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The Iron Pipeline Is So Last Week…The New Anti-Gun Hotness Is ‘Ghost Guns’
Those of us who worry about gun proliferation used to obsess about “the iron pipeline,” a.k.a. I-95, along which weapons were ferried from Southern states where they were easy to purchase to Northern destinations where they could be sold for a very tidy profit.
Now shipping through the iron pipeline is sort of like keeping in touch with all your friends and family by writing lovely letters on your personal stationery and taking them to the post office to buy stamps and put them in the mail.
Gun Meme of the Day: Medieval Registry Edition
This is why I keep a cauldron of bubbling hot oil perched above my front door. Side note: crossbows are subject to a lot of restrictions and regulations in various countries.
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Training: Don’t Limit Yourself to CCW Qualifier Distances At The Range
It’s hard to imagine now, but a mere twenty years or so ago, most U.S. states didn’t allow any form of concealed carry. First a few states began issuing permits, then a few more, and then the dam broke.
Now, a wave of constitutional carry has moved across the country. But the interaction between regulation and technology isn’t one-way. Concealed carry was a response to good people wanting to carry guns. And as concealed carry became more popular, the guns changed to fit the needs of people who went out and got the permits.
Gun Control Only Disarms Victims, Not Criminals: 20 Dead in Michoacan, Mexico Massacre
What happens when government bans civilian possession of firearms for self-defense for law-abiding citizens? We need to look no further for an answer than south of the Rio Grande. When bad men with evil in their hearts showed up Sunday night at a cockfight in a small town in Michoacan, Mexico, with no good guys with guns to stop them, it became a bloodbath. In the end 20 were killed and more wounded.
Sixteen men and three women were found dead at the scene and another died on the way to the hospital.
Economic Data Reveal a Healthy, Growing Firearm Industry Despite the Biden Administration’s Best Efforts
You wouldn’t think the Biden administration would want to attack a thriving domestic manufacturing industry that employs 375,000 people and generated over $70 billion of economic activity last year. Those are two of the top-line numbers from the latest analysis of America’s firearm industry by the National Shooting Sports Foundation.
Then again, domestic oil and gas production employs over 10 million people and represents about 8% of the entire U.S. economy.
OkCupid Users Say Climate Change Skepticism – Not Gun Ownership – Is Their #1 Dealbreaker
Good news for gun-owning singles using dating apps to find their mates. Or a hookup. Dating app OKCupid reports that a survey of their users shows gun ownership isn’t the biggest dealbreaker among prospective daters. In fact, guns apparently didn’t even come close. Instead, 90% of that company’s open-minded (cough) users view those who are skeptical about “climate change” as those most unsuitable for communication, much less dating.
Diversity and inclusion is our strength.
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.