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More home-defense thoughts: . An empty magazine is a paperweight. So is a semiautomatic weapon with an empty magazine or no magazine. . Seems to me all your magazines need to be FULL starting the day they arrive in your mailbox. They are useless until they contain bullets. You do not need to have a magazine in your weapon when there is no threat. Indeed, that may be illegal and is ill-advised for safety purposes generally. . When a threat arises, you can slap a magazine in fast. Filling empty magazines is NOT fast. It is excruciatingly slow if you...

A Facebook reader sent me this about putting money in foreign bank accounts.. Offshore out of reach would seem the only safe option. During hyperinflation I would think the US would use the FBAR to demand repatriation of overseas accounts and impose draconian penalties for failure to do so. I suspect they'd have similar compliance as they did with executive order 6102..And here is my answer: There is no precedent for demanding repatriation of overseas accounts. And the main purpose of overseas account is so you can BE overseas or abroad in places like Canada where you do not have to...

Dear Mr.Reed, For my Freshman-Junior summers of high school, I spent a week each attending various military camps of my own volition. My parents, particularly my mother, were strongly against me pursuing a military career. However, I am very thankful that they permitted me to attend the camps to generate a more informed decision for myself. It helped that because of academic achievement, the three camps were all expense paid and the government foot the bill for my attendance. I spent a week at Annapolis my freshman summer for a STEM education camp and absolutely loved it. It seemed immaculate...

My wife is lately getting a lot of inquiries about guns. . I have a lot of readers who are infantry vets and therefore more knowledgeable than I but I see little from such experienced guys. I was a communications officer in the Army. Like all West Point cadets I had lots of infantry and other types of training there and ranger school was infantry. So I will take a stab at it. . 1. Your home defense guns should be unified so they all use the same ammo. 2. Home defense would likely be short range which is generally...