The pistol red dot market is a highly competitive one, so any brand that wants to carve out a slice of market share must continuously adapt or die. Those of us who carry red-dot-equipped pistols every day have come to expect more than just a common mounting footprint and adequate reliability. In order to stand out, more manufacturers are placing increased emphasis on subtle refinements to the housing designs, controls, and features of their red dot sights. The new Steiner MPS 2.0 is not a revolutionary redesign of the original MPS, which was released back in 2021. Instead, it’s exactly…
The Brief: A shooting near an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, resulted in three deaths and two injuries on Saturday. Multiple law enforcement agencies responded to the scene, and survivors were transported to St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center for emergency care. Authorities lifted a shelter-in-place order after determining there was no ongoing threat to the community. Major transit routes, including the Perrine Bridge, remain closed for the investigation, though police are not searching for a suspect. Residents are advised to avoid the area and the hospital campus. This is a developing story. TWIN FALLS, ID — A bustling…
When we first covered the coordinated attacks against more than 30 Minnesota water systems, we were careful not to claim that anyone had tried to poison the water. Nobody had confirmed that, and we were not going to turn a serious story into clickbait by inventing details authorities had not released. At that point, all we knew was that someone had gotten into the systems, interfered with pumps and controls, and knocked water plants offline across multiple communities.That caution is no longer necessary.They Were Not Trying to Shut Off the Water. Police Say They Were Trying to Contaminate It.A memo…
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I used to love working at the VA hospital. Just like everything Uncle Sam does, the Veterans Administration is bloated, inefficient, and frustrating. However, back when I worked there as a physician we still had a proper crop of World War II veterans who needed inpatient care. That was Candyland for a history nerd like me. The M4 Sherman was one of the most effective tanks of the war. However, it was still a terribly dangerous place to be in a serious scrap. Image: NARA On the rare evening when we weren’t neck deep in chaos, all it took was an…
The Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that it will be selling true military surplus M14 rifles to the public.In a surprising but exciting twist, the Civilian Marksmanship Program has just announced that the organization has received special authorization to begin selling surplus military M14 rifles. Why is it surprising? Because the ATF has long held the position that any receiver that was once a machine gun is always a machine gun. Because original military M14s were built as select-fire rifles, most people never expected that they’d be able to be legally sold on the civilian market. Seemingly, at least…
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Federal just gave Creedmoor its man card with 6.5 Creedmoor +PEAK. Here’s what you should know about it.In June of this year, Federal introduced one of the most significant advancements we’ve seen in metallic cartridges since maybe … well, forever. Their new +PEAK loads for the 6.5 Creedmoor have given that cartridge somewhere between a 250- to 300-fps velocity boost. Granted, we’ve seen what are commonly called “+P, Superformance, or Lite Magnum” ammunition advancements before, and all those loads offered a slight velocity advantage by virtue of the use of more or different powders.However, +PEAK ammo not only provides a…
The Hi-Power, a single-action, double-stack 9mm service pistol, was John Moses Browning’s final design. In fact, it was completed after his death by his protégé, Dieudonné Saive. Browning left behind an indomitable legacy in the world of firearms, and while many of his guns are extremely well known around the globe, the Hi-Power may be one of the most famous. Its prominence was overshadowed in the United States by our affinity for the 1911, but in the rest of the world, the Hi-Power is one of the most prolific and loved military pistols of all time. Now, the design is…
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A coordinated cyberattack targeted more than 30 community water systems across Minnesota on July 26 and 27, but the story did not stop at the Minnesota state line.By Thursday, July 30, the FBI was warning that water and wastewater utilities in at least seven states had reported similar incidents. Some of those attacks did more than knock out a computer screen or inconvenience an office worker. According to the FBI, the attackers disrupted water operations, caused pressure loss, triggered flooding, locked operators out of equipment and forced utilities to run portions of their systems manually.This is what years of warnings…
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Pull up almost any 20- or 30-year emergency food list and you will see the same collection of staples: wheat, white rice, corn, sugar, dried beans, pasta, rolled oats, potato flakes, powdered milk and dehydrated vegetables. Properly packaged and stored under the right conditions, some of these foods can remain usable for decades. That part is not necessarily wrong.What almost nobody points out is that practically everything on those lists is extremely low in fat.That is the real reason these foods last so long. They are not magical survival foods that somehow resist time. They are mostly dry carbohydrates with…
“Practically every one of our dead was found with his rifle torn down next to him where he had been trying to fix it.” — Excerpt from a letter written by Marine in 1966 to his family after a firefight in Vietnam. A U.S. serviceman in Vietnam with an early M16. There were many stories of soldiers and Marines having problems with the earliest models of this rifle in the field. Was it the design’s fault? Parts of this Marine’s letter was read by Rep. James J. Howard (D-N.J.) to the House. At first, there were reports circulating in the…
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