As reported, the armed robberies in Oak Park, Illinois are increasing, despite the more than 20-year-old handgun ban: Two criminals robbed a man in a parking lot on the 500 block of South Austin around 6:45am on August 15th. The first robber pulled a handgun and struck the man across the face. The other pulled the [...]...

pdf here. How they reconcile with the GCA 68 definition of firearm as the receiver (so that manufacture = making the receiver) is beyond me. By their definition, a person who assembles receivers to other components is also a manufacturer, as is a gunsmith who regularly sporterizes military guns into hunting rifles....

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A podcast of Sonya Jones' interview on KIRO with Dori Monson is here....

Testosterone is apparently the key difference.BEIJING — No matter what happens in the men’s marathon here Sunday, one thing is all but certain. The winner will run the 26.2-mile course faster than the winner of the women’s marathon last Sunday.The woman who won, Constantina Tomescu of Romania, was fast, of course, finishing the race in 2 hour...

The Politico has this story:John McCain was spared some potentially embarrassing legal trouble early Thursday afternoon, when the Federal Election Commission voted unanimously to let his presidential campaign out of the primary election public financing system.The vote takes the air out of Democrats’ claims that McCain, the presumptive Republican...

Most of us have arrived at the Norfolk staging area (The Hampton Inn) and are getting settled in for the night.Sailorcurt has outdone himself in the art of being neighborly. Curt met us at the airport with a large enough van to handle us and our luggage, drove us to dinner at the Lone Star Steakhouse, and then delivered us all safe and sound to the...

Hanover, PennsylvaniaFrom the August 20, 2008 York [Penn.] Daily Record: On June 28, only two days after the Supreme Court announced its 5-4 ruling that Washington, D.C., citizens have the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to the Constitution, I found myself standing in a pool of blood in York, from a man I had just shot. It was not my ...

Home after four very long days and several thousand miles. In this trip of discovery I found out two things. (1) I REALLY missed cooking my own dinners and (2) I think that painting by Heironymus Bosch I saw once at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice was really a depiction of the lower level A Concourse at Dulles. Dinner. . . then a long sleep. T...

Bryan Miller seems to be taking the Mary McFate thing pretty hard.  I can’t really blame the anti-gun folks who feel betrayed.  I mean, imagine if you found out SayUncle was really a mole for Sarah Brady.  But none of us are really pissed at NRA over the whole “spy” incident, and it has nothing to do with wanting to preserve gu...

On the ground in Ohio. Think that’s officially yankee country. ...

As reported, a 37-year-old Cleveland, Ohio woman was shot in the pelvis inside her home Monday night when a Highland Hills officer’s gun was unintentionally discharged.  The injured woman, Richetta Ballou of East 73rd Street, was flown by helicopter to Huron Hospital, where she underwent surgery. Charles Golsten, 24, was reportedly attemptin...

My friend Sparrow is having her weekly Haiku contest and both myself and fellow Home on the Range blog rollers and friends, William the Coroner, Julie, Christine and Jean are finalists. Voting through tonight at http://chromedcurses.com/allatwitter/ This weeks topic "POWER". A Haiku is a three line poem (not rhyming) that consists of 5 syllables,...

I’m in my hotel suite in Norfolk.  I figured a suite would be good if other bloggity types wanted to come over.  It was also all they had left.  I’ll be having dinner with an old friend, then hitting the hotel bar if anyone wants to join.  At least I hope this hotel has a bar.  Not to worry, though.  I do have a backup plan. Tomor...

Well, at least to Norfolk. Ahab and I, of course, said hello and went right to our laptops. I totally failed to scope out Virginia's gun laws. Hopefully I don't end up in a cell somewhere....

Sebastian and I spoke while he was headed down to the tip of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He promised me that he would take photos of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge & Tunnel system since I have never seen it, and I was looking forward to it. He also mentioned that it was apparent he crossed some kind of weather system line since it very suddenly g...

About to board the plane. Looking forward to seeing some friends and meeting new ones. ...

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It focuses on Heller as a debate of source materials. Dellinger considers Heller as a win for Gura and Scalia. Gura for his abilities and arguments, and Scalia for the opportunity to write such a big and important opinion on a subject that hadn’t really been addressed. Found via Orin Kerr. ...

Buckeye Firearms Association is proud to announce that we have been named the "2007 Volunteer Organization of the Year" by the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA). The announcement was made in the August 2008 issue of The EVC Update, the Official Publication for the NRA-ILA's national army of Election Volunteer Co...

This video clip is one of the most compelling personal accounts about guns and self defense that I have ever seen. Texas state representative Dr. Suzanna Gratia-Hupp’s parents were killed by an insane gunman while her gun was out in the car - left there because of the laws restricting concealed carry at that [...]...

Harris County, TexasFrom the Houston Chronicle of August 21, 2008NW Harris County store owner fatally shoots robberConfronted with a pistol and bound with duct tape, the owner of a northwest Harris County store decided not to quietly submit and hope his attacker would show mercy.The businessman worked himself free, got his own gun and killed the ro...

Greetings from Bridgeville, Delaware. Home of Ralph and Paul Adams Scrapple company, and a former employer of mine (long story). Just making my way down the Delmarva. Should arrive in Norfolk in a few hours. ...

Blake Dvorak from the WSJ's Political Diary:Reasons for the McCain Surge? Republicans (not Independents and Democrats)One surprising finding in last week's Pew Research poll on the presidential election is that Sen. John McCain has stronger support among Republican voters than Sen. Barack Obama does among Democratic voters. Since June, Mr. McCain h...

A developer in Connecticut is not stopping at anything to try and shut down Blue Trail Gun Range. First, they were sued over bullets supposedly hitting houses. Only they weren’t. But, the range went ahead and addressed some safety concerns and made changes. Then the complaining party brought in family to use the strong arm of government an...

Check out this article by Gary Reed on Saturday Night Assault Specials: . . . If, as history reports, assault weapons were developed for assault troops to assault enemies with, what are self-defense......

I’ve now got all of the feeds set up and running at the Blog Bash website for those looking for more robust blog coverage of the Para USA blogger training. Since the site still primarily serves as an event planning site not meant to show a ton of posts, I have set up a category page which will feature all of the posts with excerpts so you can...

. Interestingly, economics tends to have the largest absolute increase in salary over one's career. It seems like there is an interesting economics question about to what extent the higher salaries are due to being more difficult majors and the students being smarter and the value added from the major....

In a short time I'll be on the plane for the Blackwater shooting facility, to meet with the other gun bloggers who won the Para Ordinance competition and will also be training there. Blogging will be light for a few days, tho I may be able to post some pics and relate the experience. I hear they ordered in 1,000 to 1,500 rounds per person.......

47 years for six stolen identities.A 1400 SAT, a Stolen Identity, and Now a Guilty Plea From a Former Columbia StudentA woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to stealing the identity of a missing woman in order to attend Columbia University, the Associated Press reported.Esther Elizabeth Reed, who is 30, faces up to 47 years in prison and $1-million in f...

Microsoft has hired Jerry Seinfeld for $10 million to help with Vista's image problems. Yet, Seinfeld is a reported a Mac user....

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Blackwater here I come. I am packed and ready to go, just waiting on my ride to the airport.Three days of training with one of the best, Todd Jarrett. 1500 rounds of .45 ACP and a ParaUSA PXT LDA Single Stack Tac-S to put them through is waiting for me in North Carolina.I can't wait. Thanks again for voting me into this adventure!...

Remember when I said I always forget something? Well, I forgot the manufacturer’s original packing for some ammo. Feh. Now, I gotta make another stop. And you can track blog posts on the Para event via this handy aggregator. ...

After Walter WIlliams' column this week on my book, Eugene Hiller, a former member of the Alumni Board for the University of Buffalo wrote his:I am surprised you know about the University of Buffalo. I was on the Alumni Board when it happened; Rockefeller was Governor.They ccame to us and said as you wrote: "We will put a low cost State U. next to ...