CapArms Question of the Day: What’s Wrong With Universal Background Checks?

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TTAG commentator cjstl (not shown above) wrote this underneath our post Tough Going for Bloomberg’s Nevada Gun Control Push: I hate complicated, confusing laws. I believe every law should be plainly written, easy to understand,...

CapArms Question of the Day: Are You Worried About Lead Exposure?

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"The all-American pastime of squeezing off a few rounds at the range is riskier than many realize," thetrace.org warns, unsurprisingly. "A new analysis of 40 years of research demonstrates that gun range customers and...

CapArms Question of the Day: Does the Pace of Gun Rights Restoration Make You...

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"The Texas Senate has approved allowing concealed carry permit holders to have guns in their locked cars parked outside schools," dfw.cbslocal.com reports. About time! Every time I enter my daughter's school to drop off something she...

CapArms Question of the Day: Got Backpack?

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https://youtu.be/DpYSm29HOS0 After TSA found a number of hollow-point .45's nestled deep in my dual range/travel bag, I decided it's probably a good idea to have one bag for gun stuff and one for travel. At...

CapArms Question of the Day: Gun Bunnies. Yes or No?

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https://youtu.be/G-lwRVkl0zQ You've got to hand it to American Gun Chic: she's knows she's a gun bunny. Maybe she twigged when someone told her that her nom de guerre's pun depends on mispronouncing a French word. Probably...

CapArms Question of the Day: Feeling Confident About Gun Rights?

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Five years after Sandy Hook, still no new gun laws the headline at pri.org proclaims. I bet I don't have to tell you that the Public Radio International article is bemoaning rather than celebrating the...

CapArms Question of the Day: Have You Modified The Trigger on Your Carry Gun?

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https://youtu.be/zWJvbNa0464 Any modern handgun you can buy will very likely go BANG when you pull the trigger. It'll shoot minute-of-bad guy without fuss nor muss. Well, maybe a little muss. But generally speaking, when it...

CapArms Question of the Day: Do You Know How To De-Escalate Potential Violence?

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https://youtu.be/Jc6Ri56vUpY De-escalation is all the rage these days. The entire Chicago PD, for example, are now required to take de-escalation training. Seems pretty simple to me. For one thing, cops shouldn't get in someone's face. Literally. Distance...

CapArms Question of the Day: Should Police Ditch Shotguns for Rifles?

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https://youtu.be/Vkhfoz1ENos In the video above, a San Diego police officer armed with a pump-action shotgun helps take out an active shooter at a pool party. From a fair distance. Assuming he was shooting double-ought bucks,...

CapArms Question of the Day: What Could Springfield Armory and Rock River Arms Do...

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The fallout from the Springfield Armory and Rock River Arms carve-out on Illinois' licensing scheme has been nothing less than brutal. The words "they're dead to me" pretty much sum up the prevalent reaction. So...

CapArms Question of the Day: Fake Cops! It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun...

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kfor.com reports that a Choctaw, Oklahoma a resident and his wife "told police that three men, who claimed to be police officers, came to the door and asked if they had any guns in the...

CapArms Question of the Day: Is a Warning Shot Ever a Good Idea?

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From Force Science Institute For decades, warning shots have been strongly discouraged if not outright prohibited in the training and policies of American law enforcement agencies. But now 11 prestigious professional policing organizations, including the International...