An old Monty Python skit on how to defend yourself against an assailant armed with fresh fruit. A couple of my favorite lines: ". . .it's quite simple to defend yourself against the banana fiend. ......

Xavier Thoughts: An Encounter At Wal-Mart . . . I glanced back and saw that the two young men had spread apart, one on either side of us and to the rear. That is when I felt it. They had matched my......

I'll be light on posting until after New Years as I'm on vacation with the family playing in the snow in Washington. I'll be heading to the range here on Friday to have some fun flinging some lead......

This week's NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert....

Daniel White wrote an article titled Common Sense Gun Control: Every time some anti-gunner proposes a new gun control measure, they always want to call it a "common sense" measure. As if anyone who......

I received the following first hand account via e-mail today and I was given permission to post his experience here. It has been over 8 years since I was last pulled over to be given a speeding......

Stealthbeast posted a video commentary on the so-called AWB that Obama wants to reintroduce. (Just as a heads up - Stealthbeast spends the first 3 minutes mocking the anti freedom folks by......

From Don Ward: Hands Off Our Guns: "Nickels takes fire from gun rights activists". "Second Amendment supporters take aim at City". Make all the cute little headlines you want about last night's......

Some people believe that they have no responsibility to prepare themselves to defend their home and family because the Police will always be there to protect them. However, when seconds count, the......

Home invasion rates are difficult to track because there is not a separate category for it in FBI data - it just gets lumped in with violent crime under the subcategories of robbery, assault, rape,......

As I mentioned earlier, new National Parks regulations will finally get rid of yet another gun free zone. Gary Marbut, President of the Montana Shooting Sports Association wrote an excellent article......

Although F. von Zeikhoven is not offering much other than saying our Bill of Rights is outdated and that we think we live in the Wild Wild West, does anyone want to reply to this one? I'm hitting......

This week's NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert....

A Gilbert Arizona resident brought an abrupt end to the burglary spree of a couple of thugs: . . . Country Shadows Community, near Val Vista Drive and Riggs Road . . . Police said the suspect,......

by John M. Snyder: Gun Owners vs. Obama...

Last year while visiting my wife's family up in Washington I took my Sister-in-law and a couple of her boys to the gun range to shoot my AR-15 - they loved it & now have an AR-15 on their want......

Great article discussing the impact of concealed carry on multiple victim crimes: . . . Abhijeet Singh, founder of Indians for Guns, told CNSNews.com Tuesday that if the citizens of Mumbai had been......

I'm currently in the process of upgrading my annual NRA membership to a life membership. For existing annual NRA members the NRA is currently running a couple of discounted offers for an upgrade to......

There is a petition going for Arizonans asking that the current Arizona budget deficit be fixed by cutting spending rather than increasing taxes. Check it out, and if you agree, sign on....

Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer now has a transition website up for her transition to Governor of Arizona. She has a form you can use to submit your top priorities. I plan to tell her I'd......

Excellent news from the Department of Interior on removing their loaded weapon ban in National Parks! The National Parks will now defer to the gun laws in the host State. It's about time! Another......

You may remember my post of Joe Bethancourt singing Me & My .30-06 Here he is singing We Did it to Ourselves: ...

Joe McNally is in favor of banning the manufacture & sale of street sweepers. Not sure what happened to him. Perhaps a traumatic experience when he was young? Did he nearly get run over by a......

Unbelievable. Major General Stephan Layfield of Fort Richardson trusts his soldiers to bear full auto weapons when on base or on foreign battle fields to defend our Nation, but when it comes to......

An interesting singe shot 9mm Palm Pistol concept for people with medical disabilities in their hands. One 9mm hollow point bullet: $1.25One 9mm Single Shot Palm Pistol: $300.00The look on your......

For all the folks who say nobody but the Police should have guns. I support the Police because they provide a great service & they risk their necks for all of us on a daily basis. Just don't......

It's official, Napolitano is leaving town. The early reports have been confirmed. Unfortunately, she has announced that she won't be stepping down until after her nomination has been confirmed by......

In case you missed it - last week's NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert....

This evening I went to the gun range with one of my boys & we shot my AR-15, which was great fun as always. It begs the question of why Obama wants to ban the manufacture & sale of a type of......

Remember Sheriff DeLeo who maliciously revoked Meleanie Hain's CCW permit without merit? She got it back, and now Meleanie Hain has filed a One Million Dollar lawsuit against Sheriff Michael......

In Spokane Washington the number of applications for CCW permits has been on the rise: Despite the $55 price tag, the number of applicants has jumped from 25 a week in September to 50 per week in......

More good news: Winnetka, IL Repeals Draconian Handgun Ban Becomes Third Chicago Suburb to Drop Total Ban Since Supreme Court Ruling Thursday, November 20, 2008 Fairfax, VA-The......

I have mixed feelings about this news. On the one hand I would feel sorry for our Nation for unleashing Napolitano on the world as a possible Secretary of Homeland Security, but at the same time I......

Don't forget that today is National Ammo Day which marks the beginning of National Ammo Week. It's rather difficult to get your hands on ammo these days due to the fact that Obama is the most anti......

This ABC news piece was aired before we knew that the number of instant background checks for gun purchases had increased by 48% during the first week after Obama was elected. Regardless, it is......

Last week I took my 11 & 14 year old sons out Quail hunting. All three of us have taken hunter safety courses & I was very proud of the responsible way that they followed safe & ethical......

I attended the Table Mesa BLM Planning meeting this evening that I had posted about earlier. The BLM representative said that the turnout was much larger than expected. No exact count of attendees......

Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) is currently running "Pitch it to the People Week." In addition to spreading the word, they're asking all supporters to make small donations this Friday......

Last week the number of instant background checks requested nationwide for gun sales jumped 48% over the same period the year prior. Yesterday on Gun Talk Radio Tom Gresham interviewed Pete Brownell......

From NRA-ILA: Please Stand-Up and Make Your Voice Heard! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing a recreation plan for the Table Mesa area, north of Phoenix. This is a very poplar......

A Kindergartner with a Toy Gun found in his backpack was expelled for a YEAR! The idiocy of zero tolerance (with zero thought) policies is insane. The leadership involved in this foolish decision......

Has the Pottsville City Council been smoking something that has damaged their brains beyond repair? A couple of days ago they passed a new ordinance that makes it illegal to not report your guns......

If you thought people were running to buy guns when they were worried Obama might get elected, you had not seen anything yet. Now the question isn't that we might loose freedoms, the question is how......

Great Glenn Beck Audio titled "Change" - it's about Obama of course: ...

GOA wrote an article entitled: Gun Rights in Peril. I couldn't agree more. Now more than ever we need to mobilize those in favor of protecting our freedoms to join our ranks. Ask your friends who......

Newt Gingrich wrote a very nice article titled Annoy the Media: Go Vote. The mainstream media is hoping their predictions of an Obama Victory will discourage enough McCain voters to allow Obama to......

Cape Girardeau, MO: Ronnie Preyer was a career criminal & rapist who had raped her 5 days earlier. He broke into her home again on Halloween night, but this time she was ready to defend herself......

Sandy Froman - Obama Promises Supreme Court That Will Destroy Second Amendment . . . The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms survived by the slimmest of margins. If a single justice had......

Obama is on track to outspend the amount Bush & Kerry spent combined during the 2004 election: . . . Obama's reversal on public campaign financing, and the huge amounts of cash he is raising from......

This Obama supporter thinks that if Obama gets elected she won't have to pay her mortgage any longer nor for the gas her car runs on: I know someone who says she is voting for Obama because she......