The Brief: Courtney Price shot Michael McDonald after he forced his way into her Palm Coast home and threatened her and her children. Despite verbal warnings, McDonald advanced on Price, prompting her to fire a single round. The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office ruled the shooting a justified act of self-defense. McDonald fled the scene but was apprehended during a felony traffic stop at a local hospital. He faces charges of burglary with assault and is being held without bond. Authorities cited the incident as a clear case of a homeowner’s right to protect their family within their residence. PALM COAST,…
In this article, Greg Frebourg reviews the Springfield Ronin EMP 9mm pistol. The handgun was loaned to the author by the company for this article. If it quacks like a duck, floats, walks and looks like a duck, well, it is a duck. That common sense saying might be full of wisdom, but it falls short as soon as anyone asks: “what kind of duck?”. Yes indeed, there are many kinds of ducks, and for most people, their differences are anecdotal and only feather deep. In some cases, looking like a duck only goes so far: anybody who tried to…
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One of the best ways to protect yourself and your family during any crisis or disaster is to stay aware of what’s going on around you. That means knowing where to find real-time, unfiltered information, knowing how to decipher it when you receive it, and then coming up with a plan of action based on the best facts available to you at the time.Most people never think about this until the moment they desperately need it. By then it’s too late to figure out which app to download or which frequency to dial in. The time to build your intel-gathering…
So you’re looking to go off the grid, or maybe you just want a backup power system that can carry your home through a long-term grid-down situation. If you’re like most people who email us, you’ve got the same handful of questions:How many solar panels will you need to power your home?How many batteries will it take to keep things running?What can you realistically power with an off-grid solar setup?And what’s this actually going to cost you?I’ve read through thousands of forum threads and talked to more solar installers and off-grid homesteaders than I can count, and here’s the one…
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In 1937, the Curtiss SBC Helldiver entered service, but even at that point, the carrier-based two-seat scout/dive bomber was on the verge of being obsolete. Interestingly, it was also the second aircraft produced by Curtiss-Wright to earn the designation “Helldiver” after the United States Marine Corps’ version of the Curtiss Falcon, operated by the U.S. Navy as the F8C Falcon. Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver of Bombing Squadron Ten (VB-10), USS Intrepid (CV-11), flies over Tientsin, China, as the city is reoccupied by the Allies in September 1945. Image: U.S. Navy The name was recycled just six years later with the Curtiss SB2C…
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The Direct Impingement, or for the pedantic, internal piston system, AR-15 has been around for almost 70 years, with surprisingly few true design improvements made in that time. Accessories have been added, metals and materials have changed dramatically, but fundamentally, the AR-15 of 2026 would be entirely recognizable in 1960, and an AR from the 1960s is surprisingly competitive with an AR today. But if you want a dramatically different change to the AR platform, you can slap a short-stroke gas piston in it. This was the big “advancement” ARs saw in the mid-2000s, but for how prevalent the design…
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You’re three days into a backcountry trip, your filter cartridge just split, and the only water source is a stagnant pond that smells like a wet bag of ass. Or maybe it’s not a trip at all — the tap ran dry after a storm took out the water treatment plant and you’re standing over a 5-gallon bucket of questionable creek water wondering what you actually know how to do about it.Iodine tablets are the answer everybody memorizes and almost nobody actually carries when it counts. They’re slow, they taste like a swimming pool had a baby with a penny,…
In today’s article, Ryan Domke reviews the Savior Specialist Range Bag. This is the author’s personally owned gear bag, and he offers his thoughts on how well it performs. I’ve owned more than my fair share of range bags over the years. Some were bargain-bin finds that barely lasted a season, others held up decently but lacked proper organization features, and some were so floppy you might as well use a plastic grocery bag. The Savior Specialist’s semi-rigid frame and well-planned organization keep shooting gear sorted and within reach when it counts. Over the last few years, I’ve noticed Savior…
The triple-barreled Luftwaffe Drilling is proof that the German air force took its survival guns very seriously.Beginning in World War I, there was a serious debate over how to arm aircrews. Many pilots carried a sidearm before planes were even armed, and the apocryphal story concerning the beginning of aerial combat is that the first “dogfight” was with pistols from passing pilots. This then quickly evolved into rifles—rifles with extended magazines, multiple pistols and then finally (and thankfully) machineguns being usefully mounted on aircraft.As aerial warfare evolved, aircraft were armed with an array of machineguns, cannon, rockets, bombs and eventually…
We certainly don’t choose the cream of the crop when looking for candidates for this column, but every now and then you find something interesting for the right price and people will inquire about carrying it as a woods or backup gun. So, on a visit to the local Cabela’s gun library, a trade came in that wasn’t exactly on our wish list: a single-action M1895 Nagant revolver made in 1902 in Imperial Russia. With a finish in about 80 percent condition and with no pitting, it looked quite a few steps up from the later Commie revolvers made after…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The landscape of federal firearm restrictions has been profoundly reshaped by the nation’s highest court. Delivering the opinion for a unanimous bench, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch struck down a critical provision of the Gun Control Act of 1968, marking a monumental victory for cannabis consumers and the broader Second Amendment community. The ruling represents a stinging defeat for the federal government’s attempt to maintain categorical restrictions on a demographic that now encompasses tens of millions of Americans living in states where cannabis has been fully integrated into local commerce. “Whatever one thinks of these developments, the…
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Charred lodgepoles scratching a gunmetal sky reflected my mood. This morning the elk had won. No plan in mind, I climbed beyond where they’d scattered. Probing the slope’s crest from the sit with my binocular, I saw it. Among ranks of black boles with low-arcing limbs, a branch curved up. The lenses of my 7×35 Bausch & Lomb resolved it. Antler! A 4 o’clock tangle became the bull’s hump — all but hidden by the bead on my .32 Special. After the carbine spoke I scaled the scarp and found blood on hoof-gashed snow. The elk lay 50 yards on.…
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