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What Recession? Americans Bought Over 700,000 Guns During Black Friday Week
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation . . .
NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, revealed that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Checks System (NICS) completed 711,372 background checks for the purchase of a firearm at retail during the week leading up to and including Black Friday. FBI’s NICS recorded 192,749 background checks on Black Friday alone, ranking it third in the Top 10 Highest Days for NICS checks and a 2.8 percent increase from Black Friday 2021, when 187,585 background checks were completed.
Gun Review: Palmetto State Armory AK-V 9mm Braced Pistol
I probably shouldn’t be the person to review the Palmetto State Armory AK-V 9mm braced pistol. I don’t really like semi-auto PCCs. And I don’t like pistol braces. AKs should be chambered in 7.62×39 and the best ones have only been dropped once.
And yet here I am, having an absolute friggin’ ball with this gun.
I don’t know what it is about the AK platform in general, but they’re all a hoot to shoot.
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Seattle City Council Set to Make Mayor’s New ‘Defund the Police’ Cuts Permanent
Seattle’s mayor, along with a gaggle of dedicated radicals on the Seattle city council, are busying themselves with another round of defunding the city’s police department. Because the last round of cuts didn’t do enough wonderful things for the Emerald City.
That’s right, they’re proposing to cut another $11 million from the already beleaguered department’s proposed budget, including slashing the number of hires by nearly 50% to 120.
Gosh, it’s almost like Seattle’s elected government is trying to promote still more crime and violence.
Why Don’t Either of the Guns on Elon Musk’s Nightstand Actually Work?
My bedside table pic.twitter.com/sIdRYJcLTK
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2022
Elon Musk must not get much sleep. He posted that tweet last night at 3:48am. When you run as many enterprises as he does, that doesn’t leave much time for shut-eye. On the plus side, he appears to be minimizing his caffeine and sugar intake to make it easier to nod off when he gets an opportunity to put head to pillow (although we’d like to suggest the use of a good coaster).
John Pavlovitz Wishes Gun Owners Had More Empathy Than Gun Lust
Gun lover, I so wish you were as tired of this as I am.
I wish thousands and thousands of deaths every year could move you enough to move.
I wish you could tap into an empathy to eclipse your gun lust.
Maybe you don’t watch the videos and you don’t look at the pictures and you don’t listen to the terrible sounds.
Gear Review: Ultradyne Apollo Max Muzzle Brake
Ultradyne is a sleek company that makes some excellent products. They make some of the best AR-15 sights ever designed. I love their sights and have been tooling around with their muzzle devices. Specifically, the Apollo Max in 5.56 and .30 caliber. I have both, but as ammo prices go, I’ve been shooting the 5.56 variant a fair bit more. Like most Ultradyne products, this isn’t a cheap item, and at $129 dollars, it’s a relatively pricey muzzle device.
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Birmingham Mayor’s Common-Sense Proposal: Just Regulate Guns in Cities
Birmingham, Alabama’s uber-woke Mayor Randall Woodfin offered his latest “common sense” proposal to tackle the rampant black-on-black crime infesting his city. He wants to regulate gun ownership for his city’s residents. While we don’t want to make assumptions, we suspect he misspelled “ban” as “regulate.”
So y’all don’t want to regulate guns at all?
I support 2nd amendment just like I support 1st amendment.
e.g. I firmly believe in the right to peacefully assemble.
Why Does a Small Town Mayor Who Supports Gun Control Need a 3-Person Armed Security Detail?
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot has 90 bodyguards babysitting her and her family as she rules over a city of 2.7 million. People understand the need for bodyguards for big city mayors, even if 90 seems like, well, overkill.
But why has the mayor of a small town a half-hour outside of Chicago, a little burgh with population of only 20,000, had a three-person security detail for over a year? Particularly when three officers represents almost 10% of the city’s police department?
Rosella: All Gun Owners Should Be Taxed to Compensate Crime Victims
Gun owners don’t seek counseling, for possessing guns. I’ve never heard of Gun Owners Anonymous, or Killers Are Us.
But co-victims of gun violence need emotional support. Maybe we need to introduce a gun tax for Co-Victims Support. You owe us. Your GUN damaged us. There was no blood involved. A co-victim is someone who is connected to someone who was shot, or to a shooter. But, damn, we are damaged.
Maryland AG Defends State’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban by Citing a 19th Century Ban on Bowie Knives
By Doug Ritter
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh has acknowledged in a brief to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that knives are “arms” covered by the Second Amendment. Unfortunately for him, he tried to use a ban on Bowie knives from the 1800s as an argument that Maryland’s ban on “assault weapons” is legal. It’s an argument that just doesn’t cut it.
As background, when the U.S.
More Junk Science Used To Promote Closing the ‘Misdemeanor Loophole’
Leave it to losers to exploit junk science to further their illegitimate efforts to ban gun ownership for law-abiding citizens. The latest effort to strip away gun rights from Americans involves closing something the gun-haters are calling the “misdemeanor loophole.”
To back their case, they’re touting “research” that claims, well, you can probably guess: we could all enjoy nothing but whirled peas and perpetual rainbows if we just closed this latest loophole.
Not so long ago, the RAND organization found that just 123 of 27,900 gun control studies followed rigorous scientific method.
Gear Review: ZeroTech Thrive HD Red Dot Review
Who the heck is ZeroTech? That’s what I asked when I first got the offer to review their red dots. I’ve reviewed American optics, Japanese optics, and optics made in China, but ZeroTech offered me an option from Australia.
Australia isn’t well known for its arms or arms adjacent technology, but there are plenty of Australians who still appreciate firearms, even though their government isn’t exactly freedom friendly. Today we are looking at the ZeroTech Thrive HD red dot with the high mount.
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Black Friday Cyber Monday Thanksgiving Hangover Weekend Deals
Shop now: https://t.co/DguZqaNRaN
— 5.11 Tactical (@511Tactical) November 22, 2022
Tis truly the season for some seriously great deals. If your inbox is as overstuffed as ours is, it’s hard to keep track of them all.
Here are a few notabe Black Friday deals we’ve seen that are worth passing on. If you’ve seen other good ones we’ve missed, put them in the comments below. Then make yourself a turkey sandwich.
Shifting the Target: Joe Biden Now Wants to Ban All Semiautomatic Guns
THE PRESIDENT: Happy Thanksgiving to all.
Look, the idea that we’re not enforcing red-flag laws, period, just based on knowledge, not on parents saying or a loved one saying you should arrest this person now for his own sake, is ridiculous.
We got one of the first red-flag laws in the state of Delaware, and my son Beau was the one enforcing it. And it made a lot of difference.
Here’s the Right Way to Give Someone a Firearm as a Gift
With gift-buying season upon us, it’s natural for gun owners who enjoy target shooting, hunting, collecting or just plain plinking to want to share their enjoyment of firearms with others. What better way to do that than to gift a firearm to a family member, close friend or relative?
The first thing to remember if you’re thinking about giving someone a gun is that ownership of a firearm brings with it some serious responsibilities and legal obligations that other consumer products don’t.
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Gangs Hunting, Assassinating Rivals for Sport in Chicago [VIDEO]
Murder City, USA has long been recognized as America’s largest open-air shooting range. With police effectively prohibited from chasing suspects, along with politicians, prosecutors and courts that refuse to hold bad guys accountable, it’s easy to see why the streets now belong to the criminals. Now, a just-released video shows just how bad things have become.
In the video, an apparent gang member pulls a gun on another man leaving a convenience store.
The New York Times Has Ideas on How to Handle a Guest Who Wants to Carry a Gun to Thanksgiving Dinner
[ED: We originally ran this post back in November, 2016, but it’s every bit as good today. Enjoy.]
New York Times scribe Philip Galanes writes a regular column called “Social Q’s” in the Grey Lady’s Fashion & Style section. It’s kind of a “Dear Abby” style column addressing readers’ question about social etiquette.
Last week, an aghast correspondent asked how to handle a Thanksgiving guest who (gasp!) might be carrying a gun.