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Avoid Road Ragers…Because Angry People Have Terrible Judgement [VIDEO]
Road rage happens. Whether you see it in cities or on the Interstates, sometimes people can become agitated for even the slightest of reasons. If you find yourself the object of their ire, do all you can to de-escalate and avoid the situation. That might involve swallowing some pride and allowing them past you, or it might involve calling 9-1-1 if the problem doesn’t resolve itself and they persist.
Road rage situations sometimes escalate to the point of violence.
Safety Tip: Don’t Try To Catch a Dropped Gun
I confess. I dropped my carry piece one morning last week. It slipped from my grasp and tumbled to the floor as I reached for it to holster it for the day. Fully loaded, it landed on some unfolded clothes in a laundry basket (procrastination really paid off in this case).
Despite my initial impulse to try to catch it, I pulled my hands away as it fell. I knew better than to try to catch a falling gun.
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Happy New Year from The Truth About Guns
As is our tradition, we want to wish our loyal, informed and well-armed readership a happy, healthy and prosperous new year. Looking back to our January 1, 2022 post, we expected 2022 to be “interesting”…in the purportedly Chinese sense of the term…and interesting it was.
Gazing into our hazy crystal ball at the year ahead, 2023 looks to have more positives than negatives in store for The People of the Gun. Bolstered by 2022’s momentous Bruen decision and the torrent of lawsuits it unleashed challenging gun control laws across the fruited plain, we expect more gun rights wins than losses in the months ahead.
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TTAG’s 5 Most-Read Posts of 2022
I think there’s some kind of law requiring every publisher of any kind to do some kind of lame end-of-the-year post looking back on the last 12 months. We try to avoid complying with those kinds of mandates, but we get fairly regular questions via email asking what our most popular post is/was, and far be it from us not to give The People of the Gun what they want.
Gun reviews are and always have been our biggest traffic-getters as a category, but our posts on breaking topics of interest tend to be the most read individually.
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The 3 Best Ways To Piss Off Other People at a Gun Range
Any gun guru worth his or her salt will tell you to avoid stupid people in stupid places doing stupid things. As someone who’s been to more gun ranges than the average guy, we should modify that adage to account for the risks involved when shooting guns next to complete strangers. Avoid stupid armed people in stupid places doing stupid things.
Oh and don’t be that guy! But if you are, here are the three surefire ways to really piss off other people at a gun range.
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SAF, FPC File a Lawsuit Challenging New York’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban
From the Second Amendment Foundation . . .
A federal lawsuit supported by the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition has been filed in New York, challenging that state’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Plaintiffs are represented by SAF and FPC attorneys. The case is known as Lane v. James.
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of New York residents J.
Next Time Try Chunky: TSA Finds Disassembled Gun in Jars of Jif Smooth Peanut Butter
It was a sticky situation in a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checked baggage screening room at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) yesterday, Dec. 22, when a TSA officer removed two jars of peanut butter, each containing parts of a disassembled semi-automatic handgun artfully concealed inside.
The .22 caliber gun parts were wrapped in plastic and had been jammed into the middle of two plastic jars of peanut butter. The gun’s magazine was loaded with bullets.
Chicago: 700+ Homicides 3 Years Running, Some Areas 3 Times More Dangerous Than Deployment in Afghanistan
As the year winds down the Windy City has notched 729 homicides (and counting). 2022 marks the third year in a row for 700+ homicides in the Windy City, and four times so far this century. Sadly, life in some parts of America’s third-largest city has become more akin to life in a third-world cesspool, three times more dangerous than a combat deployment in Afghanistan.
Yes, there are some outstanding people living in Chicago.
Karma: Georgia Crook Flees Armed Robbery Attempt Only to be Stopped by Mother Nature
Sometimes Karma catches up with bad people with evil in their hearts. In Gainesville, Georgia, police say Luis Sajbocho-Ordonez waited behind a business early Christmas morning to rob the joint. Instead, when he pulled a gun on an employee who emerged from the back door, he got into struggle over his gun. Then, when a second employee showed up, he fired a shot and ran like a scalded dog.
Unfortunately for Mr. Sajbocho-Ordonez, the unusually cold weather had left a patch of ice on the ground.
Komanoff: No, Gun-Grabbers, Guns are Not the Biggest Killers of Children in America
[T]otal gun deaths for the 0-19 cohort were, indeed, the greater of the two (guns and vehicles). That’s the finding the N.I.H. reported this summer, yet mistakenly labeled as “childhood deaths,” a framing that Northwell, the Times and the New Yorker amplified this month.
As it happens, the age 12-13 break point between the primacy of traffic deaths and the primacy of gun deaths coincides with customary notions of childhood and adolescence.
Gun Meme of the Day: Silly Ralphie Edition
Not sure this is an appropriate response to ignorance, but okay.
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Alleged Armed Robber Shot Dead After Picking Wrong Tow Truck Driver To Rob [VIDEO]
Violent crime continued in Detroit without interruption for the holiday season. An alleged armed robber tried his hand at it on Monday. He apparently contacted an auto salvage company, telling them he wanted them to purchase and haul away a junk car. When the tow truck arrived to pick up the hoopty, the intrepid criminal tried to ambush the driver.
Mr. Robber didn’t expect the hook’s driver to be so aware of his surroundings…or have his own gun.
DHS Failed to Process 6.4 Million NICS Background Check ‘Criminal Disposition’ Requests
We submit the following quotes from the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report without comment.
Note that the OIG uncovered missing information going back as far as 1925. The NICS System was established as part of the Brady Act, passed in 1993 and didn’t go fully into effect until 1998. But someone who committed a felony in, say, 1953, may be among those whose information hasn’t been reported by some part of what now constitutes DHS.
Accused California Serial Killer, a ‘Prohibited Person,’ Charged With 4 More Shooting Deaths
From the AP . . .
A man suspected in Northern California serial killings has been charged in four additional slayings this week, bringing the total to seven deaths since April 2021, authorities said.
The shootings terrorized the Central Valley city of Stockton earlier this year as police searched for a man clad in black who appeared to be “on a mission” as he hunted victims for ambush-style shootings. He was also tied violence in Alameda County.
The Death of the Great American Gun Show
This weekend I did something I often do and almost always regret. I went to a gun show. Specifically the Tallahassee Gun and Knife show. This show has shrunk considerably over the last few years and went from two bustling buildings to one meager showing. As I walked and looked at the prices of ammo and guns, I couldn’t help but feel a bit melancholy.
I loved gun shows when I was a kid.
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Santucci: When Talking About Enacting More Gun Control Laws…’What About the Bullets’?
Time and time again, in the wake of a mass shooting it’s revealed that the shooter was carrying enough weaponry to kill everyone inside a school, movie theater, grocery store or even a full-sized mall. It’s not hard for the killers to build a significant arsenal of assault rifles, handguns, high-capacity magazines – and bullets. Lots of bullets.
Each year billions of bullets are sold in the U.S., making bullet sales a booming business.
Reducing Montana’s Prairie Dog Population One Dog at a Time With a Suppressed CZ 527 Rifle in .223 Rem
By Austin Knudsen
Montana is a state rich in shooting and hunting opportunities. In the last few years, my family and I have gotten into prairie dog hunting in the southeast part of the state in a big way. For the uninitiated, prairie dogs are a small rodent mammal species native to much of the western U.S.’s open prairies and mountain foothills. However, they aren’t native to the area of northeastern Montana where I come from, so I didn’t have any experience hunting them.