HE WAS SUCH A GOOD BOY: Robber suffers a sudden and profound failure in victim selection
Tamon J. Stapleton, aged 18-years, was just turning his life around before heading off to an Ivy League college this coming fall to study quantum physics when he used a handgun with the serial number ground off to rob a Breadbox convenience store in Knoxville. Unbeknownst to Tamon, the female…
GUNNEWS MAGAZINE: Catching up & light posting explanation…
It's been light posting the past few days, but we'll tease you with a big part of the reason why: The July 2015 issue of GunNews is now done, albeit about 24 hours past the deadline. Pretty much everything got left behind while we finished it up. And the tease?…
ILLINOIS IS BROKE: Sparta “World Shooting Complex” slated for closure
Illinois is broke. Social service spending, pension obligations and profligate spending across the board under the Democrat leadership of Illinois General Assembly the past decade plus has left Illinois broke. The "budget" proposed for this coming year is four billion dollars out of whack. Illinois new Republican governor seems to…
Republican governor does for a black man what the NAACP won’t do
New Jersey has some draconian gun laws. Sometimes cops there don't use good judgement, either. Such was the case when cops pulled over a licensed security guard. He told the officer who he was and that his duty gun was secured in the glove box instead of the trunk as…
LET’S ROLL THIS THURSDAY (ILLINOIS): Time to crash an anti-gun recruitment event
THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH TINLEY PARK, IL [caption id="attachment_17084" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chicago's Father "Snuffy" Pfleger surrounded by his armed guards. Guns are bad, right? Except when they are to protect him.[/caption] Father Pfleger, the hypocritical Chicago priest who hates guns but travels with armed bodyguards (Guns for me, but not…
CONCEALED CARRY SAVES LIVES: CCW stories in the news…
With over 5% of the American population possessing carry licenses - or not needing them to carry a concealed firearm, there's inevitably going to be plenty of cases where they use their defensive tool to thwart criminal attack. A few of these cases even make it into the mainstream media.…
SECURITY THEATER: TSA can’t find real guns. Solution: Democrats want new gun ban
Democrats in Congress have been busy. They want to spend $60 million on junk science anti-gun studies. And now comes news that in the face of the TSA missing 95% of dangerous items that come through security checkpoints, Democrats' answer is to ban more guns. It's true. The TSA Fails…
ON SECOND THOUGHT: Harbor Freight “clarifies” earlier “NO GUNS” post; guns now welcome once more
Some at Harbor Freight Tools social media division stepped on a landmine last week when they replied to a customer inquiry and claimed their policy on guns was for customers to leave them in their cars. The reaction was swift and almost universal in condemning the "please leave your…
OBAMANATION: King Barack proposes limiting First Amendment rights for Second Amendment advocacy
by NRA-ILA It's happening again— President Obama is using his imperial pen and telephone to curb your rights and bypass Congress through executive action. Even as news reports have been highlighting the gun control provisions of the Administration's "Unified Agenda" of regulatory objectives (see accompanying story), the Obama State Department has…
MALARKEY: Wingnut Democrats propose $60M in taxpayer-funded, anti-gun “studies”
Two anti-gun Democrats have proposed the U.S. taxpayers foot the bill for $60M in anti-gun junk science "studies". Yes, you read that correctly. Democrat Senator Edward Malarkey (D-Mass.) and Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) are behind the scheme to spend taxpayer money on junk science "research" to supported failed gun control.…