Blackhawk (Gets) Down
Our man Kozak's left his luxury digs for the show floor at the National Rifle Association (NRA) convention in Charlotte, N.C. Greeting our intrepid reporter: a Man in Black who has mastered the art of...
LA to Allow Gun in Places of Worship, But Not on Campus
What business does the state have banning guns from places of worship? It's private property. Shouldn't the owners of a given piece of property be allowed to decide whether or not they will or...
Chinese Hammer and Meat Cleaver Attacks Prove Gun Control Doesn’t Work
Here we go again. Last week I reported on the inefficacy of China’s strict gun control laws to prevent mass slayings of children in schools. Unfortunately, that was not the end of this horrific...
575,000 New York City Stop and Frisks Yields 762 Guns
The New York TImes reports that "Blacks and Latinos were nine times as likely as whites to be stopped by the police in New York City in 2009, but no more likely to be...
Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan [Not Shown] Drafted Clinton Semi-Auto Weapons Ban Memo
Ruh-roh. President Obama's choice for the Supreme Court, non-judge Elena Kagan, lacks a little something in the gun rights department. To quote another TV character, surprise, surprise, surprise! A liberal who likes a weapons...
Austin Police Raid Basement – I Mean Bunker
Is Jose Del Rio of East Austin, Texas, a heroic defender of the Second Amendment or paranoid schizophrenic? His neighbors thought the 70-year-old wildcatter was a nuisance for building a multilevel "basement" under his...
A Badge, a Gun and a Quota
I loved Dragnet, Adam-12, Hill Street Blues, Homicide: Life on the Street, NYPD Blue, CSI and a lot of other cop shows. I haven't caught The Wire yet, but the DVD set is on...
FBI Releases 2009 Stats on 49 Agents Killed in the Line of Duty
The FBI emailed us the following press release, which reveals the starting fact that criminals killed two more agents than agents who died in unspecified accidents (49 vs. 47).
According to preliminary statistics released today...
Meggitt Training Systems Part II – Road Range
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBp0h0xFJ8Y
I’ve always been fascinated with trailers. Not the kind that tornados always seem to favor or the sort that supplies a steady stream of guests to the Jerry Springer show. I’m talking about the secret agent-like...
N.Y. Bill Mandates Micro-Stamping Semi-Autos
TTAG's Brad Kozak already did the dirty on the wisdom of micro-stamping ammo to catch bad guys. Mr. Kozak's piece went straight to the heart of the matter: requiring that guns imprint spent ammo...
NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre (Just) Misses Media Meme on Arming Chicago
The National Rifle Association's Executive Vice President has picked-up on the firearm-shaped ball kicked in play by the Washington Times, played with it a bit, and handed it back to the players on the field....
Meggitt Training Systems Part I – SHOTT House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATKF-0whQ1w
Commenting on a previous TTAG piece about confronting intruders in your home, reader MikeD shed some light on the immensely dangerous activity of clearing a building:
I work out with a large portion of my...