Open Carry. Concealed Carry. What About Home Carry?
I understand the open carry movement: desensitize non-gun owners to guns so that they accept Americans' right to bear arms. I get the concealed carry movement: remove the most "unreasonable" restriction on gun ownership...
Armed Civilians Account for 43% of “Active Shooter Aborts”
Earlier today, I blogged a report on so-called active shooters by Ron Borsch. The lead trainer at the Southeast Area Law Enforcement (SEALE) regional in-service academy in Bedford, OH studied just under 40 "rapid mass...
HuffPo Ed: Open Carry Is A Threat, Not A Promise
Kate Shilling, Coalition Director of the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater LA, reckons banning open carry wouldn't violate Californians' Constitutional rights. "Forbidding open carry does not limit your right to own or carry a...
Close the Texas Capitol CHL Easy Access Loophole! Or Not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqar_T33XLA&feature=player_embedded
BTW: pushing down on the slide release to chamber a round is a bad idea. In the heat of the moment, you'll NEVER find the release. Even if you do, the gun will jump....
Question of the Day: What’s the Right Size for Concealed Carry?
A couple other pistols I inherited from my father included two vest pocket .25’s, a Bernardelli-Gardone and a baby Browning. He was a retired Denver cop, and I remember him saying “I’d never shoot...
SAF Sues Westchester (NY) Over “May Issue” Concealed Carry
Alan Gura is at it again. The lawyer who helped win the Heller and McDonald cases in the U.S. Supreme Court---striking down handgun bans in both cities---has filed a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New...
Note to NM CCW Holders: Phone Ahead for the Bar Menu
Gun control laws can be very silly. Massachusetts prohibits any handgun magazine that holds more than 10 bullets. But you can have as many 10-bullet magazines as you like. In New Mexico, well, krqe.com...
Richmond Times Columnist: VA CHP Owners Are “Piles of Diarrhea”
At 4:15pm this Wednesday, TTAG personal defense writer Philip Van Cleave will appear on a NBC 12 News "First at 4" "round table discussion" (a.k.a. free-for-all). The president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League will trade...
“The court finds a tsunami, a maelstrom, an avalanche, of direct, uncontroverted evidence in...
Back in 2008, Iowan Paul Dorr filed suit against Osceola County Sheriff Douglas Weber for denying him a concealed carry license. The Sheriff made no secret of the fact that he wasn't a big...
What Should Concealed Carry License Training Cover?
Seems I opened up a big ol' can o' worms yesterday, with my editorial on The Sad State of Gun Training in America. Good. I like nothing better than provoking some thoughtful debate and...
Utah: Go Ahead and Carry
This morning's NY Times article Utah Gun Permits Popular With Out-of-Staters caught my eye. I have a old friend with the same name as the gentlemen applying for his Utah concealed carry permit. Frankly, the...