Charles Place Forgets to Give Peace A Chance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPu6FyYvHqA&feature=player_embedded
This video report above begins with the hero of the piece, Charles Place, saying that he's "the diner's entertainment at times. I'm their aggravation at other times, I suppose." What does that mean? We can certainly...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unnamed St. Joe Police Trainer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NdvUtjRy-U
It's one thing to create a negligent discharge (a.k.a. a firearms "accident"). It's another to fail to take responsibility for it. When a police officer is involved, accountability doesn't get a look in. Well...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Utah National Guard
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmXpq-nPG_I&feature=player_embedded
Everyone knows that what happens after the bullet emerges from a gun's muzzle can be a bit tricky. But it's also true that the shooting process creates own dangers. Revolvers spew flames and hot...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Karl Papendick
One should not speak ill of the dead. Luckily, I'm writing. And if someone who knew Mr. Papendick wants to criticize TTAG for his inclusion in this series---as friends and family of named individual...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Jason Lenox
"Jason Lenox was cooling off in the front room of his home on Marydale Drive after noon last month when he saw a white Suburban pull up in front of his neighbors' house across...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: emknapss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxPyme4dqQ Pity the poor fourth rule of gun safety: Identify your target, and what is behind it. That's gun guru Jeff Cooper's terminology, and it lacks any of the clarity of gun safety's...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Ligonier, PA Parents
Have you ever checked the chamber of an empty gun and found a round in the chamber? I have, and it shocked the hell out of me. I have no idea how that bullet...
Gun Guilty in Ironton Shooting
Yesterday, a police officer's firearm was cleared of blowing a three-year-old boy's thumb to smithereens. Today, we learn that a cop's gun was pronounced guilty of shooting a suspected drug dealer. Which really isn't a big...
Gun Cleared in Accidental Shooting
Here's an update on TTAG's Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day for August 24 from charlotte.news14.com.
Police say no charges will be filed against a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who's gun was involved in an accidental...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Chris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmkusy5-yI
It's hard to know where to start with this one. We could start at the end (1:35), with an assortment of rifles lying on the ground pointing in the general direction of the area...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Officer Winston Mercedes
"A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer is on paid leave after his 3-year-old stepson found his gun in the back of the family car and shot himself in the thumb in Gastonia," charlotteobserver.com reports. "The...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: TomPort86’s “Friend”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVCzHmoc8Q
I've stated my basic position on loaning firearms to anyone, ever. Don't do it. Now let's look at letting a novice break their ballistic cherry with your gun. Don't do that either . ....