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The Brief: A property dispute in Lehigh Acres, Florida, escalated when Eddie Jordan II attacked a resident with a pickaxe. After being knocked to the ground, the resident shot Jordan in the leg in self-defense. Following a secondary dispute days later, law enforcement officers arrested Jordan near a local convenience store. Jordan was charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Investigators ruled the resident’s use of force justified under Florida self-defense laws, as the resident faced an imminent, potentially fatal threat while pinned on the ground beneath an armed assailant. LEHIGH ACRES, FL — A confrontation over property boundaries…
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Editor’s Note: In today’s article, Yamil Sued reviews the XS Sights R3D 2.0 night sights for the Springfield Echelon. But, how do they perform? Read on to get Sued’s take on them. The sights were provided by the company to Sued for review. I’ve been a big fan of tritium night sights for a long time. Any time I test a new every day carry (EDC) pistol, the first questions I ask are: Does it come with tritium night sights, or can I easily find an aftermarket set for it? The author’s Echelon 4.5F wearing a fresh set of XS…
Last week, we warned that America’s fuel system was heading into refinery maintenance season with dangerously little room for another major disruption.Then another disruption showed up.Exxon Mobil’s Joliet refinery outside Chicago lost power Sunday and shut down. As of Friday morning, it still wasn’t running, and Exxon had not given a restart date. The company has since disclosed that floodwater overwhelmed a pump at the refinery, while the original blackout was blamed on storm damage to ComEd power lines.Joliet produces roughly 11 million gallons of gasoline and diesel every day. Five days offline means something on the order of 55…
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Most preparedness plans for putting meat on the table start and end with a rifle. That makes sense until the ammunition runs out. Americans watched that happen in 2020 and 2021, when gun stores had empty shelves and a box of common cartridges cost double what it did a year earlier. A rifle also announces your location to everyone within a mile every time you pull the trigger. That can matter a great deal when times are hard and other people are hungry too.In a world where modern conveniences can quickly disappear in the blink of an eye, the ability…
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In 1969, an armed citizen named Richard Davis shot it out with a trio of armed robbers and survived — but was hit a couple of times during the melee. Deciding that there had to be something better to stop bullets with than one’s own flesh, he conceived soft, concealable body armor and became “the man who bullet-proofed America’s police.” The final Richard C. Davis Pin Shoot was held at the Davis Range in Central Lake, Michigan. Image: Gail Pepin By 1975, his company — Second Chance Body Armor — had saved numerous officers. That year he hosted a party for…
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Photos by Tom Marshall and Match Grade Media Suppressors have exploded in popularity over the last few years due to lower costs, relaxed regulation, and improved technology. But while rifles and pistols are seeing suppressors added right and left, the shotgun has been largely left out of this revolution. This isn’t for no reason, in part because of shotgunners themselves; it’s true that traditionalists never much liked silencers anyway, and many trap shooters remain steadfast in that camp. It’s also true that by their very nature, shotguns present some unique technical challenges when it comes to designing a silencer that…
