Guns
A Follow-up on the Gun Ban That Failed
This is a follow-up to the news from last summer about the Mayor of Deerfield, IL, a bedroom community near a shopping center, declaring a gun ban and trying to seize guns that belonged to the residents, even thought those people were following the very strict, strictured rules of the Illinois FOID and CCW. A […]
Oh, Gun Laws Were Tougher, Were They?
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/10/kat-ainsworth/time-magazine-gun-laws-were-much-tougher-150-years-ago/?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiMTIzZDMzYWQtY2QzNi00ZjQyLThjODMtNTg4MDAxYTM1YTU4In0%3D Last week marks 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gun Control Act of 1968 into law on Oct. 22 of that year. It was the first major gun control measure in the United States in 30 years, but its passage earned this dismissive take in the pages of TIME: “better than nothing.” http://time.com/5429002/gun-control-act-history-1968/ […]
Synagogue mass shooting in Pittsburgh
There has been a mass shooting at a synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of Pittsburgh. There are eleven dead and six injured, including four LEOs, and the shooter is in custody. Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Wendell Hissrich said police were dispatched to Tree of Life Synagogue at 9:55 a.m. after receiving calls that there […]
Army moves to Hollow Point Ammo
Poetrooper joins us this morning with some thoughts. I missed this back in February when I was engaged in that damned radiation and chemo therapy to kill the devil tumor in my throat. I suppose I shouldn’t say “damned” because together they kept me alive enough to still pound this keyboard although I could still […]
Bredesen Spokesman: ‘Gun Nuts’ Are ‘Biggest Terrorist Organization on The Planet’
A top spokesman for the Tennessee Democratic Party’s effort to get Phil Bredesen elected senator has said he views “white male” gun owners as “the biggest terrorist organization on the planet.” Mark Brown is communications director for Tennessee Victory 2018, a project of the state Democratic party that’s been working exclusively on electing Bredesen. […]
She’s Baaaaaack!
You all remember Emma Gonzales, don’t you? Lovely young girl, despite the shaved head. Such crocodile tears she wept for as long as she was onstage, and then hey! Presto! They vanished. She was also good at reddening her eyeballs. One can only hope she’ll get glaucoma out of it, or worse. https://www.nraila.org/articles/20181012/who-s-bs-ing-now-gonzalez-argues-for-gun-confiscation-but-insists-she-s-pro-second-amendment And that […]
US Navy says assault rifles were seized from Persian Gulf boats
A team from the guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham inspects a dhow while conducting maritime security operations. A U.S. military video released Aug. 31, 2018, purported to show small ships in the Gulf of Aden smuggling weapons amid the ongoing war in Yemen, with officials saying they seized over 2,500 arms from the vessels. (U.S. […]
Other Feelz Good Stories
I have no idea where the Usual Suspects are, but here goes. You may enjoy this particular story. https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2018/09/staff-writer/man-strangles-girlfriend-unconscious-then-gets-pistol-whipped-by-an-unnamed-third-person/ In a somewhat atypical defensive gun use out of Walnut Hill, Florida (yes, it is always Florida), Cordaryl Lewis was pistol-whipped by an anonymous person who found that he had strangled his girlfriend. According to reports, Lewis […]
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