Judge Jails UK Granny for WW2 Pistol [Not Shown]
The BBC reports that the Scottish courts have sentenced Gail Cochrane a five-year stretch in jail for for possessing a "family heirloom." More specifically, Auntie Beeb reckons Grany Cochrane was harboring a World War...
VA to MA on Gun-A-Month Club: Fight Hard Now, Loophole Later
With the U.S. Supreme Court looking dead set on striking down Chicago's handgun ban, it seems like an inopportune time to cook-up meaningless firearms regs. But that's how the pols roll down in the...
British Medical Association To Rat Out Gun Owners
It sounds like a good idea for doctors to call the cops on mentally unstable patients who own firearms who appear to be a danger to society. But it isn't. First, British docs already...
Nyet! NY Microstamping Bill Dead on Arrival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I2jFlCQvwQ
New York State democrats pulled the bill mandating firearms microstamping (marking spent casings with a unique identifying number) after it became clear the bill wouldn't clear the Senate. The move is widely perceived as a face-saving...
MT Congressman Rehberg Introduces Firearms Freedom on Federal Lands Act
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_L-EGOD2o4
Montana Congressman Denny Rehberg, Utah's Rob Bishop and Georgia's Paul Broun have introduced the Firearms Freedom on Federal Lands Act. The proposed legislation is designed to appeal to their gun-clinging voter base. I mean,...
NY Mayors: Why Bad Guys Can’t Defeat Microstamping
The debate over mandatory microstamping (dictating that guns must stamp a shell casing with a unique identifying mark) rages on in The Empire State. As part of their efforts to add some firepower to the legislation,...
Massachusetts Gun-A-Month Club Bill Rises From the Dead
As TTAG reported, a screw-up prevented Massachusetts House Bill 4102 (“An Act to Reduce Firearms Violence”) from emerging from committee for a full legislative vote. The Boston Globe sheds some light on the apparent procedural mistake:...
whospackingny.com Publishes Database of Gun Permit Holders
whospackingny.com is a misleading url. The site doesn't publish a list of The Empire State's concealed carry permit holders. It's offers a database of all New York residents who have a permit to own...
NRA Dodges the Bullet on Campaign Ad Disclosure
Back in January, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government couldn't limit campaign spending by corporations. Free speech and all that. Democrats worried that corporate money would flood the political marketplace and corrupt democracy. Or...
Colorado Congressional Candidate Bob McConnell is a Straight Shooter. Apparently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKmY-yefhug&feature=player_embedded
According to his website, Bob McConnell is "a man of faith, a Constitution carrying, conservative Republican." (Does he have a holster for that too?) While it's nice to see that Bob is ready to out-gun...
Arizona and Hawaii Universities: Keep Guns Off Campus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy3IFpZwRHY&feature=player_embedded
Apparently, "America’s colleges and universities are under attack from the gun lobby. Following mass shootings at Virginia Tech in 2007 (32 students and faculty killed and 15 wounded) and Northern Illinois University in 2008...
Why Are Guns On Trains So Hard to Understand?
Terrorists and spree killers. Who needs 'em? No one. Who stops them? Law enforcement officers, of course. And when they don't? People with guns. Not always, but sometimes. And yes, that includes bombs; armed Israeli citizens...