Canada Looks to Ditch Gun Registry
In 1989, Marc Lépine entered Montreal University's École Polytechnique engineering school armed with a Ruger Mini-14 and murdered 14 people. Six years after the École Polytechnique Massacre (a.k.a. The Montreal Massacre), the Canadian parliament...
Shooting Times Celebrates 50 Years of Handgun Innovations
It's hard to believe Shooting Times is about to pass the half century mark; I'd just turned zero when the mag was born. Bart Skelton marks the occasion with an article celebrating handgun innovation...
UK Rapper Plays the “Gun Crime Sucks” Card
Don't get me wrong. A rapper who says guns are bad is better than a rapper who glamorizes them. But a rapper who says guns are bad and glamorizes himself for surviving guns is...
Romney: Palin is Armed and Dangerous
Ha! We SO knew that! Well, actually, not exactly. The only gun we can positively identify as belonging to Republican ex-Governor and non-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the Henry Repeating Arms "Big Boy," which...
Question of the Day: Do Guns Have To Be So Macho?
Earlier this morning, I posted on a Huffington Post polemic by ex-federal judge H. Lee Sarokin. The New Jersey native painted gun owners as violent, pig-ignorant southerners. The portrait was unfair. Prima facie. It...
Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?
The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...
That Didn’t Take Long: Tea Party “Debate” Focuses on Guns
Counterpunch columnist Christopher Ketchum confounds critics with an anti-Tea Party polemic that attempts to wrest Second Amendment rights from the protest group's agenda---while continuing the media meme that they're all trigger-happy madmen (and women)....
How Not To Report a Gun-Related Story: Iowa’s New Domestic Abuse Gun Confiscation Law
According to KIMT reporter Natalie Tendall's official bio, "she loved to play news reporter as a child." Judging from her article Domestic Abuser Gun Bill Reaction, she's still playing at being one now. Tendall...
Have You Noticed That The Media Turns Off Comments for Gun-Related Stories?
Gun owners are a fairly vocal group of people. Well, some of them are. And the ones that are, really are. When The Huffington Post takes a proverbial swing at gun owners' rights (or...
With Gun Metaphors Like These . . .
Sports writers have a lot more leeway than reporters covering any other topic. They're about as likely to provide straight reporting as a gay man is to masturbate to a picture of Marissa Miller....
Sarah Palin to Headline NRA Meet in May
Gun owner, legal eagle, TTAG writer and Sarah Palin antagonist Justin Berkowitz is going to have bite his lip a little harder, what with the National Rifle Association (NRA) announcing that the populist politician...
TWHS BS: Ayuh Edition
We've reported on the relaxation of the federal parks gun ban. As of Monday, licensed gun owners are good to stow. Of course, not everyone is happy about this new state of affairs. For...