An interesting phenomenon with revolvers was discussed by Tam: High recoil causing subsequent rounds to disassemble from weak crimps. Essentially, the recoil acts like a bullet-pulling hammer and causes the bullet to separate from the remaining rounds in the cylinder.  Another revolver malfunction was reported by a caller to last Sunday’s G...

As reported, a Kingsport, TN concealed carry permit holder was driving home when a car in front of him started weaving back and forth, blocking the road.  The driver of that car then stopped his car in the middle of the road, exited his vehicle, and began yelling at the concealed carry permit holder.  The [...]...

Great piece by Rick Newman. Please read the entire piece here.Hooray for Chrysler’s Rogue CreditorsMay 01, 2009 10:46 AM ET | Rick Newman | Permanent Link | PrintOne rap against President Obama is that he never gets mad. The Chrysler bankruptcy may have proven otherwise.When Obama singled out “investment firms and hedge funds” that wouldn’...

The disarmament of a society can happen without taking away their tools of resistance, but by taking away the very will to resist in the first place. If you give a pacifist a gun, you can still kill him with a baseball bat. He won’t shoot you, won’t raise his hands against you, won’t defend his own miserable life. He will stand th...

Now you can use your iPhone to help put the panic in pandemic!Calling all iPhone owners anxious about the spread of swine flu: A potential app, the Swine Flu Tracker, may be on the way.The Swine Flu Tracker, still pending approval from Apple, would be free.That's good, because you'd feel like a real rube a few months down the road if you'd actually...

Last September, I wrote a monograph e-book about how liberty nuts can reach the electorate with a niche waiting in Americans longing to get out from under bigger government. It centered around how the liberty purist can join the high-speed media in a... ...

Last September, I wrote a monograph e-book about how liberty nuts can reach the electorate with a niche waiting in Americans longing to get out from under bigger government. It centered around how the liberty purist can join the high-speed media in a... ...

… is a good offense.  Even if ATF reform is going to be tremedously difficult to get through The House, given the anti-gun leadership there, we can get people on record in the Senate, and that will be worthwhile.  I will be watching Senator Specter very closely on this one.  Will he sign on to the bill? ...

At the range last weekend I was shooting just a couple lanes over from a gunwriter who had a few T&E handguns out for play. During a break in my shooting, he set one of the handguns in front of me, a menacing black S&W 310 Night Guard, along with two full moonclips of 10mm JHP ammunition.I don't know the back story on the individual revolve...

Reason is reporting that the FDA has plans to ban electronic cigarettes. They deliver nicotine without smoke, combustion products, or the other stuff that causes cancer. Because: Our concern is that this might introduce nonusers to nicotine use Nicotine is, generally, not a major health concern. That’s why it’s mostly OK to use nicotin...

... and I are volunteering to help with the American Cancer Society's Relay For Life event here in Arlington. Maybe a more accurate statement would be that V is volunteering, and I am going to hang out with my Sweetie.What is Relay For Life?Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society’s signature activity. It offers everyone in a community an op...

SAF reports: The Second Amendment Foundation, The Calguns Foundation and four California residents today filed a lawsuit challenging a California state law and regulatory scheme that arbitrarily bans handguns based on a roster of â??certifiedâ? handguns approved by the State. This case parallels a similar case filed in Washington, DC, Hanson v....

Brownells 3rd Annual Gunsmith Career Fair Recap Brownells - -(AmmoLand.com)- 3rd Annual Gunsmith Career Fair was a huge success. The event was held on April 17 and 18, 2009, at The Meadows Convention Center at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona, Iowa, and Brownells in Montezuma. The weather cooperated and attendees were able spend t...

This is an interesting claim here: “The NRA doesn’t run this facility,” he said. “Our mission is education and outdoor recreation. We are not politically motivated. The NRA doesn’t underwrite us. They don’t fund our operations in any way.” What?  What’s wrong with pointing out that it’s funded through the NRA Foundation, ...

At gunpundit: Are they saying that someone who is going to break a protection order to commit murder will change their mind because they cannot legally carry a concealed weapon? ...

I’m not persuaded by this Pajamas Media article that bases a lot of its finding on “ATF official said.”   ATF officials have a great incentive to play up the Mexican gun problem, because Congress has been willing to open the funding spigot full blast in order to help combat the problem. I’ve seen this political tactic play...

Howard Nemerov brings us part II of his series on the VPC’s finances. Two people perform most of VPC’s public outreach: Executive Director Josh Sugarman and Legislative Director Kristen Rand. Between 2003 and 2007, as revenues decreased 49.9%, both Sugarman’s and Rand’s salaries increased 5.9%. But because revenues decreased, these two...

The choice should be mine, not that of some boot-faced politically-correct police officer anxious to maintain his monopoly of force - and anxious to ensure that his idea of the law should be the only one available. [More]Exactly.The writer is one of those guys who alternately makes me cheer and then in the next sentence makes me want to slap my for...

Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine on Tuesday ordered an investigation into the process used by the Virginia Fusion Center to create its 2009 terrorism threat assessment after critics complained the report unfairly targeted academic institutions and minority groups. [More]Lord knows our institutions of higher learning are crucibles of patriotism, plus we ...

Attendees and sellers at a weekend gun show got a visit from the tax man that some said was unusual, unexpected and unwanted. [More]Not to mention intentionally chilling. Guess if you can't get 'em one way, you get 'em another.He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their sub...

No due process required Say Unlce: A bill in TN to require someone subject to an order of protection for domestic violence relinquish their firearms has advanced in the senate. That’s right. No conviction, no jury of peers, just an order of protection based on one person’s word over another. Uncle wrote previously about the automatic revocation...

Dave Hardy tells us about some perspective on allowing crews to arm themselves against pirates from someone in the Insurance business.  It’s interesting about the crewman suing Maersk for failing to provide a safe work environment.  As much as I wish this would change things, it’s one of the reasons so few merchant vessels are registe...

Michael Bane has an article on training with smallbore and “even airsoft guns.” I can tell you from personal experience that shooting air guns will make you a better all around shooter, and these days there’s a lot of air gun sports.   You have Action Airgun which use airsoft guns, and is a good substitute for IPSC/IDPA.  You c...

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...my thoughts on the Swine Flu Fear Pandemic.Tarrant County has taken a very proactive stand against the Swine Flu breakout, some would say too proactive seeing as how there are only 5 confirmed cases and 21 probable cases of the Swine Flu in the county.Right now all Fort Worth and Cleburne ISD schools are closed for at least a week. One of the la...

Weaver Raises the Optics Bar With New Super Slam Series Scopes & Binos ONALASKA, Wis. – -(AmmoLand.com)- Weaver®, one of the most trusted names in Optics, rings and bases and an industry mainstay for over 75 years, announces their new Super Slam™ series (MSRP: $555.49 – $869.95). This new line of elite riflescopes and binoculars is ...

4 California Residents Filed A Lawsuit Challenging Ca Gun Law SAF, Calguns Foundation Challenges California Handgun Ban Scheme. BELLEVUE, WA and REDWOOD CITY, CA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation, The Calguns Foundation and four California residents today filed a lawsuit challenging a California state law and regulatory scheme...

In "A Person of Interest," we saw the way a man who killed two deputies was being tied in with militias and veterans.And now, as Paul Harvey would say, is "the rest of the story."From a source:Cartwright was a former contract security guard who had provided ARMED gate security for Hurlburt Field AFB. He had applied to join the GS civilian ARMED gua...

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Cara has a MUST-read blog entry this morning. Rahm Emanuel said that one should never waste a good crisis, and since then, there’s been an ambient fear in the air, amplified by the dismal earnings reports and a stock market that just won’t gain traction.I started to think about what started this mess. Where did we get the idea that there was a ...

Armed and Safe is Giving credit where it's due: Montana's Governor Schweitzer does the right thing.A similar bill, HB 1863, has been introduced here in Texas. HB 1863, a bill Relating to exempting the intrastate manufacture of a firearm, a firearm accessory, or ammunition from federal regulation was considered in a public hearing on the 27th and wa...

Over at The Range Officer, the Human Events gun blog, Mike wants to know which guns you’d own if you could only have five. Off the top of my head, here’s Murdoc’s list: .22 Rifle - 10/22, probably .22 Handgun - Like my Ruger MkII .40 Handgun - I’m happy with my FNP-40 5.56 AR - Carbine length with tacticoolness attached 12 ...

Mr. Completely is fabricating a sight mount and selling them.  They get the sight lower on the gun for less parallax.  In silhouette, competitors tend to want higher sights, since you have to lob chunks of lead farther downrange, requiring a higher arc.  But for steel shooting, like Mr. C does, it looks like it would be a pretty good sight mount...

Michael Bane warns us of an idea by Eliot Spitzer, to regulate the firearms industry by using the government’s buying power.  The reason it won’t work is that civilians buy more guns than the government does, so the industry would be unlikely to accept regulation in exchange for government contracts. Sure, some of the big government co...

IMO, one of the things wrong with the high price of health care is the overhead involved; an awful lot of that appears to be CYA and direct costs involved in malpractice insurance, thanks in part to a quirk of our legal system that turns physicians, hospitals and related businesses into a sort of low-risk pinata filled with money."Low-risk pinata.....