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Archibald: Carrying a Gun Doesn’t Make You Safer, It Makes You More Dangerous
We have become victims of our own fear. Gun sales surged after 9/11, and after Sandy Hook, and at the start of the pandemic. Open carry laws proliferated, and in Alabama, lawmakers decided you don’t even need a permit to carry a concealed weapon anymore.
We are supposed to be afraid. Because fear drives politics, and gun sales, and emotions. And deaths.
In 2020 the national murder rate rose.
Basic Bitch or Basic Witch, Everyone Has a Right to Armed Self-Defense
It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Texas Man Shouted ‘Die’ As He Strangled and Shook Newborn Babies
A real life horror story came to life recently in Odessa, Texas. Reports say Marcus Dewayne McCowan Jr., assaulted a slew of hospital staff before he began strangling and shaking newborn babies in a maternity ward. The young man screamed “die!” as the newborns turned blue, according to police.
Given that it happened in Texas, Mr. McCowan’s lucky he’s still alive.
Not only was McCowan not shot dead or beaten to a bloody pulp, but he continued to fight when police arrived.
Schoolhouse Rock: Prof. David Yamane Breaks Down the Structure of Anti-Gunners’ Arguments
A recent video provides a great summary of what makes most anti-gun arguments tick these days.
Sociology Professor David Yamane of Wake Forest University is already well-known for his work on Gun Culture 2.0, or the shift in motivations behind gun ownership in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. In his latest video, The Standard Model of Explaining the Irrationality of Defensive Gun Ownership, he gives a six-point summary that encapsulates most anti-gun arguments today.
Florida Sheriff Grady Judd on Looters: ‘Shoot Him So He Looks Like Grated Cheese’
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
— Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at press conference.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd: People have a right to be safe in their homes… I highly recommend, if a looter enters your home, you grab your gun and you shoot him, you shoot him so he looks like grated cheese.
Gun Meme of the Day: Square That Circle Edition
No need to reconcile those two things. You just don’t get it because you’re bitter clingers.
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As Chicagoans Die In the Streets, Mayor Lori Lightfoot Dances and Sings on TikTok [VIDEO]
Lori Lightfoot has done a lot for the city of Chicago. She’s presided over a 74% decline in arrests, a police department so understaffed that it couldn’t respond to over 50% of the highest priority 911 calls last year, and Murder City, USA has achieved over 555 homicides so far this year…with almost three months remaining.
Crime continues to spiral out of control and companies and residents are fleeing.
So what does Her Honor do about the declining quality of life in her city, aside from promoting more failed gun control plans and anti-gun programs?
Uvalde School District Suspends, Reassigns Everyone On Its Police Force
If, like most of America, you’ve moved on and haven’t been paying attention to the continued fallout from the manifold failures at Robb Elementary School that made the Uvalde school shooting far worse than it should have been, developments there continue to unfold, surprising even the most cynical among us.
Yesterday, the Uvalde School District police department fired one if its new hires. After the district police force hired former Texas State Trooper Crimson Elizondo, CNN reported that she was not only one of the 91 DPS cops on the scene the day of the shooting, but she was one of the first to arrive.
Latest War on Guns Casualty: Due Process and Legend Firearms in Monroe, New Jersey
By Lee Williams
Ira Levin has owned and operated Legend Firearms in Monroe, New Jersey since 2009, which is no small feat given the Garden State’s blatant antipathy toward guns, gun owners, and gun dealers.
Levin has conducted more than 21,000 firearm transactions, and has been inspected dozens of times by both the New Jersey State Police and the ATF. They have never found a deficiency, at least not until Joe Biden declared war on gun dealers.
Hemingway: More Federal Bureaucrats Carry Guns Than the U.S. Marines
When Congress authorized $80 billion this year to beef up Internal Revenue Service enforcement and staffing, Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy invoked the language of war to warn that “Democrats’ new army of 87,000 IRS agents will be coming for you.”
A video quickly went viral racking up millions of views, purporting to show a bunch of clumsy bureaucrats receiving firearms training, prompting alarm that the IRS would be engaged in military-style raids of ordinary taxpayers.
Gun Meme of the Day: He’s Got a Point Edition
The math checks out! Like his pencil, he’s got a point.
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BREAKING: Judge Rules Most of New NY Gun Law Is Unconstitutional, Issues TRO Blocking Enforcement
Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Glenn Suddaby ruled that multiple provisions in New York State’s new gun laws, which just went into effect last Saturday, October 1st, are unconstitutional. He issued a restraining order against these parts of the law taking effect.
If you recall any of the aspects of the new NY laws that were passed in response to the SCOTUS’ Bruen decision, you won’t be surprised by the parts Judge Suddaby struck down.
Gun Review: Cimarron Firearms Thunderer 4 3/4″ Stainless
Cimarron Firearms’ Thunderer single action revolver is exactly like nothing they’ve done before. It’s kind of like everything they’ve been doing. And it’s awesome.
What’s so different about the Thunderer is that, unlike the other guns produced by Uberti for Cimarron, this one isn’t a reproduction. Cimarron goes through great pains to perfectly reproduce many historical firearms. I was duly impressed with the attention to historical detailed applied to Cimarron’s McColloch Colt.
But the Thunderer never existed until now.
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FBI Whistleblower Says 90% Certainty that the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Was an ISIS Attack
Victoria Taft over at PJ Media has the story of an FBI whistleblower who has come forward with evidence that points to an ISIS connection to the Las Vegas massacre five years ago. The incident claimed the lives of 58 people with nearly 900 injured or wounded. Now, this former FBI agent says they believe there’s a 90% chance that ISIS Islamic terror organization was behind it.
Of course, the FBI still hasn’t publicly issued even an educated guess on the motive of the killer.
BREAKING: 38 Killed, Including 22 Children In Gun, Knife Attack on Daycare in Thailand
Joe Biden says “things like this rarely happen anywhere except in America…” Ditto for his sidekick Kamala Harris. Yet on Thursday, a corrupt former cop facing charges used a knife and a gun to kill 38 people in a daycare in rural Thailand. Twenty-two of the dead were small children, mostly slashed to death after the killer stormed a room where the toddlers were napping.
Actually it’s the second major mass murder spree in a school in as many weeks outside of the USA.
[VIDEO] Vice President Harris Insists Those Against an Assault Weapon Ban Should Look at Autopsies
I think that all those members should be locked up in a room…and put the autopsy photographs of those children down and require them to look at them. And see what these, these weapons do to the human body, and then ask them to speak to their conscience, their god…their sense of what’s right? And then vote. …
But sadly this has come down to a partisan political issue. And it’s a false choice.
Gun Meme of the Day: Get The Velveeta Edition
I mean…might I suggest at least putting loaded mags in the Velveeta box? Great place for linked ammo, though, for the ol’ belt-fed!
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Fisher Space Pens Now Available in Cerakote Finishes
Hot off the TTAG not-exactly-earth-shattering news desk we bring you the following story: Fisher Space Pens are now available in Cerakote finishes! Since I’ve been using a couple of these bad boys as my go-to pens in my backpack, range bag, hunting kit, etc., I figured I’d share the news.
The Cap-O-Matic in Tungsten Cerakote seen in the lead photo is mine. I love how these things will write on all sorts of materials even if it’s wet or greasy or worse.
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Hurricane Ian: Takeaways and Lessons Learned
By Lee Williams
Guns save lives, especially after a hurricane. It’s a fact Floridians have known for a long time.
Even Gov. Ron DeSantis mentioned this when he issued a not-so-subtle warning to would-be criminals seeking to take advantage of Hurricane Ian survivors:
“You never know what may be lurking behind somebody’s home. And I would not want to chance that if I were you, given that we are a Second Amendment state,” DeSantis said Saturday.
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Violent Felon Wounded by Kyle Rittenhouse Wants to Change His Name
The man who survived being shot by Kyle Rittenhouse filed a secret petition to change his legal name after his past as a violent career criminal was exposed. …
Grosskreutz, of West Allis, said he has received death threats in the two years since he was shot in the arm during the protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
The August 2020 protests famously left Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum dead at the hands of Rittenhouse.