The Truth About Guns

RF snapped a pic of Guns and Oil Brewing Co.’s Maverick Lager at his local HEB [not shown]. “I’m so confused!” he posted on Facebook. The folks over at G&O caught wind of his anguish and reached out and offered TTAG a T-shirt, a couple of can koozies and a case of beer. We’ve awarded the shirt and koozies to our last caption contest winner. RF contacted me, the resident home brewer, to test the product. Although this website adheres to its brand remit like Lambourghini, here’s the exception that proves the rule: TTAG’s first [and only] beer review . . .

Brewer: Guns

“Danika Riley, 40, was ‘stomping’ on the elderly man’s head and kicking him with her work boots when Port Authority cops spotted the 7:30 a.m. attack,” nydailynews.com reports. “The octogenarian resident of West New York, N.J., was waiting outside the ladies room for his wife when Riley attacked him for no apparent reason.” Once again, New York’s civilian disarmament regime left one of society’s most vulnerable members defenseless against a violent attack. “The Port Authority police said Riley has an extensive criminal history in New York, Oklahoma and Washington state that includes drug

Despite having no rational reason to do so, the Commonwealth of Virginia has prohibited hunting on Sundays from time immemorial. Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday signed into law legislation to allow Sunday hunting. It’s been a long road to repeal the old blue law preventing hunting on the day of rest and an official ceremony is expected soon to note this accomplishment . . .

The successful, bipartisan effort was achieved by the NSSF-led Sunday Hunting Coalition which includes NRA, CSF, Cabela’s, Bass Pro and SCI, among other hunting, sportsmen’s and wildlife management organizations.

The legislation allows Sunday hunting on private land during designated hunting seasons by hunters who have the written permission of landowners. According to

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That’s TTAG contributor Alan Brooks on the right, above, who had just taken one for the team by covering the South by Southwest anti-gun confab (read his account here). And we bet you know who that is on his right. Obviously wanting something to hand down to his grandchildren, Alan used his prodigious powers of persuasion to convince Bloomberg sock puppet and Moms Demand Action gun-grabress-in-chief Shannon Watts to pose for a happy snap. The best part: Shannon didn’t know Alan was packing at the time. And somehow the gun didn’t break loose and shoot anyone. Eat your heart out, Dirk.

RF will be a guest on the Kate Krueger Talking Guns program this afternoon at 4:00 PM Eastern, 3:00 PM central. They’ll discuss the possibility of gun confiscation Connecticut and Maryland, Milwaukee’s pro-2A sheriff, guns on campus in Idaho, Facebook’s latest non-announcement announcement and more. You can listen in here.

South by Southwest (SXSW) is the annual music, film, and miscellaneous lecture festival that clogs the streets of Austin every March with tens of thousands of out-of-towners who don’t know how to use frontage roads. This year it also drew the heads of some of the foremost anti-gun organizations in America. Mark Glaze, the Executive Director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, lead a panel discussion on Saturday that featured Shannon Watts, the Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder, Peter Ambler, founder of Americans for Responsible Solutions and Stephen Geer, also of Mayors Against Illegal Guns . . .

Of all of the throngs choking the capitol at SXSW this week, a crowd of only 40-50 turned out to tepidly welcome the gun grabbers to the most liberal city in Texas. The title of the discussion was “Dis

Reader Matt W. writes:

I don’t carry. I support the RKBA without any ifs, ands or buts. Any. I live in a pro-gun town in the pro-gun state of Idaho. I am thrilled we are about to make concealed carry legal on college campuses. I’m a financial planner, one of the youngest people to get the certified financial planner marks in the country. I view concealed carry like a life insurance premium, which I have and sell a lot of. Given the stats, I don’t pay the carry “premium.” So many people in Idaho pay it already . . .

Just “the implication” — to quote Dennis Reynolds of IASIP – of all these other “policyholders” here in the land of potatoes and elk, allows me to to walk around statistically safe every single day. I’m certainly not sa

Sgt. Patrick Hayes [not shown] writes:

A recent TTAG thread dealt with the immediate aftermath of a defensive gun use. The responses ran the gamut from full cooperation with the police to saying nothing at all. As a 20-year law enforcement veteran I have investigated several DGU cases. In each case the shooter was cleared of any wrongdoing. Each was ruled as self defense and a lawful use of force. I live and work in Georgia, a pro gun state, and unfortunately that does make a difference . . .

In Georgia when a person claims lawful use of a firearm, we investigate to determine if the facts support that claim. We process the scene, take witness statements and interview the shooter and the person who was shot, if possible. Notice I didn’t use the word victim. In a DGU the shooter is the victim.

If the facts indicate a defensive gun use, we contact the District Attorney and

“Having a gun in a game seldom means that one shot gets fired. It means that thousands do. It means that, when we play in these gun-filled game worlds, we live in places where our heroes are merciless, where we/they aim for the head, where everyone we see is defined, at first glance as 1) a person to shoot or 2) a person to spare. There’s a heat to these worlds and a hostility. These gun-filled game worlds feel cynical, angry and, worst, reduced. So little feels possible. When two people see each other in these worlds, most likely, one will shoot the other to death.” – Steven Totilo in The Disappointment of Video Game Guns [at kotaku.com]