Publisher’s Note: ” Skip is one of my best friends and he is our Village Armorer. He is quite expert in the technical and arcane aspects of building and maintaining the teeth of Liberty. He compiled this brief but detailed primer on building one of these handy little rifles. I am an Appleseed Instructor […]
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Publisher’s Note: Okay, time for a deep dive into the tactical. The point of departure is this paper by Army Maj. Thomas Ehrhart, Increasing Small Arms Lethality in Afghanistan: Taking Back the Infantry Half-Kilometer (.pdf), written last year at the Command and General Staff College, that says fighting in Afghanistan has exposed the fact that
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Publisher’s Note: I have often had a sneaking suspicion that big business is a creature and consort of big government. As Armentano has taught us, monopolies cannot exist absent government intervention to erect legal barriers to competition. It is becoming increasingly evident that this may be truer than I initially suspected. A revolution is brewing
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Linda was kind enough to respond to the MZB article two weeks ago in her inimitable and prodigious style. Where she finds the time to pen these insightful ripostes, I don’t know. I take minor issue with the readiness condition of “Erma” but Linda provides yet another mountain of food for thought. -BB A great
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Publisher’s Note: Linda and I are friends and I love her writing. She subliminally channels the connection between slavery and the state; the confluence between abolition and the necessary move toward secession. This is a divorce from evil and tyranny, the very muse which caused me to start the site in the first place. Read
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Publisher’s Note: I thought this was exceptionally well crafted by the author. He poses in stark and rather alarming terms the framework the Doomsteaders will face in the comping collapse. We have existed in a society for so long informed by the creed of living on other people’s wealth without their consent for so long
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If you haven’t, please review Part 1 of this series. Section I: Basics, Basics, Basics No matter what occurs, you are going to need water, food and shelter. For water and food, you must determine how much per person, per day and how many days of supply should be required. Keeping bottled water on hand
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Pivoting off our last post in the series, let’s talk today about assessing your required capabilities. Jim Rawles, who puts the style in the preparedness lifestyle, has had many articles that touch on specific capabilities assessments, such as this one and this one. What we’ll be talking about today is the general theory and practice
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Under pressure from Congress, and complaints from those on the pointy end of things, Natick Soldier Systems undertook a study to evaluate current camouflage patterns and the results have just been published. The results may shock a few of you. The stunningly obvious comment, via Soldier Systems, from a retired SF Warrant: “Nothing earth shattering; desert
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Here is the other half of my interview with Ernie in Phoenix. We discussed the Constitution, the Articles of Confederation and the sorry state of America. This was the first time I was in an actual studio instead of on the phone. It is hard to believe the amount of work that goes into producing
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