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Colorado Town to Vote on Making it Legal to Hunt Drones

Tue, 12/10/2013 - 10:35
Ten years ago, if you said in 2013 that we’d be having a debate on how both privately and government owned unmanned aerial drones would be a part of our lives, many people would probably call you crazy. However, here we are, in 2013, debating about unmanned aerial vehicles and how they’ll be used in […]

Ten Year Old Boy Suspended For Using Pencil as an Imaginary Bow and Arrow in School

Tue, 12/10/2013 - 10:16
Here we go. Zero thought…I mean tolerance at it again. In this case a ten year old boy was suspended for making the motion of a bow and arrow firing with his hands and a pencil in school. The boy was suspended for one day, will have the incident recorded on his permanent academic record, […]

Senate Passes Undetectable Firearms Act – Did Anything Else Sneak in With It?

Tue, 12/10/2013 - 10:04
The Senate, on Monday, passed the House’s bill to extend the Undetectable Firearms Act by ten years. Despite efforts by anti-gun senators, such as New York’s Charles Schumer, no additional gun control legislation was packed into the bill. Schumer was pushing hard to add language to the bill to deal specifically with 3D printed guns. […]

George Zimmerman’s Girlfriend Recants Story, Wants Charges Against Zimmerman Dropped

Tue, 12/10/2013 - 09:16
George, maybe you should take Jay-Z’s advice because you have approximately 100 problems. According to a CNN report, Zimmerman’s (ex?) girlfriend, Samantha Scheibe, has recanted some of the details about an incident that occurred last month resulting in Zimmerman’s arrest. According to CNN, Zimmerman was arrested on November 18 at Scheibe’s Apopka, Florida, home after […]

TSA Confiscates Tiny Sock Monkey’s Teeny Tiny Gun – Really?!

Tue, 12/10/2013 - 08:54
OK. Airport security has officially gotten ridiculous. According to King5, St. Louis TSA agents confiscated a tiny toy prop gun that sat in the tiny holster of a tiny sock monkey. Yeah, a sock monkey. According to the King5 report, [Phyllis] May said the TSA agent went through the bag, through the sewing supplies and […]

[Video] Knockout Game Gone Wrong..er Right? Victim Turns Tables on Knockout Game Participant – NSFW

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 16:59
Note – Above video has language and violence which may not be safe for work and/or younger viewers. We keep hearing more and more about the so-called “knockout game” in which participants try to knock out unsuspecting bystanders by sucker punching them. At least one “player” of the game found himself shot and behind bars […]

Clerk Who Fired Warning Shot May Face Charges

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 15:32
A Rapid City, SD liquor store clerk may end up facing charges over firing a warning shot during a theft last week. The clerk chased a suspect who stole some vodka out of the store, gave chase to the suspect as well as a waiting accomplice and fired a warning shot into the air as […]

Disturbing Report: ATF Used Mentally Disabled People, Encouraged Drug Use Among Minors During Stings

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 13:36
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has published some extremely disturbing findings in a recent report on ATF sting operations across the country. This report is only going to add to the already tarnished reputation the agency has following the “Fast and Furious” scandal in which the agency knowingly allowed numerous weapons to be smuggled to Mexican […]

UK Changes Law to Explicitly Ban 3D Guns

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 12:51
3D printed guns have always technically been illegally in the UK. It’s simply illegal to make your own functioning firearm there, unlike the US, where, in most states, you can completely legally make your own firearms for personal use (transferring them to another person is a big no-no without the proper licenses though – please […]

Utah Issues Its 500,000th Carry Permit – But There’s a Twist

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 10:37
The state of Utah recently issued its 500,000th carry permit. However, according The Salt Lake Tribune, a majority of those permits were issued to people living outside of Utah. Sixty-two percent of permits issued are going to people out of state. Why is the Utah carry permit so popular with people living in other states? […]

Obama and Bloomberg to Use Sandy Hook Anniversary to Push Gun Control

Mon, 12/09/2013 - 09:52
The following comes from the NRA-ILA. Google “Organizing for Action” (OFA), supposedly a non-partisan, grassroots group, and you get www.barackobama.com. Likewise, click on the preceding link, and it takes you to the Organizing for Action website. Despite OFA’s innocuous-sounding name, the Chicago-based group is an arm of the Obama political machine, the successor to a […]

Ohio Burglar Calls 911 Himself After Being Shot by His Would-Be Victim

Sat, 12/07/2013 - 13:01
An Ohio man accused of burglary is recovering from gunshot wounds in a Toledo area hospital this week. The suspected burglar actually called 911 himself to report he had been shot. Although, in his version of events he forgot to mention the whole attempted burglary thing. The homeowner identified as Antione Garret, 34, heard someone […]

NYPD Sends Out Over 500 Confiscation/Surrender Letters to Rifle Owners

Fri, 12/06/2013 - 16:13
Last week we reported that New York City had begun sending letters out to some gun owners who may own rifles and shotguns capable of holding more than 5 rounds of ammunition. The letters basically give owners the option of surrendering their firearms to the authorities, having them permanently modified to be in compliance with […]

Gabby Giffords Creates Anti-Gun PAC, Begins Funneling Tens of Thousands to Anti-Gun Politicians

Fri, 12/06/2013 - 14:46
It looks like the battle for Congress in 2014 is starting to heat up. Former Rep Gabby Giffords has setup a political action committee using the nearly $300,000 in her campaign fund. The PAC will begin immediately funneling money to senators who supported federal gun control efforts earlier this year. According to POLITICO, The new […]

Poll: Should Non-Violent Felons Be Allowed to Own Guns?

Fri, 12/06/2013 - 10:38
As our judicial system currently stands, when you are convicted of a felony, you give up certain rights. It doesn’t matter if the felony was a victimless crime or a violent crime. Our poll for today deals with the rights of non-violent felons. When voting keep in mind, we are talking about non-violent crimes here. […]

67 Year Old Man Stabs and Fights Off 2 Armed Robbers After Being Pepper Sprayed

Fri, 12/06/2013 - 10:08
This incident doesn’t involve self defense with a gun, but a knife. It also features the ‘refuse to be a victim’ mindset that is present in so many of these stories. A 67 year old Oakland resident had just returned home with his girlfriend after visiting relatives at around 8pm. Two armed robbers then pepper […]

Sandy Hook 911 Calls Finally Released, Full Audio of Multiple Calls

Thu, 12/05/2013 - 15:07
After the summary report on the Sandy Hook shooting was released last month, many wondered why the 911 calls had also not been released. Several individuals and organizations had filed open record requests for the calls, but they continues to remain unavailable. Today, at least some of the calls have finally been released. We aren’t […]

[Video] Retired Navy SEAL & NRA Commentator Dom Raso on Vets Being Stripped of Gun Rights

Thu, 12/05/2013 - 13:00
Here we have another great video from the NRA News Commentators, this time from Dom Raso. Raso points out some disturbing things that are happening to the gun rights of our veterans. Here is the full transcript in case you can’t watch the video: Under Obama’s administration, there’s been a serious downsizing of our military. […]

Army Lt. Colonel Wants to Repeal the Second Amendment According to Piece He Wrote For Esquire

Thu, 12/05/2013 - 11:06
Here we have Lt. Col. Robert Bateman. A US Army Officer who is currently living in England and apparently hates the idea that US citizens own guns so much that he wrote an article for Esquire on the subject of civilian disarmament. Bateman calls out the Supreme Court for, according to him, their incorrect interpretation […]

Congressional Study: Gun Ownership Drastically Up Since ’94, Murder Rate Cut in Half

Wed, 12/04/2013 - 16:36
This Congressional study should, at minimum, put to rest the claims that more guns in private hands will create more violent crime. According to a new study, commissioned by Congress, the murder rate in the US has fallen from 9.5 per 100,000 in 1993 to 4.7 per 100,000 in 2011. Homicides involving firearms dropped from […]

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