The Truth About Guns
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Updated: 4 days 13 hours ago
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: Drop Safe Edition
Man, 63, arrested after gun fires in movie theater, the foxnews.com headline announces. In case you were wondering the two events are related. As in the heater in the theater belonged to the sexagenarian in situ. “Police say no one was ... Read More
P320 Entry: Why I Don’t Want an AR, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Shotgun
By Ross Marshman Ever since the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq plastered the news media’s canvas with portraits of valiant deeds done by brave men and women, any viewer could not help but notice the modern lance these soldiers ... Read More
City Marshal of Ft. Worth Gunned Down
Republished with permission from rockislandauction.blogspot.com Wild Days in Hell’s Half Acre Lots of people and places of the Old West get spun into tales of “Pecos Bill” size proportions. One minute someone is a trying to make a living as ... Read More
P320 Entry: The Wake-Up Call
By weathertop9 I grew up in Tennessee, a free state. My father was a country boy, a squirrel hunter and a fly fisherman. He used to make his own flies from old flip-flops and try his luck down on the ... Read More
Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Open Carry a Rifle in the City
Click here to watch the autoplay video of a Muskegon Heights, Michigan man who carries a rifle to and from the bus stop to protect his daughter. “I’ve been doing this on a daily basis, every day she goes to school. To make ... Read More
Colion Noir Declares War on TTAG. Ish.
My last review of the Noir show sets tongues wagging inside and outside the NRA. Hey, they asked for it. Literally. And I did nothing more than tell the truth about the Freestyle show. IMHO. To commemorate that review, Colion ... Read More
P320 Entry: A Natural Right No Matter Where You’re From
By D.A. Nguyen Growing up the child of parents who relocated to this glorious country from Vietnam, life as a second generation immigrant was a lesson in learning cultural differences, acceptance, and being accepted. My family, like many that came ... Read More
Quote of the Day: How’s That Working Out For You? Edition
“We can only stop people who are dangerously mentally ill from buying guns if every gun sale includes a background check. And those background checks will only be effective if states submit the hundreds of thousands of mental health records ... Read More
Weekend Digest: Indian Country Edition
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? There was a fire in a backyard shed in Burbank, California, and during that fire, some ammunition burned/exploded/discharged. That’s undisputed. However, depending on which story you read, the ammunition either caused the ... Read More
Senator Blumenthal Waves the Santa Barbara Bloody Shirt
“I hope, I really sincerely hope, that this tragedy, this unimaginable, unspeakable tragedy, will provide an impetus to bring back measures that would keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are severely troubled or deranged like this ... Read More
P320 Entry: Life in a Second Amendment Dead-Zone
By Daniel Spafford I’m sitting here looking at my GLOCK 21. Simple-looking thing. If anything, it looks so standard, I can’t even say it looks as cool as a silver 1911 or as “threatening” as an AR-15. It’s only been ... Read More
Engage Armament Co-Owner: The Truth About the Armatix iP1 Backlash
Hello Mr Farago, I hope all is well. My name is Andrew Raymond and I am the co-owner of Engage Armament. I am the guy who agreed to sell the Armatix pistol and all that madness. I’ve been trying to ... Read More
P320 Entry: Learning to Duck Online ‘Projectile Vomit’
By Clint When I was young, my interest in guns was as any other child’s was. Namely an interest in the idea that guns made you strong. As I got older, I grew out of that, they weren’t strength, they ... Read More
Question of the Day: What Should a Gun Candle Smell Like?
So I saw an article on “man candles” at grandviewoutdoors.com. As the candles aren’t exactly gun-oriented - On Tap smells like “the cool, golden aroma of a freshly poured draft beer” and Camouflage smells like “a natural, woodsy blend of fresh air, ... Read More
P320 Entry: We Need More Gun Education…For the Children
By Danny Y. With a deep breath, I finally put down the pencil. I closed the booklet and took a quick glance at the clock. I had 30 minutes left before my New Jersey Assessments of Skills and Knowledge (NJASK) ... Read More
Daily Beast [Also] Blames the NRA for Santa Barbara Spree Killing
“This is all too familiar,” Cliff Schecter writes at thedailybeast.com. “A young aggrieved male, mentally disturbed, threatening others—especially women—but still able to get his hands on a high-capacity magazine of the variety used in so many other mass murders. This doesn’t happen in ... Read More
Quote of the Day: And Your Point Is…? Edition
“Second Amendment fundamentalism rests powerfully on the idea that an empowered individual — armed to protect himself (gender definitely intended) and his family — is the morally virtuous way to live.” – Michael Waldman quoted in the review, ‘The Second ... Read More
BREAKING: 50% of Santa Barbara Murders were Stabbed, NOT SHOT
As much as the gun control freaks would love to dance in the blood of the victims and call for more gun control, it looks like their celebration of these latest deaths might have been premature. The initial knee-jerk reaction ... Read More
LA Times: Elliot Rodger’s Guns Were Purchased Legally
You knew America’s Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex would rejoin their full-throated blame-the-NRA chorus after a spoiled, sexually frustrated 22-year-old decided that murdering blond sorority girls was a better solution to his dating problems than opening a Tinder account. And the father of one ... Read More