The Truth About Guns

“These past couple of years, various states have been passing laws barring enforcement of federal gun laws on certain circumstances. At the same time, states have been passing laws decriminalizing or even legalizing pot. Seems funny how flaunting the pot laws is deemed OK or even compassionate, but talk about defying a federal gun law is deemed unreasonable and that’s an outrage! How dare the states! When is the Second Amendment going to cease being the red-headed bastard child of the Constitution or liberal morality?” – NRA Lobbyist Todd Vandermyde

A rather daring and unusual string of robberies took place at three gun sellers in Mississippi last Friday night. A man (not shown) rammed his truck through the front door of Cook’s Gun Shop in D’Iberville (De-eye-berville), smashed several display cases and grabbed up several handguns. Minutes earlier, the man tried the same tactics at pawn shops in Gautier (Go-shay) and Ocean Springs (Oh-shun Springs). He got away with several guns in Gautier, but was unsuccessful making it inside the Ocean Springs store. One source told reporters that as many as 20 guns are now in criminal circulation. Click here to see the video, and note the guy’s not dumb; he used the back end of his truck. . .

A challenger for U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) seat is going to use a gun to try to get it. State Sen. Lee Bright of Spartanburg will be

“Landscape gardener Andrew Woodhouse [above], 44, was on trial facing assault charges on the two raiders he found stealing diesel from his business,” telegraph.co.uk reports. “A jury heard how Woodhouse grabbed a fence post one was carrying as a weapon and used it to fight back against them. The father-of-five — who says he has repeatedly been a victim of crime at his gardening company — detained the two burglars until police arrived. But the court was told it was Woodhouse who was the

Predators have a strategic advantage: human decency. Not theirs, of course. Yours. Most people will stop to talk to a stranger asking for help. What time is it? You check your cell phone. They take it. Do you know where XXXX Street is? You look around. They clobber you. Got a light? Lights out. I’m not saying treat all strangers like brain-eating zombies. But know this: your gun is no use to you at static bad breath distances. If a stranger approaches you KEEP MOVING. Give directions or say sorry no, can’t help you, while walking away. Sure there are exceptions and yes, it’s situationally dependent. But the moment you stand still is the moment you’ve surrendered your ground. By the same token, practice drawing while moving. The best way to “get off the X” is not to be on it in the first place.

Indiana state senator Jim Tomes has introduced a bill in the legislature that prevents further waste in gun turn-in events, so called “buy backs”.   The guns were never owned by the people purchasing them, so “buy back” is a loaded misnomer.  The effort seems to be part of a trend in gun-friendly states. Kentucky appears to have been the first state to pass such reform legislation back in 1998. The Indiana bill seems loosely based on a similar Arizona reform passed last year. North Carolina is the latest in a number of states that have passed the money-saving measure . . .

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“Violence shattered a wintry Saturday morning at a popular suburban mall here when a gunman shot and killed two employees of a skateboarding shop, sending panicked shoppers into hiding,” wsj.com reports. “The suspected gunman was later found dead near a shotgun and ammunition, police said. His victims were a man and a woman, both in their 20s, Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon said at a late afternoon news conference.” “Later” as in two minutes after the police received the first 911 call alerting them that an active shooter was on the premises. Two minutes . . .

Enough time for the shooter to kill two people with a shotgun. Apparently, he had “a great deal of ammunition.&#8

Mexico’s armed “self-defense” movement continues to grow in the country’s southern regions. The collusion between the drug cartels and the local, state and federal government – funneling a reported $100m per month from criminals to government employees – has led locals to take up arms in their own defense. It’s only a matter of time before the movement works its way north and south – despite official denials that the revolutionaries are thriving in the chaos (“The General Secretariat of Government, Luis Maldonado Venegas, stated that in Puebla ‘there isn’t nor will there ever be a self-defense group,’ and described the announcement as merely media.”) Will th

CNN is reporting three dead – probably including the gunman – in a mall in Columbia Maryland this morning.  ”Howard County Police Chief Bill McMahon told reporters that the shooter apparently shot two people before shooting himself in a store on the second floor. The motive was unclear.” Do we really have to check the mall’s policy on concealed weapons? No, no we don’t. This is Maryland, after all. “A federal official briefed on the shooting told CNN preliminary information indicates the shooting may have been related to a domestic dispute.” So this probably wasn’t a random spree killer, though it’s likely to be portrayed that way since it happened in a public venue. More to come as the picture emerges.

The following was written by Karla Herdzik and is reproduced with permission. My basement is kind of a man cave. Yes, it has a washer and dryer and it’s painted pretty turquoise, but otherwise — total man cave. Across from my instruments of laundry, I keep my instruments of shooting.  My workbench has stacks of targets, wrenches, optics, target pasters, and gun cleaning supplies.  Underneath the workbench (and actually, at the bottom of the stairs) are veritable mountains of ammo.  I also stash a piece of PVC pipe so I can work on my overhead squat form, as well as a couple of kettlebells.  Seriously — total man cave, with a few small girly touches . . .

This Tracking Point promo argues that their precision-guided rifle system increases the odds of an ethical kill over long distances. You can talk about “de-skilling” hunting all you like, but it’s hard – if not impossible – to argue the point. The second bit asserts that the system encourages “pro-active” hunting. In other words, Tracking Point owners are more likely to get their asses out of the blind (or Tyler Kee’s kitchen) and go out and chase prey. Yes, well, humping that big-ass gun through the mountains may not be everyone’s idea of fun. Future, smaller iterations will make that less unlikely. Meanwhile, is this the future of hunting?

What’s the difference between ammo that’s lousy in a short-barrel 9mm carry pistol and ammo that works spectacularly in a short-barrel carry pistol?  ShootingTheBull410′s 9mm Ammo Quest shows just how it should be done. Today he turns his sights on Federal Premium 124-grain HST, and the results are, well – a bit of a spoiler – but if you play a drinking game and take a shot every time he says the word “perfect”, you’d get sloshed because I think I counted 12 times.

A Pace University student was stabbed in the head by a NYC subway beggar on Monday after the student refused to provide a ‘charitable donation.’ The attacker is in custody and the student is expected to survive. It didn’t happen in a back alley or seedy drug den, and it didn’t even happen in the middle of the night. Police say the violent mugging started out as some run-of-the-mill mid-afternoon panhandling, but the 42 year-old beggar turned violent when the 19 year-old student refused to give him money . . .

The bum jumped the kid and stabbed him in the head before wandering away. Police caught him soon after, and he’s in Ryker’s Island awaiting charges.

Any time an innocent, law-abiding person is viciously attacked on the street by a stranger, it should result in a DGU. At best the attacker will run like hell with no shots fired. At worst, the attacker will assume ambient temperature. Either way, the off