Florida AG Announces Legal Open Carry. Taiwan Releases New Civil Defense Handbook

The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods

James Wesley Rawles September 18, 2025 September 17, 2025

SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. At the top of today’s column, some news from the “Gunshine” State.

Florida AG Announces Legal Open Carry

Reader D.S.V. sent us this good news reported by The Orlando Sentinel: AG Uthmeier says open carry is now ‘law of the state’. An excerpt:

“Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday said people being able to openly carry guns is ‘the law of the state’ after a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal last week ruled that a longstanding ban was unconstitutional.

Uthmeier sent guidance to prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies. Some had already stopped enforcing the open-carry ban after Wednesday’s opinion.”

Grid Down: Death of a Nation

Reader Mike D. highly recommended this 2011 report on the EMP threat that is still quite timely: GRID DOWN: DEATH OF A NATION.

Taiwan Releases New Civil Defense Handbook

Mr. Tang sent us this: Taiwan Releases New Civil Defense Handbook Amid China’s Military Threat. “In the event of a military invasion of Taiwan, any claim that the government has surrendered or that the nation has been defeated is false…”

How the British Flag Became a Culture War Flashpoint

Reader Ben D. sent us this, from the statist Wall Street Journal: How the British Flag Became a Flashpoint in a New Culture War. Here is a fair use pericope:

“The banners have become the central feature in a deepening culture war in much of Britain, where the upstart anti-immigration Reform U.K. party, led by Nigel Farage, is now leading in the polls ahead of both the ruling Labour and opposition Conservative parties. Surveys show immigration is the top issue among voters, surpassing the economy and healthcare.

Among the groups spreading the flags is Operation Raise the Colours, a campaign backed by Tommy Robinson, the far-right activist who organized the London rally. Many flags began appearing around the country after a wave of anti-immigration protests over the summer, including one outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Essex, east of London, where a migrant had been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl. He was later convicted.

In York, in northern England, Joseph Moulton began a local operation to fly St. George’s flags in August. His efforts followed a discussion with friends who had all come back from travels in Europe, Asia and the U.S., where they noted an abundance of flags. They thought it brought character and community, which they wanted to replicate in their area.”

Nevada’s Cyberattack Recovery

Cleaning up after a crippling cyber attack in August: A timeline of Nevada’s cyberattack recovery. A quote from the article:

“In the early morning of Aug. 24, the state of Nevada was the target of a cyberattack. The Governor’s Technology Office posted online that some state services were down as of around 2 a.m. because of a ‘network issue.’ Throughout the day, the office posted that some state services would be ‘intermittently unavailable.'”

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