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VALENTINE, Neb. – “Land: see Snatch.” On first look, the Biden Administration’s “30 x 30” plan looks like a scheme cooked up by Hedley Lamarr, the main villain from Mel Brooks’ “Blazing Saddles.” However, far from the comedic genius of the late Harvey Korman, the new Federal land grab is a serious threat to private property owners in the United States. And it’s moving fast.. Just a few days into office, President Joe Biden released a flurry of executive orders, among them being through Executive Order 14008, “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad” (86 Fed. Reg. 7,619), which...

an in-depth review of the Lever Action 30-30 Winchester. Don't laugh this dog

“We are firmly opposed to the United States taking the opportunity of the State Secretary’s visit to sow and interfere in China-Sri Lanka relations, and to coerce and bully Sri Lanka,” China’s embassy in Colombo said. The top US diplomat for South Asia, Dean Thompson, said at the start of Pompeo’s four-nation tour of Indian Ocean nations — India, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Indonesia — that he will ask Colombo to review options offered by Washington. The US visit comes less than three weeks after Yang Jiechi, a Chinese Community Party politburo member, pledged more economic help to Sri Lanka...

OK you gun-clingers, I've got a mechanical question about the lever on a mid-seventies lever-action Marlin 30-30 I recently inherited. I want to run it by the most informed gun crowd on the web here before taking the gun to a shop. The lever does not stay up in place on it's own and droops about an inch. It wont fire until I secure it up in place with my firing hand. Is this normal? Fire away. -Wb

BLAST FROM THE PAST My Christmas gift to myself was a carbine I’d always wanted: a lever action Winchester complete with saddle ring. It was the iconic gun of the Western movies. If it was good enough for John Wayne, it was good enough for me. As a child of the East, not the West, I wasn’t much of a horseman. The closest I ever came to having one of my own was when I owned a Ford Bronco. It took a good part of my life to figure out exactly how that damn saddle ring interfaced with the saddle:...

These two are comparable in price and probably in performance. Looks like the M1 is about 1-1/2 lb. lighter. Suggestions?