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Bodycam Footage Shows Baltimore Cop Shooting ‘Anti-Violence Activist’ Who Was Assaulting a Woman [VIDEO]
Dramatic police bodycam video from Baltimore shows a police officer running up to save a woman from an “anti-violence activist” trying to stab her with a knife. The officer, identified as Zachary Rutherford, fired multiple shots to stop the attack.
After the incident, the Baltimore Sun painted the attacker, Tyree Moorehead, as a victim of police violence and the local NAACP want answers. None of the mainstream media lauded the officer’s actions to rescue a woman who was under attack by a knife-wielding lunatic.
Gun Meme of the Day: Comparison is the Thief of Joy Edition
When Objective Analysis of Firearms and Violent Crime Puts Researchers’ Reputations at Risk
By Robert B. Young, MD
Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership member Mark Hamill, MD recently let us know about his team’s newly published paper on how firearm sales across the states correlate with violent crime. (Short version — they don’t.) Specifically, “Legal Firearm Sales at State Level and Rates of Violent Crime, Property Crime, and Homicides” will be published in the January 20023 edition of the Journal of Surgical Research.
3 Hurricane Preparedness Tips for Gun Owners as Nicole Approaches Florida
Tropical Storm Nicole is bearing down on Florida. The latest word is that it will make landfall early Thursday morning probably as a category 1 hurricane.
If you live in the southeast, you likely already have a disaster preparedness plan for just these kinds of situations. Let’s hope so. But here are three tips for gun owners to ensure your safety and the security of your firearms.
1) Personal safety comes first
The first and foremost consideration is your personal safety and that of your family.
B&T USA Announces New Aluminum-Framed APC9 Limited SMGs
From B&T USA
B&T USA is excited to announce it has released two all-new Limited Series platforms based upon the popular APC9 PRO submachine gun. These Limited models will be available in short-barreled rifle (SBR) configurations and feature a newly developed MBT folding and telescoping stock, a fully ambidextrous aluminum lower receiver with a flared magazine well and recontoured M-LOK compatible forends.
The Limited Series consist of a 6.9-inch barrel model and a longer 8.9-inch variant; both feature tri-lug attachment systems compatible with B&T’s line of RBS9 tri-lug suppressors, and others featuring this attachment system.
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Armed, Masked Intruder Suffers Epic Fail in the Victim Selection Test
Eighteen-year-old Marrell Tyler probably should have gone to bed early last week. Instead, he donned a ski mask, pulled a gun, and then entered someone else’s apartment in Kokomo, Indiana. He would later tell police that he entered the first door he found unlocked.
Once inside, he tried to rob the three men he found there. Tyler, however, soon learned they had a say in the matter.
The three men in the apartment at 3:30am didn’t take kindly to a masked punk trying to rob them.
TSA Finds Gun Hidden Inside Florida Woman’s Chicken
The chickens came home to roost for one traveler who hatched the “greasy” idea of packing a firearm inside a raw hen for their flight out of Florida.
On Monday afternoon, the Transportation Security Administration posted a picture of a gun detected inside a raw hen at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport security baggage screening room. The picture shows the gun wrapped and placed inside the chicken — where stuffing would normally sit.
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Armed Good Samaritan Stops Child Abduction Outside Georgia Walmart
My wife worries a lot about someone grabbing one of our twin boys while she’s strapping the other one into his car seat. A similar scenario just happened in a Walmart parking lot in Warner Robins, Georgia where a 67-year-old man forcefully took a child out of a car and whisked the child into the woods behind the store.
Thankfully, a good guy with a gun saw the horrific crime in progress and interrupted the bad guy as police say he tried to strangle the child.
Smith & Wesson’s New Easy-Racking EQUALIZER Optics-Ready Micro-Compact 9mm Pistol
From Smith & Wesson . . .
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: SWBI), a leader in firearm manufacturing and design, introduces the all-new S&W EQUALIZER.
Level the playing field with our best-performing micro-compact to date. Next-gen EZ technology, low recoil impulse, and versatile magazine capacity all in a compact footprint, make the EQUALIZER an ultimate CCW. This 9MM offering provides the perfect balance of power and capacity across 10, 13, and 15-round magazines.
Florida Cop Arrests a Blind Man After Mistaking His White Cane for a Gun
By Lee Williams
James Hodges, who is legally blind and cannot drive, was walking home from jury duty in Lake City, Florida one week ago when he was stopped by Columbia County Sheriff’s Deputy Jayme Gohdy, because she mistook his collapsible white cane for a pistol.
A video of their encounter was captured by Deputy Gohdy’s body camera. Hodges later posted a copy of the video on his YouTube page.
“What’s this in your back pocket?” Deputy Gohdy can be heard asking on the video.
Barron: New York’s Post-Bruen Gun Control Temper Tantrum Targeted the Wrong People
At no point in this rush to condemn the [Supreme] Court [Bruen decision] and impose the nation’s harshest statewide restrictions on simple gun ownership did any major official offer evidence that these new laws would affect violence or crime rates. Virtually all gun crime in Gotham is committed by people wielding illegal guns, operating completely outside the gun-permitting and registration system. It’s already illegal to possess an unregistered gun, and carrying one is supposed to entail a mandatory prison sentence.
Gun Meme of the Day: A Collection AND An Investment Edition
Ohio’s Tim Ryan Fails in Shameless Attempt at Pandering to Ohio Gun Voters [VIDEO]
Oh, those evil, full-capacity black semi-auto 9mm handguns. You know, the kind that Joe Biden claims will blow your lungs out. They’re scary enough to keep most Democrat politicians far away.
That kind of revulsion is probably what resulted the spectacle a rabidly anti-gun Senate Democrat’s embarrassing lack of skillz. But panic makes candidates do stupid things when they’re desperately (and apparently unsuccessfully) trying to defend their job.
That’s obviously what prompted Buckeye State’s Senator Tim Ryan to post a short video showing him popping caps with a Beretta 92 in the waning days of the campaign.
‘Retired’ Santa Clara Sheriff Laurie Smith Found Guilty of Concealed Carry Corruption
Before the US Supreme Court’s Bruen decision was handed down, we all noticed how it seemed like celebrities and the well-connected had no problems getting a carry license. The little people like you and me? LOL. Now, after a long investigation and court case, former Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith has convicted of civil corruption for selling concealed carry permits, playing politics and profiting from her control of peoples’ right to armed personal defense.
Californians in Texas: The Gun Range Experience
We’ve taken more than a few noobs to ranges here in and around Austin. None were actual Californians, but one was an academic from the University of London, so that’s pretty darn close.
Our friends at the Babylon Bee have been chronicling the Texification process that a typical California couple have been going through since their move to the Lone Star State. Check out Steve and Timpani’s first gun range experience.
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GUNVOTE: 27 of 30 Most Crime-Ridden Cities Run By Soft-On-Crime Democrat Mayors
Hillary Clinton claims America has a “Red State Murder Problem.” Then again, Hillary also claims she won the 2016 Presidential Election. In reality, Heritage Foundation research shows that 27 of the top 30 most crime-ridden cities are run by Democrats.
Specifically, those 27 cities are run by politicians who advocate for soft-on-crime policies including defunding the police, no-cash bail policies, refusing to prosecute even violent crimes, and outright decarceration. What’s more, almost half of those top-30 cities have Soros-backed “progressive” prosecutors who are fully on board with these goals.
Brickman: Politicians Get ‘Gun-Free’ Zones Bass Ackwards
Our legislators have it all backwards.
First of all, their legislation does nothing to take guns away from the bad guys.. only limits ownership of, and the ability for, good American citizens to protect themselves and their families. If you wanted to hold up a bar, would you make the attempt at a bar known to be frequented by off duty and retired police? Of course not — because if you pulled a weapon you would be looking down at least 20 gun barrels.
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Field to Table: Yes, You Can Safely Eat Wild Hog Meat…Here’s How
By Greg Ray
As wild hog populations increase and continue to expand their ranges across the United States, landowners are looking more and more to hunters to help them keep hog populations in check.
While hunting hogs is a fun endeavor, it can also produce tasty table fair with lean, delicious protein. From smoked pulled pork and grilled tenderloin to spicy pork chili verde and hearty boar stew, more and more hunters are looking to wild pigs to provide much needed protein for their families.
Deer Hunting: Guns Aren’t the Only Potential Danger When You’re Out in the Field
By Dave Lewis
Muzzloader deer season had just opened in Oklahoma. Short sleeve shirts were still comfortable during the day and a lightweight sleeping bag worked just fine at night. A couple of friends and I cut out of work early one Friday and headed down to southeastern Oklahoma for an early season hunt.
After a three-hour drive we settled into a camp site on land that was owned by one of the major paper companies.