Tim Sundles covers the .454 Casull. Honestly, the .44 magnum is so stout to shoot I’m not sure I want a .454 Casull handgun. But really, I do.

I’d absolutely love to have that Rossi lever action gun in .454 Casull, but that caliber in a lever action rifle is literally unobtanium. It simply can’t be gotten anywhere for any price.

I don’t think Rossi does a very good job of keeping stocks high. They’d do better if they knew how much folks would want one of these rifles in .454 Casull.

But it would look much better in walnut.

Steve Bannon is the smartest man in American politics. With discussion about the Monroe Doctrine as it applies to the Americas today.

Not our war. Our war is on the southern border and with international cartels. Some on the northern border too. And with China. Mostly with China. Folks should stay focused. Ukraine is a distraction the legacy media wants you to watch.

— CaptainsJournal (@BrutusMaximus50) April 23, 2025

A bit of good news. It’s about time.

🚨BREAKING🚨
@AGPamBondi's 2nd Amendment Task Force has withdrawn DOJ's anti-gun position in New York v. Arm or Ally.

Recently rogue bureaucrats advanced a Biden-era lawsuit by weaponizing the VanDerStok ruling against gun manufacturers ex post facto, drawing GOA's criticism. https://t.co/ZGlwzcq6IF pic.twitter.com/ZYUthRnUqQ

— Gun Owners of America (@GunOwners) April 22, 2025

What will happen in the Snope v. Brown case, with it having been distributed for conference twelve times now?

Yep. I think there’s a good chance we get a Caetano-like per curiam in Snope.

— Stephen (@Stambo2A) April 22, 2025

Source.

One company to have sprung up since the conflict began is Himera, which makes electronic warfare-resistant walkie-talkies.

Its products include the G1 Pro — a tactical handheld radio — and the B1 repeater, which extends communication ranges.

Despite only having launched in 2022, the company has quickly caught the attention of the defense tech industry, as well as the US military.

The product’s major selling point is that it offers a potential solution to one of the defining challenges of the war in Ukraine — electronic warfare.

Its products include the G1 Pro — a tactical handheld radio — and the B1 repeater, which extends communication ranges.

Despite only having launched in 2022, the company has quickly caught the attention of the defense tech industry, as well as the US military.

The product’s major selling point is that it offers a potential solution to one of the defining challenges of the war in Ukraine — electronic warfare.

The G1 is EW-resistant, using frequency-hopping technology to help evade electronic warfare interference, which seeks to disrupt and jam certain signals like GPS, radio, and video.

Reticulate Micro, which supplies Himera’s radios in the US, announced the first US delivery of G1 Pro radios to the US Air Force in October 2024.

The company said the Air Force would test the G1 Pro alongside Reticulate’s Video Assured Secure Transmission (VAST) technology, which delivers real-time video streaming.

“We take the best from both worlds,” he said. “We provide all the tactical relevant functionality like low probability of detection, low probability of interception, and low probability of jamming, which you don’t find in commercial spec solutions.”

Cool. When do I get to buy one? Here is the web site. It’s not clear whether this would be import-controlled.

My last day in Vietnam.

Eyewitness account of the Alamo.  I had not actually know how brutal, bloody, and awful that battle was, with no quarter given or asked for.

The siege of Bastogne.

Operation Market Garden.

GOA.

Gun Owners of America (GOA) is proud to announce the successful passage of SB1360/HB073 in the Tennessee General Assembly—legislation aimed at significantly strengthening legal protections for Tennessee-based members of the firearms industry. The bill, which was backed by GOA, passed both chambers with overwhelming majorities on April 15 and now awaits the governor’s signature. 

This critical legislation enhances Tennessee’s version of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), creating stronger legal immunity for firearm businesses targeted by the radical anti-gun lobby. It sends a clear message: Tennessee is a safe haven for lawful firearms commerce and won’t be used as a collection arm for unconstitutional out-of-state rulings. 

The new bill fortifies the state’s 2023 PLCAA law in multiple ways: 

• Expands legal protections to include additional industry players, including private sellers, suppressor manufacturers, and magazine producers. 

• Prohibits Tennessee courts from recognizing or enforcing out-of-state or foreign court judgments that conflict with Tennessee’s pro-Second Amendment public policy. 

• Penalizes bad-faith litigation by imposing triple damages on out-of-state plaintiffs and their attorneys who attempt to enforce hostile judgments in Tennessee courts—an unprecedented safeguard for gun rights advocates and businesses. 

Doing the work that other states, the FedGov and the courts refuse to do.

Tim Sundles.

I’m still waiting for Tim to acknowledge the 450 SMC (which he may not since that cartridge is made by Double Tap).

This American Rifleman article goes into some depth on the progression of the fight, more so than any history I have seen. I found this rundown on the use of fowling pieces interesting.

In 1770s New England, the dominant civilian arm used for hunting and militia service was the fowler, so named because such arms could be loaded with shot and used for hunting fowl or other small game. Additionally, fowlers could also be loaded and fired with larger round balls when hunting medium-size game or being used for militia service. To facilitate the use of both shot and ball, fowlers had smooth bores instead of rifled bores, a configuration that not only allowed for various kinds of ammunition but was also significantly easier, and therefore less expensive, to produce. Civilian fowling pieces, due to their commercial and personal nature, varied widely in terms of their configuration, barrel length and bore size. Guns being used for militia service were required to have a certain barrel length (noted in some records as being at least 36”) to account for the fact that soldiers firing in a rear rank would require a gun long enough to reach past the men in the front rank without endangering them. Many New England fowlers of the period had extraordinarily long barrels, too, with some of them reaching 55” or more in length. Bore sizes varied, too, with guns ranging from below .50 caliber and exceeding .80 caliber, in some cases. Generally speaking, most New England fowlers had bore sizes around .62 caliber, and many recovered musket balls fired on April 19 are of a size that suggest they were fired from .62-cal. muzzleloaders.

Shotguns have always been a part of warfare ever since the invention of fowlers.

BLUF: We do what we do for the lawyers and the litigious society in which we live.