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Things that Don’t Suck: Viridian HS1 Laser Hand Stop
The Viridian HS1 laser hand stop falls under the general category of Why the Hell Didn’t Anyone Think of That Sooner™. Incorporating a laser sight into a hand stop seems like the most natural V8 forehead-slapping idea in the gun accessory category.
The HS1 is a simple, intuitive design with a standard M-LOK mount. Don’t worry…if your rifle has a Pic rail-equipped handguard, Viridian makes a Picatinny adapter for the HS1, too.
The HS1 Laser Hand Guard turns on via the protruding electric greed button.
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Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman Wants to Roll Back Your Gun Rights if Elected to the Senate
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman has a few ideas for ushering in crushing blows to the Second Amendment should he be elected in November. The man who once wielded a shotgun against an African-American man he wrongfully believed was involved in a crime wants to obliterate your gun rights.
Lt. Gov. Fetterman, the tattooed, hoodie-wearing, Senate candidate vying for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) wants to become President Joe Biden’s biggest gun control ally.
Enomoto: Gun Stocks Are Controversial and Risky, But Buy Smith & Wesson
Outside of the private-prison segment, few market sectors attract as much attention and controversy as self-defense stocks, particularly companies tethered to the firearms industry. With countless tragic gun-related crimes sparking across the nation over the years, tickers like SWBI, RGR, and POWW cannot avoid public anger. At the same time, gun and ammunition manufacturers do plenty of good, making for a complex but possibly bullish case.
Inherently, the issue of gun control consistently ranks near the top among the most politically significant discussions in the U.S.
A Life With Guns: Growing Up in India
By Opsimath
It was an expletive-laden phone call that threatened to kill the young columnist. “You’re going to die because you wrote xxxxxx about yyyyyyy.” The young man laughed, and told the caller, “You’re not going to kill me over the phone. Come over, since you know where I am. I’ll be waiting with a gun.” The call ended.
Back in those days, there were no cellphones in the “sovereign, secular, socialist, democratic republic” as India called itself.
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Parkland Killer Nikolas Cruz May Have Talked His Way Into a Death Sentence
Terry Spencer, AP
It’s possible Florida school shooter Nikolas Cruz talked himself into a death sentence.
Prosecutors played video last week at Cruz’s penalty trial of jailhouse interviews he did this year with two of their mental health experts. In frank and sometimes graphic detail, he answered their questions about his massacre of 17 people at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018 — his planning, his motivation, the shootings.
Archibald: Carrying a Gun Doesn’t Make You Safer, It Makes You More Dangerous
We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon anymore.
We are supposed to be afraid. Because fear drives politics, and gun sales, and emotions. And deaths.
In 2020 the national murder rate rose.
Basic Bitch or Basic Witch, Everyone Has a Right to Armed Self-Defense
It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Texas Man Shouted ‘Die’ As He Strangled and Shook Newborn Babies
A real life horror story came to life recently in Odessa, Texas. Reports say Marcus Dewayne McCowan Jr., assaulted a slew of hospital staff before he began strangling and shaking newborn babies in a maternity ward. The young man screamed “die!” as the newborns turned blue, according to police.
Given that it happened in Texas, Mr. McCowan’s lucky he’s still alive.
Not only was McCowan not shot dead or beaten to a bloody pulp, but he continued to fight when police arrived.
Schoolhouse Rock: Prof. David Yamane Breaks Down the Structure of Anti-Gunners’ Arguments
A recent video provides a great summary of what makes most anti-gun arguments tick these days.
Sociology Professor David Yamane of Wake Forest University is already well-known for his work on Gun Culture 2.0, or the shift in motivations behind gun ownership in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his latest video, The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership, he gives a six-point summary that encapsulates most anti-gun arguments today.
Florida Sheriff Grady Judd on Looters: ‘Shoot Him So He Looks Like Grated Cheese’
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
— Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at press conference.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
Gun Meme of the Day: Square That Circle Edition
No need to reconcile those two things. You just don’t get it because you’re bitter clingers.
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As Chicagoans Die In the Streets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot Dances and Sings on TikTok [VIDEO]
Lori Lightfoot has done a lot for the city of Chicago. She’s presided over a 74% decline in arrests, a police department so understaffed that it couldn’t respond to over 50% of the highest priority 911 calls last year, and Murder City, USA has achieved over 555 homicides so far this year…with almost three months remaining.
Crime continues to spiral out of control and companies and residents are fleeing.
So what does Her Honor do about the declining quality of life in her city, aside from promoting more failed gun control plans and anti-gun programs?
Uvalde School District Suspends, Reassigns Everyone On Its Police Force
If, like most of America, you’ve moved on and haven’t been paying attention to the continued fallout from the manifold failures at Robb Elementary School that made the Uvalde school shooting far worse than it should have been, developments there continue to unfold, surprising even the most cynical among us.
Yesterday, the Uvalde School District police department fired one if its new hires. After the district police force hired former Texas State Trooper Crimson Elizondo, CNN reported that she was not only one of the 91 DPS cops on the scene the day of the shooting, but she was one of the first to arrive.
Latest War on Guns Casualty: Due Process and Legend Firearms in Monroe, New Jersey
By Lee Williams
Ira Levin has owned and operated Legend Firearms in Monroe, New Jersey since 2009, which is no small feat given the Garden State’s blatant antipathy toward guns, gun owners, and gun dealers.
Levin has conducted more than 21,000 firearm transactions, and has been inspected dozens of times by both the New Jersey State Police and the ATF. They have never found a deficiency, at least not until Joe Biden declared war on gun dealers.
Hemingway: More Federal Bureaucrats Carry Guns Than the U.S. Marines
When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.”
A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers.
Gun Meme of the Day: He’s Got a Point Edition
The math checks out! Like his pencil, he’s got a point.
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BREAKING: Judge Rules Most of New NY Gun Law Is Unconstitutional, Issues TRO Blocking Enforcement
Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby ruled that multiple provisions in New York State’s new gun laws, which just went into effect last Saturday, October 1st, are unconstitutional. He issued a restraining order against these parts of the law taking effect.
If you recall any of the aspects of the new NY laws that were passed in response to the SCOTUS’ Bruen decision, you won’t be surprised by the parts Judge Suddaby struck down.
Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms Thunderer 4 3/4″ Stainless
Cimarron Firearms’ Thunderer single action revolver is exactly like nothing they’ve done before. It’s kind of like everything they’ve been doing. And it’s awesome.
What’s so different about the Thunderer is that, unlike the other guns produced by Uberti for Cimarron, this one isn’t a reproduction. Cimarron goes through great pains to perfectly reproduce many historical firearms. I was duly impressed with the attention to historical detailed applied to Cimarron’s McColloch Colt.
But the Thunderer never existed until now.
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FBI Whistleblower Says 90% Certainty that the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Was an ISIS Attack
Victoria Taft over at PJ Media has the story of an FBI whistleblower who has come forward with evidence that points to an ISIS connection to the Las Vegas massacre five years ago. The incident claimed the lives of 58 people with nearly 900 injured or wounded. Now, this former FBI agent says they believe there’s a 90% chance that ISIS Islamic terror organization was behind it.
Of course, the FBI still hasn’t publicly issued even an educated guess on the motive of the killer.
BREAKING: 38 Killed, Including 22 Children In Gun, Knife Attack on Daycare in Thailand
Joe Biden says “things like this rarely happen anywhere except in America…” Ditto for his sidekick Kamala Harris. Yet on Thursday, a corrupt former cop facing charges used a knife and a gun to kill 38 people in a daycare in rural Thailand. Twenty-two of the dead were small children, mostly slashed to death after the killer stormed a room where the toddlers were napping.
Actually it’s the second major mass murder spree in a school in as many weeks outside of the USA.