Recreational gun owners have been shooting in national forests for years, but the practice is under threat due to increasing conflicts between gun owners and conservationists. Officials in several states have launched efforts to restrict shooting on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management enacted a two-year ban on target shooting in the Lake…
Important Changes to Texas Knife Laws Coming Sept. 1
Gilbert, AZ -(AmmoLand.com)– Several Texas cities, including San Antonio and Corpus Christi, will see their restrictive knife laws voided as of September 1st when Texas House Bill 905 — Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption bill — takes effect. The new law invalidates all municipal and county knife ordinances more restrictive than state law,…
Ammo Field Test: Freedom Munitions .45 ACP 230gr XTP Hornady
Freedom Munitions recently sent me their .45ACP 230gr Hornady XTP Hollow-Point load to field test for you guys. Just as a little background, here is a break down of Hornady’s XTP Bullet, to put it bluntly, she is one nasty round and I DO NOT want to get shot with it! From Freedoms ballistics data page…
Ammo Field Test: Gorilla Ammunition .308 175gr SMK Review
Recently I received some .308 175gr Sierra Match King Ammo from Gorilla Ammunition to field test. This was my first time using any of their ammo, so I was quite excited to see how it performed. First a little background and ballistic data direct from Gorilla Ammo’s Site: The Gorilla Ammunition 308 Winchester features…
RFID Microchips in Clothing (Part 2)
“I’d Rather Go Naked” Spyware vs. Spy Wear: Emergence of RFID Microchips in Clothing In part 1 of our story, we discussed how clothing manufacturers have started to embed RFID microchips into their apparel. These chips are sensors that cannot be turned off and — with readily available readers — can be used to track information about the consumer…
RFID Microchips in Clothing (Part 1)
They say “Clothes make the man”…what happens when “Clothes reveal everything about the man?” The Emergence of RFID Microchips in Clothing (Part 1) Imagine walking into a store you have never previously visited and a clerk walks up to you and asks, “How are those size 36 Dockers pants working out for you? Would you…
Remembering Mr. SMOLES for the Utilitarian Pragmatist that he was!
Yeah I know this is Mr. Burns, but you will get the joke as you read on…. Since the general feeling around the national campfire has been one of concern and worry as of late, I thought it a relevant and necessary article to review something that is actually practical and useful, instead of prognosticating…
Mr. Robot’s Black Hat Bag of Tricks
Note: For all you Mr. Robot fans like myself who were looking forward to tonight’s Season Finale, bad news: 1 Update on 8/26/2015 at 5:01 p.m. ET: The season finale of Mr. Robot was scheduled to air tonight at 10 p.m. ET, but USA Networks announced just before 5 p.m. that it was holding the…
Beware of Fake Tourniquets!
A Fake Tourniquet Could Cost Your Life! Counterfeit tourniquets, of all things. On July 14, 2015, an Ocean City, New Jersey patrolman applied a tourniquet to an 18-year old traffic victim’s leg. This action is credited with saving her life. On August 8, 2015, a Florida deputy sheriff investigator used a tourniquet to save the…
Acoustic Kitty: More Weird Cold War Spy-Gear
By Luis A. Mercado Ever wished you could talk to animals to find out what they know? Well, so did the CIA. During the Cold War, when espionage was the stage for many of the ways the U.S. and the Soviets tried to one-up each other, the latest project of choice was, “Acoustic Kitty”. “Acoustic…