Self-Defense Tip: Discretion is the Better Part of Valor
In my last Question of the Day, I asked if printing (concealing your gun in such a way that an observer can see at least part of its outline) was a big deal. Most...
Guns and Manhood
A member of our Armed Intelligentsia sent me a link to this Sunday's Doonesbury comic. In subsequent panels, our coffee house hero responds to the challenge to his manhood by revealing that he "spent...
Home Carry Saves Lives
There's no real downside to home carry. Safety first. As long as you put your Home Carry gun in a safe when you're showering or answering the call of nature, the weapon is always under...
Three Steps to Equipping A Gun Aversive Significant Other with a Home Defense Handgun
Let's get this out of the way: the idea that you, a man, should choose a firearm for a woman who's never had one is sexist and disrespectful. Women are fully capable of making...
Esquire Story on Petit Family Massacre Avoids the “G” Word
"At night, Petit sleeps only because the pills make him sleep. Sometimes even with the pills he lies awake, thinking about the same questions. Working slowly and without rest, he has built ramparts around...
Question of the Day: Would You Open Carry?
If I'm carrying a gun, no one else needs to know about it. Living in an open carry state---within a proverbial stone's throw of DC---has reinforced this belief. There are just too many stories...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: FPS Russia (Third Time Lucky)
http://www.youtube.com/v/dSp7CipN1pw
Our man Zimmerman has pointed this out before: don't "plink" into, in front of or over a body of standing water. The rounds can skip off the surface and go in a radically different...
Why I Home Carry: Detroit Area Home Invasions
"You really carry your gun around the house?" The lacrosse Dad looked at me like I had pin lice on my eyebrows. Still, I don't think he considered me a gunloon. We'd hung out at numerous...
Question of the Day: Do You Have a Personal Gun-Free Zone?
OK, maybe an 870 isn't the right choice for a wedding. And I hope one of the bridesmaids tells Tex that trigger discipline's always in style. But do you have a "Sunday gun" or...
“Walking around the streets with a gun on your hip is to the pro-gun...
Who owns the phrase "common sense" when applied to firearms-related legislation, or lack thereof? The gun control movement uses the term to convince firearms-ignorant folks to mindlessly support anti-gun legislation that looks and feels...
Philly Cops to Open Carry Advocates: Lay on the Ground Until Officers Feel Safe
Mark Fiorino stirred-up the gun rights community pretty good when he YouTubed an audiotape of Philadelphia cops hassling him (to say the least) for openly carrying a firearm---even though he was well within his...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: MrMisterEpic
I would love to open carry in RI. Coming out of the closet would be the single most effective way to defend and extend Ocean State gun rights. It "normalizes" firearms. Unfortunately, many members...