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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave talk about the wildcatter, Charles Newton. Wildcatters are a specific subset of firearms enthusiasts – nerds among nerds, if you will. And their king is Charles Newton. Newton was an attorney whose wildcatting was a hobby, not a career. However, his work in the world of wildcatting resulted in what is a sort of crowning achievement for a wildcatter: A company took up one of his creations, the .22 Savage Hi-Power, which Savage Arms began making officially in 1912. Soon after this, Savage began manufacturing the .250-3000 Savage (also known as the 250 Savage). The 22 Savage boasted a high velocity for the time it was developed, which in turn led to a shocking display of power. Its killing power was seen as nothing short of miraculous for larger prey with relatively soft skin, such as tigers – this was the golden era of big-game hunting and the African safari. Reverend H. R. Caldwell brought notoriety to the round by using it to bag 400-pound tigers in China. This was exploited to great effect in the early advertising for the round. You can read the full article "Charles Newton: The Forgotten History of the Wildcatter Who Created the .22 and .250 Savage" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• Charles Newton: The Forgotten History of the Wildcatter Who Created the .22 and .250 Savage
• Elmer Keith: The Forgotten History of the Firearms Author and Father of Big Bore Handgunning
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On this special guest episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam welcomes Peter Quiñones onto the show. Peter Quiñones is the co-producer of The Monopoly on Violence Documentary, host of the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast and Managing Editor at The Libertarian Institute. Sam had him on to discuss his recent Twitter ban, how he's ignoring it, the evil of public schools, and why most libertarians are getting it all wrong. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Peter's Links:

• Peter Quiñones | The Libertarian Institute
• By Any Memes Necessary! Peter R. Quiñones | Substack
• Free Man Beyond the Wall with Peter R. Quiñones Podcast
• Free Man Beyond the Wall with Peter R. Quiñones Patreon
• The Monopoly On Violence | Amazon Prime

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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave discuss the history of education in the United States. Public schools are so ubiquitous and ingrained in American culture that one could easily be forgiven for thinking that we, as a nation, have always had them. However, public schools are a relatively recent invention. Federal funding for public schools is a recent anomaly, dating back to the days of President Jimmy Carter. His successor, President Ronald Reagan, famously tried to dismantle the Department of Education to no avail. Public schools being an arm of the state are indoctrination centers. This becomes increasingly true as basic skills such as the old "three Rs" of "reading, writing and 'rithmatic" are jettisoned in favor of climate change, critical race theory and gender ideology – all of which are now part and parcel of a public education in the United States. As if this weren't troubling enough, public schools are largely funded by property taxes on housing. These taxes, which are paid generally on a bi-annual basis, are confiscated from people whose children do not even attend public schools. What's more, these taxes require people to effectively pay rent on owned property under penalty of losing their homes. We do not have to look far for an alternative to the world of public schools. Throughout most of American history, education has been the purview of parents, the church, and other private institutions. The rise of public education in the United States is a story of violence and coercion that is largely hidden from the public record. After reading this, you will never view public schools in the same light ever again. You can read the full article "The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political Battleground" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• The History of Private Schools: How American Education Became a Political Battleground
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On this week's episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam discuss what is considered by historians to be the prelude to World War II, the Spanish Civil War. As we talk about the lead-up to the Spanish Civil War, the situation will begin very much unlike modern-day America, however, it will become more like the contemporary domestic situation as time goes on. The main difference, of course, is that Spain was a monarchy for almost all of its existence until 1931. A republic was briefly declared during the years 1873 and 1874, but it didn't have much staying power and ultimately was not a transformative government in Spain. Following the First World War, the corrupt central government of Spain became increasingly unpopular and a military dictatorship, that of Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquess of Estella, 22nd Count of Sobremonte, arose. This fell in 1930, along with the abdication of the deeply unpopular King Alfonso XIII. This led to the creation of the Second Spanish Republic and a new constitution in 1931. It was a radically leftist constitution in a largely conservative and Catholic country. Women's suffrage, civil marriage, compulsory universal education, the nationalization of Catholic Church properties, the prohibition of Catholic religious orders from teaching in schools (and the Jesuit order entirely), as well as a provision allowing for the nationalization of any property that was for the "public good" were all components of the new Spanish constitution. In many ways it resembled the constitution of Weimar Germany, in that it was an attempt by the left to radically remake a country through constitutional means. The first election saw leftist elements firmly in the saddle, but the second, in 1933, was a major victory for forces of the right. However, because the conservative party had won a plurality in the parliament, and not a majority, the left-wing president of Spain invited the centrist party to form a government. Meanwhile the socialist government alleged electoral fraud, which caused them to become further radicalized. On the ground, a radical working-class movement became hostile toward the ostensibly left-wing government after the movement was suppressed violently by the military. Monarchist forces, with the explicit backing of Benito Mussolini and the implicit backing of King Alfonso XIII, as well as ideologically fascist forces led by José Antonio Primo de Rivera, began military drills, preparing for war. The streets of Spain became battlegrounds, with 330 assassinations, 213 failed assassination attempts and 160 religious buildings destroyed, with arson being the primary means of their destruction. The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, formerly a fairly standard European social democratic party, began to cleave between forces who favored moderation and those who sought a more explicitly Bolshevik party. You can read the full article "The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today's America" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• The Prelude to World War II: The Spanish Civil War and Today's America
• The Italian Years of Lead: Could the Secret "Strategy of Tension" Foreshadow America's Future?
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On this special guest episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs invites Michael Maharrey from the Tenth Amendment Center to discuss the rights of states. Michael Maharrey is the Communications Director of the Tenth Amendment Center, a group dedicated to preserving the rights of states to nullify unjust and overreaching federal laws. We discuss how the nullification movement is alive and well and a lot more robust than you probably think. You will definitely come away from this with a different perspective on States Rights. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Michael's Links:

• Michael Maharrey | Tenth Amendment Center
• Michael Maharrey | Biography
• Mike Maharrey | @mmaharrey10th
• SchiffGold
• Constitution Owner's Manual by Michael Maharrey
• Smashing Myths: Understanding Madison's Notes on Nullification by Michael Maharrey
• Nullification Objections: Dismantling the Opposition by Michael Maharrey
• Thoughts From Maharrey Head Podcast

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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam talk about the forgotten history of Belle Starr, an infamous outlaw. Basically everyone has heard of Jesse James. Slightly more obscure is Belle Starr, an outlaw from the same Wild West era, albeit one without the name recognition of James and his gang, with whom she had some ties. In her time she was known as the Bandit Queen and the Petticoat Terror of the Plains. Perhaps most interestingly of all, she was murdered and her murder remains officially unsolved to this day. Her birth name was Myra Maybelle Shirley (her family mostly knew her as "May") and she hailed from Carthage, Missouri. Although a prosperous farmer in the region, her father was considered the black sheep of his prominent, old-stock Virginia family. In fact, her father had been divorced twice when she came along, scandalous at the time. Starr was the daughter of his third wife, who had family ties to the Hatfields of the famous Hatfield-McCoy feud. You can read the full article "Belle Starr: The Untold Story of the American Outlaw Known as the Bandit Queen" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• Belle Starr: The Untold Story of the American Outlaw Known as the Bandit Queen
• The American Old West: How Hollywood Made It "Wild" to Make Money & Advance Gun Control
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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam and Dave discuss the prison industrial complex in the United States.

"Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice."

- Arcesilaus, Greek philosopher and student of Plato on power and personal sovereignty

There's no two ways about it: The United States of America and its 50 state governments love putting people in prison. The U.S. has both the highest number of prisoners and the highest per capita incarceration rate in the modern world at 655 adults per 100,000. (It's worth noting that China's incarceration statistics are dubious, and they execute far more people than the United States. Indeed, the so-called People's Republic executes more people annually than the rest of the world combined.) Still, that's more than 2.2 million Americans in state and federal prisons as well as county jails. On top of those currently serving time, 4.7 million Americans were on parole in 2016, or about one in 56. These numbers do not include people on probation, which raises the number to one in 35. Nor does it include all of the Americans who have been arrested at one time or another, which is over 70 million – more than the population of France. For firearm owners in particular, the growth in this "prison-industrial complex" is troubling because felons are forbidden from owning firearms and ammunition under the 1968 Gun Control Act. As the number of laws has grown and the cultural shift for police has gone from a focus on keeping the peace to enforcing the law, more and more Americans are being stripped of their 2nd Amendment rights (not to mention other civil rights like voting – as of 2017, 6.1 million Americans cannot vote because of their criminal records). All told, eight percent of all Americans cannot own firearms because of a felony conviction. For American society as a whole, the prison-industrial complex has created a perverse incentive structure. Bad laws drive out respect for good laws because there are just so many laws (not to mention rules, regulations, and other prohibitions used by federal prosecutors to pin crimes on just about anyone). How did we get here? You can read the full article "Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• Locked Up: How the Modern Prison-Industrial Complex Puts So Many Americans in Jail
• Weapons of War On Our Streets: A Guide to the Militarization of America's Police
• The USA PATRIOT Act: The Story of an Impulsive Bill that Eviscerated America's Civil Liberties
• Protection or Pain Treatment: Choosing Between Your Gun and Medical Marijuana
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On this special episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs invites Pedro Gonzalez onto the the show. Pedro Gonzalez is the assistant editor of American Greatness and what might be called a friendly critic of the Trump Administration. We discuss what went wrong and what a winning conservative movement of the future looks like. Come for the political analysis, stay for the synthwave track recommendations. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Pedro's Links:

• Pedro L. Gonzalez on Twitter | @emeriticus
• Contra Newsletter by Pedro Gonzalez | Substack
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• Pedro Gonzalez | LinkedIn
• Pedro Gonzalez | Muck Rack
• Pedro Gonzalez | American Greatness
• Pedro Gonzalez | Conservative Partnership Institute
• Pedro Gonzalez | The American Mind
• American Greatness editor on how Trump's abandonment of populism affected 2020 election | The Hill

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On this episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Dave and Sam discuss the federal law regarding owning a firearms and using medicinal marijuana. If you've ever filled out a Form 4473, you're familiar with the Question 11e: "Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or other controlled substance?" In case you thought there was any ambiguity with regard to medical marijuana, you were wrong. Indeed, there is a warning in bold right underneath the question that clarifies:

"Warning: The use or possession of marijuana remains unlawful under Federal law regardless of whether it has been legalized or decriminalized or for medicinal or recreational purposes in the state where you reside."

Regardless of what one thinks about marijuana, its legalization or the right of the federal government to regulate either drugs or the internal laws of the various states, the fact remains: As of now, possession, sale and cultivation of marijuana remains a federal offense. It is a Schedule I drug in the same category as heroin and cocaine. You might not like that and you might think such classifications are ridiculous. The federal government doesn't care. This is a particularly difficult issue for people who use medicinal marijuana for bona fide medical purposes, rather than as a sort of legal loophole to consume marijuana legally. Many people use medicinal marijuana for a variety of purposes including relief from pain, Alzheimer's symptoms, glaucoma, epilepsy and a number of complications related to cancer, including nausea and lack of appetite. The science on this is rather conclusive, so much so that Big Pharma makes legal synthetic THC pills known as marinol. For those who use medical marijuana and wish to protect themselves with firearms, there is a choice: you can keep your guns or you can keep your grass or you can break the law. You can read the full article "Protection or Pain Treatment: Choosing Between Your Gun and Medical Marijuana" at Ammo.com. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Helpful Links:

• Protection or Pain Treatment: Choosing Between Your Gun and Medical Marijuana
• Prescription For Violence: The Corresponding Rise of Antidepressants, SSRIs & Mass Shootings
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On this guest episode of the Resistance Library Podcast Sam Jacobs has Benjamin Braddock on the show. Benjamin Braddock is a prolific Twitter user and writer for online publications such as American Greatness. We had him on to discuss the Thunderdome style of politics, whether or not the GOP needs a celebrity candidate for 2024 and the power of raw eggs. For $20 off your $200 purchase, go to https://ammo.com/podcast (a special deal for our listeners). Follow Sam Jacobs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SamJacobs1776 Ben's Links:

• Benjamin Braddock on Twitter | @GraduatedBen
• Benjamin Braddock | American Greatness

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