Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters.
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Space Force picks Texas as US home for trinational DARC space radar network [1]. (The photo above shows a DARC reflector being assembled in Australia. DARC is a US/UK/Australia trilateral partnership. Photo by Mike Kortum of Four Sea Group Inc., courtesy of U.S. Space Force.)
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Tom Knighton, at Bearing Arms: My Changing Views on Revolvers [2].
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The American political pendulum, in full swing: Poll: Democrats widen lead to five points in midterm forecast [3].
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The ATF has issued an Open Letter on Silencers and Silencer Parts [4]. This letter fails to clarify many things, including any mention of at-home silencer (suppressor) construction by non-FFLs. Take note that the Open Letter only applies to federally-licensed dealers. Since silencers are now re-classified as “firearms”, private citizens who are in a “Protected Class”, per the Jensen decision and the permanent restraining order issued by Judge James Wesley Hendrix [5] may now construct silencers and possess silencer parts with no ATF Form 1 or Form 4 required! Just be sure to join the GOA and carry proof of your GOA membership in your wallet at all times.
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A reminder: I’m planning on two upcoming Idaho gun shows. I’ll be bringing most of the Elk Creek Company [7] inventory with me. Feel free to bring any of the books that I’ve authored, for me to autograph for you. Thanks, – JWR
- Coeur d’Alene, Idaho October 3-4, 2026 (Kootenai County Fairgrounds) — I’m on the waiting list for tables, so getting tables at this show are still a “maybe” for us.
- Lewiston, Idaho, November 21-22 2026, (Nez Perce County Fairgrounds Pavilion) — I have four confirmed table reservations.
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ChatGPT invented fake police testimony in murder appeal, New Mexico high court says [8].
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Robert Zimmerman: The coming tidal wave of new rockets [9].
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[10]A revised hardback edition of my first novel, Patriots — with a spiffy new cover, and a Foreword written by Michael Z. Williamson — should be available from Ulysses Press on December 8, 2026. But please wait until that day to place your order. (Mark your calendar.) – JWR
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