TWHN BS: Nice Shootin’ Edition
I've been studying for my Rhode Island handgun permit. It's all basic stuff---provided you know a crashing bore from a dog muzzle (or something like that). As a long gun guy and recent convert...
School Suspends 6-Year-Old for Playing Guns With His Fingers. Amongst Other Things. Allegedly.
C'mon, really? The idea that a six-year-old was suspended from a Michigan kindergarten for playing guns with his fingers is just Rush Limbaugh having a laugh at the driveby media, right? Not according...
Aussie Schools’ Knickers Twisted by Gun Game Website
The BBC reports that Queensland parents, educators and politicians are outraged---outraged I tell you!---by outings to a laser gun "school," photos of same and a reference to "killing fields" posted on the company's website....
Evansville Gun Control Columnist: Charmed Life or Sensible Soul?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhgwHQCJwWw
I spent the better part of yesterday watching the full version of this Thunder Ranch video on shotgun defense. Actually, it was only about twenty minutes. But it SEEMED to take up most of...
Chicago Mayor Daley: Why Can’t I Bring a Gun to the Supreme Court?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is staring down the barrel of a Supreme Court decision throwing out The Windy City's gun ban. This does not please Hizzoner, who is not used to people telling him...
Massachusetts Police Screw-Up Gun Licenses
"Those who received licenses improperly would have qualified for licenses if they had listed an accurate local address, taken a firearms training course and paid the required fee, police said." Oh, so that's alright...
Federal Judge Ridicules Gun Rights Advocates
Before joining the Huffington Post as a columnist, Judge H. Lee Sarokin served in federal court for 20 years. To say Sarokin was a bit of a left-leaning activist judge---one of the six judges...
UK Gun Owner Jailed for Two-and-a-Half Years for Overhead Warning Shots
The UK's South Yorkshire Star reports that Andre John Hulse was plagued by burglars and vandals invading Low Lock Cottage, his "idyllic canalside cottage next to the River Don." Speaking to melud at Doncaster...
New York Times: Supremes Should Assure Constitutional Rights—and Ban Guns Too
The rabidly anti-gun rights New York Times is in a bit of a pistol-packing pickle. They love them some constitutional rights, but hate OPG (Other People's Guns---owner Arthur Sulzberger has a concealed carry permit). Et...
Louisiana Lawmaker Proposes to Re-Legalize Guns in Churches, Mosques, Temples, Etc.
Thank God? Allah be praised? What are you meshugana? Nola.com reports that State Representative Henry Burns has filed a bill in the Louisiana legislature that would allow some gun owners to pack pistols for...
Mayor Daley: “If you allow people to arm themselves, all first-responders are in jeopardy”
With the Supreme Court set to rule on Chicago's gun ban, Chi-town Mayor Richard M. Daley is trying to pump up the shotgun. I mean, volume. The Chicago Sun Times provides a platform for...
Canadian Columnist Slams Second Amendment
"The Queen is the symbolic head of Canada and the Commonwealth. She has exactly zero power. I, too, am a citizen but I regard myself as more free than you because I don't need...