The Truth About Guns

Tens of thousands of Connecticut gun owners failed to register, surrender, destroy or remove from the state their modern sporting rifles (a.k.a., assault rifles) and standard capacity ammunition magazines (a.k.a., high-capacity ammunition magazines) by the January deadline. They refused to comply because the law infringes on their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. This act of civil disobedience has made them Class D felons. So now what? There are lots of ways this could get real ugly real fast. Here’s how I see it going down . . .

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Kalispell, Montana is beautiful country. The Flathead Valley is home to a burgeoning niche firearm industry, and any of my uncles could tell you the hunting and fishing around there isn’t bad either. I try to take my daughters there every summer for a week away from video games and Instagram. It’s solid Gun Country. Unfortunately there’s one fewer gun owner there today, after a man accidentally shot himself in the face while examining an AR-15 . . .

Edward Schramm was handling an AR-15 last weekend, and apparently ignoring every single one of the rules of gun safety. To put it delicately, he blew his own brains out. Ironically, he’s probably one of the only people ever to die from a gunshot wound from an AR-15 in Montana.

A friend witnessed the accidental shooting and immediately called 911, but nothing could be done. “He was examining a rifle and it accidentally discharged and shot him in the face,” said detective (and part-time coroner)

I’m no AR expert – not by any means – but this looks like a cool design. As all you Stoner worshippers know, there are plenty of Picatinny-mounted sling loops out there. But if you’re limited to a top rail and don’t appreciate your sling loop co-witnessing with your scope, Strike Industries‘ new Ambush loop has about as low a profile as you could ask for. And at $26.50, the price seems right. Details after the jump . . .

The Strike Industries Ambush low profile sling loop is the lowest profile sling loop designed for the MIL-STD-1913 rail. Made of solid steel, its unique locking bar design system allows for it to be light weight and durable. Because the Ambush sits fl

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Is there some unoccupied space in your gun safe? Do you need a good plinker to use when training new shooters? Fear not. Our friends at Florida Gun Supply are giving away a brand spanking new Walther P22. All you have to do to enter is click the image above or make the jump to log in through Facebook or using your email address. Finding ammo, though, is up to you.

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To paraphrase the Talking Heads, Pinch Me Living’s talking a lot but she’s not saying anything. In fact, I’m writing this post as the South African life coach is prattling away in the background, mixing metaphors like Tom Cruise mixing drinks in Cocktail. Only now she’s dissing machine guns (3:13). Apparently if your energy’s like a machine gun you are “out of control, spiraling off your energy willy-nilly all over the place.” As opposed to a sniper’s rifle where the energy is focused. (She hasn’t said that yet but I know she will.) Here’s the thing: I’m like a machine gun. I find a target and throw as much lead at it as possible. Fourteen posts a day, every hour? Yeah, like that. Nick’s a sniper. Dan’s a

From pointy sticks to modern ballistic weapons, men have been inflicting lethal harm on one another for millennia. It was only natural that countermeasures would be developed to protect against such threats. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way from the days of chainmail and bulky metal armor . . .

Technological advances have placed lightweight, flexible, and concealable body armor within easy reach of police officer, soldier, and civilian alike. Quality body armor is simply one more layer of personal defense to augment our mindset and skill at arms. Concealable body armor is the preference for law enforcement and security folks who don’t want to go around looking like a one-man swat team. It’s also a smart option for the rest of us who don’t wear a uniform but could benefit from an extra measure of protection when working or traveling in he

“Samantha Radjenovic, 30, said she was in her car, waiting for classes to end, when a motorist tried to parallel park his SUV into a tiny parking space behind her, outside the Chicago Public School in the 4800 block of W. Dickens Ave.” Having read the headline above the post, you know where this is going. Even so, I bet you still shake your head when you read of innocent Americans brutalized by bad guys. At least, I hope so. “First the driver backed the SUV into the spot ­— striking a van in the process, Radjenovic said on Sunday when reached by phone. Then the driver pulled forward, ramming her car, she said. When Radjenovic got out to snap a cellphone photo of the vehicle’s license plate, and informed the driver, a man, that she would be filing an insur

Underneath the recent Quote of the Day by P.J. O’Rourke, TTAG commentator dwb wrote “If you read amicus briefs on the 1st amendment in a gun blog . . . you might be member of the armed intelligentsia.” Or something like that. Dee Dubs was riffing on Bill Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck” routine. How about “If you read the owner’s manual for your new gun before you take it to the range . . . you might be member of the armed intelligentsia.” Or “If you can’t mention the Second Amendment without calling it your “natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms” . . . you might be member of the armed intelligentsia.” O

“To me [gun confiscation] would be an act of tyranny. So the people in Milwaukee County do not have to worry about me enforcing some sort of order that goes out and collects everybody’s handgun, or rifles, or any kind of firearm and makes them turn them in. The reason is I don’t want to get shot, because I believe that if somebody tried to enforce something of that magnitude, you would see the second coming of an American revolution, the likes of which would make the first revolution pale by comparison.” – Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke [via

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“I’m not trying to start a buying panic,” gun guru James Yeager announces, as he starts a buying panic, “but if you’re doing any training this year with your 7.62 AK, you should pick up your ammo now.” According to Mr Yeager, there ain’t no Soviet ammo on the boat to The Land of the Free and Wolf is rationing. What with Sipsey Street Irregular Mike Vanderboegh predicting a ban on Russian ammo from our very own Fearless Leader, it’s gonna get worse before it gets better. Our good friends at ammunitiontogo.com say they have plenty of stock – for the moment. You guys seeing any runs on Russki ammo at the sharp end? [h/t/ HB]

“The York County deputy, Terrence Knox, pulled over Bobby Canipe of Lincolnton, N.C., for an expired license tag about 7:30 p.m. north of Clover, S.C.,” washingtonpost.com reports. “After stopping, Canipe got out of his pickup truck and reached into the bed, pulling out what Knox thought was a long-barreled rifle, Clover, S.C., York County sheriff’s spokesman Trent Faris said. It was Canipe’s walking cane. The officer fired several times, hitting Canipe once, Faris said. Faris refused to say where on his body Canipe was hit, but said he was expected to survive.” Even without knowing the totality