Month: February 2018

Todd Vandermyde posted this over at Illinois Carry. I'll try top keep this short but its gonna ramble a bit.  So you're upset by Trump. Fine. Don't forget that Bush gave us the import ban and started us down this road. And if you think Hillary was a better option,…

Last evening's carefully scripted CNN gun control town hall meeting proved quite the circus.  In fact, CNN’s town hall looked more like an episode of Jerry Springer with a barely-restrained audience.  Given that Jake Tapper worked for Handgun Control, Inc. twenty years ago, it should surprise nobody.  What the fake…

by Raymond K. Paden The old man walked slowly through the dry, fallen leaves of autumn, his practiced eye automatically choosing the bare and stony places in the trail for his feet. There was scarcely a sound as he passed, though his left knee was stiff with scar tissue. He…

Little Marco Rubio appeared at the CNN town hall meeting Wednesday evening.  Hosted by former Handgun Control, Inc. spokesman Jake Tapper, the event seemed pretty lopsided against the NRA and gun owners.  And Little Marco Rubio told those present, and by extension, all 682 of CNN's viewers nationwide that he…

Guns are good.  Firearms are tools and they protect children.  Guns save life.  Gun owners know these truths.  At the same time, Scott Tallyn of Tallyn's Tactical Solutions in Peoria thinks that increasing the purchasing age for long guns to 21 "might help" reduce school massacres and violence.  That's like a…

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom." — John F. Kennedy,…

by Richard Fairburn Originally posted at PoliceOne.com.  Reprinted with permission. Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, has now joined the list of schools forever linked to school attack massacres. Sadly, this school shooting in Florida was COMPLETELY PREVENTABLE! The police response to such events must be better, both left…

by Lee Williams If you’ve turned off your TV in disgust over coverage of the Parkland massacre, let me catch you up: It’s the gun’s fault. It’s the President’s fault. It’s the NRA’s fault. It’s the FBI’s fault. It’s Gov. Scott’s fault. It’s DCF’s fault. It’s the (standard capacity) magazine’s…

"Kill the NRA": That's the message that a sign company says vandals put up on I-65 in Louisville this past weekend.   Courtesy the Courier-Journal... A vandalized billboard along a major interstate in Louisville is calling out the National Rifle Association following the recent school shootings in Kentucky and Florida. The sign along Interstate 65 northbound…

Optics Planet, the Northbrook, IL company that employs 1600+ with sales of over $261M just shot themselves in the foot.  With an email, they've cancelled orders for full capacity magazines to civilians otherwise legal to purchase them.  In the email, they cite a recent policy change, saying they no longer…