In a community newspaper, Maryland State Senator Ulysses Currie called the Supreme Court “blind to [the] consequences” of the recent District of Columbia. v. Heller decision, in which gun ownership for self defense was determined to be an individual right, independent of militia service.  Senator Currie, who is not an attorney himself,...

By Chad D. Baus Writing about the victims of crime can be a sensitive business. The practice is done by the pro-Second Amendment community out of a desire to learn from others' experiences, and yet at times it is easy, when viewing media accounts of the events, to perceive victims' stories more as fictional case studies than for what they actually...

By John Longenecker The Very First Personal Burden Goes Unaddressed By Candidates. What is it about Guns? . . a question addressed by many except Presidential Candidates where the subject seems to be Verboten. Here's a new wrinkle: As the 2008 Presidential Candidates remain mute or vague on Liberty questions, especially in light of the recent Supre...

Crack kills. ...

Applies more to pistol shooters, but here goes: If you know the Spanish words for Chicken, Pig, Turkey and Ram, you might be a silhouette shooter. If you worry that you might taco grip your carry gun if you ever got mugged, you might be a silhouette shooter. If your idea of rapid fire is one shot every 15 seconds, you might be a silhouette shooter...

8 minutes until the show. Sleep... calling......

I've added a Twitter Widget to the sidebar for those of you who may be interested in following everything that will be going on this weekend at Blackwater with Todd Jarrett and ParaUSA. I'll be posting small updates with Twitter as I can, then blogging in the evening.It was your votes that sent me there, I will do my best to keep you up to date....

Now that it’s a confirmed hoax, it’s funny, I have to admire the hoaxsters a bit.  Taking advantage of people’s desire to believe — to just believe, man — is kind of a crappy thing to do except to people who deserve it.  This happened in Pennsylvania not too long ago, despite the fact that Pennsylvania Game Commisssi...

With regard the Demo platform acknowledgment that "What works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne," it's worth noting that: "This election season, for instance, the residents of Obama's hometown are being murdered at a clip not seen in five years. Murders have risen 18 percent over a year ago. Assaults in the city involving guns are also rising....

Here is an amusing story from the Lithgow Mercury in Australia:Climate change may be THE hot international issue of the moment but enthusiasm for the cause clearly wanes on a freezing Friday afternoon when the campaign moves to a mountain top where the wind chill factor is below zero.This was perhaps the predictably disappointing outcome when the G...

On June 20th I wrote Senator Hutchison an email. I can't remember if I followed this email up with a fax, I do not believe that I did.Today I got a response:Dear Mr. *JR*:Thank you for contacting me regarding gun control in the District of Columbia. I welcome your thoughts and comments on this issue.The District of Columbia -- through the Firearms ...

Gun shows will continue at Cow Palace, since the bill to prohibit them was defeated in the California Senate.  According to John Rosenthal, there will be terrorists in caves in Pakistan who will cheer this ruling. ...

Press release here. Of course, they're opposed. I wonder if they see the incongruity of one section of their press release, considering that they pushed "gun free school zones" on the claim they were needed to protect children: "“It is a myth that ‘gun-free schools’ somehow make our children more vulnerable,” said Brady Center President...

This week the company I work for is going through an ISO 14000 audit. ISO 14000 is a series of internationally accepted standards for an Environmental Management System. ISO 14000 requires that a company consider the environmental aspects of it's operation. We make car parts. Our customers require suppliers to be ISO 14000 certifies, we are obt...

Not content to just be quoted fibbing, John Rosenthal spews his lies in person at the Huff. I'd sign up and get an account, but there's toenail lint that needs to be picked....

Walter's entire piece can be seen here:By taking a couple of courses in economic theory, we could immunize ourselves from nonsense spouted by politicians and pundits, but in the meantime check out Professor John R. Lott's "Freedomnomics: Why the Free Market Works."His first chapter is "Are You Being Ripped Off?" It addresses myths about predation w...

Especially when they are wielding revolvers.  I would note that despite the Brady Campaign’s celebration of reasonable gun laws, they did everything they could to prevent people in DC from having the tools necessary to defend their homes. ...

The Chronicle of Higher Education notes this:Law-Schools Meeting Finds a Way to Deal With Boycott ThreatThe Association of American Law Schools may have found a way out of a sticky situation. The association had contracted with the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, in San Diego, several years ago to hold its annual meeting there next January. But The S...

There comes a time in every man’s life, I think, when he must look back upon his home town, and be deeply ashamed. ...

Heller received a permit for his .22 revolver in Washington DC. Hopefully he also plans to register a revolver of a more substantial caliber, but a .22 in hand is better than a .45 locked up in his......

I like the way David is thinking here. ...

That’s brilliant. This whole mole at NRA thing can be used against CeaseFire PA. Think they’d drop it knowing that dirty laundry about their homophobic, bigoted board member who advocated violence could come to light? ...

Townie 76 writes about Stupid People at the range....

John Fund at the WSJ's Political Diary:Obama's Abortion Position? It's a One-liner. . . Mr. Obama eroded many of those gains [with pro-life voters] last Saturday when he told Pastor Rick Warren during a nationally televised forum that deciding when the rights of personhood should be extended to the unborn was "above my pay grade." Even Doug Kmiec,...

… if politicians actually were armed and ready to duel. ...

want to be the ones to drop it?...

One in Texas, which might be perhaps the oldest shooting club in the United States, and one in update New York.  Both are smallbore/airgun clubs, but hey, you can have a good time with both.  The Texas Club, New Braunfels Schuetzen Verein, has been in existence since 1849.  If they are indeed the oldest club, it’s interesting to ponder wha...

You can get into some deep doodoo up there Mississippi doctor was released from Sarnia jail after posting $20,000 on border gun charge A Mississippi doctor was released from Sarnia jail Monday after posting $20,000 bail on a gun charge. The 66-year-old doctor was held in custody for 12 days after a loaded .38-calibre revolver was found in his ve...

A short but truly “priceless” video clip about self defense: Tags: Criminal, Self Defense, Shotgun, Victim, Video Clips Related Articles Wrongful Gun Confiscation After Hurricane Katrina Video Clip What the “Assault Weapon” Bans Really Prohibit The Proper Ammunition for Home Defense The Danger of Gun Control Vid...

North Texas School District Allows Teachers to Carry Guns in School Kim Priestap at Wizbang: The Harold Indpendent School District in North Texas is the first district in the nation to allow their teachers to carry guns for protection. My first reaction to this was it's about time... In order for teachers and staff to carry a pistol, they m...

Right here. Tho I am a bit suspicious of the claim that they frequently practice with weapons (80% practicing, average 23 times a year). A big city gang banger is going to be hard put to find open countryside in which to shoot. I note they only studied 43 offenders, so perhaps the results should be taken with a bit of salt....

Beam Global Spirits & Wine (NYSE:FO) of Deerfield, Ill., partnered with a research firm to survey 100 bartenders in the D.C. area to find the drinking preferences of the competing political parties. . . .Just a warning to begin with, I wonder whether these results tell us more about the political preferences of the bartenders than their patrons...

As I’ve previously mentioned, crime in England has skyrocketed since their passage of strict gun control laws.  The criminals still shoot innocent citizens, and gun smugglers bring illegal guns into the UK just as illegal drugs are imported.  The criminals who are willing to commit violent crimes such as murder are just as willing to [...]...

John Rosenthal, the millionaire founding director of AHSA (he resigned last year after his antigun connections became a little too publicized) has taken out a billboard that is a fake gun store front proclaiming "We Sell Guns! No ID required. No background checks. Criminals and terrorists welcome!" "Gun shows are the equivalent of Al Qaeda terror...

Horsley says the store's current case against the B-A-T-F is still in process, but he says the store is moving forward anyway.Cutting ribbons is easy. Chains take longer....