New American Truth

I cannot give you recommendations for what you need in an emergency and I cannot evaluate your knowledge and skills. I can however review equipment that can used in common emergencies that the average person, without advanced training can provide potential life or limb saving skills.

Each year I try to make a wish list for Christmas.  My challenge is that with so many products I see, test and write up (if they pass testing) each year, it’s almost hard to keep the list reasonable.  I also try to avoid putting high-dollar items on the list.  For example, I have a [...]

While the previous sections have covered the various layers of preparedness, some items haven’t been discussed, the possession of which in a disaster situation may prove of value to you. Let’s take a look at some of them and some things we should keep in mind when selecting any of them to include either on [...]

One of the most basic and valuable tools you can have in your possession is a knife. Recognizing that it’s probably mankind’s oldest tool (after the club), it’s also probably mankind’s most valuable tool – after the ability to build/control fire – where survival is concerned. We don’t often realize it, but the number of [...]

Handguns: Semi-Automatic Across the span of the past few decades great debate has been had about handgun calibers, stopping power, etc. Understand up front that handguns in general suck as man-stopping weapons. Think about it: when you hunt a deer with a rifle, even if you score a good hit, you expect to track that [...]

This section about weapons has two very specific slants to it: one examining weapons for defense and the other examining weapons as hunting tools. As you read through it some of the weapons mentioned may not make sense for one of the applications but may make sense for the other. Although I don’t discuss weapons [...]

Never leave the house without a knife, a gun and a lighter. That was what my Uncle Don told me in 1977. It is Borelli’s Rules #5. When I asked Uncle Don to clarify why those three items, his answer was quite succinct: That way you can kill food, clean food and cook food. It [...]