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Mark Glaze: Gun Control Won’t Work
Michael Bloomberg’s personally-funded gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety states that “Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America. For too long, change ... Read More
Quote of the Day: You Might Say That Edition
“Universal background checks seem perfectly reasonable to many people, because they might keep guns out of the hands of some weapons traffickers and other criminals.” – Paul M. Barrett, Oregon School Shooting and the Gun Control Conundrum [via businessweek.com]
Daily Digest: Show Your Stripes Edition
Remember back before the whole open carry at Starbucks thing blew up, back when there weren’t any ARs and AKs, just a bunch of guys and gals with their BBQ guns and nice holsters? Back then, part of their “impact ... Read More
Incendiary Image of the Day: Gun Owners Eat Babies Edition
“Given that some sort of horrific, headline-grabbing school shooting now occurs in the United States at a rate of once a week, it’s hard to argue against the idea that gun violence is as much a national pastime as ... Read More
Civil Discourse and Civility
One of the things TTAG prides itself on is civil discourse. TTAG has a policy of deleting ad hominem attacks and vulgarities in the comments section. While some may complain that this restricts their right to express their opinion on ... Read More
This Is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: They Are Slaughtered Like Sheep in Kenya Edition
The idea of disarming civilians for their own good is a special kind of insanity. A point TTAG makes every day in every way. Whether we’re talking nations or individuals, there’s only way to achieve peace: establish the threat of mutually assured destruction. That’s ... Read More
Passively Constructed Negligent Cannon Discharge Story of the Day: Civil War Edition
“What was supposed to be a celebratory lesson in American history has sent three children to the hospital,” cnn.com reports. “They were a part of a Civil War re-enactment group watching a parade in Orem, Utah, when a cannon set ... Read More
New York Special Needs School Boots 8-Year-Old for Paper “Gun”
Normally a story like this would be titled ‘Zero Tolerance Government Functionary of the Day: Micaela Bracamonte.” I say normally, because expelling an 8-year-old for wielding a paper gun is the kind of knee-jerk, I’m-sorry-that’s-just-our-policy reaction we’ve come to expect from ... Read More
Gear Review: Trijicon RMR Sight Adjustable (LED)
By Paul McCain I was finally able to get my Glock 34 with a Trijicon RMR on it out for a full day’s training class and I’d like to share my experiences and impressions of the Trijicon RMR. At the ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: [Former] Officer Jeffrey R. Mang
“As a bowler pocketed his $21 refund just after midnight at the Kenmore Lanes in February, he had to contend with an off-duty Kenmore police officer – moonlighting as a security guard – who took issue with the patron’s complaints,” ... Read More
P320 Contest Update: Light At the End of the Tunnel
When we started our SIG Sauer P320 give-away, we thought we knew what to expect. We’d held a few content contests in the past and while the responses were always strong, the entries in those were but drops in a ... Read More
Question of the Day: Is Uncle Sam Coming for Your Ammo?
Don’t laugh. New York’s SAFE Act mandates ammunition registration. The reg’s on the shelf (due to the cost of implementation) but ready to go into effect if and when legislators pay and prod the State police to git ‘er done. Still, the ... Read More
Gun Review: Steyr AUG
By Wes Minton Iconic. Space age. Modern. Yes modern. Despite the fact that it was introduced in 1977, the Steyr AUG is still one high tech piece of kit. I intended to be extremely objective writing the review of this ... Read More
BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds “Straw Purchaser” Law Provisions
“A divided Supreme Court sided with gun control groups and the Obama administration Monday,” news.yahoo.com reports, “ruling that the federal ban on ‘straw’ purchases of guns can be enforced even if the ultimate buyer is legally allowed to own a ... Read More
Aussie’s Open Letter to President Obama on Gun Control
Dear Mr. President, You recently hailed “Australian gun laws”. In doing so, you praised a government for forcefully removing all semi-automatic firearms from its populace, you admired the banning and confiscation of guns. We expect to hear that from a European leader. But not ... Read More
ISIS Declares All Guns Illegal in Iraq Except Those Used by ISIS Soldiers
It’s the holy grail of gun control, as demanded by Michael Bloomberg and his employees, as well as Dianne Feinstein and her associates in Congress — a complete and total ban on firearms, other than those used by the ... Read More
Quote of the Day: That’s Just Crazy Talk Edition
“If government can’t protect us, let them give us guns.” – Resident of Chibok, Nigeria in ‘Nigeria’s Boko Haram crisis reaches deadliest phase’ [at bbc.com]
Video Tip: Watch the Hands
In Youngstown, Ohio last month, a couple of teenage criminals attempted to rob a Sami Quick Stop a little after midnight. The armed confrontation that ensued resulted in one robber wounded, both captured, and minimal damage to the store. One ... Read More
What Does It Take to Get a Gun In Canada?
American gun control’s roots are in racism. Specifically, a post-Civil War push to deny freed slaves their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. It spread, virus-like, to northern cities with “urban issues” (i.e. large African-American ... Read More
Barbara Boxer: “I will never, never give up until this fight is won.”
Reader Tim Trible recently wrote to one of his Senators, Barbara Boxer, to express his views on some of the recent gun control legislation she’d introduced along with the senior senator from the Golden State, Diane Feinstein. Here’s the reply ... Read More