It’s happened to most of us – some more than others. You’re driving down the highway or a backroad or maybe you roll through a stop sign one too many times, and here they come. The flashing lights, the piercing sound of the siren. It’s nerve-racking, to say the least.
With so much tension surrounding recent officer-involved shootings, I feel a duty to open the discussion on what to do when legal gun owners either open or concealed carrying are pulled over by police.
No matter what state you find yourself in, national firearms expert and trainer Massad Ayoob explains there is a universal way to inform the officer you’re carrying: hand your concealed carry permit over with your drivers license.
A good idea is to have your licenses, as well as proof of registration and insurance if your state requires drivers to show, readily available to hand the officer if requested.
Watch as Ayoob and PDTV host Tom Gresham walk through a typical traffic stop, explaining why every concealed carry permit holder needs to have an action plan in place so they know what to do if and when they’re pulled over.
Do you have an action plan? Is there anything you want to suggest readers add to their action plan? Sound off in the comments.
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke joined Megyn Kelly last night to condemn the response to the Dallas ambush of police officers from Obama, Al Sharpton and Loretta Lynch.
“We have some very irresponsible rhetoric coming from some very powerful people,” Clarke said on air Friday night. “It is time for this nation to stand up with one voice and to condemn and shun this movement called Black Lives Matter.”
Sheriff Clarke went on to say Black Lives Matter needs to be placed alongside other hate groups like the Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam, saying “This movement needs to be marginalized. We have looked at this stuff, we have peeled back the layers, we’ve looked at the data, we’ve looked at the research.”
When the show’s host tried to object, saying questioning how that would have made a difference in Dallas since the man responsible for the shooting in Dallas which left 7 wounded and 5 police officers dead was not a part of the Black Lives Matter, Clarke dug in.
“He was doing this in the name of Black Lives Matter. He said he wanted to kill white people,” Clarke responded.
“It is time for the liberal mainstream media to stop walking on eggshells and giving legitimacy to these rants, to all this false narrative coming out of this the Black Lives Matter movement.”
“We need to delegitimize this Black Lives Matter movement. We’ve had enough of their nonsense,” the sheriff said emphatically.
Watch the video here and let us know: Do you agree with Sheriff Clarke?
Don’t look at me like that. Yes, it’s perfectly legal to build your own suppressor. Following the same process as you would to make a registered and legal short barreled rifle (SBR) or short barreled shotgun (SBS), you can build a device that will make your favorite gun quieter, have some fun and even learn […]
Facebook is clearly very serious about its mission to connect the world and in the process, it has launched solar-powered drones that use lasers to connect to each other and the ground, and more prosaic efforts like new antennas for covering both urban and rural areas. Today, Facebook is expanding this work with the launch of OpenCellular, a new open source hardware and software project that aims to bring a more affordable wireless access platform to remote areas.
“One of the reasons the expansion of cellular networks has stalled is that the ecosystem is constrained,” Facebook engineer Kashif Ali writes. “Traditional cellular infrastructure can be very expensive, making it difficult for operators to deploy it everywhere and for smaller organizations or individuals to solve hyperlocal connectivity challenges. It’s often unaffordable for them to attempt to extend network access in both rural and developed communities.”
Ali previously co-founded Endaga, which worked on a somewhat similar project. Facebook acquired the company last October. He also notes that one of the goals of the projects was to build a system with very little physical footprint and the ability to use already available infrastructure because the cost of the land, tower, power and security for setting up a cellular network is often higher than that of the actual access point itself.
Facebook says OpenCellular will consist of two main subsystems: one for general purpose and base-band computing, and one to handle the actual radio. Both of those systems were designed to be somewhat modular. The radio system, for example, could be based on a software-defined radio or on a system-on-chip solution. While the focus here is on providing wireless access to the Internet over anything from a 2G to LTE network, OpenCellular could also be used to provide a local network, too.
These devices will likely be deployed in rather harsh conditions, so both the industrial and mechanical design aims to make them rugged enough to withstand high winds and extreme temperatures while still being small enough to be deployed by a single person.
Facebook says it will open source the hardware design, firmware and control software for OpenCellular so telecom operators, entrepreneurs, researchers and OEMs will be able to build their own versions. It will also donate the work to the Telecom Infra Project, a Facebook-backed initiative for exploring new approaches to — well — telecom infrastructure basics like access and backhaul.
While Jimmy DiResta always makes his builds look easy, this is one that we might actually be able to do. This month Jimmy builds a massive, eleven-foot-plus farmhouse dining table, using a very limited amount of tools, reminding us that you don’t need a fully-outfitted shop in order to build something as huge and sturdy as this.
Jimmy shows us how he handles one of the most important parts on a table of this size—the corner bracing, which needs to be both sturdy and in this case knock-down. And as always the video is sprinkled with helpful tips, including the easiest way in the world to make boards look weathered. (Hint: Get an assist from Mother Nature.)
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If you’re going through Game of Thrones withdrawal—and aren’t we all—then you need to watch this video immediately.
It begins as a supercut of the amazing bummers of Jon’s short life (well, lives) but segues into his semi-coronation as the King in the North, all while highlighting the many, many, many times Jon has kicked ass throughout Westeros. It’s astoundingly well done.
I know Jon gets a lot of crap for being emo, but as this video reminds us, he’s put up with some absurdly horrible shit—including being murdered—and still managed to become the most spectacular badass on both sides of the Wall.
There are dozens of beautiful National Parks in the United States, but if you could only see one, this video and graphic guide from Expedia helps you narrow your choices down to 12 great parks you can explore, all of which are known for specific landmarks or exceptional natural beauty.
From the Hidden Lake overlook in Glacier National Park to the Big Tree Loop in Redwood National Park, all the way to bear watching in Katmai National Park, the guide is full of some of the country’s best and most popular parks, along with some suggestions of what to do in them, when to go, and of course, what everyone else there will likely be doing when you arrive. Each park has a suggested activity you can do in one day, a photo spot where you can take some memorable photos, a great walk or activity you can do in the same day, and of course, an interesting animal you’ll likely find along the way. Check out the full graphic below, or the video above.
If you don’t grill very often that probably means you don’t clean your grill regularly either. If your grill grates are covered in burnt food and rust, you can get it ready for a cookout with a few household staples.
In this video from the HouseholdHacker YouTube channel, you’ll find some clever cleaning tricks for around the house, like sprucing up your grill that’s seen better days. First, pull off your grill grates and place them on a flat surface that can get a little messy. Then slice up an old potato that’s going green into thick pieces that are easy to hold onto, spread vegetable over the grill grates, and sprinkle plenty of coarse salt over them. Now scrub the grates with the potato pieces. The abrasive combination of the salt and potato will remove all the burnt gunk and rust. And once it’s clean, your grill grates will have the perk of being non-stick and ready to cook on too.
Huma Abedin with Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail in 2008. Abedin was grilled about her boss’ email proclivities by a Judicial Watch attorney this week.
We already knew that Hillary Clinton’s e-mail and mobile device issues were likely a pain for State Department employees—and some foreign governments as well. But new testimony recorded on Tuesday by one of Clinton’s top aides illuminates the extent of those headaches.
Huma Abedin is the vice-chair of Clinton’s presidential campaign and the former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to Clinton during her stint as Secretary of State. She was deposed on June 28 by an attorney representing the conservative action group Judicial Watch as part of discovery for a lawsuit being brought against Clinton. Judicial Watch published thetranscript of that deposition yesterday, and Abedin revealed what she knew about Clinton’s use of the mail server and how she was "frustrated" with the technical glitches caused by Clinton’s mobile device and e-mail travails.
Both Clinton and Abedin had accounts on the clintonemail.com server, which was originally set up at the Clinton residence by staffers of former president Bill Clinton prior to the family’s arrival at the State Department. (The server would later be managed by Platte River Networks, a managed IT services firm, with security provided by Datto.) Clinton had been using a BlackBerry mail account through AT&T during the 2008 presidential campaign, and she had been having "technical issues" with the account, according to Abedin. Clinton switched to the private server when she got a new device, and Abedin was given an account on the server after she lost access to her Senate e-mail account. Abedin said she used it primarily for personal business in addition to a personal Yahoo e-mail account (where she would later forward press clippings received from a State Department clipping service, she said).
But Abedin said that once she arrived at the State Department, she primarily used a State.gov e-mail account for business while Clinton continued to use her clintonemail.com account. On occasion when traveling, Abedin would use her clintonmail.com account. Abedin testified that she also used that account when State’s e-mail service was down—which apparently happened with some regularity. As for Clinton, "most of her State Department business was done in person, in meetings at the State Department or when she traveled, or by phone," Abedin testified. "When she used e-mail off-hours and when we were on the road, she did use Clintonemail.com." Clinton never used a State.gov account, according to the deposition.
This situation created some issues while Clinton was traveling. Since she was never issued a device for secure e-mail, Clinton used her personal BlackBerry for communications. And as Ars previously reported, mail filtering problems often prevented her e-mails from getting through.
During the deposition, Abedin discussed an e-mail exchange with Clinton in which Abedin encouraged the Secretary to either get and use a State.gov e-mail address or to have her clintonemail.com address added to the State Department’s e-mail directory. The thread began with Clinton reacting to missing a phone call with another nation’s foreign minister because Abedin and State Department’s operations department had never gotten her e-mail signing off on the call (because, again, the e-mail was blocked by State’s spam filter).
"She missed the call because… I never got her e-mail giving us the sign-off to do it," Abedin recounted. "So she wasn’t able to do her job, do what she needed to do. My response would have been, ‘Here are some suggestions.’ I cannot tell you if I called somebody else. I don’t remember calling anybody else, or if I on my own said, ‘Here are some solutions so that your e-mails get through to us so that we can place calls to foreign officials.’ And, you know, she clearly missed the window in this exchange."
Judicial Watch asked what Abedin meant in her message to Clinton about "releasing your e-mail address to the department." The aide responded with uncertainty, saying, "I’m not sure I would know how to define that then or define that now. It might have also just been my… being frustrated back at the fact that I wasn’t getting her messages. Just reading the exchange, she seems frustrated because she’s not able to do her job. I seem frustrated back."
In the same e-mail thread, Clinton agreed to getting a State department account or mobile device, "but I don’t want any risk of the personal being accessible." Abedin told Judicial Watch that she understood that as a reference to Clinton’s personal e-mails, not her address. Clinton didn’t want her personal e-mails being stored in the State Department’s servers and becoming public. Shortly after the exchange, Abedin said, Clinton’s e-mails started coming through again. "The matter resolved itself, or was resolved, and we went back to the prior practice," Abedin explained—the practice of Clinton continuing to use her personal e-mail account for State Department business.
When questioned about how things were resolved, Abedin again responded with uncertainty. "I couldn’t define to you exactly what [happened]—I don’t recall any response other than once the system was back up and running, that it was… we just proceeded with business the way it was before."