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Healing: Finding Peace Through Firearms Competition
Here’s the latest profile from SilencerCo’s excellent American Gun series. Genevieve doesn’t fit the demographic of what many believe to be the standard gun owner. However, firearms play a vital role in her life and the lives of many others outside this demographic.
She has struggled with severe OCD since she was a child, but more recently she developed a panic disorder so extreme she could no longer interact with the outside world.
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Gear Review: Crimson Trace Rail Master Pro Light and Laser
When Crimson Trace sent me the CTS-1400, they also sent a Rail Master Pro. The Rail Master Pro is a combination laser and light system that predictably mounts to the rail of your weapon. It’s designed for handguns, but like most things, the Rail Master Pro can mount to anything with a Picatinny rail.
Crimson Trace made their name with their laser aiming systems. They’ve been quite creative in implementing lasers over time.
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Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot in Gas Station Robbery, Kills One of His 3 Attackers
A highly-decorated retired police captain from the Oakland, California police department faced down three armed robbers in the lawless east by city while fueling his car. Unlike on-duty cops working Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s security detail in Chicagoland, Ersie Joyner didn’t surrender his gun. Instead, he went down fighting.
Even while suffering multiple bullet wounds, he killed one of his assailants and possibly wounded a second.
The attack happened near downtown Oakland in the middle of the day.
10 Reasons You Should Turn In Your Guns
I met the Babylon Bee’s CEO Seth Dillon at an event here in Austin a couple of weeks ago. He recounted the absurdity of his self-identified satire site being “fact checked” by what these days passes for the professional media…and Facebook then using those results to shut them down.
Dillon hinted about the uber-popular satire site getting more into video and showed those of us at the event one of their latest lulz-worthy efforts.
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Gun Meme of the Day: Keep It Holstered Edition
Don’t draw down on the guy behind the gun counter.
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Update on Alec Baldwin Movie Set Shooting Death
Additional information continues to trickle out in the “Rust” movie on-set shooting death of director of photography Halyna Hutchins and wounding of the film’s director Joel Souza. It seems that Baldwin wore dual hats as both the star as well as the producer of the film. Authorities now acknowledge the obvious: the prop gun “loaded with blanks” was indeed a real gun that was loaded with at least one live round. And there’s more .
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Employee Armed With a Shotgun Stops Workplace Active Shooter in Nebraska
So many workplaces across America prohibit employees from carrying their personal firearms even when legally allowed to do so. This simply means that disgruntled current or former staff can produce a gun and start shooting their fellow (or former) co-workers. But not at a grain elevator in Superior, Nebraska.
An employee grabbed a shotgun from the office and confronted an active shooter Thursday afternoon. The killer, Max Hoskinson, 61, had been fired earlier in the day.
GUNS SAVE LIFE WINS! Cook County Gun & Ammo Tax Unanimously Ruled Unconstitutional by Illinois Supreme Court
The Illinois Supreme Court has struck down Cook County’s gun and ammo tax as unconstitutional in a decision released yesterday. In Guns Save Life v. Ali, the state’s high court ruled the tax on an unpopular fundamental right improperly violates the Illinois Constitution’s uniformity clause.
The Cook County Board implemented $25 per gun tax on firearm purchases in 2013 to make legal gun owners help pay for gun crimes committed by gang members and other violent criminals, primarily in Chicago.
This is How Biden Would Spend Your Tax Dollars to Fight the ‘Gun Violence Public Health Crisis’
By Lee Williams
For gun owners, Joe Biden’s FY2022 discretionary budget plan is an assault on our individual freedoms and civil liberties, an assault that could cost us both billions of taxpayer dollars as well as our guns.
Whoever actually wrote the plan is a master of creative writing — fiction writing — to be sure.
For example, Biden’s budget plan first refers to gun violence as a “public health epidemic” in a paragraph that’s sandwiched between two legitimate epidemics: opioid addiction and AIDS.
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Illinois Police Departments Refuse to Provide Help for Chicago as Vaccine Mandate
The chickens may be coming home to roost for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (D-Soros). With the anticipated termination of 4500 of almost 13000 sworn police officers in Chicago, officials have issued a plea to neighboring jurisdictions to send manpower.
About one-third of Chicago’s sworn officers have declined to submit their personal health information relating to the COVID vaccinations to the city by the deadline set by the hapless mayor and her corrupt regime.
TAP: High Ammunition Prices Are the Result of a Conspiracy By Monopolists…Or Something
DESPITE ALL THE ISSUES with the small arms market, there are steps that can be taken to help.
As in other industries, the Federal Trade Commission has been lax when it comes to enforcing antitrust regulations, so the FTC must get quicker on the draw. Further consolidation of the market should be stopped, but this does not unwind the last 50 years of mergers, which must be studied and potentially unwound.
Alec Baldwin Kills One Person, Wounds Another With a Prop Gun That ‘Misfired’ On a Movie Set
On the set of Alec Baldwin’s Western movie Rust, the volatile actor has reportedly killed a 42-year-old woman and wounded other person with a “prop” gun that was loaded “with blanks” “misfired.”
Personally, I’ve never seen a prop gun that could fire real ammunition. Frankly, many of them don’t fire at all. And others only fire blanks. This keeps the paperwork down for the production staff and increases safety. It also allows actors who are prohibited persons to legally handle these non-firearms on set.
Gun Meme of the Day: Tactical Pooh Edition
It’s true, gun laws leave a bitter taste in my mouth, too.
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Watch a Marine Vet Prevent an Armed Robbery With One Punch [VIDEO]
Early Wednesday morning, three individuals attempted to rob a Chevron convenience store in Yuma, Arizona. The first perp walked into the store wielding a gun. What he probably didn’t anticipate was a former Marine standing in line.
When the robber pointed his handgun, the customer deflected the gun with his left hand and punched him with a right cross to the the face. As the gunman fell to the ground, the second perp tripped while attempting to escape.
What Does Biden’s Proposal for IRS Monitoring of Bank Account Information Mean for Gun Owners?
There has been a significant amount of reporting on language tucked into the Biden Administration’s proposed $3.5 trillion dollar budget proposal that would purportedly require banks to report transactions in accounts with over $600 in annual activity to the IRS. Understandably, gun owners and those who want to exercise their Second Amendment protected rights were immediately concerned.
Does that mean the IRS would be notified of nearly every firearm purchased from a retailer?
Tucker: Gun Rights Should Limited Based on Modern Guns’ Increased Lethality
There is room for looking at the lethality of modern firearms when considering the constitutionality of gun regulation. The court implicitly acknowledged this in its Heller decision when it stated that machine gun bans were acceptable. It’s a difficult concession to explain unless the court is considering the modern capabilities of firearms outside of the historical scope of regulation.
The issue before the Court this fall concerns the conditions under which an individual can carry a firearm publicly on their person.
Please Don’t Feed the Gun Prohibitionists: Make Informed Decisions Before You Buy
by Lee Williams
Do you watch movies at AMC Theaters? Was the film produced by Bad Robot?
Do you eat at Chipotle, Shake Shack, Panera, Burger King or Subway, or had a meal delivered by Door Dash?
Do you wear clothes from Levi Strauss, the Gap or Gucci?
Do you watch CNN, MTV, NBC, HBO, MSNBC or Showtime?
Do you browse Tinder, Yelp, eBay or Pinterest on a Microsoft computer with Comcast internet?
Personal Defense Tip: Don’t Turn Your Back on a Waffle House Waitress [VIDEO]
Waitresses deal with a lot of difficult customers, but things took a wild turn at a downtown Atlanta Waffle House earlier this week when a server allegedly pulled a gun on a complaining customer. According to customer Candy Franklin, a dispute over his breakfast order ended in “gun violence.”
“It all happened over cheese eggs. At first, they didn’t bring them to me. Then they brought me normal eggs and I said that I ordered eggs with cheese on it,” Franklin told FOX 13.