A good percentage of crime consists of criminals victimizing other criminals, often over drugs, money, or gang turf.  However, criminals will often break into the wrong house, or attack the wrong person, after mistaking them for someone else.  Self defense in this situation is yet another reason to own a gun: A recent case in Modesto, [...]...

Right here. It performs an excellent service, as an aggregator of aggregators, as it were....

Jacksonville, FloridaFrom the Jacksonville Times-Union of August 4, 2008Robber in critical condition after being shot by Jacksonville handymanA man working on a home just north of Springfield this afternoon shot an armed man who tried to rob him, said Sgt. Derrick Lewis of the Sheriff’s Office.The shooting occurred about 1:15 p.m. on West 24th St...

By Chad D. Baus The Associated Press is reporting that Ohio State Highway Patrol figures prove road rage is on the decline in Ohio. While there could be many causes for this good news (Patrol spokeswoman Anne Ralston speculates that reduced travel due to higher gas prices is having an effect), one truth is certain: Gun ban extremists' dire warnings...

By Chris Chumita Safe Streets In The Nationwide Concealed Carry of Handguns by John Longenecker is one of the first publications from his new Libertarian and pro-gun publishing company, Contrast Media Press. His hard hitting articles can be read at his web site called Good For The Country and have been picked up by numerous media outlets and web s...

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The writer identifies himself as "a longtime constitutional militia man and Internet advocate for Second Amendment rights." Nice way to deflect from the content of the letter, and mask your utter lack of journalistic ethics by failing to issue a retraction, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.That's what you get for traumatizing the melanin deficient, Vander...

And, unlike the XM8 I posted earlier, this one is a real firearm. This one is being raffled off for a breast cancer charity....

The new piece is available here:This is still a free country, right? Last week, the US House of Representatives passed legislation to more closely regulate the wages that firms pay workers and more strictly regulate tobacco products by putting them under FDA supervision.The Los Angeles City Council also approved a one-year-moratorium on new fast-fo...

Historian Robert Churchill has a detailed review of Saul Cornell's recent book on the right to arms (Cornell's approach basically is that of DC in Heller). The critical parts: " If I am reading Cornell correctly, he is arguing that early Americans believed that the right to keep and bear arms was guaranteed only to enrolled militiamen, and that i...

Two essays by Prof. Tushnet, who is not particularly fond either of the individual rights view or of originalism. Hat tip to Joe Olson......

Seems we started a trend. What kind of dog is this one? I definitely see some bully in him. ...

This person pretty clearly doesn’t want to recognize that Melissa Hart herself was the beneficiary of NRA’s endorsement policy when she lost to Jason Altmire: How can the National Rifle Association say with a straight face that it is looking out for the interests of gun owners if it backs a candidate who is also endorsed by MoveOn.org (...

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I promised an update to the case of Gabriel Razzano. Here’s his recounting of how he lost his guns, taken from notes of our telephone conversation on July 24. Note the events described here took place in the first part of 2007. They are still unresolved over a year later.Mr. Razzano is a community activist and, as a member of the Minutemen, has a...

Mac and Cheese is one of my favorite foods. Probably a close second behind steak. But not the blue boxed kind. When it is made in my house, it's made the way my Mom does. From scratch, with multiple ingredients, including ham and onions, and slow baked until the top is just crunchy. You can NOT get this in a box or a freezer case. (the recipe and ...

H/T The Bitch Girls...

These are the Dog Days of summer to be sure. For a week or so now we have been having really warm weather. The other day it was up over 110° so you can see we are having a cold snap today. I've been in New Orleans, Houston, D.C., Baltimore, and NYC on really, really hot days and believe me it's nothing like as bad here at 110° as it can be in tho...

GIANT posters of the jailed gang who flooded Manchester with guns have been put up in Moss Side to deter others from following in their footsteps.Posters. Now why didn't we think of that? That ought to totally offset the "£1,500 for a gun and £7 a bullet" financial incentive created by prohibition, don't you think?I can see how combining this eff...

One man was shot and another beaten Saturday when an altercation broke out between suspected gang members on a Metro Orange Line bus, sheriffs deputies said.It's revealing how the same socialists who want us disarmed also want us out of our cars and into public transportation......

The first day of Hobbema's gun amnesty ended with a single firearm being turned in to authorities.Keep hoping for snowballs there, Cpl. Larsen. I expect that gang violence will plummet any day now...or not....

alogotrophy n. 1753 -1853 excessive nutrition of part of body resulting in deformity Was he born with that huge head, or is it the result of alogotrophy? For modern usage, AlGoreTrophy can be substituted....

Larry Correia of Monster Hunter International fame is raffling off a pink AR15 to support breast cancer research......

God I had fun this past Saturday!I received a generous invitation to go out to Fort Shenandoah, the home of the North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) to try out a few rifle muskets and see whether this skirmishing stuff is for me. It is.Skirmishing is competitive shooting. As a result, the affiliated clubs, to lesser and greater degrees, are lo...

Lily pollen is notoriously difficult to remove once it has stuck to a surfaces."It is a new type of flower power," Paul Sermon, the leader of the research, said. "The tags primarily consist of naturally occurring pollen, a substance that evolution has provided with extraordinary adhesive properties."Each cartridge would have between 1,000 and one m...

An article in the local paper about blogs covering the church shooting that occurred last week in Knoxville quotes a comment from ChrisB. ...

Not only are using nanotechnology, but they are trying to put your DNA on cartridges. ...

Kim du Toit discusses choices. ...

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In one of the more engaging, convincing and easily understood presentations I've ever seen, Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law explains why even angels devoid of the slightest moral blemish should never speak to police officers, tax collectors or other law-enforcement agents investigating crimes.4 Vote(s) ...

The percentage of young people who use a gun to kill themselves is higher in Switzerland than any other European country, according to an international survey.This is directly connected to liberal Swiss gun laws and the easy availability of weapons, said researchers from the European Alliance Against Depression, whose study is published in the curr...

Robert: A week among several thousand people with assault rifles, copious ammunition, knives, et, et. Nobody controlling them except their own culture, the gun-nuttiest of the NRA-assault rifle, camo-clad gun nuts. ...

The Gun Doctor, of the Free Duracoat Promotion, is holding a raffle to benefit Breast Cancer Research. Tickets are $5 and you can win this bad boy err girl: More pics here and here. ...

The Device is a replacement for the GI op rod catch and it stops automatic bolt release when loading a clip. It also prevents auto clip ejection when the last round is fired.With it installed, the Garand operates much like the M-14/M1A. When a full clip is inserted into the receiver it will latch, however you must pull and release the bolt handle t...

Thirdpower notes the recent mailer from the Brady Campaign To Use Tragedy To Get Donations is full of righteous indignation because the evil gun lobby may have deceived them. Third reminds them of their own bouts of dishonesty. Meanwhile, Xrlqy Wrlqy says we should maintain the moral high ground and not lie just because the other side does. And, s...

Bill Quick’s Taurus PT145. Scalawag’s Taurus M85. Via Traction Control, who has each pistol for sale here and here. ...

So, the wealthy suburbs of Chicago keep repealing their gun bans. Chicago was all set to fight their gun ban. But, now, it looks like Daley may give up: Mayor Daley today cracked the door open to abandoning the costly fight to uphold Chicago?s 1982 handgun freeze?if he can fashion a replacement ordinance that protects the safety of first-responders...

Not sure why they need this in the UK where guns are banned but: Criminals who use firearms may find it much harder to evade justice in future, thanks to an ingenious new bullet tagging technology developed in the UK. The tiny tags ? just 30 microns in diameter and invisible to the naked eye ? are designed to be coated onto gun cartridges. They th...

Tonyaa-aa-aaa-aaa Wearthersebee recruits Mayors Against Guns and the Violence Policy Center to convince us we should be more like the French. Fortunately:In any case, that night in Paris didn't turn me against those of us who cherish the right to own a gun.Well thank goodness--with all that misinformation you regurgitated to conclude we "have to co...

It's unpleasant in the extreme to face, but the pro-freedom, pro-individual, pro-principles segment of the American populace is a decided (and frankly, despised) minority.Plans predicated on any other demographic assumption will almost certainly come to ruin.Western Rifle Shooters Association reports on the situation....

These people need to be hunted down like dogs and thrown in jail. While a spokesman said he didn’t know who committed the act, the Animal Liberation Front called the attacks a “necessary” act, just like those who fought against civil rights injustices. Spokesman Dr. Jerry Vlasak showed no remorse for the family or children who wer...

WHEREAS, I have spoken injuriously of the distressed people of the Town of Boston, and disrespectfully of the measures prosecuting for the redress of American grievances: I do hereby declare that I am heartily sorry for what I have done, voluntarily renouncing my former principles, and promise, for the future, to render my conduct unexceptionably t...

The Philly Inquirer naturally couldn’t resist covering this one: “She must be very good at what she does, because a whole bunch of very smart people were completely hoodwinked by this,” said Diane Edbril, CeaseFire PA’s executive director between 2004 and 2007. Edbril hosted McFate at her Radnor home in July 2007, when McFat...

As CNN reports, Houston police said three or four people broke into a home in the 10000 block of Foy Lane. The suspects were armed with guns, and at some point in the robbery they shot the home owner, who then managed to get a gun and return fire.  One home invader was killed and [...]...

Posted on the Maryland Shooters Forum...A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. Like so many others her age, she considered herself a liberal Democrat and among other liberal ideals, was very much in favor of higher taxes to support more government programs.She was deeply ashamed that her father was a rather staunch Republican,...

When I need a break from the Obama brainwashing and my daily grind of writing and hosting ClashRadio.com, not only do I drink six gallons of Ketel One, dance on tables in Greek restaurants, and chill with mi familia (as Obama would have us say), but I dream about and prepare for my next hunt. Herewith are ten reasons why I dig hunting . . .5 Vote(...

The idea of giving college students the right to carry concealed weapons on campus may seem counterintuitive after last year's Virginia Tech massacre. But the proposal is deadly serious, said young men and women from colleges across the country who attended the first Students for Concealed Carry on Campus National Conference on Friday. Their move...

Houston, TexasFrom the August 4, 2008 Houston Chronicle:Gunfire broke out during a holdup at a family-owned roofing company early Sunday, leaving one attempted robber dead and the business owner seriously wounded, Houston police said. Detectives said Sergio Rodriguez, his brother and a co-worker were preparing to open about 6:50 a.m. when three or ...

As many people know, I have issues with gun owner licensing and gun registration. It's my pet peeve. I dislike them because their mere existence is a gross violation of 18 USC 926(a), a law which is very clear on the matter of licensing and registration and yet, many states/localities violate it with impunity.The liberal argument is that knowing ...

War on Guns has a very detailed post up on what happened to one of Carolyn McCarthy’s constituents who had his guns seized after exercising his first amendment rights to petition the Congresswoman for a redress of grievances. We covered this a bit here, and pointed out last week that this whole incident has Tom King, who is normally a pretty ...