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If it weren't for the dearth of good guys with guns in Chicago, violent criminals might rethink their belief that they can rob or otherwise victimize people without fear of consequences.  As it is, the criminal class knows that fewer cops mean less likelihood of arrest.  And thanks to No…

There are so many stereotypes at play in this story about Republican-leaning women owning guns than Democrat party males it's not even funny.  It's true, at least according to Gallup.  33% of Republican women owned guns.  29% of Democrat-party affiliated men did so.   This in large part to a 14%…

Watching the lunatic left melt down when they are out of power is glorious.  You get all sorts of temper tantrums, like this one.  From "Above the Law."  Fair disclosure:  I don't know if he was high or drunk when he wrote this.  Maybe both?  Or maybe he was just…

(GSL) - John Drummond from Wayward Son Custom Gun has donated a custom GSL-19 for our first Great Guns drawing of 2025. We’re still putting this together, but our intention at the moment is to pull the winning ticket at the Mattoon GSL meeting on February 13th, 2025. It’s a…

I missed this one last week, but the Viramontes case oral arguments were last week.  Apparently it was a circus.  The Seventh seems to have its head up its rear end. Mark Smith analyzes it. https://youtu.be/3RTbbyhtv0E  

Here's a Police Activity video chock full of things to unpack.  That's the thing about these bodycam videos that are very valuable for gun owners in general and CCW holders in particular.  They record a whole lot of data packed with valuable lessons. Take this incident from Florida.  A sovereign…

Alan Filion started his career Swatting people at age 16 in 2022.  Swatting is where someone spoofs a phone number and calls police, telling them that someone's murdered their family, or planted bombs, or holding someone hostage in an effort to elicit an urgent, heavily armed police response.  It can…

Chicago's Mayor Mayhem, otherwise known as Brandon Johnson, successfully killed the ShotSpotter program in the Windy City.  He claimed it was RAY-SISS because most of the alerts came from poor black and brown neighborhoods. The colorblind ShotSpotter would notify cops almost immediately to the location of gunfire.  Cops would then…

Sorry.  Been busy with GunNews and family obligations.  GunNews finished and sent to press today.  Here's a teaser...  Moms Demand Action will LOVE, L-O-V-E this cover...   Back to our regularly scheduled programming...  So, what sort of idiot tries to flee the police on a low-speed riding lawn mower?  One…

Well kids, last week my pal Don and I drove to Wannamaker's Tulsa Gun Show in Tulsa, OK. World's largest gun show. Five miles of tables and 70,000 attendees. Show was amazing. What was not so amazing, was our truck was broken into the night before the show in a…