Month: October 2016

Bass Pro Shops gobbling up Cabela’s

Bass Pro, one of the nations largest outdoors retailer, will buy Cabela's for $5.5 billion. That's a lot of fishing poles and camping supplies.  And Under Armour clothes. USA Today has the story: Bass Pro Shops has reached a deal to acquire outdoors retail competitor Cabela's and take the company private in a…

Lawful Self-Defense as a motorist during a riotous attack

Those of us who have been around a while have the graphic 1992 attack of Reginald Denny burned into our psyche. In recent days, we've been treated to footage from Charlotte, North Carolina, scenes of violent troublemakers blockading traffic, then looting tractor-trailers and attacking motorists based upon the skin color…

Feds snooping at gun shows…

Leave it to the Obama administration to prod local police to cruise gun show parking lots with license plate scanners. Again. It's nothing new to us. The plan, originally conceived by bureaucrats at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and really big fires) back in 2010 is again in…

Tammy Duckworth wants your guns

We are in quite a quandry here in Illinois when it comes to the US Senate race. As bad as Mark Kirk is on guns, Tammy Duckworth will be worse. Duckworth, the anti-gun Democrat who loves to capitalize on American's support for our veterans by incessantly reminding everyone about her…