Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadDisaster strikes. The grid goes dark. Infrastructure stops. Your kid goes from eating waffles on the couch to hauling buckets of water up the stairs. Your spouse is trying to cook dinner on a camp stove while rationing batteries. And you’re looking around, trying to figure out how to keep everyone moving forward when the world just hit the pause button. That’s the kind of shift families face in any serious disaster — whether it’s a hurricane grinding the coast or a blackout with no end in sight. And it doesn’t just test your…

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Anti-gun Democrat lawmakers in Pennsylvania and pushing forward a handful of measures that would greatly infringe upon the rights of lawful gun owners in the Keystone State. And all five are scheduled to be considered by the House Judiciary Committee very soon. According to an alert by NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), one measure, House Bill 1593, would mandate so-called “universal” background checks, a holy grail item for gun-ban advocates. Of course, since criminals don’t follow gun laws, the only purchasers that would be subject to the “universal” checks are lawful citizens, who don’t use their guns for nefarious…

Trump posted on social media soon after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering of world leaders.“I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form,” Trump wrote. ”With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option.”The strengthened support from Trump, if it sticks, is a huge win for Zelenskyy, who has urged the American president to keep…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Deer hunting year-round is a pipe dream in most places. No matter how hard you hunt or how many states you hit, you have to hang it up eventually. But in the manicured backyards of Virginia’s multimillion-dollar neighborhoods, it’s deer season every day. Taylor Chamberlin discovered this almost by accident. After teaching himself to bowhunt in college, the Northern Virginia native moved back home to join the family real estate business and start his own family. Living in a rural area…

This article was originally published by Emric Egbert at The Mises Institute.  In light of recent developments in New York City, specifically on the recent primary elections and the emergence of self-described democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani as a potential mayoral candidate, as well as the increasingly aggressive public engagement of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in their tour around the United States, and the fact that AOC’s chances of becoming the 2028 Democratic presidential nominee have doubled within one week, it has become clear to me that socialist rhetoric is gaining momentum in American political discourse. This trend is further reflected in…

We reported recently how the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) had gotten involved in the lawsuit challenging Illinois’ ban on so-called “assault weapons.” In the case Barnett v. Raoul, the DOJ not only filed a brief supporting the plaintiffs’ challenge to the law, but also will be participating in oral arguments before the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, DOJ officials have put New Jersey’s ban on common semi-automatic rifles and magazines holding more than 10 rounds directly in their crosshairs. On September 18, the DOJ filed a brief in support of the challenge to the state law in the…

Every few years, gaming’s biggest military shooter franchises collide, and 2025 is shaping up to be another heavyweight bout. This fall, “Call of Duty” and “Battlefield” are going head-to-head once again. Each franchise has long competed to define how virtual combat looks and feels, and each is preparing a major release aimed at capturing players across the globe. But inside the barracks, where troops spend late nights blowing off steam on dusty consoles, the question is simple: Which one will actually win the downtime war?A course correction for ‘Battlefield’Electronic Arts has staked its future on “Battlefield 6,” scheduled to launch…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. Close your eyes and picture your ideal hunt. For some, it will be a sunlit alpine meadow with a bighorn ram bedded under a cliff. For others it’s dawn in a tree stand watching the morning sun rays pierce the hardwoods and light up the rack of a big, old whitetail. I may fantasize about fantastic hunts in perfect weather, but many of my greatest hunting memories were earned in the face of nasty conditions. Luckily, hunters have many options available…

The USS Stockdale arrived in the Caribbean after traveling through the Panama Canal on Monday to support U.S. anti-narcotics operations, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Military Times.The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer replaced the USS Sampson and assumes its mission of helping monitor, detect and halt the illicit flow of narcotics in the area, the official said.There are currently eight Navy vessels assigned to the area, the official confirmed.In addition to the Stockdale, the USS Jason Dunham, USS Gravely, USS Iwo Jima, USS Fort Lauderdale, USS San Antonio, USS Lake Erie and USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul are stationed in the U.S.…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. The lottery for Florida’s upcoming black bear hunt ended Monday at midnight with 163,459 applications submitted for just 172 tags, according to numbers provided to Outdoor Life by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Some of those applications, however, came from anti-hunters who have no interest in harvesting a bear and are hoping instead to keep tags away from legitimate hunters. Because the lottery allowed people to submit an unlimited number of applications for $5 each, it’s hard to say…

The Pentagon has announced plans to terminate a 75-year-old advisory committee serving female service members, citing a “divisive” and harmful agenda — days after a previous memo established plans for reactivating it.A Sept. 17 memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and reviewed by Military Times directs the “formal disestablishment” of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services.“After further review, I have determined that the reinstatement of the Defense Advisory Committee for Women in the Services (DACOWITS) should not proceed,” Hegseth wrote in the memo, addressed to the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and the director…

Ignoring the obvious question of how anyone could create a “vaccine” for a metabolic disease, Russia has said it’s done it and it’ll be available this fall. The new cancer vaccine is a personalized treatment designed to target malignant tumors using the patient’s own genetic information. If cancer is truly a metabolic disease, as science is discovering, then how can a “vaccine” prevent it? A vaccine is defined as a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease by stimulating the body’s immune system to recognize and destroy specific pathogens or their components. Developed with the help of artificial…

KP-15 Side Folder Mil-Spec FCG Complete Buy Now KE Arms makes a unique monolithic polymer lower for the AR15 platform. They’re one piece units that include the core receiver, the pistol grip and the fixed A1 length buttstock. The monolithic design provides the strength that typical polymer receivers don’t have and alleviates the common issue of cracking where the receiver extension (the buffer tube) screws in. Another way around that is to get rid of the buffer tube altogether. That’s what KE Arms did with their new lowers. They designed them for bufferless uppers like Brownells BRN-180 or the Foxtrot…

The U.S. Navy’s senior military officer provided updates Monday on how he will leverage the service’s personnel and infrastructure for a war-fighting advantage.Adm. Daryl Caudle, who became the 34th chief of naval operations on Aug. 25, framed his expectations for the enhanced technical competence of service members in an administrative message to sailors.“To keep pace with the proliferation of technology and the global evolution of threats, we are enhancing the quality of our curricula,” Caudle said. “Empowered by timely action and responses from our Navy’s top leaders, we will inculcate a culture of continuous learning that delivers world-class, modernized and…

U.S. Central Command announced a new task force Tuesday that it hopes will speed up and simplify the process of equipping units with combat-ready technology. The new organization, the Rapid Employment Joint Task Force, will be led by CENTCOM’s chief technology officer, Joy Shanaberger, and will focus on synthesizing logistics for capability, software and tech diplomacy. “The new task force will synergize existing efforts among our Service components and support Secretary Hegseth’s drive to rapidly equip our warriors,” Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander, said in a release.The task force, which will bring together a wide variety of specialists with backgrounds…

There aren’t many certainties when it comes to the murder of Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative mouthpiece and creator of Turning Point USA. But one thing is for certain: a .300-06 bullet did not kill him or “lodge under the skin” of his neck. We’ve all heard the mainstream media’s recent “Man of Steel” comments about Kirk. They claim his bone was so healthy that a .30-06 round was lodged under the skin of his neck. If you’re calling bullshit, you know more about ballistics than the Federal Bureau of Investigation. RangeDayBro made an excellent video detailing the obvious lies…

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll says he is locked in a “holy war” on Capitol Hill as he works to convince lawmakers to grant the service more flexible funding authority for electronic warfare, unmanned aerial systems and counter-drone efforts.The resistance Driscoll has encountered in his first eight months in the job is part of a longstanding tension between the Pentagon and Congress over the trust and oversight of taxpayer dollars.Unstable leadership cycles and inconsistent funding have pushed contractors into cost-plus arrangements, Driscoll explained, while congressional skepticism has only grown in the wake of failed modernization programs.“We have 1,400 [to] 1,500 line…

Sign up for the Outdoor Life Newsletter Get the hottest outdoor news—plus a free month of onX Hunt Elite. This story, “World-Record Whitetail?” appeared in the May 1992 issue of Outdoor Life. The Koberstein buck grossed 235 5/8 inches, netted 207 2/8 and was expected to replace the Jordan Buck as the new world-record typical whitetail. But a panel of scorers ruled the G6 points abnormal and dropped its net typical score to 188 3/8. “Before the dust settled it was determined that Mr. Koberstein’s buck was incorrectly measured and should have been scored as a non-typical,” the Boone and…

A bell rings. Men carrying thick bamboo poles as “rifles” with U.S.A. painted on their bare chests begin to march, in lockstep, toward a clearing in the forest. The man-made clearing is a rough opening meant to be a landing strip. Awaiting the “soldiers” is a wooden replica of a light aircraft. “On one side of the strip lies a control tower made of bamboo,” writes sapiens.org. “On the other sits a satellite dish built of mud and straw. Undeterred by the apparent lack of any actual aviation technology, some of the men light torches and place them alongside the…