I never thought I’d see the day.

Sen.-elect Annie Andrews (D-SC) has a long track record of supporting gun control and treating firearms deaths, especially among minors, as a public health issue, a break from tradition in a state that has historically strongly backed Second Amendment rights.

Andrews, the Senate’s first female physician and first pediatrician, credits her stance on gun control to her experience treating children who have unintentionally shot themselves after finding an unsecured firearm

Her views on gun control, including universal background checks and mandatory safe storage laws, are largely out of step with prior senators from South Carolina who have been staunch Second Amendment supporters representing a state that used to be a Republican stronghold.

Andrews defeated Sen. Darline Graham (R-SC) by 5 percentage points in an unexpected victory for a blue wave election favoring Democrats across the country.

Graham was appointed by Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) to replace her brother, the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, after his sudden death in August. President Donald Trump encouraged Graham to run for a full term in the Senate instead of only serving the remainder of her brother’s term through January 2027.

On the campaign trail, Graham targeted Andrews’s history of anti-gun violence advocacy, telling reporters in Columbia in October that Andrews is “hell-bent on gutting the Second Amendment and taking your guns.”

Andrews has rebutted the allegations from both Graham and Trump that she wants to take away guns and has instead focused on gun deaths as a public health issue for children.

“My platform to address the public health crisis of gun violence does not infringe on the Second Amendment,” Andrews said. “I support the Second Amendment, law-abiding citizens’ rights to own firearms, but I know we need to do something about this public health crisis.”

In addition to background checks and safe storage rules, Andrews says she supports “banning weapons of war from our streets,” including AR-style rifles.

She doesn’t infringe on the 2A, but wants to take away guns. This is communist logic. Only the elite know what’s best for you and society and it’s okay to lie to you.

So this is all the case whether there was cheating in the election or not. Darline Graham was an awful candidate, and Trump once again showed his bad instincts. But even with an awful candidate and even with cheating – which is likely the case – it’s astonishing that S.C. has voted for a liberal gun controller.

I never thought I’d see the day. N.C. for sure, but S.C.? It’s like a bad dream.

Report.

Multiple grizzly bears may have attacked and mauled a mother and her daughter while they were walking in the woods in Canada earlier this week, authorities said. 

The two victims, who were identified by family as Jennifer Balcarras, 48, and Selah Reed, 20, were reported missing on Sunday, Nov. 1, according to the CBC and a statement from the provincial Conservation Officer Service.

A body was subsequently found on the Snooka West Trail near Bella Coola in British Columbia on Monday, Nov. 2, and the other was recovered on Tuesday, Nov. 3, according to an updated statement.

“It is not yet clear whether more than one bear was involved,” an investigator, Jeff Tyre, said in a video message on Wednesday, Nov. 4. 

“Any captured bears will be assessed. If it is determined to have been involved in the attack, it will be dispatched in accordance with provincial human-wildlife conflict response guidelines to protect public safety,” he added. 

In a Wednesday night news conference, Tyre said there are “numerous grizzly bears that live in the Bella Coola Valley,” and he confirmed that officials had received reports of sightings in the area.

Jennifer was an art therapist in Bella Coola and had four children, of whom Reed was the youngest. She is survived by three young adult children, a son and two daughters, as well as a grandchild, according to a GoFundMe page set up by loved ones.

She had recently moved to the area to “pursue a new career and begin a new chapter in her life,” the fundraiser stated.

Hmm …

Something about this report causes me to think there wasn’t much way it was going to work out differently. An art therapist and her daughter, neither of whom was armed, an afternoon stroll in the Canadian bush, and a government that prohibits going about armed.

Of note. I don’t plan trips or go places where I can’t be armed.

David Codrea.

That puts a quick end to a speculative recommendation made Wednesday by attorney and Four Boxes Diner host Mark Smith, who made a compelling case that, due to their ages, Alito, 76, and Thomas, 78, “should consider making this personal sacrifice for the good of the country” and resign immediately contingent on suitable replacements being confirmed.

If such a scenario were to play out, the question of “Who?’ would become paramount. Arguably foremost among potential candidates would be Lawrence Van Dyke of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, whom Bloomberg Law acknowledges as “the court’s most vocal defender of gun rights,” and who called for the Supreme Court to administer some “benchslaps” against the inferior court’s “wayward Second Amendment decisions.” There’s also U.S. Appeals Court Judge Thomas M. Hardiman, whom The Washington Post tells its readers is “seen as ‘Second Amendment extremist,” and Judge Raymond Kethledge, whom National Review credits as a justice who “vigorously defends — and exercises — individual rights under the Second Amendment.”

I’m not sure I would be happy with anyone except James Ho. But given the nature of the senate nowadays (consider Thune), I’m not sure it would be possible to get Ho through the senate confirmation process. Anyway, it’s all irrelevant with the democrats taking over the congress.

I expect at some point in the future we won’t have the SCOTUS to depend upon for gun rights. In fact, I’m not really sure we do now truth be told.

I appreciate your patience and the diligence of my tech support.

This is a very long and detailed article and study on pricing yesteryear and today on a whole host of things. I’ll leave it to the reader to study for himself, but here are snippets.

At a glance, most major life expenses have increased roughly 3x to 4x over 40 years. This sets a baseline expectation: if guns and ammo followed the same trend, we’d expect similar increases.

But they didn’t, at least not evenly across the board …

The mid-1980s marked the early adoption of high-capacity 9mm pistols, often called “Wonder Nines.”

The introduction of the Glock 17 into the U.S. market was particularly significant:

• Polymer frame construction (revolutionary at the time)
• Higher magazine capacity than revolvers
• Lower manufacturing cost

Law enforcement agencies began transitioning away from revolvers, a shift that would later drive massive civilian demand for 9mm pistols and ammunition.

This shift is one of the key reasons why 9mm ammo became so dominant (and eventually so affordable) by 2026 …

In 1986, a box of 9mm cost $22.50, or about $0.45 per round.

In 2026, it averages $10.00 per box, or $0.20 per round.

Even without adjusting for inflation, that’s a dramatic decrease. When adjusted for inflation, 9mm is significantly cheaper today than it was in the 1980s.

At the same time, less common calibers (.38 Special, .45 ACP) have become relatively more expensive due to lower production volume and niche demand.

Well, .45 ACP certainly isn’t a niche demand round for me because I shoot God’s round. Anyway, one thing they may have wanted to fold in what the cost of powder because of the war in Ukraine which if I’m not mistaken is driving pricing up and availability down and making it more difficult to meet velocity advertising on the boxes.

Covered here, but this is a more succinct listing of what models have been canceled for production. Maybe Beretta knew something we didn’t when they tried to buy Ruger. Maybe they should still try.

This is really a shame given that Ruger now owns Marlin and Marlin makes the best lever action rifles in the world.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT:
THE FOLLOWING RUGER SERIES GUNS ARE BEING SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY FROM PRODUCTION

SR1911
LC Carbine
PC Charger
PC Carbine
LC Charger
Redhawk
Super Redhawk
Blackhawk
Super Blackhawk
Single-Series revolvers
Vaquero
No. 1
77-Series rifles
Hawkeye
Ruger Precision

— Harvey’s Pistol & Pawn (@harveyspistols) October 13, 2026

The seem to like it. Let that be a warning to you.

💥 A 14-month-old PUPPY ran to a cop the way puppies DO. THREE seconds later, two BULLETS. PARALYZED. Then DEAD.

His name was Herkimer. Loveland, Colorado. His family was just working on their truck in an empty lot.

The cop pulls in. Herkimer runs to him. No bite. Just a baby dog RUNNING.

Bang. Bang. Four days in intensive care. Herkimer NEVER came home.

And the cop, on his OWN bodycam: "I’m not in the business to get bit." Officer Mathew Grashorn.

Then they went after the OWNER, charging him with having a dangerous dog. DROPPED. The department called it reasonable. Federal judges REFUSED him immunity. Loveland PAID $675,000.

Seconds before, Bubba ran at the SAME cop. Jay called him back. Bubba lived. Herkimer got THREE seconds. Now he’s GONE.

Warning: the video shows the shooting.

https://t.co/pd5BjQO882

— ShadowPatriot (@ShadowPatriotUS) October 18, 2026

Please end qualified immunity for these pet killing bad cops.

— Sonny Shepherd (@ShepardSon54197) October 16, 2026

Shooting News Weekly.

In September, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Gun Violence Solutions published a tract titled “Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A Clergy Resource Guide” (extreme risk protection orders are the gun control advocates’ preferred term for red flag gun confiscation orders). The document was authored alongside groups including Faiths United to Prevent Gun Violence, Faith Leaders for Ending Gun Violence, and Jewish Women International.

Another author was the Presbyterian Office of Public Witness, which the document described as “the public policy information and advocacy office for the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).” The “progressive” PCUSA currently hosts the guide on its website. Texas Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, who has put his version of religion at the forefront of his campaign, trained at a PCUSA seminary.

Astute gun rights supporters will know that the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health bears the name of billionaire gun control financier Michael Bloomberg. For his part, Bloomberg appears to believe he can dictate terms to the divine.

Here’s the deal, buddy boy. Run from churches like that. This is an easy problem to solve. Don’t ever hook up with folks like that under any circumstances. Don’t take vows of submission to elders, don’t let clergy know you have weapons, and don’t open the door to tyrants who want to take your guns.

But this doesn’t surprise me about the PCUSA. They are lost, and have been for some time. Want to see an example of what I’m saying?

"We don’t use gendered language about God here, for good reason….’He’ ‘Father’ ‘Lord’ ‘He’ ‘Him’ ‘He’- I couldn’t even hear his message."

PCUSA ‘pastor’ explains how she couldn’t hear another man’s preaching because she was too upset/ distraught by the use of male pronouns. https://t.co/tg7b2v3DGp

— Protestia (@Protestia) September 28, 2026

Via Len Savage. Update to NFA Guidance.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released an Open Letter and Frequently Asked Questions explaining how it will treat ownership, transfer, and transportation of the National Firearms Act (NFA) firearms for which Congress eliminated the making and transfer taxes in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Under ATF’s guidance, ATF will not enforce the requirements for individuals to apply and receive ATF approval before making or transferring short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, suppressors (silencers), and certain other concealable firearms known in the law as “any other weapons.” ATF also will not enforce the NFA’s registration, tax-stamp or related requirements for those covered items. The $200 tax remains in place for machine guns and destructive devices. The NFA requirements apply in full to those weapons.  The guidance does not supersede state and local laws that restrict NFA firearms.

I had previously stated that I thought this would create an inconsistency between the federal code and states laws that still required suppressors to be registered as NFA items (because of a lack of schema for registration in light of the court order). I was mistaken. This Q&A exists down below.

Will ATF permit individuals to file registration forms voluntarily?

Yes.  ATF will continue to maintain the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record and approve all NFA forms for those who voluntarily wish to submit them.

So non-free states like the one I live in – NC – will have to get the law amended to take advantage of this court ruling, and that’s not a simple thing in NC where Charlotte, Raleigh and Greensboro tend to rule the roost.

Pathetic. Cowards, one and all. They have sought out the wrong sort of person to be LEOs, or to them, maybe the right sort of person. I suspect LE has redacted the audio.

H/T WiscoDave.

🚨BREAKING: I got the HeeHaw Shooting bodycam footage. This is the raw footage, as provided by prosecutors. Does this look justified to you? https://t.co/bVGiDn37Vj

— The Civil Rights Lawyer (@johnbryanesq) October 9, 2026