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...
The Legacy of New York’s Sullivan Laws
You may not know what so-called Sullivan laws are, but you've probably already dealt with one at some point. Sullivan laws, as they're known, were the laws that largely created firearm permitting systems that...
NICS Background Checks Continue High for June, 2017
In the (almost) six months since Donald Trump took office, the FBI has completed 12,601,102 NICS checks. Comparing that stat monthly . . .
NICS checks for June, 2017 clocked in at 1,901,768. That's the second...