In many areas, anti gun rights politicians and organizations have mandated waiting periods before a gun can be purchased.  They argue that his will provide time for an angry person to “cool off” so that they don’t go buy a gun and commit a crime, and that this time is needed to run a background [...]...

As someone who has been around academics, this is not particularly surprising. Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman. The Republican party's cynical calculation that because she has a womb and makes lots and lots of babies (and drives them to school! wow!) she speaks for the women of America, and will capture their hearts a...

By Chris Chumita Howard Nemerov is the author of the book Four Hundred Years Of Gun Control...Why Isn't It Working? and numerous pro-gun articles. Over the past few years, his research has given gun owners the ammunition necessary to intelligently argue that gun control does not make society safer and exposed the lies behind the gun-grabber’s st...

This is unprecedented as far I know of. There are actually laws against even US Senators interfere with US negotiations with foreign countries. The NY Post has this amazing discussion:WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement o...

More details here. Also Quoted at Shotgun World: The gun is an MX-12 Perazzi, serial # 84961. It has Olympic stickers, and world cup stickers on the bottom of the stock, and the stock also has a G-Squared. The stock is also very distinguishable by it’s extreme offset, and a black grip cap, which is there because the stock bolt can only be acc...

Whoopi Goldberg’s question to John McCain was not just asinine race baiting, but it showed a profound lack of knowledge of the Constitution. Yes, the Constitution alludes to slavery in a way that permits it. (U.S. Const. art. I, § II, cl. III) However, despite any shortcomings the Founding Fathers may have had in terms of slavery, they had ...

Story here. John Sigler, NRA president, will shoot in that nationals, prone at 600-1,000 yards. He'll use a 6.5x.284 rifle....

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Yup, back in town, dog tired. The Washington Post reports that the DC City Council is considering a further retreat, to try to avoid Congressional legislation. It may repeal the ban on semiautos, and the requirement that firearms be disassembled or trigger locked. Hat tip to reader Jim Kindred.......

Another Gun Blog points out that the Democratic candidate for governor this year is about as anti-gun as you can get.  Current Governor Ruth Ann Minner was a pro-gun Democrat, with an A-rating from the National Rifle Association, and who signed into law Delaware’s reciprocity bill.  Things in the First State could take a serious turn for th...

This isn’t good news for Obama.  Even Joe Biden knows you can’t win as a Democrat without Pennsylvania.  The last Democrat to win the White House without Pennsylvania?  Harry Truman. ...

“But if you are a law abiding person, why would you be against registering your firearms? Isn’t that the least you could do?” It seems like I get asked this question in every gun related conversation with anti-gun people or even apathetic gun owners (you know the type, they own guns but refuse to believe the Brady types would ever take their ...

h/t the Wood RanchI woke up early this morning to the first nip of Fall in the air. It's always colder here then you''d think, but with October creeping up, I think the summer has finally drifted past us. I love Fall, the air ripe and sharp with the smell of burnished sun on dying leaves, while the faint wisp of chimney smoke from that first fir...

Times of London: ISLAMIC law has been officially adopted in Britain, with sharia courts given powers to rule on Muslim civil cases. The government has quietly sanctioned the powers for sharia judges to rule on cases ranging from divorce and financial disputes to those involving domestic violence.  So what happens when a Muslim tries to sue a non-m...

Looks like while I was on the phone bank, Caleb was out knocking on doors. For information on how you can get involved, johnmccain.com has state by state contact info, which is a good place to start. As Sebastian points out, even if you can’t stand McCain, there are plenty of State and Federal elections that you could get involved with. ...

Several time a year, Lawry's - The Prime Rib, hosts dinners that are based on the beverages that are served with the dinner. These are most often Wine Dinners, but they do build menus around Single Malt Scotches, Bourbons and Tequila. V and I try to make the Wine Dinners as they are fun and educational. At the last dinner we had the opportunity to ...

Peter of Firearms and Freedom points out some easy ways to get involved in the election.  Even if you hate John McCain, there are plenty of downstream candidates worth supporting. ...

Have you noticed that the passage of laws rarely, if ever, results in a net increase in our freedoms? Virtually all of the time, new laws are meant to curtail, contain or control the exercise of our rights into smaller, more manageable circles. That way our freedoms are neatly corralled for the next restriction that makes them even easier to cont...

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You win this round, readership. You have your monkey. ...

At least five of you have emailed to say you miss the monkey. Working on changing the hyperlink color since it strains peoples’ eyeballs. And the mouseover hyperlink effect is on its way out too. The new design loads nice on the crackberry in that the content loads first as opposed to sidebars. Anything else? Update: Better? ...

Quote of the day over at Rustmeister’s. Go check out the whole thing. ...

It was an ok weekend.The Chantilly gun show was a bit of a disappointment. The vendor I wanted to get ammo from wasn't there. In fact, we were pretty thin on the ground with regards to mil-surp and non-mainstream commercial ammo. I have a Swede to feed! I wound up cleaning out the one vendor who had 6.5x55mm Swedish and grabbed some 7.5mm Swiss...

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A few months ago, I set up a discussion forum for LearnAboutGuns.com.  The first goal was to facilitate discussion that was not just directly related to the articles I’ve written, as I can’t possibly think of every gun related topic.  Another goal was to give visitors a place to ask questions, as a question asked [...]...

Thirdpower informs us the 2007 FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) is out and does a little digging already. I'm sure the Brady Campaign is already looking at how to lie with the numbers...

But they'll put out the eye of those who don't have them. "Another resident of the apartment retrieved a shotgun and approached Bowman, who was by then walking away. The resident ordered Bowman to put the knife down," according to the report. Bowman refused and approached the resident, who hit him with the butt of the shotgun, injuring his eye....

Shotgun wins almost every time. ...

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The newest Fox News piece begins this way:Understanding economics has never been a requirement to be a reporter or a politician. With gas prices moving back towards $4 a gallon over the weekend, "price-gouging" seems to again be everyone’s favorite phrase these days. With price of gasoline already being American’s greatest concern, more so than...

BOSTON -- An armored truck driver was arrested Saturday after police said he pointed a gun at another driver. Must be all the special training they receive that make them better at handling firearms than us peons....

The Brady Campaign can’t win when the truth is told. So, they lie: Among other things, it would allow people to carry loaded assault weapons on city streets. Teenagers and children would be allowed to carry assault and sniper rifles, as the bill repeals all age restrictions on the possession of long guns. And that, of course, is total crap. U...

The WaPo: The council proposal does not give residents blanket approval to own semiautomatic pistols, which have become the most popular kinds of handguns. It would ban magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds. It also would repeal a regulation barring a gun owner from registering more than one pistol. In addition, the legislation would do ...

This is very cool, but I worry it’s going to prompt ATF to reclassify the Saiga shotguns as destructive devices.  Generally speaking, anything with a barrel diameter over one-half inch is considered a destructive device.  Shotguns are regulated under 27 CFR § 479.11: any type of weapon by whatever name known which will, or which may be re...

Colorado Springs, ColoradoFrom the September 14, 2008 Denver Post:A man who came to the home of two women whom he had threatened to decapitate with a knife received a blow to the head that could cost him an eye, according to Colorado Springs police. Russell Bowman, who claims to be an atheist, threatened the women because they are Christian on Sept...