Don’t Watch the Superbowl
https://youtu.be/KQLQxnOZmvc
The National Football League is fundamentally un-American, and I won't support it. It wasn't always that way. As a decent, God-fearing American, I grew up praying to Jesus Christ and Tom Landry, like everyone else....
Texas Lt. Gov Reverses Himself on Open Carry After “Deluge of Phone Calls”
No sooner had Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick asserted that open carry didn't have the votes to pass in the Lone Star State's legislature than "a deluge of angry calls and comments from gun...
Hunting for Business at SHOT Show
I like guns. I admit, I like guns even more than I like most of my tools. (Except my Clifton planes...those are nice). But I don't go to the SHOT Show because I like guns....
Bass Pro Shops: No Online Ammunition Sales to Pittsburgh or Philadelphia
I laugh when the elitists and busybody extremists who comprise much of the opposition to the right to keep and bear arms whinge that owning and carrying a firearm involves less bureaucracy than purchasing...
Another Billionaire Against Civil Liberties
Billionaire Elaine Wynn, co-founder of the Wynn casino empire (along with her ex-husband, Steve) and president of the Nevada Board of Education, has earned a new title: anti-civil rights activist. USA Today reports that Ms. Wynn...
Question of the Day: Should Journalists be Armed?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMbwcBYT0DI
Most major news outlets bar their journalists from carrying firearms, even if they're in a war zone. The Committee to Protect Journalists, advises against it on their website noting that carrying a gun "can undermine your...
A Tale Of Two Children
From the Washington Post. On January 2, 2015: "Larry Wilkins was watching television Friday evening when he heard a faint knock on his front door of his home in Lyon County, Ky., east of...
A Partnership for the Ages: John Moses Browning and Fabrique Nationale d’Herstal
Mention the name “John Moses Browning” to knowledgeable American gun owners and their usual reaction is profound respect and great appreciation. This is for good reason: though he died almost 90 years ago, John...
Incendiary Image of the Day: Guns vs. Cars Comparo Memes Business
The Center for American Progress produced the above chart, republished in economist.com's post Bangers and Bullets. You may notice that CAP's anti-gun agitprop team carefully crafted the chart to single out a specific age group that conforms to their alarmist...
Random Thoughts About Shock and Awe
Four years after Giffords shooting, a shocking lesson. That's the headline above an editorial at azcentral.com. Columnist EJ Montini's not-so-shocking conclusion: we're no longer shocked by mass shootings. The producers of this week's PBS documentary...
Let’s Shift the Topic to (Actual) Gun Safety
By Rebecca Bond
When an incident like the shooting of a mother by her 2-year-old child in an Idaho Walmart occurs, it’s amazing how quickly the conversation shifts from safety to politics. Politics triggers pre-programmed...
HuffPo: The NRA Are The Bad Guys. Again. Still.
As someone who follows gun news with obsessive, some would say maniacal fervor, I'm here to say that the NRA is the 800-pound gorilla that isn't in the room. In general, America's oldest civil...