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BREAKING: Las Vegas Gunmen Kill Two Cops and A [Possible] Concealed Carry Bystander
“Two Las Vegas police officers and a civilian are dead after two shooters ambushed the cops at a pizza restaurant on Sunday afternoon and then got into a gunfight at a nearby Walmart,” nydailynews.com reports. “The two shooters, a man ... Read More
CA Gun Violence Restraining Order Under Fire
CAL-FFL President, Brandon Combs takes on Assemblyman Das Williams, explaining the many problems with the “Gun Violence Restraining Order” bill AB 1014, the worst gun control bill in modern times.
P320 Post Follow-Up — It’s Easy to Be an Internet Tough Guy
By Rich E. We ran a post by Rich E. yesterday who described a defensive gun use in which he was involved. Rich sent the following in response to some of the comments under that post. Recently I submitted an ... Read More
The Gun Culture Phantom
It’s a rare day indeed that I don’t see multiple articles decrying the “gun culture” and the horrors for which it is responsible. Consider this article title from the New York Daily News: “America’s Gun Culture Madness,” this “photo essay” from ... Read More
P320 Entry: Pappa’s Rifle
By Randy in Indiana It was a surprise meeting. The man in the red and black check coat and the Bavarian hat and the young whitetail buck crossed paths in an open meadow obscured by mist and the gray half-light ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Basic Civil Right Edition
“If you look at the early period of his leadership in the civil rights movement, particularly the period of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his household, as one person noted, was an arsenal, with guns all over the place. William Worthy, ... Read More
Weekend Digest: Missing The Target Edition
If you know me, you know I’m not one for conspiracy theories; in fact, I’m usually vigorously opposed to them. But even I find it hard not to connect the dots when just days after Moms Demand Action announced they ... Read More
Self-Defense Tip: Carry Enough Gun
“Montana wildlife officials say a hunter who was attacked by a grizzly bear over the weekend is hospitalized in serious condition but didn’t suffer life-threatening injuries,” foxnews.com reports. “The father of the 47-year-old Stevensville man reported hearing a gunshot just ... Read More
P320 Entry: Are You Ready for the 3 a.m. Call?
By Rick E. “Rich, someone’s trying to break in the front door.” At 3:00 AM on a New Mexico summer morning, this was my wife, shaking me awake after a long day on second shift and a couple beers when ... Read More
The Coming Crash in Ammunition Prices
The Obama-caused bubble in ammunition prices seems ready to bust. Over the last few years gun owners have seen ammunition prices double or even triple. Handgun and rifle ammunition has been hard to find at times and .22 long rifle ... Read More
Inside the Twisted Mind of A Gun Control Advocate: Courtney Caldwell Edition
“While leaving a restaurant with a friend recently, I noticed a group of 15-20 people walking down the street carrying flags,” Courtney Caldwell writes at skepchick.org. “From a distance, they almost looked like Confederate flags. I live in Texas, so ... Read More
P320 Entry: Lies, Damned Lies and Gun Violence Statistics
By Stan Harvey Numbers don’t lie. Sounds simple enough, right? While this is true, people do lie in how they interpret and portray numbers. I’ve consistently noticed that something is absent from our nation’s gun control debate: context. The antis ... Read More
Question of the Day: Are You Tired of Being Vilified?
The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,The Colbert Report on Facebook,Video Archive I was standing outside my daughter’s school in Providence, Rhode Island during a school event. I told a banker guy what I do for a living. He ... Read More
Marlin’s Back! And It’s Bad! I Mean Good. I Mean, We’ll See . . .
Back in the day, you had to read a gun review very carefully to pick-up any hint that a firearm was a POS. Thankfully, internet gun forums arrived to end the information blackout. The Truth About Guns has done its best to honor, continue and build ... Read More
CT Police Dropped the Ball in Murder/Suicide
For some time, the NRA has been saying that the police and courts should enforce existing gun laws – rather than create new ones. Recent events have highlighted the truth about “gun violence.” In the Isla Vista murders, six cops visited psycho-killer Eliot ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Hypocrisy! Edition
“Gun companies have no problem with 21st-century technology if it’s used to enhance the lethality of their products. But if you try compel them to use technology to improve gun safety, they turn around and sue you.” – CSGV communications director Ladd Everitt ... Read More
Just Another Defensive Gun Use (of the Day)
Crime report via arlnow.com ROBBERY BY FORCE, 140602055, 2700 block of S. Adams Street. On May 30 at 11:30 pm, a 27 year old victim was allegedly forced into his apartment by four subjects and robbed of his wallet and ... Read More
Boko Harum Murders Hundreds of Nigerians. Where’s the Coverage?
“The militants arrived in Toyota Hilux pickup trucks — commonly used by the military — and told the civilians they were soldiers ‘and we are here to protect you all,’ the same tactic used by the group when they kidnapped ... Read More
P320 Entry: A Delicate Business
By Eric J. As a firearms advocate, one of the most difficult challenges I face isn’t taking an anti-gun person on in a full-on debate, but rather dealing with the gun-shy folks in my day-to day-life. On the one hand ... Read More