You have the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions. Not that it will do you any good. Do you understand? Anything you do say, or we say you say if we have more witnesses than you, will be used against you in a court of law, if we think we can get away with it. Do you understand? You have the right to consult an attorney before...

NRA-ILA brought along a special guest to the NRA-ILA Mix N’ Mingle: The gentleman under the light in the suit is none other than Dick Heller.  Yeah, that Heller.  Really down to earth guy for someone involved in matters of such great importance. ...

So says US News & World Report:United States Going Away From Gun ControlMay 14, 2009 10:39 AM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | PrintBy Paul Bedard, Washington WhispersMaybe it's the 9/11 hangover or those anti-Obama bumper stickers sold at gun shops, but the country is edging away from gun control. "Attitudes toward gun control have become m...

Few seem to understand how speculation smoothes market swings. If you think that prices will rise, you make money by buying the asset now. If it falls, you lose money.The WSJ has a discussion of the new regulations here.Federal regulators outlined plans to regulate the giant market for derivatives, a move aimed at avoiding a repeat of the turmoil...

Wasn't it Nixon who imposed wage and price controls? Well, with Obama wanting to regulate the wages of employees in the financial industry, what is different? We have interest rate regulations. Is Obama different from Nixon in just a matter of degree?...

A while back, David Rosman wrote an anti gun editorial for the Columbia Missourian.  A reader of that editorial disagreed, and provided a link to LearnAboutGuns.com to show the effectiveness of so-called “assault weapons” for self defense purposes.  I then noticed this incoming link in my server logs, read Mr. Rosman’s article, ...

Azle, TexasFrom the Azle News Online of May 9, 2009Armed citizen takes out tires as shoplifters flee A citizen with a “concealed-carry” handgun license shot out a tire on a car full of fleeing shoplifters, then followed them in his own vehicle Wednesday morning, helping Azle police apprehend four people who were subsequently charged with robber...

Detroit, MichiganFrom the Detroit Free Press of May 13, 2009Detroit woman fires shots through window at would-be intrudersA homeowner on the Detroit's east side thwarted three robbers by firing out of her bedroom as the men made their way up the steps inside her home, according to police.A neighbor at 5 a.m. today noticed the three men breaking in ...

Wilbraham, MassachusettsFrom The Republican of May 9, 2009No charges in neighbor's deathA Boston Road condominium owner who shot and killed a neighbor Thursday night at present faces no charges because the shooting appears to be in self defense, Police Chief Allen M. Stratton said Friday.Stratton said the Woodcrest Condominium resident, whose name ...

St. Petersberg, FloridaFrom Tampa Bay Online of May 11, 2009Police: St. Pete homeowner with shotgun confronts burglarA homeowner confronted a burglar this morning, smashing the intruder across the face with the butt end of a shotgun, St. Petersburg police said.The burglar, identified by police as Justin Masse, 22, at first fled, then turned around ...

Arrived!  Too late to register but I did get a chance to meet the NRA at the stadium. Sebastian, Bitter, Third Power, Pennsylvania Shooters, Handgun Podcast and lots ofothers were there for the NRA/ILA welcome happy hour. Good Friends, Good times. Stay tuned for a barrage in picture and stories to follow. ...

Lubbock, TexasFrom KCBD of May 13, 2009Local man reacts to an almost home invasionA local man wants your help finding two men who tried to break into his house, and he caught the almost home invasion on his web cam.Many people would be frightened if they were at home and someone tried to break in, but Andy Hartman says he stayed calm because he had...

By Chad D. Baus One of the principle claims made in Diane Sawyer's rigged campus carry experiment, recently aired on ABC's 20/20, was that having a gun wouldn't protect a college student, that ordinary people like college students aren't trained to handle stress, that they might shoot innocent people, and that the bad guy might take their gun away....

Taken from the most recent "Page Nine", Alan Korwin's "The Uninvited Ombudsman Report" ---------- STARTERS: The Montana Firearms Freedom Act has started a blaze nationwide. People are asking, "Is it real?" It is. It's now law. Montana is attempting to get the feds out of the state's gun business. I have first-hand details in this issue of Page Nin...

Ocala, FloridaFrom the Star-Banner of April 30, 2009Deputies: Armed homeowner stops burglarySheriff’s deputies say a 25-year-old Summerfield man accused of burglarizing a home didn’t get very far, as the homeowner retrieved his .45-caliber handgun and held the man at gunpoint until they arrived.Calvin Crews told deputies on Wednesday he was at ...

2 rounds, 15 & 19. Not sure what happened with that first one. At the end of last year, I switched from one eye to both eyes, and my shooting hasn’t been as good as it was. I tried gooing back, though, and that feels even stranger now.I think using both eyes will help me long term, but still needs a little work. ...

I have always found it somewhat troubling as a scientist and critical thinker, due to the implication that “progress” is always of the good kind. “Progress,” in my mind, has always simply been a transition from one state of being to another that was forced, influenced, or otherwise coerced by some mechanism, and that transit...

Austin, TexasFrom May 8, 2009 Austin channel 8:An East Austin man got a rude awakening early Monday morning about 5 a.m. Police were called to an apartment at East 11th Street and Chicon on reports a man had been shot. The victim was taken to Brackenridge Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Police are investigating the incident as a home i...

Columbia, MissouriFrom the April 30, 2009 Missourian:COLUMBIA — A woman whose house was being burglarized is believed to have shot one of the three men caught in her home early Thursday. The woman arrived at her home in northeast Columbia and found that her back door had been kicked open, according to a release from the Columbia Police Department...

The Washington Times had this:President Obama promised Americans they would be able to track "every dime" of the $787 billion stimulus package. He couldn't find it all today if he had a magic wand.Earl Devaney, chairman of the newly created Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board, said last week that, "If I could wave a magic wand, I wou...

Los Angeles, CaliforniaFrom the May 3, 2009 Los Angeles Times:A man suspected of burglarizing cars in the Mar Vista area was shot in the face by a resident early this morning, police said. The man was breaking into vehicles when he was confronted by a resident at about 1:40 a.m., said Los Angeles Police Sgt. Dennis Beacham. "He was subsequently sh...

USA Today has this:In a historic first, Uncle Sam has supplanted sales, property and income taxes as the biggest source of revenue for state and local governments.The shift shows how deeply the recession is cutting. Federal stimulus money aimed at reviving the economy and a sharp drop in tax collections have altered, at least temporarily, the tradi...

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This is rich. President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries. . . . . .His spending proposals for next year's budget is over $300 billion more than what Bush had proposed in 2008....

Remember Obama's promise:"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."Now we are told:If you make big bucks — or enjoy alcohol, cigarettes...

Bitter recorded a brief interview with NRA News, talking about the blogger bash.  Should be going on the air sometime on tonight’s show, which begins at 6PM our time here, and 9PM Eastern Time.   Tune in if you like, either on the web or on Sirius Satellite Radio 144. ...

In 1860, Benjamin Tyler Henry received a patent for the first practical, lever-action repeating rifle. America was engulfed in the armed conflict of the Civil War, and the first Henry rifles were in the hands of Union soldiers by mid 1862. Noted for it's rapid rate of fire and revolutionary design, it became popular with both military and civilian ...

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Jacob has the story here. ...

NICS checks for April are still way up over previous years. ...

There always seems to be some kind of pro-gun activity going on in the state the NRA Annual Meeting happens in around the time it’s going on.  The House in Arizona has passed a Parking Lot Bill.  Sadly they had to pick a bill to support NRA on that I don’t agree with. ...

  Dear Readers: “Bad guys” -- guys who want to rob, rape, maim, or kill you -- all start out as bad boys. It’s beyond the scope of this blog to analyze poverty and crime in the U.S. It's been done brilliantly and earliest in modern times by the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan in his "Moynihan Report" (19...

The Idea of state sovereignty invokes the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States to get out from under bigger government. It says: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states... ...

Used to shoot a line from ship to ship. ...

I am currently in the Chicago airport where I am an hour into a three hour layover before continuing on my journey to the NRA Annual Meeting. This will be a short trip as I have to get back on Saturday to attend my daughters' dance recital so I will be trying to pack an entire weekend of activities into one day.As an estimated 50,000 people (I thin...