J.K. sent this: Three American Redoubt Cities Top List of America’s Top Micropolitan Areas: Bozeman, Helena and Gillette [1]
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And speaking of Bozeman: Urban chickens not causing flap [2]
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A bit of bad news: I’ve heard that SI Defense as well as CMMG have both dropped production of their AR-10 [3] variants that could use ubiquitous HK G3 magazines. Oh well, Plan B will be for me to buy a few Rock River LAR-8 [4]s. Those are AR-10 variants that can use L1A1 [5] and FAL [6] magazines. That way, I’d have AR-10 magazine commonality with my L1A1s rather than with my HK91s [7].
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Yet another reason to thoroughly pre-filter and then filter surface water before treating it with chlorine: trihalomethanes (THMs [8]). (Apparently, chlorinating water that contains any decayed plant remains can result in chemicals that cause cancer and birth defects.)
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Chock full of the typical anti-preparedness rhetoric, The New York Times reports: Doomsday Has Its Day in the Sun [9].