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Police in Las Vegas are asking the public for help locating several people who came to the aid of a woman being raped in a shed in a Las Vegas community. As the group rescued the woman from her attacker, the attacker was fatally stabbed in the process.

Las Vegas police reported that just after 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, dispatchers received a report of a person stabbed near a residential neighborhood about seven miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, USA Today reports.

Continue reading Is it Justice or Vigilante Justice? at The Truth About Guns.

The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit in Texas challenging the ban on firearms carry in U.S. Post Offices and on postal property as violations of the Second Amendment, and is seeking declaratory and injunctive relief.

Joining SAF is the Firearms Policy Coalition and two private citizens, Gavin Pate and George Mandry, both Texas residents. Named as the sole defendant is Attorney General Merrick Garland, in his official capacity. The complaint was filed in U.S.

Continue reading SAF Goes After Post Office Gun Prohibition at The Truth About Guns.

An Illinois law banning the sale and use of “bump stocks” and other devices that increase the firing power of semiautomatic weapons remains in place despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week striking down a federal ban on such items.

“Illinois law is not affected by the decision,” a spokesperson for Attorney General Kwame Raoul stated to Capitol News Illinois.

This situation has sparked debate as both sides of the gun control issue await the Supreme Court’s decision on whether to hear a broader constitutional challenge to Illinois’ 2023 assault weapons ban, which includes the state-level bump stock ban.

Continue reading Illinois Gun Ban, Other State Bump Stock Bans Remain in Place at The Truth About Guns.

I’ve always liked snub nosed revolvers. There’s a certain mystique to them that goes back to old private eye and detective shows. Plus, they’re still a pretty compact carry gun, and remain popular even well into the 21st Century. I’ve owned a few over the years and the only one I’ve kept is my 3-inch Ruger SP-101 in .357 Magnum, and I don’t totally count that with its 3-inch tube. I kept getting drawn to them though and at one point decided that if I was going to get another one I should give in to that old detective story appeal and get an old one.

Continue reading Obscure Object of Desire: The S&W I Frame Terrier at The Truth About Guns.

With runaway violent crime in Chicago continuing to get worse instead of better, lawful citizens in the Windy City are increasingly taking the advice a city 911 dispatcher gave a home intrusion victim a few weeks ago, and that’s not sitting well with the local liberal newspaper.

The victim count on any given weekend in Chicago is simply astounding. According to reports, last weekend over 70 people were shot in the city, nine of them fatally.

Continue reading Chicagoans Are Catching On, and the Chicago Tribune Doesn’t Like It at The Truth About Guns.

In Canada, a ban on more than 1,500 firearm makes, models and variants, together with a mandatory government confiscation (“buyback”) requirement, was imposed by Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over four years ago. Contrary to the representations as to the inherent deadliness of these guns and the urgency of ensuring these dangerous weapons were no longer available to ordinary citizens, the government had no plan on how to implement the law (and all indications are that it still doesn’t).

Continue reading Oh Canada: Crime Is Up, Fewer Gun Ranges Since Trudeau’s Gun Grab at The Truth About Guns.

Here’s one from the “Nice Try Dude” department. A coked-out Hunter Biden wannabe sat in his Henderson, Nevada, condo last Friday and by his own accounts ingested a gram of cocaine (that was in addition to the three grams he said he had ingested earlier in the week) before shooting up the surrounding condo buildings with more than 100 rounds from an AR and a handgun and then jumping from the second story window and busting his head open.

Continue reading When It Comes to Coke and Guns, Go Big With Your Lies to Police or Go Home at The Truth About Guns.

Joe Biden flipflops on violent crime rates – sometimes they’re going up, sometimes they’re going down – depending on who is in the audience. He uses two vastly different data sources to create his mixed messages.

Biden cites FBI data when trying to convince voters that crime is not out of control, so they feel safe in their communities and reelect him to office. But when he panders to the gun-ban industry, advocates for an “assault weapon” ban, or announces yet another infringement of the Second Amendment as part of his ongoing war on guns, Biden cites mass-shooting data from the Gun Violence Archive.

Continue reading Biden Cherry Picks Crime Stats to Suit His Agenda at The Truth About Guns.

MMA fighter Shannon Ritch may be called “The Cannon” in the octagon, but in the parking lot, he will now be known as “The Handgun.” Just this past weekend, after returning from an event in Qatar, Ritch, who at 53-years-old still likes to mix it up in the ring, was at a Twin Peaks restaurant in Phoenix when a dispute over parking turned from an argument to an attempted knife attack and ultimately to a defensive shooting with Ritch winning the title of survivor.

Continue reading MMA Fighter Shannon “The Cannon” Ritch Fires a Gun Instead in Self-Defense at The Truth About Guns.

Last weekend, Chicagoans witnessed a weekend that saw at least 72 people shot. Tragically, nine of the victims died from their injuries. Just two weeks ago, Chicagoans survived a weekend that saw at least 44 people shot. Tragically, at least eight of the victims died from their injuries.

In a city where criminals know they can get away with violence and criminal shootings – even when police are involved – it’s not surprising that law-abiding Chicagoans would consider arming themselves and, God-forbid, having to use their firearm for self-defense or to protect their families.

Continue reading Supporting Criminals? Chicago Tribune Frets Over Citizens Defending Themselves at The Truth About Guns.

Well, we knew this was coming. Barely had the echo of the gavel banging in the Supreme Court died down after the Court ruled 6-3 to strike down the Trump-era bump stock ban supported by Biden’s Justice Department, than a Democratic move in the Senate supported by anti-gun overlord Sen. Chuck Schumer attempted to pass legislation that would outlaw the controversial firearms accessory.

CBS News reports the attempt to pass the legislation was spearheaded by Sen.

Continue reading GOP Senator Blocks Dem Rush to Pass Legislation to Ban Bump Stocks at The Truth About Guns.

Three teenage girls were alone in their Lawrence County, Kentucky, home one hot summer day in 2019. Suddenly, a white car pulled up and two men got out. One man started kicking in the front door. The second suspect circled around to the backyard and began breaking out a window with a shovel. The youngest of the girls, who was 14 years old at the time, found and loaded the family’s 9mm pistol and fired a round at one of the suspects, who both quickly left.

Continue reading CDC Report on Gun Storage is Statistically Meaningless at The Truth About Guns.

Buying a suppressor has never been easier, especially with companies such as Silencer Shop basically holding your hand and walking you through the entire process, a process that can be daunting and confusing to a first-time buyer, but really isn’t that hard. Even better, where not so long ago, wait times for approvals were taking as long as nine months and sometimes even over a year to secure, they now are occurring in a matter of just a few days.

Continue reading How to Buy a Suppressor in 5 Simple Steps at The Truth About Guns.

Look at any RV message board or Facebook group and you’ll see posts about “the knock.” For some people, it’s just that they parked in the wrong place and tried to sleep against the rules or some local ordinance aimed at the homeless. For others, a stealth van life setup wasn’t stealthy enough, and someone figured out what they were doing. But, what if it’s not the police, a security guard or someone else with good (but annoying) intentions?

Continue reading What If Someone Tries To Rob You While Camping? at The Truth About Guns.

President Joe Biden is determined to decimate the notion that responsible gun owners should be able to responsibly teach the next generation of outdoorsmen and women recreational target shooting. His latest scheme is to shutter 98.9 percent of the Sonoran Desert National Monument to recreational target shooting.

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized a resource management plan revision that closes off all but 1.1 percent of the nearly half-a-million-acre national monument.

Continue reading Biden Admin Takes Aim at Recreational Shooting on Public Lands at The Truth About Guns.

TVH 11 in Little Rock, Arkansas, reported yesterday that Will Jones, the prosecuting attorney for the Sixth Judicial District, declared that the use of deadly force during an ATF raid on Bryan Malinowski’s home in Little Rock was justified under Arkansas law. The case has been followed extensively by the Second Amendment Foundation, TTAG and other pro-gun media outlets. Jones’ statement follows inquiries from four Arkansas Republican congressmen and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who requested documents from the Arkansas State Police regarding the raid.

Continue reading Little Rock Whitewash: Prosecuting Attorney Declares ATF Use of Force Justified in Citizen Killing at The Truth About Guns.

The latest Federal Bureau of Investigation crime data for the first quarter of 2024 shows a substantial reduction in crime compared to the same time last year. In fact, the FBI reported that crime fell more than 15% from the first quarter 2023.

A comparison of data from agencies that voluntarily submitted at least two or more common months of data for January through March 2023 and 2024 indicates reported violent crime decreased by 15.2 percent.

Continue reading Can You Believe The FBI Crime Data Showing A Drop In Crime? at The Truth About Guns.

Ryan Katz is an attorney with Florida law firm Katz & Phillips also known as the Firearm Firm, one of the leading gun law and gun rights supporting law firms in the country. As his firm works to keep gun owners, particularly Florida gun owners, informed of changes to laws, so that hopefully, they don’t necessarily need to become clients, Katz penned a blog post immediately following last week’s striking down of the bump stock ban by the Supreme Court.

Continue reading Federal Bump Stock Ruling Doesn’t Eliminate State Bans on Same Products at The Truth About Guns.

It can be problematic to compare the sentence one criminal defendant receives to another. A judge has a wide variety of mitigating and aggravating factors to consider before passing sentence, such as the defendant’s criminal history, whether they’ve shown contrition and the facts of the crime itself. A prison term that may appear unfair to some may actually be well within the guidelines.

That said, those looking for a near perfect comparison to Hunter Biden’s criminal gun charges need look no further than The United States of America v.

Continue reading Different Set of Laws If You’re a Biden at The Truth About Guns.

When the Supreme Court ruled the federal government’s Trump-era ban on bump stocks was overreach and struck the restriction down, it removed a shadow from many gun owners who likely still owned the devices, removing otherwise honest, law-abiding citizens from the possibility of being an unintentional felon.

West Virginia defense attorney, Todd La Neve, who specializes in gun law, had this to say on his YouTube channel immediately following the Court’s 6-3 ruling last week on June 14:

“Bump stock ban ruled unconstitutional!

Continue reading A Legal Take on the Supreme Court’s Bump Stock Ruling at The Truth About Guns.