Open Carry – How To Assert Your Rights
Michigan Open Carry recently scored a victory in Royal Oak. The pressure group forced the city to reexamine and, eventually, rescind a firearms ban for its Eats, Beats and Arts festival. I contacted one...
Portland Gun-Offender Exclusion Zones? Been There, Dumm That
I live and work in Vancouver, Washington, just across the mighty Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. As TTAG reported earlier today, Portland Mayor Sam Adams is flirting with the idea of establishing "gun free" zones....
Portland Mayor: Ban Gun Criminals from Gun Crime Areas
Portland isn't exactly what you'd call America's heartland either politically or geographically. So it's no surprise (although slightly ironic given the Mayor's name) that Mayor Sam Adams is fairly aggressive on the gun control front. In...
Dumb Gun Laws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospNRk2uM3U
First, the requisite disclaimer: I am not now, nor have I ever been, an attorney. Do not under any circumstances consider anything you are about to read as any sort of legal advice more...
What is a “Gun Extremist”?
First, the letter to the editor in the Detroit Free Press:
Rochelle Riley, in her column last Sunday (“Royal Oak’s choice: Guns or families”), is right to criticize gun activists who are imposing their will...
Ted Nugent: “A Disappointment to Us All”
Motor City Madman and gun rights polemicist Ted Nugent recently pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges re: deer poaching in California. sacbe.com tells the tale of an "in yer face" hunting advocate who not...
There is No Gun Show Loophole
An interesting comment from DDS underneath wbex.org's revelation that The Windy City is hosting a gun control confab. The attendees are striving to close the proverbial "gun show loophole." That's the lack of national legislation...
Chicago Firefighter Caught With a Gun. OMG!
cbs2chicago.com is all abuzz with news that "a Chicago firefighter has been charged with a felony for having a loaded revolver in his vehicle outside Mount Greenwood Park on the Far Southwest Side on...
Appeals Court: Locked Glock Case Good Enough for MA Gun Law
Roy Hill and I were on the blower the other day. I was trying to convince the Arkansas firearms instructor and TTAG gun reviewer to write a piece on "America's Five Stupidest Gun Laws."...
Former Handgun Control Inc. Head Pens Love Letter to the NRA
Robert Walker is the former head of Handgun Control Inc., a gun control organization absorbed by the anti-gun borg (the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence). Walker's now embedded within The Population Institute. According...
Time on Detroit Gun Rights: “So stay your ass at home then if that’s...
My my, how times have changed. Back when my first wife worked for Time/Life on Bond Street in London, the company hadn't quite sunk into the Time/Warner then CNN mire. Henry Luce's patrician vibe...
Moorehead MN to Ban Toy Guns?
wday.com reports that the Moorehead, Minnesota City Council is considering an ordinance to ban realistic toy guns. "When a gun looks real, it no longer matters whether the ammunition is dangerous," the station begins....