Where Are All The Bear Attack Pistol Failures?
While discussing the effectiveness of pistols in defence against bear attacks, a consistent theme is the claim that they're not effective, difficult to use, and that many more people who use handguns are badly mauled...
Illegal Homemade Submachine Guns and Silencers Seized, Despite Canadian Gun Laws
As governments increasingly attempt to make guns and gun ownership illegal, the less they succeed in doing so. It does not mean that fewer criminals are armed. Overall crime does not drop when controls...
Debunking the “8% forgot to take off the safety” in Bear Attacks Myth
If you've been reading about defensive uses of firearms against bears, you've likely read that bear spray is more effective than firearms. That a large percentage of people faced with bear attacks failed to disengage the...
Kimber Gun Rights Bulletin: Where Gun Permits are Alternatives to NICS
In the (first) Clinton era 1993 Brady bill, exemptions for background checks were provided for people who had undergone a check for state gun permits. Not all states meet the federal requirements for those exemptions....
Carrying With a Disability, Part 2: Gun and Gear Recommendations
Suggestions are about the same thing as opinions. I find that the majority of people mean well, but the main issue is that they're telling you what works for them, which is invariably a...
Kimber 2016 Set to Set Annual Gun Sales Record
Whether it's the prospect of a Clinton presidency, a number of high visibility terrorist attacks or concealed carry liberalization, 2016 is on track to become the year with the most gun sales in the history of the...
Federal Government Spends $1 Billion a Year on Gun Law Enforcement
The Federal Government spends a billion dollars a year on federal gun laws. Most of that money is for enforcement, but some of it is to push state and local governments toward infringing on...
July Sets A New Record Sales in Another Likely Record Year
2016 continues on its record breaking pace to become the year with the most gun sales ever. It is not a squeaker. 2016 pulled ahead out of the gate and has been gaining ground...
Are You European and Want a Gun? Be Swiss!
The Swiss have always had a lot of guns and significant freedom. As Machiavelli noted in "The Prince" in 1517:
“Moreover, a Republic trusting to her own forces, is with greater difficulty than one which...
Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Making Percussion Caps and Primers But Were...
Guns aren't hard to make. Third world workshops and first world hobbyists routinely manufacture firearms using both common and exotic materials, by methods as varied as simple hammering all the way up to 3D printing. Many...
Fraction of Suicides with Guns vs Per Capita Guns in the U.S. 1981 to...
Over the last 60 years, the number of guns in private hands in the United States has risen sharply. At the same time, during the last two decades, the number of murders and non-negligent homicides...
Twice Is Nice: Can You Reload Cartridges With Previously Fired Bullets?
It seems I can’t walk out my door these days without getting into some sort of nonsense argument over bullets or cartridges. Granted, I do start some of those arguments, but the latest one...