
Jay Gore
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Jay Gore
@erogyaj
Air Force Viet Nam era Veteran from Ga I do Precision Guesswork SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM



Coming up! The WPZ DB3! I decided to make the number value match the cap count. Print on the way!

Is 45 ACP still relevant as an EDC caliber?












American Exceptionalism XII: The Louisiana Purchase The World Before: Empires usually grow by blood. Borders move when armies march, cities burn, and the strong carve maps from the weak. Land is taken, held, and buried under the cost of conquest. The American Answer: The Louisiana Purchase doubled the United States without a continental war. Jefferson bought an empire’s worth of land with ink, nerve, and opportunity, turning a young coastal republic toward the interior of a continent. America did not merely expand. It opened the horizon. The Legacy: The Purchase made America impossible to contain. Rivers, plains, mountains, farms, cities, railroads, and generations of settlers would pour into a space vast enough to turn a fragile republic into a continental power. The United States stopped being a nation on the edge of history. It became the nation history would have to cross. The Threat: The enemies of this country hate expansion when it belongs to free people. They prefer citizens managed, crowded, dependent, and small. The Louisiana Purchase carried a different assumption westward: that a people born in liberty could fill a continent without asking permission from old powers. That frontier has never fully closed.















