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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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Rost Martin has just launched the RM1X pistol series featuring three distinct model variants.Rost Martin is continuing to expand its RM1 pistol family, this time with the RM1X series. The new series features three distinct models that are tailored to different roles and tasks. However, all RM1X models feature a full-size grip, a compact slide, and a 17+1 capacity of 9mm with flush-fit mags. Each pistol ships with one 17-round mag and one extended 19-round mag.The RM1CX Standard combines the capacity and grip space of a full-size handgun with a more concealable barrel and slide length. This model is ideal…
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As Americans Struggle with gas prices and rising inflation, the Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion taxpayer-funded weapons sale to Israel, including 40,000 2,000-pound bombs.American families are getting hammered by another round of rising energy costs, with diesel now well above $6 a gallon nationally, gasoline climbing again, and crude oil back above $100 a barrel. At the same time, Washington is preparing another massive weapons package for Israel, this one reportedly worth $2.8 billion and containing tens of thousands of some of the largest conventional bombs in the U.S. arsenal.According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the national…
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Patrick De Haan has been tracking fuel prices for GasBuddy since 2011. He has worked through refinery fires, hurricanes, COVID and the 2022 diesel spike, and he is the guy reporters call when pump prices start going crazy and they need somebody to explain what is actually happening.This week he pulled up the diesel spot market and posted a meme that said MOTHER OF GOD. Then he said he was speechless.After that, he got specific. De Haan warned on X that $7 a gallon diesel is now a real possibility in the days ahead, and he named where it hits…
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On September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report and the headlines practically wrote themselves. Employers added 162,000 jobs, nearly three times the 56,000 economists expected. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. Financial television called it a rebound, the stock tickers turned green, and the story was over by lunch.Buried further down in that same report were some numbers that tell a very different story about what is happening to working Americans. The number of people who have been out of work for 27 weeks or longer jumped by roughly 155,000 in a single month, to…
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The names of firearms designers such as John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov and Eugene Morrison Stoner are synonymous with iconic firearms. Stoner was a prolific firearms designer who was responsible for the AR-7 U.S. Air Force survival rifle, the AR-10 rifle, the SR-25, and, of course, the AR-15 and M16 rifles. A member of a U.S. Navy SEAL team armed with a Stoner 63 uses caution as he watches for any movement in the thick wooded area along a stream. Image: U.S. Navy Stoner was born in Gosport, Indiana, and eventually moved to Long Beach, California. Since there was no money…
