giving ourselves a tour of a piece of the West that ought to be as famous as Jamestown or Plymouth Rock. Stephen was then working on…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show everyone. This week we’re covering how Randall does not understand sports after all. We’re gonna talk about yet another Forest Service management controversy. We’re gonna get into what tracking collars can tell us about bobcats, some things about lost arrow etiquette, more on the Catalina Island mule deer eradication program. And Alaska announces a mountain lion season. Of all things, all they need now are mountain lions. Well that’s not true, because they’ve maybe got a couple mountain lions. But they got a mountain lion season, plus a whole lot more. But…

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So you are living in a societal collapse and something breaks. Let’s say that your generator dies. You’ve gotta fix it. The following describes what have I learned about fixing things: I used to go through the repair process in my mind a few hundred times. I would pull the cover by loosening two screws, then unbolt the coil with a socket wrench. Then pull the coil and inspect for a broken winding. But first of all, I must borrow my friend’s socket set. I have learned over the years that the most efficient route is often to just tear…

On April 7, 1902 the Texas Oil Company (Texaco) was formed. — On April 7, 1994, Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a moderate Hutu, was assassinated by Hutu soldiers—a day after the deaths of Juvénal Habyarimana, president of Rwanda, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, president of Burundi—as Rwanda entered a period of anarchy and genocidal killings. — April 7th is the birthday of Colonel Bob Denard (born 1929, died October 13, 2007). He had an amazing life as a mercenary, including four attempted coups in the Comoros.  The 2011 film Mister Bob is a slightly fictionalized account of his earliest mercenary adventures…