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NRA to Blame for Smart Gun Fail. Or Not.
Let’s be clear about “smart guns.” American gun buyers don’t want firearms equipped with an authorized-user recognition system because they don’t trust the technology. They don’t trust “smart guns” to fire when they need them to. They don’t trust the government not to disable the guns remotely. The ... Read More
Texas Longhorns Football Coach Reveals Anti-Gun Bias
For those of you who don’t follow college football, people who think “hook ‘em horns!” is something Lionel Ritchie said to the brass section before Kool and The Gang played Jungle Boogie, know this: since January, University of Texas Coach Charlie Strong ... Read More
New From HPR Ammunition: Black Ops 9mm, .40 and .45 Cals.
Yes, the gun biz may have peaked with the effects of slack demand rippling their way through gun manufacturers big and small, but one segment of the firearms economy that just can’t seem to catch up with demand is gun ... Read More
GLOCK Sight Comparison: Ameriglo vs. Meprolight vs. TruGlo TFO
I’m in the process of upgrading the sights on a few of my pistols so I figured I’d get a variety of sights and do a quick once over on all of them. In this round I have access to ... Read More
BREAKING: James Brady Dead at Age 73
Former Reagan press secretary and long-time gun control advocate James Brady, whose shooting during a 1981 assassination attempt spawned the eponymous Brady Campaign to Prevent Handgun Violence, died today at age 73 of what his family’s statement called “a series ... Read More
Letting My Gun Flag Fly
Colion Noir wrote this fantastic article last week on NRA Sharp entitled “Don’t Hide Your Pride.” I highly recommend you give it a read. I happened upon it at a time that perfectly coincided with Nick, Dan, and Robert asking me to start ... Read More
Question of the Day: What Does Denmark’s Failed Minecraft TNT Ban Tell You About Gun Control?
TTAG reader JT emailed us a link to a CNN story by Jarrett Bellini headlined Apparently This Matters: America invades virtual Denmark. JT summed up the multi-national Minecraft misegos this way: “Virtual Denmark puts a virtual ban on virtual dynamite. Americans find ... Read More
Gear Review: Glock Sight Installation Tool
As someone who spends way too much money at GLOCK Professional on training and credentials to make my ego wall look nice, I think it would be a good time to sit down and talk about some of the firearm ... Read More
Hollow Point Ammunition: A Basic Rationale
NOTE: This article is intended to be a basic rationale for the use of hollow point ammunition. It is not an exhaustive, ballistics-tested study on ammunition/bullet effectiveness. My recent article on the plight of Shaneen Allen, a 27 year-old medical professional ... Read More
Border Patrol Agent Open Carries Assault Rifle Into Convenience Store And . . . Nothing
“A customer snapped a photo of an unusual sight at a convenience store in La Grulla [Texas],” valleycentral.com reports. “The photo shows a Border Patrol agent waiting at the counter with his service issued assault rifle at a Stripes store ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Gun Nuts Hate Their Children Edition
“I’d like point out that — no matter what mommy and daddy say – over 10,000 kids are shot each year in the United States and having a gun in the home makes you less, not more safe. Make sure ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Lance Corporal Marianne Lee
Brannaird Riley’s next door neighbor is a Marine at Cherry Point MCAS, Lance Corporal Marianne Lee. Corporal Lee was packing her belongings for a move back to California when she “tried to make her 9mm pistol safe.” That’s how witn.com sets ... Read More
This is What Happens When You Arrest An Open Carrier for Open Carrying Where Open Carry Is Legal
According to a suit filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Michael Weitzsacker was arrested on August 3 of last year for the crime of “inducing panic.” How, you may ask, did Mr. Weitzsacker manage to ... Read More
Moms Demand Action’s Denver Weekend: Fun, Frolicking and Falsehoods
Can’t you just feel the MOM-entum? If you’ve been busy having a life, you probably didn’t know that Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held a big Bloomberg-funded “leadership bootcamp” and sleepover in Denver this weekend. That means that between the ... Read More
CA Deputies Shoot and Kill Innocent Homeowner
“Deputies were searching for 24-year-old Cedric Ramirez around 5 p.m. Friday at a house in the 9000 block of Reichling Lane,” latimes.com reports,”hoping to arrest him on parole violations. Ramirez spotted deputies and ran away, and when deputies tracked him ... Read More
Question of the Day: FL Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act. Good Thing or Bad?
Florida passed the Firearm Owners’ Privacy Act back in 2011. When legislators were debating the bill prohibiting doctors from asking questions about patients’ firearms, I opined that it was a really stupid idea. Doctors should be able to ask their patients ... Read More
Open Carry Advocate Arrested in Aurora, CO
Same old, same old, save this: “About two months ago I was assaulted behind that McDonalds by four men . . . I am not 21 and therefore I can not buy a handgun or get a concealed weapons permit. ... Read More
Quote of the Day: What Me Worry? Edition
“The United States does not come close to being a tyranny. President Obama is hardly a dictator. And there is no indication that government wants or is attempting to seize guns in the hands of private citizens, although there are ... Read More
Self-Defense Tip: Don’t Shoot a TASER at Someone Soaked in Gasoline
Force Science News’ latest email blast links us to a UK study at scienceandjusticejournal.com: The ignitability of petrol vapours and potential for vapour phase explosion by use of TASER® law enforcement electronic control device. As we’re too cheap to purchase the study, and most ... Read More
Michael Waldman Apparently Has No Idea What The Second Amendment Intended
Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law and author of The Second Amendment: A Biography, is dipping his toes into the citizen journalism pool. Unfortunately his shorter polemic, ‘What the Second Amendment ... Read More