As the Chicago Tribune reported, a boy in Oak Park was robbed of his shoes, gym bag, cash, and iPod by a bicycle riding criminal at 12 Madison St, Oak Park, Illinois.  The gunman rode up on a bicycle and displayed a black pistol, before relieving the teenager of his properly, valued at about $500. Not [...]...

Leupold have launched a new scope called the UltimateSlam for shotguns and modern muzzleloaders. The SABR reticle can be adjusted to match your load. SABR: Sabot Ballistics Reticle Leupold’s® all-new UltimateSlam™ riflescope is the ideal combination of flexibility, accuracy, and durability for today’s modern muzzleloaders and shotguns. As...

Bill Ruger is spinning in his grave. Ruger has a promotion where you can get a free 20 round magazine when you purchase a Mini-14. More info here. Hat Tip: Guns Holsters and Gear ...

Chuck Todd had this to say on Meet the Press:But the most remarkable thing, I think about the map is how the toss-ups are fairly steady. McCain is strong in the places that he's campaigning and advertising. Now, he is a limited amount of states that he's advertising in. He's only in about 11 of the battleground states, Obama's trying to expand the ...

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Buckeye Firearms Association Legislative Chair Ken Hanson is about to release an Instructor Update that will address many of the concerns facing Ohio Concealed Handgun License (CHL)/NRA Certified Instructors as the time for the first round recertification of CHL students' competency approaches. From the update: With the passing of SB184, and with O...

According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, trustees at the the Harrold Independent School District in northern Texas voted to allow teachers to bring handguns on campus when classes start this month, as long as they meet licensing and other requirements. David Thweatt, superintendent of the 110-student district, told the newspaper they adopted this...

Blackwater is not the company doing blogger outreach.  Para-USA is the company sponsoring our blogger summer camp.  The training is going to be provided by Todd Jarrett, who is a many times over IPSC world champion.  Para is paying Blackwater for the usa of their facilities.  That’s the extent of the relationship, despite some folks attem...

According to The Firearms Blog even the Canadians will be able to get them.  This version will be chambered in 5.56mm NATO and will take STANAG mags.  Will they be available here?  Or are they not considered “sporting purposes” enough? ...

...proud owner of The dreaded .50 caliber 'assault pistol'.It may be time for him to change is alias....

Looks like we have a new World Steel Challenge Champion from the Army Marksmanship Team.  Mr. Completely scored 24th of 84.  Not too bad for an international competition! ...

Back in April, Syd announced that he was Taking a Break from blogging. With 24 posts so far this month, it appears that the break is over. In case you have not guessed, this weeks Sunday Blog of The Week is...Front Sight, PressSyd is one of my favorites. He is an authority on the 1911, and strong supporter of our right to keep and bear arms.Recent ...

I feel Michael's pain ...just got home and am now dealing with catastrophic failure on my main computer...dead as a freakin' brick...well, doesn't that just suck? Yes, Mike, it does. It really does....

Well, today I shot the State Championships for NRA Airgun Silhouette which was held at My Club in Falls Township, Pennsylvania.  We’re loacated just north of Philadelphia, and do an NRA sanctioned airgun match every Thursday evening starting at 6PM in summers, and an unsanctioned indoor air/smallbore silhouette match during the winter months...

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Tonight's send off for our talented shooter heading off to Virginia was a blast. The Silverado was fired up early for the drive East to Oz. It was a nice drive, window down, the temps being cool for August, though my Dad called and said it was 100 degrees in Missoula. Pink Floyd on the stereo, and a day with friends. After meeting the blog group ...

See page 48 here:We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition, and we will preserve Americans' Second Amendment right to own and use firearms. We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together...

See this:Just hours before Mr Medvedev put his signature to the ceasefire deal, Russian forces blew up a Georgian railway bridge on the main line west of the capital, Tbilisi, an act that critics interpreted as a malacious attempt to cripple the country's infrastructure. Moscow at first issued a denial, but television footage shot by the Reuters ne...

All weekend sans the web since Charter is boogered. Seems it’s boogered statewide. So, no blog for you. Blogged from my crackberry. ...

Below is a video clip of an Austrian 2mm pinfire revolver.  And I though the Springfield XD 40 Subcompact was a small gun… Tags: humor, Revolver, Video Clips Related Articles How To Prevent All Gun Related Crime Video Clip Yet Another Handgun Shooting In Oak Park - Despite the Handgun Ban Wrongful Gun Confiscation After Hurricane...

Well, eight children is a lot fewer than 440 children. The difference could hardly be more dramatic, but possibly the Child Protective Services felt that they had to do something to save face. After two months one would think that CPS would have had time to build a very strong case, but if CPS loses on these few cases, it will really show an agen...

Thanks to Wade Price for sending me this link....

For your "Only Ones" listening pleasure.The "good stuff" starts at around 4:20.I SAID SIGN THE GODDAMN THING AND SIGN IT NOW!Background here.Hush now. Don't say anything extreme.[Via Carl S]...

We've talked about the Blue Trail Range before, or at least about tinkling there.TJH sends an update:Part of Blue Trail has been reopened, much to the disappointment of the editors of the Hartford Courant.Information has been sparse, and I didn't want to comment without knowing more. My club includes a member who is a Connecticut State Trooper. Whe...

The Albany Police Department either destroyed records or failed to document its internal investigation of the illegal purchase of machine guns by dozens of Albany police officers and at least one civilian...[Th]e documents show there were apparently 52 machine guns purchased, and that at least nine are missing...The scandal was kept quiet by the po...

The guy gets caught red-handed and then flat-out lies about it being a prop, but he's allowed to board his plane and, according to this anyway, can get his gun back if he attends a hearing.All I want to make sure is that these same privileges and immunities will be recognized for me, too. And you.Of course, I also don't get people of exceptional s...

Bond was lowered by $500,000 Friday for a Gurnee cop accused of sexually assaulting two young girls and holding a man at gunpoint in separate incidents.Uh...why?[More from "The Only Ones" Files]...

Blackwater Worldwide announced its support of AB2498, proposed legislation that would prevent prohibited persons from unlawful access to and possession of firearms.This legislation would serve to hold all responsible firearms training facilities to a common standard, allow training of responsible citizens, and, hopefully, reduce firearms capabiliti...

[T]he Martinsburg City Council voted Thursday to approve an amended ordinance prohibiting weapons in city buildings.Check out their logo....

These packages contain the clothing and other necessaries of Major French, Ensign Rotton, and Cadet McDermott, three officers of the Ministerial Troops, and their two servants, who having lately fallen within our District are made prisoners of war, and sent from hence for his Excellency General Washington’s camp, upon their parole to surrender th...

Myself - I can just say. Who are the militia? If it is my home, my body, my freedom being threatened, then frankly, the militia is ME. The power of my weapon is not, at that moment in time, within the order of my life as it is lived at that moment, with the Government. It is where it should be always be, God willing, in my hands, trained and ready ...

Outback Notes has a good piece on the .38 Special: Never having been afflicted with magnumitis I have always found the .38 Special a useful and admirable cartridge. Even my .357s digest far more .38 loadings than magnums. Where handguns have any usefulness at all in "varmint control"— and they certainly do— the .38 will accomplish ju...

Dick discusses the case of Obama in comparison to the election of Jim Doyle as governor in Wisconsin in 2002. Doyle promises to keep the rights of the gun holders were enough to make people ignore the NRA warning and vote for him. I don’t know if many gun holders are about to ignore the issue of gun policy and vote for Obama, I just kno...

Those lucky Canadians will be able to purchase the Norinco Type 97 later this year. Type 97A. Click to expand. The Type 97 is the civilian export version of the QBZ-97 rifle, which in turn is the export version of the 5.8×42mm QBZ-95. It is chambered in 5.56×45mm and takes STANAG magazines. Looking at the photo I think it has a 20″...

The blogger who blogs at THEATRUM BELLI, a french blog, has put together a very good flicker photoset with over 600 photos. Well worth checking out. There are a few interesting photos of the Abkhazians militia. Checkout the camo. Abkhazian paramilitaries are seen at a position near the village of Azhara, in Kodori Gorge, in the Georgian breakaway ...

The blog has been moved to the new server. The server is a VPS (Virtual Private Server) which requires the entire server be setup by manually. There is a good chance I have forgot to configure. I would appreciate an email if you find something not working. I do know about the problem with some characters not showing up correctly in the blog posts. ...