I’ve heard of a few cases in which a citizen is in their own home when an violent intruder breaks in, and that citizen is counseled not to use their gun in self defense as the attacker comes at them.  This is simply wrong: One example is this 911 call, in which a previously violent stalker [...]...

Palm Beach, FloridaFrom the Palm Beach Post of September 14, 2008Man defends family, kills suspect during liquor store robbery attemptA man defended his family and father-in-law's liquor store Sunday night, shooting and killing a would-be armed robber, said sheriff's officials and family members.Yamen Fattah stopped an armed man with a fatal shot s...

Firearms and Freedom notices that Sarah Palin looks like an ordinary person.  I think it’s interesting, but if you look at some of the parallels, she’s not completely unlike Teddy Roosevelt.  TR overshadowed McKinley on the ticket.  Given McCain’s age, it’s not out of the realm of possibility she could end up assuming the...

By Scott Seibert Recently, Buckeye Firearms Association became aware of a proposed ordinance in Kingston Township (northeast Delaware County) that would seek to limit excessive noise from a multitude of sources. There were concerns in the firearms community that this ordinance was some sort of stealth gun control, as firearms discharges would appar...

By Gerard Valentino Barack Obama is on the campaign trail touting his support for the Second Amendment as an individual right to bear arms - a laughable assertion by a candidate who has tried to reshape himself as a moderate liberal once he secured the Democratic nomination for president. Luckily, for gun owners, Obama is more concerned with power...

The Other Sebastian points to a forensic technique that’s been used to jail a lot of problem.  The problem is, it’s totally bogus. ...

It’s a giant shit sandwich, and we’re all going to have to take a bite.  After this all runs its ugly course, we need to make sure the government gets out of the mortage business completely.  It never should have been in it in the first place.  Thanks FDR! ...

The airforce seems to be getting closer to having a workable chemical laser system.  This is good, but a key feature of a useable defense system will have to include a laser that can refire in a short amount of time.  These types of COIL lasers aren’t really of that variety. Of course, we have come quite a long way since the days of Ronald ...

Tyler Cowen has explain to his mother why the price of gas is high because of Ike, and why that’s not a bad thing.  Sadly, it’s not just Tyler’s mother, but a lot of the politicians who run this country that need this basic lesson in economics. ...

Uncle's got himself a new look. Man, every gun related web site needs to hire his designer....

Worried about your memory? A new study says to avoid meet-free diet:Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage. . . . ...

Well, do ya? Thanks to Robb for the site redesign! And use him for all your gun blogging template needs. And if you notice anything quirky, lemme know. Update: Still working some bugs out. ...

and pulled a .380-caliber “semi-automatic” silver handgun via NJ.com ...

The new SiteMeter rolled out this morning was, um, less than stellar. To their credit, they’re rolling back. ...

Roomie cooked up an excellent bowl of breakfast-type vittles and we spent the afternoon watching Collateral.RobertaX hadn't seen it and was unfamiliar with Michael Mann, and so it was fun watching someone really enjoy this lush, beautiful piece of eye candy for the first time. I'd forgotten just what a pretty movie it was...Still haven't hooked up ...

Ya know what strikes me in all this reaction to Palin? This is the first time in my 46 years that I’ve seen a candidate for POTUS or VPOTUS that actually looks like a real human being. All of the others all had the aura of a veiled aristocracy.  - Comment at The Volokh Conspiracy. Sarah Palin personifies the claim that anyone can grow up to...

And neither do stoned people without guns TAMPA - A 26-year-old woman called 911 Sunday morning and told the operator that if she had an AK-47 assault rifle, "she would stick it in the 911 operator's mouth and shoot it," according to a Tampa police criminal arrest affidavit. Police responded to the false 911 call shortly after 7 a.m. and found Kha...

I spent several hours today at the local GOP office making calls for the McCain/Palin campaign. If you have never done it, it is a pretty painless way to get involved, the worst I had was a bunch of people hanging up on me. We were doing a short survey, asking if people were going to vote for McCain/Palin, making sure supporters would have absentee...

This week I am going to highlight a blogger that I have met in person, Don Gwinn.Don won the 11th spot to the Gun Bloggers Summer Camp at Blackwater, and that announcement is where I first learned of his blog. Don writes with a humor and grounding in common sense that makes him easy to read. Don is also a Middle School teacher stuck in Illinois. ...

Four-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode’s cherished shotgun has been stolen. Rhode’s specially fitted, 12 gauge over under MX-12 Perazzi was taken by thieves who broke into her father’s parked truck as she and her mother stopped to do some shopping. The shotgun was hidden under a blanket in the back seat of the [...]...

Been out. Not reading the internets. Checked the bloglines account with over 600 unread. Said screw it and marked it all read. Miss anything important? Well, other than ABC trying to win an election? And that gas in East Tennessee is one hundred billion dollars per gallon. ...

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Kurita no longer in the good ol’ boys club. ...

Another grant and yet more years being spent on development of so-called smart guns that only allow a particular person to use them.The Department of Justice has awarded a $254,889 federal grant to the New Jersey Institute of Technology so the Newark university can continue developing its child-proof "smart gun" technology, members of New Jersey's ...

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I’m glad Ilya Somin has clarified that he’s sympathetic to the idea that voters do have a moral duty to be informed, even if they are, as he has suggested, rationally ignorant of politics.  I think voters do have some obligation to be informed, but my bar is not set very high.  When I think about a voter’s moral obligations, I h...

ABC News edited key parts of Charlie Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin.  Now, I’m not a professional journalist, but I would think if you need to edit a segment for length, you cut out questions, along with the answers.  It appears to me that all the answers that reflected the depth of her understanding of issues ended up on the cut...

THE "NEW AND IMPROVED SITEMETER". I don't want slow-loading, obfuscated pie charts. I want to click and navigate easily and directly to my visitors and those blogs that refer others to me. I think they are trying to be more like Google Analytics without the ease of use and friendliness. UPDATE: I got Stat-Counter. It's free, pretty fast an...

LabRat on Palin, here:I would have liked her well enough without it, but the media frothing frenzy has been just about enough to turn me into a rock-ribbed pro-life evangelical just out of sheer and unmitigated spite....

Ian Branson finally gets Bob Barr to address the question we've been asking, and the tap-dancing and obfuscation begins. Telling the audience how he improved a bad bill hardly addressed his assertion that Lautenberg "is strong protection for women and children," or his claim that his amending language kept it from being "declared unconstitutional."...

Tampa - A man who lost control of his car on State Road 60 and later decided to lie down in the road was run over and killed about 6 a.m. today. The cops are at a loss here Investigators did not know why Gilchrist decided to lay in the road, the accident report said. I'll give you a hint - It's a word that starts with D and ends with RUGS. Write ...

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Friday night when I was a guest on The Michael Dukes Show, a caller asked about AARP's stance on guns.I had to admit I'd heard they'd adopted some anti-gun policies and that their executive leadership was trying to downplay that, but needed to do some checking around to be more specific. I promised Michael I'd get that info to him for next week's s...

When Gene Angelino pulled a motorist over for a parking violation Wednesday night, he broke the first rule of impersonating a police officer:Don't pull over a real officer.I never understood the compulsion some otherwise inconsequential men have for donning a uniform and presuming authority over others. Conversely, I think we all should wannabe "On...

"I have to admit, it's a major issue, women passing through here in that dress code," Simon Weisser, a member of Community Board 1 in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, told The Post."It bothers me, and it bothers a lot of people." Yeah, well, too bad, Simon. I have about as much sympathy for you as I do the Somali meatpackers....