The Truth About Guns

I have a feeling cops in Malaysia are like cops anywhere. Just sayin’ . . .

I counted 34 separate stories about the Colorado Springs tragedy (Girl, 14, mistaken for burglar, killed by stepfather in Colorado Springs) and five about the Piedmont, South Carolina homeowner who was wounded but shot an intruder who later died (Homeowner Shoots, Kills Suspect In Attempted Home Invasion In Anderson Co). So why is the bad DGU so much more newsworthy?

Since Magpul came out with their 40 round PMAG earlier this year, it was guaranteed that other magazine manufacturers would follow suit and come out with their own 40 round magazines. One of the first overseas knockoffs I’ve been sent is this IK-520 magazine from MWG Industries.

For the most part, yes. On the outside, the magazines appear to be just as structurally sound and well made as any of the second tier magazines I’ve come across. They don’t have the Magpul level of fit and finish, but they’re a far cry

“Molon Labe” Was Uttered By An Arms-Controlling Tyrant newtrajectory.blogspot.com proclaims. The post is interesting and well-researched. But it fails its mission to pull the historical, rhetorical rug from underneath supporters of armed defiance. Sure, the screed provides some interesting if incomplete information about Spartan society. And yes, Baldr Odinson (contributor to our old pal Mikeb302000′s blog) offers a convincing case that the expression was most likely invented post facto. But his dietribe [sic] fails to establish that “gun extremists” who use the expressi

by Alan Brooks

Christmas just got a little merrier for those of us in central Texas with the grand opening of a new outdoor range just south of Austin. The Shooting Ranch welcomed its first customers the day after Christmas with an apparently spectacular machine gun shoot on their demolitions range. I couldn’t make it to see the machine guns, but I drove out the next day to take a look at the facility and to meet with James Stinson, the owner. James is a serial entrepreneur with a unique vision for the 150 acre plot of former cattle pasture that The Shooting Ranch is built on . . .

“I want this to be the Schlitterbahn of shooting,” James said, referring to the famous Texas waterpark. The current four ranges (a 300 yard rifle range,

“I remember giving creative writing assignments to students instructing them to write a page or two on whatever they wanted to talk about. Adam would write ten pages, obsessing about battles, destruction and war. In my years of experience, I have known (redacted) grade boys to talk about things like this, but Adam’s level of violence was disturbing. I remember showing the writings to the Principal at the time. Adam’s creative writing was so graphic that it could not be shared.” – Adam Lanza’s teacher

Kevin Brittingham founded Advanced Armament Corp, which became one of the biggest silencer manufacturers in the world. He later sold the company to Remington Defense, another gun company owned by Freedom Group, but stayed at the helm raking in staggering profits while constantly butting heads with upper management. As the relationship deteriorated Freedom Group fired Kevin from the company he founded. He sued Freedom Group over the firing, a court case in which, thanks to a text message earlier this evening from Kevin confirms, he whipped FG’s ass.

The suit was over a number

“There are only five more days until the new gun laws go into effect for our state, that means a dash to register assault weapons or high capacity magazines,”

The following letter to the Editor was written by the Director of the National Mental Health Consumers’ Self-Help Clearinghouse Susan Rogers regarding the New York Times article ‘When Right to Bear Arms Includes the Mentally Ill‘:

To the Editor:

As someone who has a mental illness, I was dismayed to read your article about guns and violence. It misses the point, which is that the United States needs much stronger gun control laws for everyone . . .

Although the prevalence of mental health

By Tom in Oregon

Durning the FNS-40 contest I decided to rummage through the safe for an FN-related object. I found what I was looking for and since I knew where its brother was, I called my buddy and got his for a photo session. A few months back, my friend and I were negotiating a deal with a gentleman for a shop full of reloading equipment, components and whatever else the gent was looking to sell. He had several guns set to go on the auction block, too. As my friend had already bought three from him at very reasonable prices, I knew I was in, too . . .

After inspecting all of the Dillon equipment he had, a price was settled upon. We loaded everything up and were walking out the door when the gent said, “reach into one of those boxes.” I did and pulled out a shotgun that looked very familiar, but in 35 years of gun shows and collecting, I had never seen one before.

See what I did there? Injected a gun-related reference into the headline—just in case you thought that the suspension of a reality TV star for insisting that a vagina is better than an anus for sexual congress (and gays are sinners) has nothing to do with guns. As I stated from the git-go, the Robertson clan is inexorably linked to duck hunting and thus guns in the public mind. So Phil’s reinstatement (A&E press release after the jump) tells The People of the Gun . . . something. As for anti-gunners who already see gun owners as dumb, ignorant, racist, homophobic rednecks, no change. Now aren’t we glad we went through all that? . . .

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