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Imprisoned Mexican Autodefensa Dr. Mireles’ Message to His Followers
Dr. Mireles is the leader of Mexico’s Michoacan autodefensa - a citizen militia that’s taken up arms against the drug cartels and their government accomplices terrorizing the local population. In June, as part of the government crackdown on the militias, Mexican federales arrested and imprisoned Dr. …
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OMG! TSA Confiscates 1000′s of Handguns! OMG!
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports that U.S. airlines carried 642 million scheduled service passengers in 2013. wsj.com reports that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) found 1,813 firearms in carry-on baggage that same year. That’s a very small percentage, right? …
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Question of the Day: Do You Know Any Fudds?
Last week, Gerald Patrick Marr shot and killed a 31-year-old mother and her daughter and then shot and killed himself. Within hours, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’s Facebook page waved the bloody shirt. The only [semi] interesting thing about …
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Gun Review: Walther PPQ M2 .22 LR
Joe and I both really enjoyed Walther’s PPQ M2 5″ in 9mm. Actually, Joe is still enjoying it since he couldn’t bring himself to return the loaner and decided, instead, to purchase it. Considering how good that gun was, it …
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Gun Exemption for NYC Synagogues? Fuggedaboudit!
“’People are scared,’ he said, referring to violence against Jews in France and Germany. ‘It’s coming here, if it’s not here already.’” That’s New York City rabbi Gary Moskowitz talking to nypost.com about the anti-Isreal backlash over the current bout …
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MO Police Shooting Leads to Neighborhood Looting. Or Does It?
So a Ferguson, Missouri cop shot a young black man two days ago. Here’s the police version of events [via wsj.com]: “County Police Chief Jon Belmar said the shooting occurred after an officer encountered two people—one of whom was Mr. Michael …
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Quote of the Day: Benefit of the Doubt Edition
“This is not perceived as being furtherance of a domestic gun control agenda. It is trying to influence Russia’s aggressive stance toward Ukraine. No one is questioning imposition of sanctions.” – NSSF VP and general counsel Larry Keane in ‘Embargo prompts …
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FL Knockout Game Perp Pops Vic After Asking If He’s Armed
“The victim told police that he believed the boys were playing the ‘knockout game,’” members.jacksonville.com reports. “He said he was approached on the beach by one of the boys who asked him if he had a ‘Glock.’ The man was …
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Man Wins Gunfight with Teen Gang Member
Gunfights at close range often result in both participants being hit. It can take time for bullet wounds to take effect. In a Lakeland, Florida shooting Wednesday night, we don’t know the calibers, other than both participants were using handguns. …
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NJ Cops Arrest Gun Owner for “Creating a Risk of Widespread Injury or Damage”
“Police on Saturday revealed the extent of the arsenal seized from a township resident and evident gun enthusiast, the day after they charged Robert Lintner, 65, with ‘creating a risk of widespread injury or damage,’” northjersey.com reports. I know what …
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Where’s MY Planeload of Ammunition?
“The Iraqi government delivered a planeload of ammunition to Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s semiautonomous Kurdish region, on Friday in an unprecedented act of military cooperation between Kurdish and Iraqi forces,” Reuters reports. “The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, …
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Question of the Day: Ready for Ebola?
“In truth, almost nobody is America is prepared for an Ebola outbreak — not the people, not the hospitals, not the grocery stores and certainly not the government,” naturalnews.com reports. “Even a small, local Ebola outbreak would result in a …
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ATF NFA Branch Catching Up Slowly. Very Slowly.
Our friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gave a regulatory update at last week’s 13th Annual Firearms Import/Export Conference. Among the tidbits they dropped were a few more non-surprising data points indicating the (relative) slowdown in firearms and …
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Quote of the Day: And Then There Was One Edition
“Of course there are other similarities between Big Tobacco and the gun lobby. Both had a stranglehold on Congress (the NRA still does) even as their products were killing every day. And Big Tobacco and gun manufacturers were the only …
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Gun Hero of the Day: North Carolina Sheriff Larry Rollins [Distorted Audio]
Grass Roots North Carolina press release [via ammoland.com]: It’s a phrase that you’ve probably heard many times: “When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.” Of course, this is not a criticism of police officers, but simply a cold, hard …
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Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Olmsted, MI County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Jon Jacobson
“The Olmsted [MI] County Sheriff’s Office said Sgt. Jon Jacobson [above, left], 40, was conducting a training exercise Thursday about 8:45 a.m. at the Regional Public Safety Training Center at 2116 Campus Drive Southeast,” kttc.com reports. “Jacobson took control of …
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Bloomberg PAC Dumps $150,000 Into Race Against Pro-Gun Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke
Reader Brian K. writes: It appears that Lord Farqaad, aka Michael Bloomberg, is piling on to an easy opportunity to take out a pro-gun sheriff in a liberal county. Apparently he is dumping 150K in ads on top of the …
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Housekeeping: More TTAG Fixes on the Way
We’re still getting comments and emails from readers re: our new look ‘n feel. Top of the list: lose the all-white background and ditch the stupid font. Dan’s sent a “hit list” – including these and other tweaks – to …
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Question of the Day: Should America Ban Elephant Ivory Sales?
I got an email blast yesterday from John F. Calvelli of the Wildlife Conservation Society Dear Robert, First, the good news: On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed the first state ivory ban into law! [ED: click here for A3128] …
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NRA Pulls Dom Raso’s “Guns for the Blind” Video. Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America Re-Publish It
NRA commentator Don Raso posted a video Sunday [above] in which the former Spec Ops commentator argued that blind people should be able to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. When anti-gunners caught wind of his message …
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