DON’T MESS WITH TEXAS: Lone Star State days from approving handgun open carry
All the caterwauling in the world by Moms Demand Action - and all the bone headed stunts by Open Carry Texas - couldn't sway the votes to approve pistol open carry in the Lone Star State. Austin (FoxNews) – Texas is poised to become the largest state in the U.S.…
WIKILEAKED: Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Control’s strategic plan
The Wikileaks release of Sony Pictures emails is helping to paint a picture of how Everytown For Gun Control, Bloomberg's central gun grabbing group is promoting itself to potential donors. One new point we picked up was that Bloomberg is dumping $50M annually into the Everytown cesspool of paid…
DIM WIT? St. Louis Police chief calls for the law-abiding to leave their guns at home. “We got cameras” he says.
[caption id="attachment_16407" align="alignnone" width="600"] St. Louis Metro Police Chief Sam "Snowflake" Dotson. He's no hack - he's a special snowflake.[/caption] St. Louis Metro Police Chief Sam Dotson has a message to the law-abiding good guys of St. Louis following three shootings in his city that have left six people…
OPEN CARRY DANGERS: Felon swings baseball bat at open carrier’s head to take his gun
Illinois doesn't have open carry (yet...). However, in most states, open carry is legal in one fashion or another. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's always prudent. If one chooses to practice open carry, one must be at a heightened sense of situational awareness at all times. Even at…
BIG: Massive tentative settlement in Remington Model 700 rifle suit
A federal judge in Kansas City, MO has blessed a proposed settlement against Remington to fix alleged defects in the trigger connector of millions of rifles. The approval starts the clock on the six-month window for objections to be filed before the settlement is implemented. We have mixed feelings about…
IS THAT DESPERATION WE SMELL? Bloomberg suggests threatening gun makers to “save lives”
Pity poor billionaire Michael Bloomberg. His Moms Demand Action group is the laughing stock of the nation, thanks in part to their own missteps, their pathetic turnouts and public relations failures (along with Guns Save Life's ridicule). It's hard to gin up excitement when you're reading off terrorist and criminals'…
MEDIA MALPRACTICE? ABC News gives only half the story
ABC News World Headquarters' World News Tonight started off with another report critical of police use of force in recent days, either without all the facts or simply in a rush to judgement against the police. "We begin tonight with yet a new police video under the microscope just as…
ADMIRABLE: Concealed carrier shows great restraint against attacking mob in Memphis (VIDEO)
Shannon Watts and her motley band of supporters love to claim that those who legally carry guns are just itching to use it "Dirty Harry"-style (or on other days, vigilante-style) at the first opportunity because of mental disorders and/or violent tendencies. These same gun-hating extremists have been wrong in everything…
CHARLATAN: Dudley Brown would rather have nothing that much better
by John Boch Dudley Brown: He's the head of the National Association of Gun Rights and the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, two supposedly pro-gun organizations that are as often as not aligned against gun owners' best interests. He's also know as the guy who is always got his hand out,…
JOURNALISTIC MALFEASANCE: Sham reporting on Chicago’s exoneration movement
[caption id="attachment_16376" align="alignnone" width="600"] Anthony Porter, upon his release from prison in 1999.[/caption] Gentle readers, remember back when former Illinois Governor (and now convicted felon) George Ryan ordered a moratorium on the death penalty in Illinois because of the "wrongful" conviction of David Porter? Porter of course, was the man…