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A Question of Balance: In Praise of the Manual Safety
By John Sprague
There is a large contingent of gun users — many of them here — who are adamant that the only safety a gun needs is some self-control over the use of your booger hook. I would like to present an alternative view.
Manual safeties are not the enemy of readiness that some would have you believe. We can probably agree that the highest state of readiness a gun owner can achieve is to have a gun in each hand pointing at anyone who might possibly pose a threat to your or your family.
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FBI Monitoring Gun Owners Who Sell Firearms Via Facebook
A Texas man who posted on Facebook that he was selling his own guns was placed under warrantless surveillance by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF investigated the man, found no evidence, yet gave his information to the FBI to monitor him for at least six months.
According to internal documents reviewed by The Epoch Times, two ATF special agents interviewed the Hispanic man who admitted to “advertising” his personal firearms for sale on Facebook.
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Pushback From Gun Rights Orgs Causes San Francisco to Table Proposed Bruen Response Law
By Chuck Michel
The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors has backed down on a proposed ordinance that would make much of the city into a “gun-free zone” after the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and California Rifle & Pistol Association (CRPA) promised legal action.
San Francisco has long been the California city most opposed to the right to keep and bear arms. In 2003 the city tried to ban handguns entirely.
Biden’s War On Guns Prompting Big Box Gun Sellers’ Unreasonably Restrictive Gun Sales Policies
By Lee Williams
Cecil Trimble, a 35-year-old restaurant manager, took a fishing reel to Bass Pro Shop’s Tampa store last week to be re-spooled with new line. As he was waiting, he wandered over to the gun department and immediately spotted the object of his recent desire.
Trimble had been searching for a SIG SAUER P365 XMACRO for weeks. The problem was, so had everybody else. Bass Pro wanted around $800 for the 9mm pistol and Trimble didn’t hesitate.
House Appropriations Committee Includes Language to Protect Traditional Hunting Ammo
One of the long-running strategies of the anti-gun left and the Biden administration in particular, has been to erect barriers, rules, and requirements making the standard carry and use of firearms more difficult, more onerous, and more expensive for everyone who chooses to do so. One of those angles of attack has been to claim that the use of traditional lead-based ammunition is a clear and present danger to every species that flies, crawls or swims.
Pay No Attention to the Ginned-Up Faux Outrage Over Jason Aldean’s Song
By Peter Elias
OK Shannon Watts, now do ANTIFA, BLM, and a lot of rap music. You know, since you’re so concerned with violence and all. No? Why not? Because you are a bunch of virtue signaling, identity politics-playing, phony cowards, that’s why. It’s amazing how decades of violence in other music and media create no expressions of deep concern from you and your mentally ill, politically slanted ilk.
Movies and video games?
First Night Jitters: Philly Pizza Delivery Guy Shoots One of Two Armed Carjackers
Yesterday we highlighted a defensive gun use that took place in our nation’s capital. Today, we move up America’s gold coast on the Acela line to the City of Brotherly Love where violent crime continues to set records and the city can see as many as 10 carjackings in a weekend.
The good news for Philadelphians is that Pennsylvania has much better gun laws than does the District. That means it’s far easier for the average Philly denizen to legally carry a firearm.
One Attacker Shot, Another on the Run as Washington, DC Carjackers Choose Their Victim Poorly
If you’re unfortunate enough to reside or work in our nation’s capital and want to exercise your Second Amendment rights to their fullest extent possible, you’ll need to navigate the bureaucratic nightmare that is the District’s concealed carry permitting process. That means completing an application which included authorizing the city to access your mental health records, and certifying that you’ve had at least 16 hours of firearms training plus two hours of range training.
In all, you’ll spend somewhere between $500 and $1000 to do all of that.
Everytown Targets Gun Dealers, Publishes Searchable Data Base of FFLs
From NRA-ILA . . .
Here we go again. Four years after then-Vice President Joe Biden said, “Our enemy is the gun manufacturers,” gun control advocates are still trying to convince Americans that violent crime results from law-abiding businesses providing a constitutionally-protected product under exacting government scrutiny.
Amidst the gun prohibition lobby’s never-ending — and usually illegal — campaign of harassing lawsuits, Everytown has now upped the ante with its new “research” effort, “Inside the Gun Shop.” The point is not to shed understanding on America’s heavily regulated firearm industry, however.
Sen. Chris Murphy Using the Defense Authorization Bill to Attack Service Members’ Individual Gun Rights
By Mark Oliva
It takes a certain amount of brazenness to put the responsibility of defending the nation on a young American and then, in the next breath, demand they forfeit those freedoms they are literally willing to die to protect.
U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is never one to disappoint, though. His latest legislative move is to put a target on the back of every service member as someone who cannot be entrusted to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Weaponized ATF Tactical Raids Endangering Americans’ Lives…Again
By Lee Williams
During the 30 years that have passed since ATF’s botched raid in Waco, Texas, which led to 82 civilian deaths – including 28 children – and four federal agents, the agency appears to have forgotten that when it picks fights for no reason and uses excessive force, law-abiding Americans pay with their lives.
A story we published last week – much to everyone’s horror – revealed that the ATF has started raiding again.
A Day Ending in ‘Y’: Shannon Watts OUTRAGED Over New Jason Aldean Music Video
NEW: Country Music Television has pulled Jason Aldean’s music video ‘Try That In A Small Town’ in response to media outrage.
In the music video, Aldean calls out left-wing violence, specifically violence against law enforcement.
Apparently this is ‘controversial’ and hateful… pic.twitter.com/Jq9D678s6G
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 19, 2023
Country music singer Jason Aldean has sparked controversy over lyrics in his new song that seem to promote gun violence.
Simtek Sensors are Now StealthALERT Wireless Firearm and Safe Security Monitors
Jeremy got his hands on a prototype of the Simtek security sensor, and then reviewed the production model when it started to ship. These’re wireless real-time cellular (not WiFi) monitors that alert you of an unauthorized attempt to access your gun or safe. He was a fan (testing of the newest version is underway).
Now Simtek is rebranding their remote security sensors for the firearm market. The new brand is StealthALERT, but they’re the same product with the same features.
Despite Prominent ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Signs, 3 Teenagers Shot in Times Square [VIDEO]
You can’t blame the city of New York for this one. They did everything they could. Sure they cut 11% of their police budget during the fevered post-George Floyd defund-the-police mania under Warren Wilhelm, Jr. And OK, the severely undermanned NYPD has since been described as “unfixable” in its current state. And yes, the city has a DA in Manhattan who’s more interested in “re-thinking” criminal justice than he is prosecuting actual criminals.
Still and all, the city that never sleeps has done what it can to fight the spike in violent crime.
Massachusetts Police Departments Warn of an Unconstitutional Gun Grab
By Jake McGuigan
Massachusetts lawmakers are so drastically overreaching with a 140-page gun control proposal that local police departments are flashing lights and blaring sirens because it is just that bad.
The Ware, Mass., Police Department posted a warning to citizens on the police department’s Facebook page that HD 4420 is just plain terrible gun control legislation.
“This Bill does not address criminals,” the post reads.
SIG SAUER’s New ROMEO-X Red Dots Built On ROMEO-M17 Technology
Earlier this year at SHOT, SIG SAUER announced the ROMEO-M17 red dot sight. It’s an enclosed emitter, gas purged design with a selectable reticle (2 MOA dot, 32 MOA circle or both) that’s designed for the military for use on M17 and M18 duty pistols. SIG SAUER calls it the best pistol red dot sight ever made.
The ROMEO-M17 isn’t for everyone. First, it’s expensive, retailing at about $800. It’s US-made, has 15 brightness settings, including three night vision settings, and it’s tougher than a $2 t-bone.
Cassell: BLM and Defunding Police Have Killed More People Than Cops Ever Did
It is well known that there were significant spikes in homicides in 2020, particularly in major urban areas. In an article I published in 2021, I attributed these spikes to what I dubbed the “Minneapolis Effect”–specifically reductions in proactive policing as police pulled back in the wake of the George Floyd protests. I blogged about my article here.
A few days ago, an important new statistical study found corroboration for my hypothesis in New York City.
Gun Meme of the Day: Crafty Insurrection Edition
…If I worked at Hobby Lobby…
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