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It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: TN Teen Thugs Edition
“According to the latest reports from police, at least 17 incidents were reported after a group of approximately 200 teens began robbing and assaulting people Saturday night,” wdrb.com reports. “Police say it started around 7:45 p.m. when the teens gathered near the entrance of the Big Four Bridge. That’s where police say 12 teens assaulted and robbed a 13-year-old girl, as well as a man who came and tried to help her.” As the lead says, it gets worse. A lot worse . . .
Officers broke up the crowd, but shortly after that, there were more problems in the downtown area.
Police say once the large group left Waterfront Park, 70-80 teens were reported to be causing a scene at the White Castle on 1st Street. Nearby, a woman reported a gro
Giffords: Women Need More Gun Control
Thanks to an amendment the late Senator Frank Lautenberg attached to the 1997 budget appropriations bill, it’s illegal for those convicted of domestic violence to own a firearm. But now that they’ve staked out their own little corner of the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex, Gabby Giffords and her space cadet hubby, Mark Kelly, think more needs to be done. Giffords is shocked – shocked! – to have learned that criminals don’t always comply with the law. And sometimes their attorneys plead them down to a lesser charge. What’s their answer? More gun control laws, of course! Reader Chris W. just got this letter from the former Arizona congresswoman . . .
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Christin was a 35-year old mother of two from
Grandviewoutdoors.com: Where to Hunt the Biggest Bucks
I’ve already confessed my weakness for gun-oriented clickbait. So I was well-up for grandviewoutdoors.com‘s article Where to Hunt the Biggest Deer. You know how these things go: a protocol-heavy preamble followed by a top ten list extolling the virtues of each state’s advantages. Nope. Dr. Dave Samuel’s article is all about the variables: states with the highest buck harvests
BREAKING: Anti-Gun CA Senator Leland Yee Charged With Gun Running
It what would surely place his likeness prominently on the Mt. Rushmore of hypocrisy if the charges are proven in a court of law, famously anti-gun California state Senator Leland Yee has been charged with, in addition to bribery and public corruption…yes…gun running. Specifically conspiring with known organized crime lord Kwok Cheung “Shrimp Boy” Chow to illegally import firearms and sell them without a license . . .
The affidavit charges that the $2 million worth of weapons to have been secreted into the country from the Philippines included rocket launchers and machine guns, some of which Yee himself had fired while on Mindanao. A portion of the weapons Yee conspired to bring into the U.S. through New Jersey were to
New York Issues Revised SAFE Act Guidelines for Law Enforcement Officers
Are you an unlucky Empire Stater who’s feeling the effects Governor Andrew Cuomo’s pride and joy, the SAFE Act? Have you been flipping the pages on your calendar, noticing that the April 15 registration date is coming up fast, and wondering if or how cops in New York will be enforcing this marvel of civil rights abrogation? Never fear, the law enforcement brass are way ahead of you. The New York State Police has recently issued a revised SAFE Act guide (PDF) to its officers to – again – explain the law’s provisions and how they’re to to about enforcing it. And given the the December Western District ruling that the mag cap ban is unconst
Alaska Bans Hunting with Drones
“Hunting big game in Alaska with the help of remote-controlled, camera-equipped aircraft will be illegal later this year when new regulations take effect,” adn.com reports. “Troopers brought up the issue with game board members in February after hearing about a drone-assisted moose kill in Interior Alaska in 2012, Chastain said. That moose hunt was reported to troopers by state Department of Fish and Game staff, the trooper captain said, but there were few details about it, because the moose kill was apparently legal and troopers did not investigate it.” Color me confused. What the problem? And the Game Board’s rationale for government intervention in drone assisted hunting is . . .
Prohibiting the use of drones is based on the same principle of fairness as the same-day airborn
Video: Farago Debates Gun Control Advocate Eliot Fineman
The “debate” with Eliot Fineman, CEO National Gun Victims Counsel, starts at 34:53. I put the word in quotes because this conversational confrontation was more a case of dueling polemics rather than dialogue or debate. Even so, I hope I was able to defend and extend the pro-gun side against Fineman’s wall o’ words. It would be great to have a proper debate with a proponent of civilian disarmament with a moderator enforcing an agreed format. Otherwise, talking to gun grabbers is like herding cats. With a blindfold on.
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Question of the Day: What Shotgun Do You Use for Home Defense, What Ammo Do You Load and What Mods Have You Made?
The AR is America’s rifle but the shotgun remains America’s go-to home defense firearm. And why not? If there is such a thing as a one-shot man-stopper, the 12-gauge shotgun is it. While the Remington 870 and Mossberg 500 continue to dominate the home defense shotgun market, today’s buyers can choose from a wide range of scatterguns, from inexpensive Turkish smooth-bores to high-end Benellis and magazine-fed Russian guns. So what’s your home defense shotgun? What caliber and which ammo do you load? If you don’t rock a shotgun to protect home and hearth, what gun do you run and why not a shotgun?
BREAKING: CA Gun Grabber Senator Leland Yee Arrested for Bribery and Corruption
“FBI agents are currently raiding the Capitol office of State Sen. Leland Yee, who was arrested on bribery and corruption charges Wednesday morning,” kcra.com reports. “The FBI confirmed that it conducted raids at homes and businesses in the Bay Area and Sacramento Wednesday morning, where multiple search warrants were issued and arrests were made. California Highway Patrol officers and the sergeant at arms are currently stationed outside Yee’s office at the state Capitol.” It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Mind y
Roberts Defense Supergrade 1911 Review Update
As you can see, I’ve had something of a rear sight issue with the Roberts Defense Supergrade 1911. After fifty rounds of FMJ, the sight moved left. Before the 1911′s next outing I took an allen wrench and screwed the sight back down. (As it’s not my gun I passed on a Loctite solution.) Twenty rounds later the sight worked its way loose again. So I called the company’s customer service number this morning. Vice President Jon Paul picked up the phone and admitted RD’s had some issues with the
ATF Jumped the Gun on “Silencer”
By Dan McCue [Republished with permission from courthousenews.com]
Uncle Sam arbitrarily classified a new device as a firearm silencer without sufficient review or a decent explanation why, a federal judge’s somewhat scathing opinion states. ”In any agency review case, a reviewing court is generally obligated to uphold a reasonable agency decision that is the product of a rational agency process,” U.S. District Judge John Bates wrote Wednesday. “This is not a high bar. But in this case, ATF fails to clear it.” Innovator Enterprises Inc. brought the complaint as the creator of the “Stabilizer Brake,” a device that attaches to the muzzle of a rifle with the intent of substantially reducing the firearm recoil and redirecting noise away from the shooter toward the target, among other things . . .
Typically, such devices, sometimes called “muzzle brakes
Ninth Circuit Upholds San Francisco Gun Storage Law
You’ve heard it before, probably here — the only place a gun belongs is on your hip or locked in a safe. Good advice, that. But the city of San Francisco has elevated a good practice into a law and now, in their ruling in Jackson v. The City of San Francisco, the Ninth Circuit court of appeals has upheld its constitutionality. As the court acknowledged, “This indirectly burdens the ability to use a handgun, because it requires retrieving a weapon from a locked safe or removing a trigger lock.” . . .
But because it burdens only the “manner in which persons may exercise their Second Amendment rights,” the regulation more closely resembles a cont
Quote of the Day: New York Times “Not Clear” Edition
“On Thursday, the day the Georgia bill was passed, a fight broke out in a gray, windowless shack called Milo’s Bar in Marietta, an Atlanta suburb. As the brawl spilled into the parking lot, at least three guns were drawn. Shots were fired, and a bystander was wounded. It is not clear whether the new law would have changed anything. Milo’s already had ‘No Weapons’ signs posted. Anyone there with a gun was already violating existing law as well as the bar’s policy.” – Herbert Buchsbaum in Amid Wave of Pro-Gun Legislation, Georgia Proposes Sweeping Law [via
Daily Digest: Tax & Spend Edition
We’ll start with a story to watch out of Nebraska, that of a 20-year-old University of Nebraska Omaha student who was arrested early Saturday morning on felony charge of having weapons on school property. Campus security called police around 2 a.m. to report that a student had weapons in his dorm room. According to KETV.com, police “confiscated several magazines, ammunition and three rifles.” While that is clearly a violation of both school policy and the law, what makes this a story to watch is how it is handled. He admitted the guns were his, and from all accounts he simply had nowhere else to store them. He was not planning an attack . . .
and I’ve seen multiple articles where in the comments he was described as a nice guy who simply did a stupid thing. One of the comments at the article linked above actually describes him as a “gun nut,” and it’s meant in a
Atlantic Monthly: Gun Suicides Make Guns a Healthcare Issue
The NRA scored another victory last week when they torpedoed the nomination of 36-year-old Mr. Vivek Murthy for the post of Surgeon General. And a good thing too. As we reported back in December, the founder of Doctors for Obama is an unrepentant proponent of civilian disarmament. Murthy expressed his desire for doctors to quiz patients about gun ownership and then keep a record of their reply – creating a de facto gun registry. (Amongst other things.) The left-leaning, gun-hating media isn’t happy that their man Murthy m
BREAKING: Scott Blackwell, President of Marketing & Sales for Remington, Resigns
It was less than two years ago when Freedom Group hired Scott Blackwell as the president of marketing and sales. Since then, things haven’t exactly been going well for Big Green. From the ongoing quality control issues with their firearms to the mixed reviews that the brand new Remington R51 is seeing, Remington’s image could be better. Yesterday afternoon a confidential email from Freedom Group head honcho George Kollitides to his team announced that Scott Blackwell will be moving on and resigning from his position. The timing leaves much to the imagination, especially with the head of marketing being replaced so soon after SHOT Show and the R51 launch. Make the jump for the text of the email . . .
It is with sadness that I announce the departure of Scott Blackwell, President of Remignton Outdoor Company. Since 2006, I have relied on S
Appleseed Gets Guns in a Colorado School. For Real.
Yes, you read that right, the Appleseed Project managed to get actual guns in a Colorado middle school last week for a little history lesson. And then they took the little skulls full of mush on a field trip to a local range for some practical shooting and safety edumacation. As krdo.com reports, “‘Often firearms and schools don’t mix. There’s a big fear there. So we are pushing the safety aspect and hopefully ease some people’s fears,’ said Timothy Baird, with the Craver Middle School.” It’s a radical concept to be sure – teaching kids to respect and use firearms properly. But it’s an idea that’s so crazy it just might work . . .
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TTAG Exclusive: Kirsten Joy Weiss Shoots Apples off An Apple Tree
I like Katniss. Maybe it’s because I’m a shooter. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the woods. Maybe its because my favorite games as a kid were often survival games. This is a very small tribute to a shooter girl who knows her way around the woods and has the skills and moxie to make it. All girls should know how to shoot. Whether its bows or guns, the skills, focus, and other life benefits are invaluable. Katniss represents the confidence shooting can bring Enjoy, and happy shooting