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How Crowded Has Mount Everest Become?
How Crowded Has Mount Everest Become?
Mount Everest is seeing more human traffic than at any point in the last three decades of available data, according to Visual Capitalist's Sofie Gilbert.
Successful climbs are now overwhelmingly concentrated in the spring, when favorable weather can funnel hundreds of climbers toward the summit within a matter of days. Meanwhile, the workforce supporting expeditions has grown alongside the number of people attempting the mountain.
The data comes from The Himalayan Database, which tracks registered expeditions across the Nepal Himalaya. It shows how the scale, timing, and composition...
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Why Is The Trump DOJ Still Enforcing The Biden Pistol Brace Rule?
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Via Gun Owners of America,
The current Department of Justice is choosing to continue enforcing an unconstitutional legal theory being weaponized against gun owners by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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According to a recent statement in GOA’s Texas et al. v. ATF case, DOJ claims that ATF “continue[s] to enforce the NFA’s and the GCA’s regulation of short-barreled rifles against some brace-equipped pistols, even though the Rule has been universally vacated.”
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