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How Should Martha Stewart Keep Coyotes Away From Her Pretty Birds?
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Martha Stewart keeps peafowl — peacocks and peahens — on her property. Her flock was just reduced by half a dozen after a pack of coyotes did exactly what coyotes do. Now she’s looking for suggestions as to how to protect her precious peabirds from pernicious predators.
We have a few good ideas, but let’s see what you can come up with in the comments.
Uvalde Residents Want Consequences For Those Whose Failures Cost So Many Lives
By Jake Bleiberg and Acacia Coronado, AP
After the massacre at Uvalde’s Robb Elementary School in May, Jesse Rizo was worried about his old friend, police chief Pete Arredondo.
Blame for the botched police response was being directed heavily at Arredondo when Rizo texted him just days after the shooting: “Been thinking of and praying for you.”
Two months later, with investigations and body-camera video spotlighting the chaotic response by police to the killing of two teachers and 19 students, Rizo remains worried about Arredondo.
California’s Latest Anti-Gun Law is Patterned After a Texas Abortion Law
Yesterday, California’s oleaginous Governor Gavin Newsom signed the latest in a series of new gun control bills into law. Senate Bill 1327 takes a cue from Texas’s abortion law and enables any citizen to “sue anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, parts that can be used to build weapons, guns without serial numbers, or .50-caliber rifles.”
The bill is both a tit-for-tat response to the Supreme Court’s Bruen decision as well as a jab directed at Texas’s anti-abortion law that’s structured similarly.
Gun Meme of the Day: You Are Your Own First Responder Edition
KelTec Announces Expansion, Adding a New Production Facility in Rock Springs, Wyoming
KelTec produces some of the most unique, innovative firearm designs in the business. The only problem some have had is getting their hands on the guns they want. Now the company has announced a significant expansion, spinning up a new production facility in Wyoming that should help them meet demand now and into the future. Here’s their press release . . .
Kel-Tec CNC Industries is expanding its production capacity with the acquisition of a 33,000 square foot facility in Rock Springs, Wyoming, augmenting its 125,000 square foot industrial space in Cocoa, Florida.
What Gun for 15-Foot Long Man-Strangling Python?
Here’s one police don’t encounter every day. At least not on this continent.
Officers responded to the 1400 block of Church Street in Fogelsville (Pennsylvania) shortly after 2 p.m. for the report of a man in cardiac arrest with a snake wrapped around his neck, township police said.
When patrol officers arrived on scene, they observed a 28-year-old man who was unresponsive and lying on the floor of the home with the mid portion of a large snake wrapped around his neck, according to the news release.
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NY Governor Kathy Hochul Could Learn Something Important From the Indiana Mall Shooting. But She Won’t.
The recent heroics of an Indiana man to neutralize a murderer in a mall shows the folly of New York’s new law restricting where law-abiding citizens can legally carry a firearm with a state-issued permit.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Bruen decision struck down New York’s “may issue” pistol permit law. In response, Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed through a middle-of-the-night gun control bill that expanded new “gun free zone” designations. Recent events, however, are proving again that gun-free zones are deadly.
GATORZ Eyewear: 15% Off TTAG Discount Plus a Free Backpack
Today (July 22nd) through July 25th, GATORZ is including a free backpack with the purchase of any ANSI Ballistic eyewear from their website. As if that isn’t enough, you can use coupon code TTAG15 for a 15% discount on any GATORZ order. Normally I don’t pass along press releases related to sales and promotions and such, but I’ve been rocking a pair of GATORZ Delta shades since early April and I absolutely love ’em.
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Pound Sand: Missouri Tells FBI It Won’t Hand Over Concealed Carry Permit Holders’ Information
Over the past several years, states have become more and more comfortable exercising their power to tell the federal government “no.” Under the Trump Administration, these refusals to cooperate often took the form of immigration sanctuaries and then morphed into Second Amendment sanctuaries in response to hostile local and state governments, as well as the Biden Administration.
States are recognizing that, in certain instances, they have the power to tell the federal government that the state won’t cooperate.
Koehler: Being a ‘Good Guy With a Gun’ Means Being Armed and Scared…Always
As I wrote in my journal the next day: “The gun society is a no-nonsense social dualism, precisely divided between good guys and bad guys.”
And despite the “love in the room,” despite the respect and patience the instructors showed to everyone present, despite the wisdom and clarity of their words—shooting is a “Zen process,” one of them said—the weekend’s essence was the reduction of life to that one reptilian option: fight or flight.
BREAKING: LAPD Stops Enforcement of California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban
By Lee Williams
The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project.
The email was sent Wednesday morning to all LAPD personnel by Commander Ernest Eskridge, assistant commanding officer of the department’s Detective Bureau.
Eskridge noted that on June 23, the “United States Supreme Court vacated the ruling in Duncan v.
House Democrats Pledge to Ban Guns In Common Use by Law-Abiding Americans
House Democrats, led by Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), are forging ahead with a so-called assault weapons ban even though it’s not clear that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has the votes to pass the bill.
Chairman Nadler ushered through H.R. 1808, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, with a party-line 25-18 vote passing the bill out of his committee. The bill could receive a full House vote early next week.
Obscure Object of Desire: Norinco Model 97 Shotgun
Shotguns are my favorite firearms. I like the recoil and I like the power. I like launching nearly a third of a AR-15 magazine per shot fired. As a shotgun fan and a lover of old guns I, of course, love old shotguns. One of my favorites is the Winchester 1897. While not the first pump-action scattergun, it was the first really successful one.
I love the Winchester 1897, but I settled on a Norinco Model 97 clone.
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The Dumbest $h!t We Heard During the House’s ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban Hearing
As was pre-ordained, the House Judiciary Committee passed HR 1808 on to the full House of Representatives yesterday. The bill moved on after a party-line vote which was preceded by some of the most entertaining debate and testimony in recent memory. And by entertaining, we mean in a facepalmingly sardonic, end-of-the-empire kinda way.
As was noted yesterday in a piece by the Outdoor Wire’s Jim Shepherd, this is all an exercise in election year kabuki.
HWFO: The Only Way to Reduce Mass Shootings Is for More Eli Dickens to Kill More Shooters
HWFO has discussed at length how media organizations such as Vox and CNN make millions of dollars by pushing freakoutery for clicks, and how their rampage shooting coverage approach increases the incidence of rampage shootings by one third because of copycat effects which are mathematically shown to be media driven.
As of July 20th, CNN.com had nine articles about the Greenwood Park Mall shooting, including one opinion piece devoted to “debunking” the idea that good guys with guns can stop rampage shootings even though one just did.
Gun Meme of the Day: Hating On Bullpups Edition
The enemy of my enemy is my friend? Well…no accounting for poor taste either way.
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No, 9mm Is Not A ‘One Size Fits All’ Defensive Caliber
There’s a tendency among gun owners to follow whatever law enforcement does when it comes to selecting a firearm for defense. When the police carried revolvers, many civilians had a revolver (yes, that’s mostly what was available at the time). When police departments switched to semi-auto pistols, the civilian world largely followed over time (with a few really obsessive holdouts, like these guys). We can see a similar thing with shotguns gradually falling out of favor for home defense in favor of the AR-15 in recent years
Calibers are the same way.
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Choosing The Best Concealed Carry Holsters: A Beginner’s Guide
So, you want to start carrying a gun, and are wondering what to look for in a good concealed carry holster. That’s a good thing to think about, to be sure. Not enough concealed carriers give enough thought to the right holster for their gun or the way they like to carry it.
Let’s start with the basics. There are a lot of brands out there, so we won’t get too deeply into that.