If they were serious about doing this stuff, I’d bust them too: WASHINGTON – Nine suspects tied to a Christian militia in the Midwest are charged with conspiring to kill police officers, then attack a funeral in the hopes of killing more law enforcement personnel, federal prosecutors said Monday. U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said agents moved ...

ADRIAN, Mich. (AP) — The FBI said Sunday that agents conducted weekend raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio and arrested at least three people, and a militia leader in Michigan said the target of at least one raid was a Christian militia group. Federal warrants were sealed, but a federal law enforcement official speaking on condition of anonym...

You know I’m fond of shotguns, but what in the hell does the Department of Education need with sawed-off shotguns? Solicitation Number: EDOOIG-10-000004 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Synopsis: Added: Mar 08, 2010 10:39 am The U.S. Department of Education (ED) intends to purchase twenty-seven (27) REMINGTON BRAND MODEL 870 POLIC...

Show them this: Resident, Man Exchange Fire During Attempted Break-In LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Metro police said a man forced his way into an apartment, and then fired at least seven shots before leaving the scene. It happened Saturday night just before midnight at the Blue Diamond Apartments, off Blue Lick Road. Police said shots were fired betwe...

HOLLISTER, Calif. – The man who opened fire in front of the Pentagon had a history of mental illness and had become so erratic that his parents reached out to local authorities weeks ago with a warning that he was unstable and might have a gun, authorities said Friday. It’s still unclear why John Patrick Bedell opened fire Thursday at the P...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An armed man was arrested inside the Wal-Mart on Hurstbourne Parkway around noon Friday. Louisville police said 38-year-old Cecil Hume had a loaded handgun. Police said Hume was spotted inside the women’s bathroom with the gun. Officers arrested Hume and charged him with disorderly conduct and carrying a concealed d...

Across the U.S., most public universities ban students and faculty from carrying concealed handguns on campus. Colorado State University has, up until now, been one of the few exceptions to this rule. But now, campus leadership wants to change the policy, and that’s not sitting well with students and local gun rights advocates. The universit...

  Joe Stack flew his very nice Piper Cherokee into an office complex in Austin, Texas which housed some offices for the Infernal Revenue Service. He had recently gotten a tax bill on unpaid income for $13,000. Have you priced a Piper Cherokee lately? (hint: it’s a lot more than $13K). Before he did that, he set on fire his lovely home, which...

New Rule On Guns In National Parks Takes Effect February 22 On February 22, a new law on guns in national parks takes effect.  The law repeals a National Park Service rule that has long prohibited Americans from lawfully possessing firearms in national parks for self-defense. The new law, passed last spring by an overwhelming bipartisan vote i...

It just gets crazier and crazier in La-La Land: Gun rights advocates have a California police detective in their crosshairs after he apparently posted comments on Facebook advocating that "open carry" supporters should be shot. East Palo Alto Police Det. Rod Tuason apparently posted the remarks on his Facebook page in response to a friend...

I must have missed the memo about North Carolina becoming a police state. Apparently, the police chief in King, NC, believes that she has the authority to write her own laws and suspend the federal constitution when it suits her. I know that North Carolina has shall issue concealed carry, and I assume that some of the licensees live in King, so som...

Nice guns, too. Better make sure you get your taxes paid on time…   Solicitation Number: TIRWR-10-Q-00023 Notice Type: Combined Synopsis/Solicitation Synopsis: Added: Feb 02, 2010 7:08 pm Modified: Feb 02, 2010 7:50 Quotes are solicited under Request For Quotation (RFQ) number TIRWR-10-Q-00023. This announcement constitutes the only so...

From the Brady Campaign for Criminal Empowerment:   http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/press/view/1218/ Ignoring a campaign promise to "repeal the Tiahrt Amendment," the Obama Administration yesterday maintained, in its proposed budget for FY 2011, the Bush-era language that requires the destruction of most Brady backg...

Counterfeit Leupold Riflescope Warning Leupold® is issuing a customer alert to purchasers of products, particularly via Internet sales, in regards to bogus Leupold products that are apparently being illegally imported from the People’s Republic of China. These products bear many of the marks and trade dress of current Leupold & Stevens rifle...

An executive for Smith & Wesson Holding Corp (SWHC.O) and 21 others have been charged with violating federal bribery laws involving the sale of weapons and protective gear, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. The indictments accused the individuals, including Smith & Wesson Vice President for Sales Amaro Goncalves, with violating t...

From the KTOG list: When I posted earlier that I carry a small snubby most of the time for SD, I received a reply or two questioning why I would carry a wheel gun when it is somewhat larger than a small semi-auto and carries less rounds and is slower to reload. American Rifleman recently published a report on nine .380 semi-autos, all but one, the ...

Can you say, “black market” boys and girls? I thought you could… Before the midnight deadline Gov. Schwarzenegger acted on 685 bills that were on his desk. He signed 456 and vetoed 229. One of the bills that he signed was Assembly Bill 962. It requires handgun ammunition to be kept behind the counter where customers cannot access it without...

Minister who held gun rally at church leaves to promote firearm rights Ken Pagano, who drew world attention to his small Valley Station church by hosting a rally celebrating God and guns in June, has resigned from his ministry to promote gun rights and church security. He’s working part-time at a local gun range and has helped form a group called...

This is huge, maybe bigger than Heller in some ways: The Supreme Court says it is now prepared to resolve an issue about gun ownership it left unanswered when it made its historic 2008 ruling striking down the District of Columbia’s strict handgun law. The justices announced Wednesday they will hear an Illinois The lawsuit the justices agreed...

Sometimes it seems that life is just a process of losing things: innocence, youth, dreams, health, time and life itself. One might wax mystical about it and say that it is the way we achieve freedom from all that binds us to this temporary existence. It sounds good on paper, but it’s a drag when it’s happening. Days tick by like minutes. They ...

Tonight while President Obama was giving his health care speech, we witnessed something truly appalling. When Obama got to the place where he declared that his health care reform policy did not provide for health care for illegal aliens, Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina shouted, “You lie.” I don’t recall any other president being heckled tha...

Xavier nails it on the snubnose: I loaded the snubnose revolver for Frieda, and she aligned the sights. "You don’t have to keep shooting it," I told her. "We can unload it." "Good," she replied. All too often when a woman enters a gun store to purchase a gun, they are met with ignorance if not outright condescen...

Three Pittsburgh police officers killed by gun-loving maniac; afraid Obama would limit gun rights Source: Daily News If this pathetic maniac did actually care about gun rights (which I doubt seriously, but I can only take the story at face value as reported by his friend), he did the exact thing that will drive the government to institute f...

Fairfax, Va. – Today, U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Max Baucus (D-MT), Bob Bennett (R-UT), Jon Tester (D-MT) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) introduced legislation to restore the Second Amendment rights of visitors in national parks and wildlife refuges. The current Department of the Interior (DOI) regulations were amended by the Bush Administratio...

The end must surely be near… Tester, Baucus leading charge against gun control By MATT GOURAS of the Associated Press HELENA - Two Montana Democrats are leading the charge against gun control - even helping force the military to continue selling surplus brass to gun aficionados who want cheaper ammunition. U.S. Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Teste...

The gun control and concealed carry debate that has swept over campus recently and has persisted in our nation for so long is, and always will be, fundamentally pointless and stupid. The problem is not whether we should have guns or not; what really matters is whether we can change our society to where gun control becomes a moot point… Read the ...

The Myth of 90 Percent: Only a Small Fraction of Guns in Mexico Come From U.S. While 90 percent of the guns traced to the U.S. actually originated in the United States, the percent traced to the U.S. is only about 17 percent of the total number of guns reaching Mexico. By William La Jeunesse and Maxim Lott on FOXNews.com You’ve heard this sh...

President Barak Obama has applied for an out-of-state concealed carry permit from the state of Florida. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton purchased a full auto AK-47 on her recent trip to Asia. Attorney General Eric Holder has resigned and admitted that he got everything wrong. Vice President Joe Biden apologized to the nation for being a jerk. Th...

The ‘America Is Arming Mexico’s Drug Gangs’ Lie by Dan Gifford “There is an iron river of guns that flows South into Mexico [from the United States] to supply criminal organizations on the border,” says Tom Mangan, senior special agent with Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) in Phoenix. “They are in the market for machine gu...

As gun shoppers are discovering, it’s becoming easier to buy a gun than ammunition As a growing number of gun shoppers are discovering these days, it’s becoming easier to buy a gun than it is to purchase the ammunition for it. Shortages of popular handgun calibers in particular have dealers and customers fuming, and ammo makers have shi...

Pinelake Health and Rehab: More killings in ‘gun free’ zones On Sunday morning, gunman Robert Stewart barged into Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage, North Carolina, and killed seven patients and a nurse, wounding three others. As in previous massacres, the killer picked a so-called “gun free” zone where firearms are officially p...

This is just so typical: "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians. So, yes, I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility."… …The United States needs to stop the flow of guns, body armor and night-vision gogg...

You lose yourself, you reappear You suddenly find you got nothing to fear Alone you stand with nobody near When a trembling distant voice, unclear Startles your sleeping ears to hear That somebody thinks They really found you. A question in your nerves is lit Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy ...

An afternoon shootout at a busy Burger King restaurant in Miami left a potential robber dead and the customer who shot him seriously wounded. The bloody event unfolded about 4 p.m. Tuesday at the restaurant at Northeast 54th Street and Biscayne Boulevard. It was a time, employees said, when it is usually crowded with schoolchildren and people getti...

How many of you carry wheelguns? Jeff Cooper once told me that, in the old days of training, half of a typical pistol class would be comprised of auto-loading handguns - Typically Browning/Colt types. The other half, usually police officers, would be armed with revolvers. He said that this trend slowly began to change in the early eighties. By the...