I’ve seen a tendency to blame all gun owners after one gun user is negligent, or commits a crime.  This is unfair, and counterproductive: Unintentional Shootings First, I’ll address negligent shootings. There are hundreds of millions of guns in the United States, and about 50% of homes have guns.  The overwhelming majority of these pe...

By Jim Irvine SB184 is 75 pages. It will go into effect on September 09, 2008. This is part of a series of articles looking at specific sections of the bill and how it will affect you. Keep in mind that I am not an attorney and this does not constitute legal advice. Concealed carry license holders are required to read the Attorney General guide...

Reuters.com is reporting that American Corey Cogdell got ready for the Olympics by going on a moose hunting trip with her father. "I've been shooting since a very young age -- probably two or three years old -- hunting and shooting with my dad," she said. "I just grew up with it." From the story: "I harvested my first moose when I was 18, a couple...

If there had to be a textbook case, it would look something like this. ...

Anytime someone talks about Obama, make sure you give them the sign ...

After a wake up of 3:30 and several hundred miles driving back, I'm back at the ranch. Today is the official birthday, though work travel took up most of it. I had a lot of time to think on the way back. So for today, bear with me for a reflective Birthday post. . It feels good to be home and settled, with no airline flights to catch, no long ...

… is how a SWAT team is supposed to be used. ...

I mean, Google Maps has fallen prey to the clone tools? What's next? Partisan editing at Wikipedia?...

We seem to have quite a few gun bloggers who come from law enforcement families. ...

Here it is, in RealMedia video format. Justice Kennedy is speaking at the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference. He gets to Heller about 38 minutes in (and the rest of it is interesting, too. He has a great sense of humor. My notes: Audience member asks him what are the best teaching cases of his time on the Court. He names Heller, and continues: I t...

There’s a Volokh thread on secession going on, to parallel the one we had yesterday. ...

This video clip discusses the history of “shall issue” concealed carry laws in the United States, and has interviews with people whose lives were saved by the right to carry a concealed firearm.  The myth that concealed carry will lead to O.K. Corral style shootouts in the streets is also demonstrated to be false. Tags: 2nd [...]...

Would-be pizza parlor robber flees in face of .357 magnum The owner of a pizza parlor here shot at a would-be robber who came out of the bushes as the proprietor and an older relative were leaving the business, police said this morning. Manny Manolas, 41, told police that he and Clary Manolas, 63, were closing up Manny's Pizza at 487 S. Nova Ro...

Say Uncle notes a recent story in the LA Times about how US automatic weapons are supplying the Mexican drug gangs blah blah blah. He writes: You know what would stop the flow of weapons in? Border control. Crazy talk. Recall that a couple of weeks ago I noted an MSNBC story that reported "bazookas" had been used by the gangs. Are those al...

Right here. It's just getting going, but I figured folks might want to get in on the readership ground floor!...

I am so wound up right now I can barely see straight. My weekend was good. I went to a Civil War skirmish in Winchester, VA and met some of the members of the skirmish unit I would like to join. It's kind of like pledging a fraternity. Which in many ways, this is really what it is. A shooting fraternity of some very talented shooters. I would ...

New Sheriff in Town Sebastian: Orange County California has a new sheriff. What is one of her first acts? "The good-cause threshold you have to meet has gone up," Nighswonger said. "The prior sheriff had more of a right-to-carry philosophy. Some of the things that were considered good cause won't be now." Head over and read the comment...

Story here. "[Alderman] Rainey suggested that the city might want to consider printing the names of all those who have state firearms cards in the local paper. "Do you want your grandchild going to visit someone who has a gun?" Rainey asked. But no action was taken on that suggestion. Police Chief Richard Eddington said he would recommend again...

Say Uncle: It's very difficult to be critical of police action and not be assumed to be anti-police. Indeed. Just like you can't question man-made global warming without being branded a "hater of the environment" or support the invasion of Iraq without being called a "warmongering Bush sell-out." Go read the whole thing and the comments....

Rampage linebacker Ville faces gun charge Zach Ville says it was a big misunderstanding. Ville, the Grand Rapids Rampage's starting linebacker who helped the team return to the Arena Football League playoffs this spring, has been arrested by the Grand Rapids police on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon. "It was a big misunderstanding beca...

..."they" hate us because we're free!...

Pensacola, FloridaFrom NBC15 of August 11, 2008Home Invader Dead: Two On The RunTwo suspects are on the run as deputies in Escambia County, Fla., continue their investigation into a weekend home invasion.A man who was sleeping inside the home shot and killed one intruder and at first deputies said they were looking for only one other suspect. Now t...

Randy Shannon is the head coach of the University of Miami Hurricanes, and he dislikes guns.  Because of his personal feelings on guns, he has reportedly banned his college football players from having guns, even off campus in their private homes. I’ll start out by saying that Randy Shannon is in error to impose his personal [...]...

Why, for you, of course.See, that's the problem in this country--particularly in those areas where gun abuse is prevalent: Too much individual responsibility and freedom. Why, if only we'd assume collective responsibility for the choices of others, not just for gun ownership, but for everything, just imagine the "social justice" we could achieve!Re...

...if you just give them what they want.Thank goodness these people had no gun--it could have been taken away and used against them....

An aspiring Savannah rapper who was shot and later died was committing a crime when it happened...The robbery victim shot Grant in self-defense...Grant, a father of five young children with another child due in December, died of his injuries on July 25.Not that I want to draw any unwarranted conclusions here...Y'know, if only they disarmed you and ...

...the deputies told the young boy he'd make a good "girlfriend" for some of the other inmates.William N. Grigg will tell you more--if you can stomach it.I first heard about this case yesterday over at Billy Beck's, who links to further comments from Wendy McElroy.What is it about "the system" that makes these sadists confident enough in their acti...

Ted turns 40. That's like 280 in dog years. Waltz on over and tell him happy birthday and wish him well on a getting a new walker (one with a nice set of tennis balls to boot!)...

Seattle police Sgt. Rich O'Neill, president of the Seattle Police Officer's Guild, said he had not been contacted regarding the shooting, but said that officers have a right to protect themselves and should be given the benefit of the doubt while the allegations are investigated.And I give Sgt. O'Neill the benefit of the doubt that he would have ma...

Last night at 12:30 pm a MD State Police "Armed Response Team" showed up at our door. I was dead asleep, my Wife was laying some ceramic tile on our basement floor when our driveway alert went off several times. She looked at the camera monitor and screamed that Police in Assault gear were running up to our front door. That made me sit straight up ...

Just remember Olafson [sic] will do more than 2 years in jail for loaning out a gun acknowledged by the ATF as unsafe and malfunctioning in the 1980's while someone selling machine guns to drug dealers got 24 months. Fine state of affairs. Forum posts are typically entered without final edit, so don't hold typos and misspellings against the author-...

The City of Peoria AZ Police Department has been unjustly taking money from citizen pockets for YEARS (see details below), but I only recently became aware of it when I became yet another victim of......

An Indianapolis police officer arrested in a drunken-driving case Sunday has been involved in two prior alcohol-related accidents in which he was not charged. His patrol car was involved in a third case in which charges are under consideration.All of the accidents involving officer George Leon Benjamin, one dating to 2002, involved city vehicles......

Officials at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park say a black bear mauled an 8-year-old Florida boy and the boy's father was injured while defending him.Besides, "Only Ones" arrived long after the danger was over to make things right with their guns, so what's the problem?So listen to the Retired Para...uh...Park Rangers and accept the fact-back...

You should wear a bell. And some pepper spray. And probably a rape whistle or some other equally useless contraption. Via Radley. ...