Trump Era Gun Checks Remain Near Record Levels through June 2018
Many people believed that President Trump would preside over an era of decreasing firearm sales...the so-called Trump Slump. Firearm sales dropped a little from their record levels in the run-up to the 2016 presidential...
Small Arms Survey Shows US With 46% of Privately Owned Firearms
According to the Small Arms Survey released this week, world wide private firearms ownership has increased from about 650 million in 2006 to 857 million at the end of 2017. That's a 32% increase...
TSA Discovers Over 100 Pistols In Carry-Ons In One Week
The Transportation Security Agency discovered 101 pistols in carry-on luggage at TSA-covered airports in the US during the week of May 14-20. In that group, 9mm pistols were the clear favorite, making up 43 of...
2018 May NICS Background Checks Highest on Record
May 2018 set a new record for the number of National Instant Background Checks conducted by the FBI with a total of 2,002,992. The next highest May was in 2017, at 1,942,677. Before that,...
Washington Post: Who Are You Going to Believe, Us or Your Lyin’ Eyes?
Is it that time again already? Time to downplay the number of gun owners in the US in hopes of further marginalizing us? Apparently it is. The Washington Post ran an article yesterday intended...
Three-Barrel “Cigarette Guns” Captured by Australian Forces
These highly unusual firearms were captured by Australian forces after the occupation of East Timor by Indonesia. In 1999 and later, Australian forces were part of the UN forces used to keep order after...
February 2018 NICS Background Checks Second Highest on Record
The number of National Instant Check System (NIC) one in February ran just ahead of last year's total. And 2017 as a whole was the second highest year for NICS checks on record. There were...
Arming Teachers: Myths vs. Facts
Laura Carno, Executive Director of FASTERColorado.com, writes : There has been more national and local news coverage about arming school staff in the past two weeks than we have ever seen. Along with that...
The US Now Has More Than 400 Million Privately Owned Firearms
The number of private firearms in the United States continues to soar. According to Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, (ATF) figures just released, the number of firearms added to the private stock...
Matthew Bowman’s AK-47 Clone Defensive Gun Use Ruled Justified…Eventually
Matthew Bowman shot and killed Jimmy Harold Tillery using an AK-47 clone (above) in 2015. Last week, after a long delay, a jury cleared Mr. Bowman of all charges. Here's how it went down...
Falling Bullet Injuries: Pakistan v. U.S.
On July 1st, 2017, 13-year-old Noa Inman of Hammond, Indiana was struck by celebratory gunfire. He died from a wound to the head. Such clear cut examples are rare enough to become national news...
The Mechanics Behind SIG P320 Drop Safety Failures
If every degree on the X, Y, and Z axes is a data point, there are over 46 million potential orientations in which to drop a firearm. Unfortunately, the SIG SAUER P320 has shown...