Hoquiam Camo Cops
A member of our Armed Intelligentsia sent a link to kxro.com's report of a stand-off in Washington (Hoquiam Officer Shot. Suspect Barricaded in Home). As the eagle-eyed TTAG reader pointed out, it's a little unsettling that a town of...
OMG! A Monopod! OMG! [Based on a True Story]
"A student with a bloody nose left his Talbot East classroom around 8:30 p.m. on Monday night and saw a monopod that he mistook for a gun in a bathroom ," chimes.biola.edu reports. "He...
NY Cops Training for “The Collection”?
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has climbed down on the SAFE Act's uber-unconstitutional seven-round magazine limit. Hizzoner claims he didn't know that no one makes seven-round ammunition magazines. Be that as it isn't, read the...
Defending Your Castle in Bloombergia
Let's say you're the Linen King of New York. And having a palatial east side apartment that can draw the wrong kind of attention from the peasants, you're confronted one night by a burglar...
Gear Review: Taser Axon Flex
In the increasingly litigious world we live in, simply being of good character and stating the whole truth often isn't enough. Pictures can be taken out of context, witnesses can lie, and a good...
Update: LAPD Pay-Up for Pickup
A reader writes:
FYI, yesterday's blog post about the compensation offered to the victims of a mistaken identity LA PD shooting ("Keep your truck and FOAD") was based on an NBC-Los Angeles article from Mar....
What’s Wrong With This Picture: hcetoE Edition
What's wrong with this picture? This was captured during the FBI raid on the home of Herkimer, NY shooting suspect Kurt Myers in Mohawk, NY. Anybody want to guess how many rounds this Special...
Shooting Victims to LAPD: Keep Your Truck and FOAD
Remember when LA's finest went a tad trigger happy in pursuit of cop killer Christopher Dorner? For a while there it was pretty much open season on any vehicle remotely matching the description of...
Unnecessary Use of Force of the Day: Mall Cop Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hydbHB1nF5E
This is Darren Long, mall cop at the Atlanta Metro Mall. His YouTube channel is filled with rather terrible videos of a mall cop letting his gun go to his head. In situations that...
New Jersey Pisses Away $900k on Gun Buybacks
"In a state where there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of firearms in the hands of private citizens, is it reasonable to expect that taking several thousand off the streets will have...
Maryland Wait Times for Handguns, Rifles Running 40+ days
By Jew With a Gun
Just thought I’d give a quick update to the armed intelligentsia in the free(r) states about what’s going on here in Maryland. You're almost certainly aware of our dear leader Martin...
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Hurtado Barrera
The director of the Tamaulipas state Policia Ministeriales, identified in press reports only as Hurtado Barrera, escaped from legal custody after being held for investigation for accidentally discharging her weapon in an aircraft in...