“It’s just a good thing I can’t pack a gun on the Senate floor.”
As debate about how to deal with the big issues heats up and the election season draws ever closer (sigh), political rhetoric can get...interesting. The media and all right thinking thinkers are quick to...
Futurity.org Spins Stray Bullet Study Like a Top
There’s an old parody New York Times headline that pokes fun at the paper’s obvious biases – World Ends Tomorrow; Women and Minorities Hardest Hit. It’s only funny because it so closely matches their...
Non-Union in a Union Town? That Could Get You Shot.
There are things in this country that can get you shot. Wearing a Klan robe in Harlem. Driving a blinged-out convertible through Watts. And apparently owning a non-union electrical company in the heart of...
Santa Rosa Cops Arm Neighborhood Children, Alarm Community
No good deed goes unpunished. Santa Rosa's police force participated in a street festival in the town's South Park (Oh my God, they killed Kenny!) neighborhood. The SWATties were there, too. They brought along...
Dutch Scientists Make Bulletproof Human Skin. Sort Of.
Kevlar's so yesterday. Or it will be. The vests are bulky, hot and expensive. So it would be mighty nice to be able to protect a soldier, cop, or a civilian without one. That's...
Glock Rocks the SAF
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has just revealed that Glock has become their largest corporate contributor. The Austrian pistol producer takes a lot of crap for their, um, utilitarian design sensibilities. To each his...
Don’t Leave Home Without it: Insight Technology HX Series Flashlights
I've worked with, tested, and carried the HX120 (above). The flashlight's strobe function will put James Guthrie into deer in the headlights mode. The max brightness setting is angry enough to leave spots on your vision even at...
Gun-Friendly States Try To Pick Off Gun Makers, Jobs
The New York Times notices that there are an awful lot of firearms manufacturers based in decidedly gun-hostile states. Places like Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois. It's a situation that's bemused and befuddled gun rights...
ATF Death Watch 51: Attache? Not So Much
It’s getting harder and harder to keep up pretenses at the ATF. One feint they’d been doggedly clinging to is the story that William Newell, who had been named the rogue agency’s attaché to...
Registran.net Questions New Yorker Article on Bin Laden Raid
One of our crack reporters passed along an interesting bit of intel on the New Yorker's bang-up feature story on the Bin Laden takedown. I read it, and then did some digging myself. And...
ATF Death Watch 49: The Brian Terry Border Patrol Station
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0jTJq_VfS8
A bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives to rename the Bisbee, AZ border patrol station after the late Brian Terry. Terry was murdered by Mexican cartel members in December of 2010...
Quote of the Day: Jennifer Rubin
It’s almost hard to recall how the left howled about “civility” in the wake of the Tucson shooting horror. But that was then, and the standards the left sets for the right is one...