Odds ‘n Sods:

Hawaiian K. flagged a great article at Kevin Kelly’s Technium Blog: Amish Hackers

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SurvivalBlog’s Editor at Large Michael Z. Williamson pointed us to the comments accompanying this article: Second Circuit to Second Amendment: Drop Dead…. The article was informative, but I thought that the comment from “Bruce” was potentially quite practical: “[I]f you live in a rural area like I do, go out in the woods somewhere and dig a hole. Don’t fill it in. We’ll call it the ‘plausible deniability hole’.
Then, when the state comes for your guns (bullion, whatever), take the officers to the hole. When you get there, say ‘D**n, somebody dug up my guns! They musta been watching me from the ridge top! I had a funny feeling when I was digging it, but I didn’t see any people or cars, so I figured it was just nerves!'”

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From the JPFO web site: West Allis Wisconsin Open Carry Trial Update. As I’ve written before: Much like a muscle that atrophies with disuse, any right that goes unexercised for many years devolves into a privilege, and eventually can even be redefined as a crime.

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For just the next five days, the folks at Midwest Outfitters are giving SurvivalBlog readers first crack at a new batch of Portuguese surplus .308 ball 150 grain ammo in sealed 200 round battle packs or full cases. Something tells me that it won’t last long.