GunBlog VarietyCast Episode 15

• Blue Collar Prepping - Cold weather survival outside the home

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Terrorism

• AlArma - The Entertainment Industries Council thinks you are too stupid and cowardly to use guns

• Tech Tips with The Barron - The importance of offline backups

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - “Gun Death”: Violent Crime

Blue Collar Prepping - Cold weather survival outside the home

• Stuck on New York Interstate for 24 hours: http://mashable.com/2014/11/19/stranded-cars-new-york-snow-interstate/

• Layering:  http://youtu.be/v-7vD1_DrHA

• Wirecutter's Pick - Intocircuit Heavy Duty External Battery Pack Charger for USB charged phones: http://tinyurl.com/Intocircuit

• Levin Sol-Wing 13W Solar Charger: http://tinyurl.com/Sol-Wing

• Cold Weather Considerations: http://bluecollarprepping.blogspot.com/2014/11/cold-weather-considerations.html

• Winter Survival: http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2014/11/winter-survival.html

Felons Behaving Badly

• Duplin County deputies arrest suspect in execution-style murder - http://www.wcti12.com/news/duplin-county-deputies-arrest-suspect-in-executionstyle-murder/29822292

• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0471550&searchLastName=Porter&searchFirstName=Nashid&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Victim - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0811081&searchLastName=Hester&searchFirstName=Obediah&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Terrorism

• After 13 years, 2 wars and trillions in military spending, terrorist attacks are rising sharply - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/11/18/after-13-years-2-wars-and-trillions-in-military-spending-terrorist-attacks-are-rising-sharply/

• The Looming Tower - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Looming_Tower

• Why Muslims have only few Nobel Prizes - http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/why-muslims-have-only-few-nobel-prizes.aspx?pageID=449&nID=52473&NewsCatID=411

Strange laws

• Semi-auto rifles and handguns prohibited for hunting in Pennsylvania - http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&ttl=34&div=0&chpt=23&sctn=8&subsctn=0

AlArma - The Entertainment Industries Council thinks you are too stupid and cowardly to use guns

• Guns for Protection: Empowering or Imperiling? -              http://www.eiconline.org/resources/publications/z_gvdb/gvb1-5.pdf

Fun With Headlines

• Man arrested for shooting 2 dogs, killing 1 in north Nashville - http://www.wkrn.com/story/27464750/man-arrested-for-shooting-2-dogs-killing-1-in-north-nashville

Tech Tips with The Barron - The importance of offline backups

• Sheriff's Office Forced To Pay Ransom For Their Own Case Files - http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/Sheriffs-Office-Forced-To-Pay-Ransom-For-Their-Own-Case-Files-282493831.html?lc=Smart

• Chain of Custody - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_custody

MISC

• Triangle Tactical Podcast’s Episode 107 - USPSA Grand Master Steve Anderson – 107 - http://www.triangletactical.net/2014/11/10/uspsa-grand-master-steve-anderson-107/

• Handgun Flashlight techniques - http://youtu.be/mb1QMqk_wmU

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - “Gun Death”: Violent Crime

• Crime Statistics for 2013 Released - http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/november/crime-statistics-for-2013-released/crime-statistics-for-2013-released

• Knife Killings in City Increased 50 Percent in 2008- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/nyregion/28knives.html?_r=0

• Manufacturing Low Crime Rates at the NYPD - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eli-b-silverman/low-crime-rates-nypd-eli-b-silverman-john-a-eterno_b_1772489.html

• Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware - http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/05/07/gun-homicide-rate-down-49-since-1993-peak-public-unaware/

Stuff that grinds my gears

• UVA Bans Fraternities Until January In Wake Of Campus Rape Article - http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/11/22/365970415/uva-bans-fraternities-until-january-in-wake-of-campus-rape-article

The GunBlog VarietyCast Episode 14

• Blue Collar Prepping - Cold Weather Survival in the Home

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Russia

• AlArma - (Formerly Great) Britain Cooks the (Crime Statistics) Books

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Weer’d talks with Barron about Washingon’s I-594 private transfer ban

Special thanks to Remy and Reason magazine for permission to use the song “Don’t Tell ‘Em (Obamacare Version)” - http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/11/17/remy-dont-tell-em-obamacare-transparency

Tactical Dog and Fitness Report

• Dog Antlers - http://gunscarstech.com/DogAntlers

Blue Collar Prepping - Cold Weather Survival in the Home

• Snow in Buffalo: http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-terrifying-pictures-of-the-snow-in-buffalo

• Bath tub water bladders: http://tinyurl.com/Bath-Tub-Bladder

• Stuck on New York Interstate for 24 hours: http://mashable.com/2014/11/19/stranded-cars-new-york-snow-interstate/

• Layering:  http://youtu.be/v-7vD1_DrHA

• Cold Weather Considerations: http://bluecollarprepping.blogspot.com/2014/11/cold-weather-considerations.html

• Winter Survival: http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2014/11/winter-survival.html

Felons Behaving Badly

• Lewisville teen killed after bullet passes through hotel wall - http://www.wral.com/slain-lewisville-teen-was-in-triangle-for-soccer-tournament/14182723/

• Man accused in fatal Raleigh hotel shooting makes first court appearance - http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/11/17/4330829_man-accused-in-fatal-raleigh-hotel.html?rh=1

• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0417202&searchLastName=Vater&searchFirstName=Randall&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• After teen's death in Raleigh, gun control advocates renew calls for reform - http://www.indyweek.com/news/archives/2014/11/18/after-teens-death-in-raleigh-gun-control-advocates-renew-calls-for-reform

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Russia

• Council on Foreign Relations - The Russian Military -  http://www.cfr.org/russian-federation/russian-military/p33758

• Russia censors media by blocking websites and popular blog - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/russia-bans-alexei-navalny-blog-opposition-news-websites

Strange laws

• Defense of another: Alter ego vs. Reasonable Perception - http://www.ammoland.com/2014/04/what-are-the-rules-of-engagement-in-defense-of-another-during-a-stick-up/#axzz3JflcKPit

• Man In Holland Brutally Stabs His Girlfriend Repeatedly - http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f5f_1364989862

AlArma - (Formerly Great) Britain Cooks the (Crime Statistics) Books

• A million crimes reported by public left out of police figures - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11236805/A-million-crimes-reported-by-public-left-out-of-police-figures.html

Fun With Headlines

• Crews continue to pull zombies out of Lake Michigan - http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/now-trending/Crews-continue-to-pull-zombies-out-of-Lake-Michigan-282038061.html

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Weer’d talks with Barron about Washingon’s I-594 private transfer ban

• I-594 Firearm Transfer Flow Chart - http://blog.joehuffman.org/content/binary/I594FlowChart.png

MISC

• I-594 And The Aftermath - Why Washington State And Who Might Be Next (Pt. 1) - http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2014/11/i-594-and-aftermath-why-washington.html

• If 97% of people support universal background checks, then why did Bloomberg spend Ten Million Dollars to only get 58.8% of the vote?
  http://ballotpedia.org/Washington_Universal_Background_Checks_for_Gun_Purchases,_Initiative_594_%282014%29

• See Also - http://www.gallup.com/poll/179045/less-half-americans-support-stricter-gun-laws.aspx

The GunBlog VarietyCast Episode 13

• Blue Collar Prepping - Unusual Prepping Items

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Should we expand NATO?

• AlArma - Entertainment Industries Council’s Gun Violence Depiction Book

• Tech Tips with The Barron - Internet Voting

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Criminals misusing our Rights

Blue Collar Prepping - Unusual Prepping Items

• Uses of tobacco - http://readynutrition.com/resources/it-aint-just-for-smoking-known-but-beneficial-uses-for-tobacco_27082010/

• Sillcock Key - http://tinyurl.com/Blue-Collar-Sillcock-Key

• The Necessity Defense - http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Necessity+defense

Felons Behaving Badly

• Fuquay-Varina Man Charged With Murder In Girlfriend's Shooting - http://abc11.com/news/fuquay-varina-man-charged-with-murder-in-girlfriends-shooting/384457/

• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1439007&searchLastName=McLean&searchFirstName=Logan&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Victim - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1363906&searchLastName=Puryear&searchFirstName=Britny&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Should we expand NATO?

• NATO Member Countries - http://www.nato.int/cps/en/natolive/nato_countries.htm

• NATO Leaders to Vow to Lift Military Spending - http://online.wsj.com/articles/nato-leaders-to-vow-to-lift-military-spending-1409832341

Strange laws

• TN 39-13-606.  Electronic tracking of motor vehicles. - http://www.jrn.com/newschannel5/news/Some-Question-Legality-Of-GPS-Tracking-Devices-In-Cars-281987431.html  

AlArma - Entertainment Industries Council’s Gun Violence Depiction Book

• Entertainment Industries Council: Gun Violence Depiction Book - http://www.eiconline.org/eic-resources/publications/national/gun-violence-depiction-book/

Fun With Headlines

• Harpeth High cracking down after sexual misconduct reported on campus - http://www.wsmv.com/story/27168799/harpeth-high-cracking-down-after-sexual-misconduct-reported-on-campus

Tech Tips with The Barron - Internet Voting

• Modifying an Off-the-Shelf Wireless Router for PDF Ballot Tampering - http://galois.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/technical-hack-a-pdf.pdf

• Hacking Internet Voting via Ballot Tampering - video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtfiZyPca1w

MISC

• Drabblecast - http://www.drabblecast.org/

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Criminals misusing our Rights

• Images of the Antis: Limits to Rights -http://www.weerdworld.com/2014/images-of-the-antis-limits-to-rights/

• False Consciousness - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consciousness

Stuff that grinds my gears

• The Nation Needs President Scott Walker In 2016 - http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/11/the-nation-needs-president-scott-walker-in-2016/ Does Walker sizzle? Not exactly. Is he a particularly charismatic speaker? No, he isn’t. But does he sit upon a throne made of the skulls of his enemies? Yes, yes he does.

• State Level Gun Rights Organizations - http://gunscarstech.com/state-level-organizations/

• Adam - “There needs to be a law…” http://gunscarstech.com/2011/08/17/it-all-ends-with-puppy-killing-swat-teams/

GunBlog VarietyCast Episode 12

• Blue Collar Prepping - Water on the Go

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Should the US fund and support insurgents?

• AlArma - The wages of gun control

• Tech Tips with The Barron - IP Cameras and Default Passwords

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - The false argument “Fire in a Crowded Theater”

Tactical Dog and Fitness Report

• Dysis playing Two-Disc - http://youtu.be/g-inIEBnhkA

Blue Collar Prepping - Water on the Go

• Water requirements for survival - http://www.ready.gov/water

• Sawyer Mini Water filter -  http://tinyurl.com/Sawyer-Mini-Water-Filter

• Sawyer Personal Water Bottle - http://tinyurl.com/Sawyer-Water-Bottle-Filter

Felons Behaving Badly

• Brothers charged in Nash courthouse shooting - http://www.wral.com/brothers-charged-in-nash-courthouse-shooting/14130155/

• Suspect 1 - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0527036&searchLastName=Morris&searchFirstName=Demond&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Suspect 2 - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1222408&searchLastName=Morris&searchFirstName=Brandon&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Victim 1 - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0643137&searchLastName=Evans&searchFirstName=Donte&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Victim 2 - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0700334&searchLastName=Ricks&searchFirstName=Lamar&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Should the US fund and support insurgents?

• Obama should take another look at some U.S. foreign policy ‘failures’ - http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-kagan-obama-should-take-another-look-at-some-us-foreign-policy-failures/2014/10/31/ebecd42c-611b-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_story.html

• Frankenstein the CIA created - http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/jan/17/yemen.islam

• Sleeping With the Devil: How U.S. and Saudi Backing of Al Qaeda Led to 9/11 - http://www.globalresearch.ca/sleeping-with-the-devil-how-u-s-and-saudi-backing-of-al-qaeda-led-to-911/5303313

• Al Qaeda Core: A Short History - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/17/al_qaeda_core_a_short_history

• Two Arab countries fall apart - http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21604230-extreme-islamist-group-seeks-create-caliphate-and-spread-jihad-across

Strange gun laws

• Ohio hidden compartment law - http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2923.241

AlArma - The wages of gun control

• 3 village defenders reburied in Peru - http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/03/ap-photos-3-village-defenders-reburied-in-peru/

• Thailand distributes arms to villagers in the south to quell insurgency - http://www.straitstimes.com/news/asia/south-east-asia/story/thailand-distributes-arms-villagers-the-south-quell-insurgency-20141

Fun With Headlines

• ThinkProgress uses the headline to mislead low information voters - http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/27/3584626/it-is-still-legal-to-breed-dogs-for-human-consumption-in-pennsylvania-thanks-to-the-nra/

Tech Tips with The Barron - IP Cameras and Default Passwords

• This Website Streams Camera Footage from Users Who Didn't Change Their Password - http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-website-streams-camera-footage-from-users-who-didnt-change-their-password

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - The false argument “Fire in a Crowded Theater”

• “Fire” in a crowded theater - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

• Mass deaths by fire

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Station_nightclub_fire - 100 dead 2003

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoanut_Grove_fire - 492 dead 1942

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois_Theatre_fire - 603 dead 1903

• Falsely shouting fire leads to panicked crowds, stampede and tramplings - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Hall_disaster 73 dead 1913, Calumet, Michigan

• Prior restraint - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_restraint

Stuff that grinds my gears

• State Level Gun Rights Orgs - http://gunscarstech.com/state-level-organizations/

The GunBlog VarietyCast Episode 11

• Blue Collar Prepping - Get Home Bag

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Does the world need a leader, and is the United States that leader?

• AlArma - Miami Vice: The influence on the Gun Culture and Guns in General

• Tech Tips with The Barron - Smart Guns

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Nobody Want to Take Your Guns!

Tactical Dog and Fitness Report

• ZogoFlex Flying Disc - http://www.amazon.com/West-Paw-Design-Zogoflex-Colors/dp/B000EYLO6G

• Jaws Hyperflex Flying Disc - http://www.amazon.com/Hyperflite-Jawz-Hyperflex-4-Inch-Purple/dp/B004J69IVS/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1414705328&sr=1-1-fkmr0&keywords=jaws+hyperflex

Blue Collar Prepping - Get Home Bag

• My Get Home Bag: http://bluecollarprepping.blogspot.com/2014/02/shtfriday-zones-of-assessment-get-home.html

• Linoge’s Get Home Bag: http://www.wallsofthecity.net/2014/10/my-get-home-bag.html

• Don’t buy a $10 Cookie:  http://bluecollarprepping.blogspot.com/2014/10/dont-buy-10-cookie.html

• A brief Google search has turned up a "rule of thumb" that food ages roughly twice as fast for every 20 degrees above room temperature:  http://www.mocon.com/pdf/webinars/PackageIntegrity/ShelfLifeStudies-BasicsConceptsPrinciples.pdf

Felons Behaving Badly

• Greensboro man charged in fatal stabbing hears voices, mother says - http://www.news-record.com/news/greensboro-man-charged-in-fatal-stabbing-hears-voices-mother-says/article_e2828bd8-4d8f-11e4-9303-001a4bcf6878.html

• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=1190734&searchLastName=Richardson&searchFirstName=Shiquann&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

• Victim - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0307910&searchLastName=Overman&searchFirstName=James&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Does the world need a leader, and is the United States that leader?

• We may not like it, but Isis and Iraq remind us that we need America to be the world's policeman - (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100282799/we-may-not-like-it-but-we-need-america-to-be-the-worlds-policeman/#)

Strange gun laws - Cross Burning

• 14-12.12.  Placing burning or flaming cross on property of another or on public street or highway or on any public place - http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bysection/chapter_14/gs_14-12.12.html .

AlArma - Miami Vice: The influence on the Gun Culture and Guns in General

• Internet Firearms Movie Data Base (Miami Vice TV Series) - http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Miami_Vice_(TV_Series)

• The Guns of Miami Vice - http://gunfreezone.net/wordpress/index.php/2014/09/29/the-guns-of-miami-vice/

Fun With Headlines

• AP train station - http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352653.php

Tech Tips with The Barron - Smart Guns

• Smart Guns–An Engineers Perspective - http://www.the-minuteman.org/2013/01/14/smart-gunsan-engineers-perspective/

• Silicon Valley startup unveils Internet-connected smart guns for cops - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/10/silicon-valley-startup-unveils-internet-connected-smart-guns-for-cops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Nobody Want to Take Your Guns!

• Joan Confiscation fears are paranoia:

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2014/09/gun-laws-in-italy.html

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2012/11/whos-afraid-of-big-bad-wolf.html

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2013/09/why-we-need-to-expand-background-checks.html

• Joan Let’s Confiscate:

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2014/10/another-tragic-day-in-america.html

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2011/06/what-do-you-need-vs-what-do-you-want.html

• http://www.protectmn.org/issues

• Gun deaths and injuries in Minnesota: The Solutions

• http://www.commongunsense.com/2011/11/watching-me-like-hawk.html?showComment=1322507214400#c3193267263402564930

Stuff that grinds my gears

• Sean - People who post “Dumb Laws” stories based upon rumors and urban legends without providing a link to the actual law. Or worse, the misrepresent the law or just flat don’t understand it - http://kiss951.cbslocal.com/2013/06/17/top-10-most-bizarre-north-carolina-laws/