I’ve always been fascinated at New Orleans, surrounded on all three sides by water at a higher elevation than it is: The Gulf, the Mississippi River, and Lake Pontchartrain. It’s a city that shouldn’t be there except for being a port city at the mouth of the Mississippi river.

So what we apparently know now is that there were five participants, IEDs were emplaced, and an ISIS flag was involved.

Although unrelated to New Orleans (but related to terror and border (in)security, Tren de Aragua is cross-border attacking into the U.S. We’ve intentionally let these people in. This gang is now ensconced in sixteen states.

Meanwhile, the FBI remains laser focused on parents in Virginia who complained to school boards about their children being taught transgenderism.

I told you this was coming, @TPASarah told you this was coming, @RooftopLeader told you this was coming, @realLegendAfg told you this was coming, @AhmadMassoud told you this was coming. Congress funded it (you heard this on my show), we warned them, we warned you. Nobody did a… pic.twitter.com/a3iTZ7Iesb

— Shawn Ryan (@ShawnRyan762) January 1, 2025

Boy this got the comments section lit up with complaints that they didn’t go far enough into the cartridge history, differences in loadings, etc. There’s a lot more information in the comments section.

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Another Texas city is feeling the wrath of an invasive and highly destructive species. The City of Kyle, located just about 20 miles south of downtown Austin is dealing with an “increased presence” of feral hogs. On Tuesday, officials said the Kyle Parks and Recreation Department is actively working within its feral hog trapping contract to devise the best strategy for the removal of the wild pigs. “The city is also exploring additional proactive solutions to mitigate the impact of feral hogs on public land as well as our local ecosystems,” officials said in a statement.

How nice. They are under a contract for trapping. Using this.

So here’s yet another prediction for you. I am a hog hunter and I have studied the hog problem for a long time now. Sounders don’t stay together like the wildlife biologists say they do. You can’t trap them all – I don’t care what the university-trained wildlife biologists are telling you. Boars often run alone because they fight each other when they are together. Sows may be with a lot of other sows, or they may run with one or two. Feral hogs are not like human family units. Please don’t anthropomorphize them. You’re making a mistake and also showing how ignorant you are of hog behavior. This isn’t like Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web. Even the sows fight each other from time to time.

The city won’t fix this problem by trying to trap them. There aren’t enough traps. The trappers are too expensive. You don’t have the money for all of this. If you do this, it must be combined with lethal removal, i.e., hunting. No, not hunting by paid police shooters. There aren’t enough of them. Besides, they need to be locking down the border anyway.

I mean getting hunters after them. $5 per head won’t be enough to get the right amount of interest. You may have to wait for children to get gored by boars with tusks. And your city council is going to have to revisit that whole issue of firearms being discharged within city limits. I know you have such an ordinance because all cities do.

This problem will get fixed, but only when enough people get hurt, enough ranches get destroyed, and city council gets replaced with new members.

It might be that they just stand by and watch you burn to death.

It might be that they arrest you for trying to recover your home from a squatter and tell you to “try to see things from his perspective.”

It might be shooting 84 rounds at a perp, missing with 70 of them which hit various parts and pieces of the neighborhood businesses.

It might be that they beat you literally to death while laughing about it.

NEW: Body-cam footage released showing New York correctional officers smirking as they “fatally beat” a man in handcuffs.

Sickening.

43-year-old Robert Brooks passed away on Dec 10 at Wynn Hospital in Utica, NY.

The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigations… pic.twitter.com/BwLPnOS9fH

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 27, 2024

But it also might be that some numbskull shoots you with your own gun.

Florida resident Jason Arrington was driving near the intersection of 27th Street and Main Street in Jacksonville’s Brentwood neighborhood on Dec. 13 when he did something we’ve all probably been guilty of at one time or another: he ran a red light. An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (JSO) witnessed this action and pulled him over, but the traffic stop didn’t exactly go as planned.

Arrington, who thought he was doing everything correctly, informed the officer that he had a gun on his person — a gun that he owned legally — and  he was asked to step out of his vehicle and put his hands on his truck. Back-up arrived on the scene, and, according to Arrington, the back-up officer began to search him and attempted to remove the gun.

“She tugged on the gun the first time, then she tugged again,” Arrington said in a statement on Friday. “That’s when I told her, ‘Hey, let me unloosen my belt because it’s tight.’ I don’t know, she might have got nervous or whatever and she pulled harder two more times and that’s when it discharged and it shot me in my upper thigh, hip and came out on my right side.”

Arrington also said that didn’t even understand why the officers wanted to remove the gun anyway. He said he posed no threat, and did everything they asked him to do, even keeping his hands on his vehicle after getting shot. While a request has been made to release the bodycam footage, the JSO said it could take six to eight months.

On Friday, the organization announced on X that it is conducting an “active internal affairs investigation.” Typically, when an officer is involved in a shooting, it would conduct what it calls an “administrative review of a critical incident.” The sheriff’s office added, “As is customary in these types of investigations, the officer under investigation may have his or her law enforcement authority rescinded. That authority has been rescinded for this officer and the officer was reassigned to an administrative position until the active internal affairs investigation is complete.”

She should be charged with assault with a deadly weapon, with additional charges or being a stupid ditz and too dumb to hold any sort of job at all.

I’ve said before that anyone – whether gun owner or cop – who touches a gun during an encounter with the police is an idiot. That goes equally and even more so for cops. Besides, a police officer job is inherently safe anyway compared to other occupations.

A man might have modified his weapon. A man might have installed a light trigger. The holster might be a retaining holster. It might be out of the holster. It might be a single-action only gun. It might be a SA/DA gun. It might have a safety. That safety might be engaged, or it might not be.  It might not have a safety.

It might be a 1911 with series 70 design, so not drop safe. It might be a 1911 with series 80 design. A gun might have one in the chamber, or it might not. It might be in a holster that fools the cop into thinking that she doesn’t have her finger on the trigger. I could go on, but you get the point.

Any cop who touches another man’s weapon without there being a clear danger (e.g., a gun fight) is an idiot. She isn’t making things safer. She is making things less safe. Any police department that has as its policy to touch another man’s weapon in routine stops is full of imbeciles. The absolute safest place for a weapon to be is on the person or unmolested. Untouched!

Do … not … touch … the … weapon!

As I’ve said many times before, you’re never in more danger than when the police are around. No situation is so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.

Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King,
peace on earth, and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled!”
Joyful, all ye nations rise,
join the triumph of the skies;
with th’ angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”

Christ, by highest heaven adored;
Christ, the everlasting Lord;
late in time behold him come,
offspring of a virgin’s womb.
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
hail th’ incarnate Deity,
pleased as man with man to dwell,
Jesus, our Emmanuel.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”

Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all he brings,
risen with healing in his wings.
Mild he lays his glory by,
born that man no more may die,
born to raise the sons of earth,
born to give us second birth.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”

Come, Desire of nations, come,
fix in us thy humble home;
rise, the woman’s conquering Seed,
bruise in us the serpent’s head.
Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface;
stamp thine image in its place.
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in thy love.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the new born King!”

Adam’s likeness, Lord, efface,
Stamp Thine image in its place:
Second Adam from above,
Reinstate us in Thy love.
Let us Thee, though lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the inner man:
O, to all Thyself impart,
Formed in each believing heart.
Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King!”

Can be found here.

Occasionally, the courts get one right. In this case, it’s nice to see the court affirm the notion that the FedGov can’t just make up stuff to disarm peaceable men.

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DETAILS ON VENEZUELAN GANGS IN AURORA.

Fingernails ripped out. pic.twitter.com/dmqaxV8m5R

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 18, 2024

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A migrant from Guatemala has been arrested on allegations he lit a sleeping woman on fire inside a Coney Island F train on Sunday morning.

He is suspected of lighting the woman on fire at about 7:30 a.m. on Sunday, then watching her burn to death in a shocking killing just three days before Christmas.

Whether for reasons of control over a population or for the simple, sick pleasure of brutalizing someone, these are the people we’ve let into America.

Remember boys and girls. Government is just another word for the things we choose to do together.

And also remember, these people can just as easily be shot by Marine Corps snipers when they try to cross our sovereign borders as they can be let into the country.

First up is the old timer who takes the minimalist philosophy. He recommends paint thinner, or in other words, mineral spirits. Ernest Langdon also recommends mineral spirits to clean the Beretta 1301.

I do think he left out Copper as one of the things you want to remove. It makes the patches look green when they’re pulled out.

I think hot soapy water is a bit too far for me except for muzzle loaders.

Then there is the data-driven boys from Hornady, who have noted increases in back pressure from guns that weren’t properly cleaned. In the comments I’ve recommended that they release the data and math models, but I suspect they will consider it all proprietary.

Odd one, this is. But I would bet that with a good cleaning and a bit of oil, all four would have functioned flawlessly.

For the record, that white stuff he was asking about is Aluminum corrosion in salt water. Corrosion is a slightly different mechanism that rust, but it can still damage components.

But as I made my way through his video, it occurred to me that looking for what made the guns fail, he looked everywhere but where he needed: the buffer tube.

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A tree well is basically the space under the shadow of the branches of a tree where you will be protected (at least somewhat) from the elements. Tree well shelters are especially great if you can find trees with low-hanging branches, like pines and spruces, that can help block the wind while under them. While tree well shelters can work any time of year, they are particularly useful in winter when the branches of evergreen trees catch and hold a lot of snow, creating a depression underneath the tree with less snow than the surrounding area. While tree wells can be dangerous, especially if you fall into one while skiing, they can also make warm winter shelters that require less work than building a snow mound.

Rather than use the stock photo they include, I’ll include my own from a hiking trip into the Tetons during winter/early spring.

The thought did occur to me that with a tarp or poncho, this would be a sufficient survival shelter. But I would emphasize the danger. I fell into one and almost didn’t make it out.