TTAG Question o’ the Day: Got Spares?
As it will become apparent Really Soon Now, there's more to this question that meets the eye. But I'm curious: If you conceal carry, do you carry a spare magazine? Two? Or do you...
Question of the Day: Could You Handle Shooting Another Human Being?
The one question that the rabbi asks before he gives any of his students instruction: could you kill another human being? I know that some members of TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia have been there, done...
Wyoming Becomes Fourth State to Adopt Constitutional Carry
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, Constitutional Carry means that a State recognizes that the Constitution of the United States gives citizens a non-abridgeable right to keep and bear (as in carry) arms....
Armed Encounter: Inconvenience Store [Not Shown]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGUVtfKrOoo
Once again, reddit.com has published a first-person description of an armed encounter. This time we've got a cop's eye view of a late-night confrontation between a cashier and a couple of potential perps. Here's...
H.R. 822: “Nothing in this section shall be construed to preempt any provision of...
And there you have it: our third quotation from a major piece of gun rights legislation. Except this one is the dictionary definition of disingenuous and law in question is the big Kahuna: H.R. 822....
TSA Swoops On Amtrak CCW—After the Ride
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPhf4DCxAl0
You may recall that the feds changed the law last year to allow firearms on Amtrak trains---provided you give the railway 24 hours notice and schlep your gats inside a locked container, checked-in at...
Confessions of a Concealed Carry Permit Holder: Day 5
Yesterday, I went to Toys R Us. As a regular reader of my own website, I knew that the toy emporium banned guns from their premises out of "an abundance of caution" for "children...
Question of the Day: Why Not Make CCW Permit Holders’ Info Public?
MikeB30200 wants to know: what do gunloons (a.k.a. responsible gun owners with a concealed carry weapons permit) have to hide? In anticipation of a Rhode Island law making that information private, our favorite gun...
Freeport, NY Mayor Andrew Hardwick Is Packing Heat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YchKAavp6XU
Shall issue for some, may issue for others, fuhgeddaboutit for most.
Gun-Toting NY Talk Show Host: “I don’t believe people should be allowed to have...
This morning's New York TImes took a troll---sorry, "stroll" through The City's public accounting of concealed carry permit holders. Rather than find out what motivates an "average" person to want a CCW permit, the...
Confessions of a Concealed Carry Permit Holder: Day One
Earlier today, the Providence Police hand-delivered my concealed carry weapons permit. Credit the low-volume of applications for the personal service. Mine was one of five CCW applications submitted to the department in 2010. One...