The Truth About Guns
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New York Mayor Eric Adams Wants to Make Bad Guys Too Uncomfortable to Carry Guns
“This is my number one priority: Keeping you safe. I campaigned on it, I will deliver on it,” [New York Mayor Eric] Adams said back in January. “You have my word.”
That’s what the mayor had to say when he first announced the plan, which includes Neighborhood Safety Teams. These units put unmarked cars with police lights and 200 officers in less official looking uniforms on the streets of 30 precincts, where police say 80% of gun violence occurs.
Ammunition Depot Has Plenty of US Cartridge CleanBarrel Ammo In Stock Now!
Ammunition Depot has a great selection of US Cartridge 9mm ammo in stock — right now — in a range of bullet types and weights at prices as low as $.37 a round*.
US Cartridge CleanBarrel ammunition is made right here in the United States by skilled technicians who love to shoot as much as you do. Each batch of newly-made ammunition faces strict quality control mechanisms and inspections to ensure the final product is consistent and reliable.
Gun Meme of the Day: Doggo’s Barking Back Edition
I suppose it’s either that or he’s going to take up biathlon.
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Gun Review: SIG SAUER P365-380 .380 ACP Pistol
When SIG SAUER released the 9mm P365, it shook the gun world. Suddenly sub-compact-like capacity was now available in micro-compact single-stack-like size. While slightly thicker than the pocket 9mm pistols and single-stacks of previous concealment kings, the tiny new micro-compacts weren’t always the most pleasant pistols to shoot on the range.
With SIG offering the now-venerable P365 chambered in tamer .380 ACP, there’s a good chance range pleasantness will increase.
The P365’s slight extra width (at a mere 1 inch wide, it’s still thin) certainly helps by adding surface area to grip and disperse recoil, tiny pistols have never been fun to shoot.
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News Flash: Women are Behind Much of the Growth In Gun Ownership and the Firearms Industry
March is Women’s History Month and there’s no better opportunity to celebrate the contributions American women make to the firearm and ammunition industry – past, present and future.
From the early days of Annie Oakley shooting the ashes off cigarettes in the mouths of wild west show volunteers and Calamity Jane gunslinging and scouting on the early frontier through the decades to today’s world-renowned women competitive shooters for Team USA, women have held an integral and rightful place in the industry supporting Americans’ Second Amendment rights.
Security Camera Captures Gun Store Owner Opening Fire On Thieves Who Came in Shooting [VIDEO]
Firearm trainers typically tell their students never try to draw down on a bad guy when his or her gun is pointed at you. However, all of that goes out the window when the criminal has already opened fire. That’s exactly what happened in a Paraguay gun store last month as a pair of armed robbers stormed in, guns a-blazing.
With one robber shooting at him, the owner had no choice to but draw and engage.
Panama City Beach Cops Seize Enough Guns ‘To Arm a Small Army’ According to PD Chief
Panama City Beach, Florida is a wonderful, mostly family-friendly vacation destination. Of course, everybody likes a good party. During spring break, it’s also the destination for a lot of college students to party and have fun on the beautiful sugar-white sand beaches there, soaking up the sun and sights.
And with them sometimes come those who could charitably be described as undesirables eager to crash the party, chase girls and sell street pharmaceuticals…not necessarily in that order.
Biden Tries to Shift Blame for Violence to the Gun Industry, Wants to Throw More Tax Dollars at the DOJ
President Joe Biden is shifting blame for his party’s unwillingness to tackle spiraling crime straight to the firearm industry. His administration released his Presidential budget request, which outlines his priorities for the coming year. At the top of the list are plans to target the firearm industry for the failures of his administration to support law enforcement.
President Biden proposes to spend $20.6 billion for the Justice Department for federal law enforcement, crime prevention and intervention.
Gun Meme of the Day: Technically Correct Edition
Technically correct. Get it? You see what I did there?
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While Chicagoans Live With Fewer Cops & More Crime, Mayor Lightfoot Has a 90-Person Security Detail
Chicago’s famously inept Mayor Lori Lightfoot, an advocate of defunding the police and a critic of law enforcement and gun rights for law-abiding civilians, sure likes to feel safe and secure. She has presidential-level security detail of 90 police officers to protecting her and her family. That’s almost 1% of the total number of sworn officers in the city…dedicated to protecting her.
Is it any wonder that crime and gang violence have spiraled out of control under her so-called “leadership”?
When Doctors Practice Politics Instead of Medicine
By Robert B. Young, MD
There is a constant stream of articles coming from establishment medicine “experts” that denigrate our Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms along with the individual focus our patients deserve in order to be protected from social priorities that would override that.
One that’s received a fair amount of press was an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times by an emergency physician in San Luis Obispo, California, Steven Sainsbury.
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Kentucky Activist Indicted for Attempted Murder in Assassination Attempt of Louisville Mayoral Candidate
From the Associated Press . . .
A Kentucky man who police said fired a handgun at a Louisville mayoral candidate has been indicted on attempted murder and endangerment charges.
Quintez Brown, 21, was arrested shortly after the Feb. 14 shooting. The mayoral candidate, Craig Greenberg, was not hit by the gunfire at his campaign office but said a bullet grazed his sweater.
A grand jury in Louisville on Monday indicted Brown on one count of attempted murder and four counts of first-degree wanton endangerment.
They Fought the Law and the Law Won: Bonnie and Clyde of the Tarheel State Taken Into Custody
On Sunday, March 27, 2022, at 11:28 a.m., Deputies from the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office responded to the Coliseum Inn at 2507 Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, NC, in reference to multiple shots being fired into a vehicle.
The preliminary investigation revealed that 29-year-old, Dustin Goode of Fayetteville, fired at least fifteen gunshots at a female, possibly 33-year-old April Gowin of Hope Mills, while in the parking lot of the Coliseum Inn.
Gun Review: So Many Possibilities With the Modular P320 Fire Control Group
About five years ago, the Department of Defense announced that SIG SAUER won the Army Modular Handgun contract. By the time of the announcement, there was little surprise. The P320 was reliable enough, accurate enough, relatively inexpensive, and by that time, was the only truly “modular” handgun in the running.
Since that then, SIG SAUER has doubled down, tripled down, all the downs downed on the modularity and versatility of the P320. There is now no other pistol on the market that features so many user-swappable variations, a staggering feat considering the relative youth of the handgun platform.
Please…Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Anti-Gun And Everyone Knows It
By Lee Williams
You don’t need to be an expert Supreme Court prognosticator, a learned legal scholar or even a decent tea-leaf reader to know that any potential justice for the nation’s highest court who is nominated by the Biden-Harris administration is going to be an anti-gun extremist.
There are some who believe there’s still not enough information about Biden’s pick, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, but I strongly disagree. While it’s true she has never ruled on a gun-rights case while serving on the U.S.
The 5 Long Guns I Just Can’t Live Without
By Austin Knudsen
A few years ago, I wrote a light piece about the five handguns I couldn’t live without. It was a fun, easy article to write, but even more fun—and unexpected – was the amount of comments and discussion it generated.
Thankfully, we don’t live in a country where we’re restricted to only a certain number of firearms, nor do we have to justify to a Commissar why we need gun X (at least not yet).
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Cohen: You Have to Be INSANE to Think Permitless Concealed Carry is a Good Idea!
According to gun rights advocates, these new [constitutional carry] laws are necessary because the current permit process is simply too onerous. But that is precisely the point. It boggles the mind that anyone would want people running around with guns they have no training or experience in using. But of course, in America, the way we treat guns and gun ownership is anything but normal.
In signing the new legislation, [Indiana Governor Eric] Holcomb said he trusts citizens of the Hoosier state to “lawfully and responsibly carry a handgun” in the state.
No Matter Who You Are, You Need A Gun For Protection
By Desiderius Erasmus, a Guns Save Life member
The “typical” gun owner is often characterized by many bigoted non-gun-owners as a right wing, redneck, beer-guzzling, low IQ Neanderthal who is just itchin’ to pull the trigger. But times have changed, and now a whole lot of those non-gun-owners – who used to be dismissive of guns and gun owners — truly need a firearm, whether you’re a Pabst or an Armand de Brignac Blanc de Blanc kind of person.
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Factory Visit: Icarus Precision Lets You Take the Modularity of the SIG FCU To The Next Level
When the modular SIG P320 and P365 were launched they touted a chassis-like system for the fire control groups. Others like Grand Power had been using this construction style for years to improve longevity and trigger feel consistency, but SIG managed to make the FCU the serialized part recognized by the ATF as the legal “firearm.”
This opened up a world of possibilities. Other manufacturers like SCCY and Honor Guard did the same, but the modularity never went much beyond the same grip modules being offered in different colors.