From the Trenches World Report

KTVL 10 News – by Genevieve Grippo

JACKSON COUNTY, Ore. —  A group of community members is pushing for an ordinance they say would protect Jackson County from violations of the Second Amendment.

They say the effort, called a Second Amendment Preservation Ordinance, would essentially void any current or future state laws that would impose unconstitutional regulations on the sale and possession of firearms.   Continue reading “Ordinance seeking to block ‘unconstitutional’ gun laws brought before Commissioners”

Firearms History, Technology & Development

In today’s post, we will study an early machine gun: the Puckle Gun. We’d first mentioned this gun many months ago, when we studied the history of revolvers. We will now study this firearm in more detail.

The Puckle gun was invented by a London based lawyer named James Puckle, who had an interest in firearm design. He received a patent for his design in 1718.   Continue reading “The Puckle Gun”

RT

Nikolas Cruz, who is accused of killing 17 people in a high school shooting in February, has been inundated with sexually provocative letters and money from besotted fans, according to a local newspaper.

Teenage girls and women have bombarded 19-year-old Cruz, who is currently being held in  Broward County jail, with romantic and sexually-explicit mail, according to local newspaper the Sun Sentinel, which obtained photocopies of the letters.  Continue reading “Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz swamped with ‘perverted’ fan mail”

Softwar – by Charles R Smith

The FBI is no longer a law enforcement agency even though it has the power to arrest and prosecute. The recent Inspector General (OIG) report combined with massive foul-ups of top level FBI agents makes it very clear that the bureau is a force dedicated to its own agenda – not fighting crime.

The fact is the FBI fouled up the investigation of a major terrorist event. On Dec. 2, 2015, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik staged a terror attack in San Bernardino, California killing 14 people. Farook was a food inspector for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health and he was issued a county owned Apple iPhone for work use.   Continue reading “Dark Shadows – FBI Ignores 14 Dead For An Agenda”

Breitbart – by Katherine Rodriguez

An illegal alien convicted of killing two Sacramento-area deputies smirked as a California jury sentenced him to death Tuesday—and the deputies’ families grinned back at him.

A Sacramento Superior Court jury ruled that Luis Bracamontes, 37, will receive the death penalty for his role in the the murder of two sheriff’s deputies.  Continue reading “Illegal Alien Convicted of Killing Sacramento Deputies Smirks as He Receives Death Sentence”

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

One week after Israel demonstratively released a video of  a 2007 airstrike on a suspected Syrian nuclear facility (after refusing to officially acknowledge the operation for more than a decade), the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported late on Thursday that 2 Israeli F-35 stealth fighters had entered Iranian airspace over the past month.  Continue reading “Israeli Stealth Fighters Fly Over Iran Amid Speculation Of Imminent War”

RT

Russia will expel sixty US diplomats and close the US consulate in St. Petersburg, in a response mirroring the mass expulsion of Russian diplomats initiated by the US and UK, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

US ambassador to Moscow, Jon Huntsman, has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry and told the news by deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov, Lavrov said at the press conference following a meeting with the special UN envoy for Syria Staffan De Mistura.  Continue reading “Russia to close US consulate in St. Petersburg, expel 60 diplomats as Washington did – Lavrov”

Business Insider – by Daniel Brown

FORT BLISS, Texas — Houthi rebels in Yemen fired at least seven Burqan 2H ballistic missiles at Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

The Saudis attempted to intercept the missiles with five US-made Patriot missile defense systems, but the intercepts appear to have failed.

We recently got a chance to see a Patriot system at Fort Bliss, although the artilleryman there declined to comment on its success rate.   Continue reading “This is the Patriot missile defense system that just ‘failed catastrophically’ in Saudi Arabia”

IMEMC News

AIPAC President Mort Fridman has sent supporters an email announcing the approval, by US Congress, of almost $4 billion of US tax money to Israel, while cutting aid to Palestinians widows, orphans, Days of Palestine reports.

“Our work together just made a difference for Israel’s security and for its future,” wrote Fridman, according to If Americans Knew Blog.   Continue reading “US Congress Approves $4 Billion in Tax Aid to Israel, Cuts Aid to Palestine”

Ask a Prepper – by Michael Snyder

Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner?  Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order?  Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times”?

If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents.   Continue reading “72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents”