Open Carry

Should you use your firearm for self-defense (heaven forfend) you will have an interaction with the police. In that situation, they are not your friend. The only words out of your mouth should be...

Like so many religious arguments (revolver vs. semi-auto, AR vs. AK vs. FAL) the concealed vs. open carry debate arouses strong feelings and passionate discourse all around. So I'm going to throw that hand...

Most Americans don't think about gun rights. Why would they? They only have so much mental bandwidth. They've got to focus on paying the bills, getting the kids to, from and through school; finding...

I'd love to open carry. Strategically, it's a big no-no. But I reckon open carry is the final frontier, the gateway to the "normalization" that would seal the deal for American gun rights. And...

"Philadelphia area resident Mark Fiorino has filed a Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit against the City of Philadelphia and its Police Department over an incident that occurred almost exactly a year ago," Dan Roberts reports...

"Just before 9 a.m., police received a 911 call from a woman who said her friend had called her and told her that her ex-boyfriend, against whom she had a restraining order, showed up...

 I have to ask this question because I am not an American citizen, and I don’t own a handgun and, even if I did, Canadian handgun possession laws would forbid me from either style...

In a post yesterday, RF detailed some pretty good reasons why it's not a good idea to hold someone at gunpoint. Unfortunately, Bernadette Greenwald doesn't seem to be a member of the Armed Intelligentsia....

Back in the day, I relocated from Beantown to Hotlanta. Rolling into The City Too Busy To Hate was something of a culture shock. Especially when a gas station attendant strolled up to my...

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It's now illegal for Californians to openly carry an unloaded handgun in a public place. The new law does not apply to unloaded long guns. As TTAG predicted, open carry advocates are there. "A man...