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[caption id="attachment_3143" align="alignnone" width="750"] People wait in line to fill gas cans at a Hess Gas Station in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, in Secacus, New Jersey. EPA/PETER FOLEY[/caption] by Frank Sharpe Fortress Defense Consultants To all,James Yeager of Tactical Response just sent this note out: "I am getting reports…

[caption id="attachment_1827" align="alignnone" width="556"] Photo courtesy mchenrycountyblog.com.[/caption] Public service to our members Traffic-trap suburbs (GunNews) -  Not only is Chicagoland a dangerous place to live or visit, home of the highest local sales taxes in the nation, and the nation’s top city for traffic enforcement cameras but it also sports…

[caption id="attachment_2549" align="alignnone" width="630"] Evanston PD 3-star Chief Eddington.  Clearly, he's inferior to a 4- or 5-star police chief.Photo by Evanstonnow.com.[/caption]   Evanston Police are working on putting together a gun buyback which will pay market value on "high end" firearms turned in. There are a couple of catches. It's…

Ok, so you purchased your gun. You took some training. You feel confident. Now what? What will you do at 2am when the door gets kicked in? How will you respond in all of the confusion? Will you remember where your gun is? Will you remember how to load it?…

Hey hey hey. Looks like Red Jacket Firearms is in need of some new help to contribute to their abortion work at their shop. Maybe their last gunsmith ran off with the boss guy's daughter or maybe he just got fired. But if you're really good, and can impress the…

[caption id="attachment_3124" align="alignnone" width="635"] Photo by NY Daily News.[/caption] With hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers still cleaning up and without power from the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy meeting up with a Nor'easter storm, cold, dark and unarmed while looters ply their criminal trade in homes and businesses, their billionaire…

[caption id="attachment_3115" align="alignnone" width="620"] People Bank President David W. Thompson of Troy, Mo., poses on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2012, at the entrance to his bank with the sign he put up announcing that the bank is a concealed carry bank. Thompson always carries a gun. On Tuesday, Thompson stopped a…

  [caption id="attachment_3119" align="alignnone" width="600"] University of Colorado Boulder Economics Advisor Ken Bonetti holds a sign that he previously had posted on his door to his office, stating "absolutely no guns", but after administrators told him he couldn't have his sign, he posted a new one asking not to bring…

During Hurricane Sandy, we learned a lot about what our fellow citizens are made of. We learned of their character and in some cases, their character defects. There were many brave people serving those who were trapped and in need of help, there were also those who were preying on…

[caption id="attachment_2995" align="alignnone" width="472"] Promo material for The Hunger Games movie.[/caption] by John Boch Lots of folks have raved over The Hunger Games series of books by Suzanne Collins. I'll be the first to admit I don't keep current on the trash coming out of Hollywood in general but during…