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Gun Meme of the Day: Scratch and Sniff Edition
So proud that our president isn’t a weird creeper who sniffs hair and gropes girls and women in public or anything.
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Gottlieb: Hunter Biden Gun Charge Deal an Outrage, Insult
From Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) . . .
CCRKBA: HUNTER BIDEN GUN CHARGE DEAL AN OUTRAGE, INSULT
BELLEVUE, WA – Tuesday’s announced “tentative deal” to resolve a federal gun law violation involving Hunter Biden—son of anti-gun-rights President Joe Biden—is “an insult to the intelligence of the American people,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response.
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Big June Sale from Liberty Safe or: Here’s a Way for Me to Show Off My Lounge Room
Scrolling Instagram, an ad for Liberty Safe‘s big June sale appeared. 10 percent off site-wide plus 18-month interest-free financing. I figured, heck, I’m nearing completion of an entire room more or less built around my own Liberty Safe, so I may as well inform y’all that there’s 10 days left to jump on this sale and simultaneously show off the state of the room and of my safe thus far.
Let me just head off some questions and state that this isn’t an affiliate post or anything.
Federal Ammunition Introduces New Premium ELD-X Hunting Loads
Extremely low drag (high ballistic coefficient) projectiles designed with terminal ballistics (efficacy on game animals) in mind. This is the way. In this case Federal Ammunition and Hornady are playing nice together, resulting in Federal Premium ammunition featuring Hornady ELD-X projectiles.
What this means to me is extremely precisely-loaded ammunition in top quality brass with top quality primers firing some of the best bullets available. I can’t wait to try it out.
Federal’s press release follows .
Canadians Select the SIG SAUER P320 as the Sidearm for Their Armed Forces
Another western nation has adopted the SIG SAUER P320 as the official sidearm of its armed forces. Our neighbors to the north have christened the modular P320 as the C22 and have chosen it to replace John Moses Browning’s venerable Hi-Power 9mm that the Canucks have been carrying since World War II.
Here’s SIG’s announcement . . .
SIG SAUER, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has officially transitioned to the SIG SAUER P320 and received the official designation of C22.
Father’s Day/Juneteenth Holiday Weekend So Far: 11 Homicides, 53 More Wounded in Chicago
Father’s Day marks the day Americans celebrate their paternal units. In the tourist attraction known as Chicago, it seems as though gang members prefer to celebrate the Father’s Day weekend with gunfire directed at their fellow Americans rather than having a peaceful dinner and gifts of ties and Old Spice to dear old dad.
As Father’s Day leads into the Juneteenth federal holiday Monday, the body count of Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon “Big Brain” Johnson’s continues to climb.
Anderson Mfg Announces the New AM-15 Dissipator
When we were at the Primary Arms range day before NRA in Indy earlier this year, Jeremy got a chance to shoot Anderson Manufacturing’s new AM-15 Dissipator rifle. It’s an updated 5.56 take on the classic Vietnam era M16 with a 16-inch barrel and a Magpul flip-up rear iron sight among other updates. Here’s Anderson’s press release . . .
Anderson Manufacturing has launched their AM-15 Dissipator, a modernized take on an iconic, Vietnam-era rifle.
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23 Shot, 1 Killed, No Arrests in Willowbrook, IL Juneteenth Party Shootout
Two hundred plus youths held an impromptu parking lot party in Willowbrook, Illinois this past weekend, ostensibly to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. It all came to a screeching halt shortly after midnight when a vehicle rolled up and one or more persons emerged and began firing into the crowd. In the end, news reports say as many as 23 were shot, one was killed and police have zero suspects in custody.
Police apparently expected trouble.
Science: Has Importing New York-Style Gun Control Laws Made Vermont Less Safe?
From the NRA-ILA . . .
Up until 2018, deep blue Vermont was a model for sensible gun laws. In other words, they had few and politicians on both sides of the aisle understood the tranquil state didn’t need any. Vermont was the original Constitutional Carry state, as the Right-to-Carry without a permit was affirmed in a 1903 state supreme court case. In 2017 Vermont ranked 49th in violent crime – ahead of only Maine.
Pro- and Anti-Gunners Anticipate Another Supreme Court Second Amendment Case
Meanwhile, challenges to other provisions of federal law are gathering steam in lower courts.
Earlier this month, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia targeted another provision, 922(g)(1), that prohibits felons from possessing guns. The court ruled that the law was unconstitutional as applied to people convicted of nonviolent crimes.
In reaching that conclusion the court said there was no historical tradition of people being disarmed after being convicted of nonviolent crimes.
Personal Defense Tip: Develop Your Own Tactical Checklist
By Sal Navarro
Being “tactical” is a way of life, not an ethereal concept or happenstance occurrence. And just for the record, it has nothing at all to do with wearing the right cargo pants or boots. Rather, it means having a plan well in advance of a dynamic, critical incident and putting that plan into action if and when it’s needed. In law enforcement circles, this is known as “situational awareness and response” or “critical thinking.” Let’s look at one potential scenario .
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One More Time: Beware of Cheap Chinese Knockoff Gear
You’ve heard it all your life. If it seems like it’s too good to be true, it probably is. If you actually think you can get an EOTECH holographic sight for $33, you’re probably still wearing an N95 mask as you drive around in your car.
We’ve covered this before, people. Maybe you’re not dumb enough to buy a GLOCK switch or a suppressor that could result in a knock on your door by an actual ATF agent and wind up with you doing a stretch in jail.
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Brandon Gets Going: Violent Crime Up 38% in New Chicago Mayor’s First 30 Days
“Let’s go Brandon” became a common chant mocking Joe Biden early in his term. However, it’s gaining a whole new meaning in the Windy City. Violent crime under Murder City USA’s new and even more woke mayor Brandon Johnson rose 38% in his first 30 days in office.
Right off the bat, ahead of the always precarious Memorial Day holiday, Hizzoner elected to spend precious city money on “violence prevention” programs instead of paying cops overtime to try to keep a lid on the violence.
Constitutional Carry Counties Undermine the Constitution Itself…Allegedly
John E. Finn, Wesleyan University
Declaring its community a “constitutional county” on May 23, 2023, the Board of County Commissioners in Ottawa County, Michigan, voted 9-1 not to enforce any law or rule that “restricts the rights of any law-abiding citizen affirmed by the United States Constitution.”
Nor will the county provide aid or resources to any state or federal agency that county officials judge to be infringing on or restricting those rights.
Armed Woman Stops Uber Eats Driver’s Home Invasion Attempt [VIDEO]
A whole lot of Americans pay big bucks to have Uber Eats deliver food to their home or place of work. Most of the time, the worst thing that happens is the food is cold and their wallet is lighter. But sometimes things can take a more ominous turn.
Take, for instance, a woman in Columbus, Ohio who dozed off while waiting for her Uber Eats delivery to arrive. She woke to the sound of her doorknob jiggling and someone trying to force her door open.
IRS Confiscates Tens of Thousands of 4473 Forms From Great Falls, MT Gun Dealer
Tom Van Hoose has owned Highwood Creed Outfitters in Great Falls, Montana for 13 years. As he pulled into work Wednesday morning, twenty heavily armed Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division agents swarmed his store. He tells TTAG that the IRS agents, in full battle rattle, had been mustered from as far away as Denver and Idaho to serve a warrant for his financial records.
He told us the IRS claims that he has under-reported and failed to report millions of dollars of income.
Biden’s Latest Big Lie: He Put an End to Roving Urban Gun Sales Trucks
Biden: “Down in Philadelphia and New York, areas I know well, like up here, you’d see a truck pull up, pull the curb and selling weapons, selling guns, selling AR-15s.” pic.twitter.com/RH23Zq9zHR
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 16, 2023
For the first time ever, we explicitly made gun trafficking a federal crime. They say, “What the hell? It wasn’t already?” No, I’m serious. Think about it.
Gun Meme of the Day: Thread The Needle Edition
Probably another sign will fix it.
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Bloomington, Illinois Police Give Away Non-Gun Safes That Will Rust Firearms
There’s more than one way to disarm the people in America. Lawmakers pass unconstitutional gun bans and limit the places they can carry a firearm. Governments can “buy back” guns they never owned. And now, there’s a new and even more insidious way to take guns out of circulation: render them inoperable inside gun owners’ homes.
Police in Bloomington, Illinois gave away 312 “gun safes” to local residents this past weekend. People lined up early to get their “free” ~100-pound safes at the Farmer’s Market downtown.