534-Friendly Advice To Help You Buy Your First AR15 Rifle
This show rounds out some friendly advice to help any interested listener who wants to put together a well-equipped home armory to do so in a thoughtful and financially prudent way.
Today, we tackle the AR15 rifle. The AR15 is a wonderful rifle. It's not the best at any one thing, but it is truly good at many things.
I'd love for you to have one if you don't already.
So I thought you might appreciate some advice on how to get a good deal on one.
Enjoy!
Joshua
p.s., In the show I referenced a statistic of police officers in a northeastern state not turning in their rifles after a ban. That particular story I referenced was actually a satire site that I stumbled over without realizing it. I got duped. I have no doubt that the thrust of the story is accurate, but the specifics I cited were flat wrong and untrustworthy. Sorry.
p.p.s., My guest in today's show referenced the AR15 as stemming from a military firearm first. The AR15 was developed for the civilian marketplace first, then...
531-Friday Q&A: How to Establish a Will & Trust While Living Internationally, How to Title Life Insurance Policies for Spousal Protection
It's Friday! That means Q&A! Today, we cover:
- How to establish a will and trust when you plan to be living internationally for an extended period of time.
- How to plan ahead to pay for kids' college when you anticipate that the college may lose its accreditation.
- How to properly title your life insurance policies in order to protect a vulnerable spouse.
529-Friday Q&A: How to Protect From Disability Without Disability Insurance, How to Cover Unknown Future Risk, How Should I Finance a Land Purchase, Will My Credit Score Be Messed Up By Mortgage Shopping, How to Adjust Content for Different Audiences
Friday Q&A today! We cover:
- How can I protect myself from the risk of disability without getting disability insurance?
- How can I make sure that future, unknown risks are adequately covered today?
- What financing option should I use to buy a piece of land?
- Will my credit score be messed up by shopping for a mortgage?
- How can I adjust content for different audiences?
I'd love to have you call in next week! Details here: www.RadicalPersonalFinance.com/patron
Joshua
A Nation of Cowards by Jeffrey Snyder (audio version)
This is the audio recording of an essay published in the Fall of 1993 in The Public Interest magazine.
The essay is titled: "A Nation of Cowards" by Jeffrey Snyder.
You can access a text version of this essay here: http://rkba.org/comment/cowards.html
I'm publishing this essay for you as a thought-provoking defense of the morality of your being well-armed.
In today's political climate where critics are drawing a moral equivalence between mass murderers and an average armed citizen, I think this moral defense is warranted.
The facts and names of the essay are dated. The arguments are not.
As you consider this essay with 25 years of hindsight, do some research into how well the arguments have weathered the test of time.
Joshua
528-Tools and Tactics for Self-Defense in a Non-Permissive Environment (like a school)
The tagline of RPF is "...living a rich life now..." But it's hard to LIVE a rich life if you're dead.
So I'd like to help you--and others--have a higher potential of staying alive.
I have looked and looked for practical responses to the recent school shooting and have found very few.
This is my best effort to help you with some practical solutions to the problem.
I did my best in today's show to keep it free of politics and free of guns. (To be fair, I think it's best to say it's politics-lite and gun-lite.)
Give it a listen. Even if you are frustrated by the current gun debate, I think you'll find some useful, practical ideas to help you defend your own life and the lives of others--even in a non-permissive environment.
Joshua
- Please support RPF on Patreon: www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron
523-Last Week's Fiscal Catastrophe and Your Response
If you want happy-go-lucky, unicorns-and-balloons-in-the-sky Joshua, skip today's show.
If you want angry Joshua to opine on his disgust with the US American politicians' lack of fiscal restraint and the long-term catastrophe that is the US American budget, then you'll enjoy today's show.
Enjoy.
Joshua
- David Stockman: The Night of Fiscal Infamy http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/the-night-of-fiscal-infamy/
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Obama Definitely Was Not the Biggest Spender of All https://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2017/10/16/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-obama-definitely-was-not-the-biggest-spender-of-all/
489-Lessons From Las Vegas: A Few Practical Ways You Can Prepare For Being Involved in an Active Shooter Scenario
As we all watch and process the mass shooting in Las Vegas this weekend, I thought it would be appropriate to share a few lessons learned.
I always try to process an event like this with an eye towards the lessons I can learn.
The tactical situation in Las Vegas was impossible. I don't think you could imagine a worse situation to be in as a concert-goer. An absolute nightmare.
But, I do have a few thoughts that I think can help. And since I don't hear anyone sharing anything practical, here are my suggestions.
If you have additional practical, actionable ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Joshua
- The flashlight I use is the FourSevens Mini Mark II. It's awesome. http://amzn.to/2fMdtNM
477-Practical Financial Planning for Large-Scale Disasters Like the Houston Floods
I've been watching the #HoustonFloods this weekend and considering the lessons I can learn for my own disaster planning.
Today, I share some useful ideas for you about how to plan for events like the Houston Floods.
Joshua
- Episode 381 - Simple, Cheap, Practical Tips to Help You Prepare for a Coming Hurricane
- Episode 347: Disasters Happen – Make a Plan Now to Ensure You Have Plenty of Money Available to You to Solve the Problems Money Can Solve
