Robert Farago founded The Truth About Guns in February of 2010 to explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns. The TTAG team’s been at it ever since. We’ve built the site on word-of-mouth, strong writing, and a no-holds-barred attitude. Click here for a quick run-down of our latest stats. Here’s the 411 on some of the people that do that voodoo that TTAG does so well:
Robert Farago – Publisher
I began my career as a news writer for WBRU-FM Providence, RI. I then interned at enough media outlets to put a dozen people out of work. I moved down to Atlanta to pick electronic cotton for Massa Turner (CNN).
In the following decade, I progressed from someone who adjusts camera three left or right by three inches for eight hours a day (since automated), to videotape editor, writer and reporter. I switched over SuperstationWTBS, where I produced Good News. After assuming the Managing Editor’s slot at Creative Loafing newspaper, and bailing on same, I went freelance. In the UK.
At some point, I morphed from writer to hypnotist; a pursuit that kept me occupied and employed for ten years. Back in the states, I founded www.thetruthaboutcars.com (TTAC). Eight years later I sold the site to NameMedia. In February 2010, I started The Truth About Guns (TTAG).
Dan Zimmerman – Managing Editor
Dan was born, raised and lives in St. Louis. He splits his time between TTAG and his professional photography business.
He came to shooting later than most, picking up his first shotgun in his thirties. While happily pointing a smoothbore at any orange clay Frisbee, Dan primarily shoots trap. He bought his first handgun about five years ago and has since acquired his concealed carry license. Now he’s trying to learn more about rifles.
Dan has an extensive writing background including term papers, grocery lists and assorted snarky comments sprinkled around the Internets.
Nick Leghorn (a.k.a. Foghorn) – Testing & Reviews Editor
Nick Leghorn is a former Department of Homeland Security contractor for risk analysis projects currently working as a Network Security Administrator in San Antonio, Texas. He was born in New York City and grew up in the area, the son of a rather strict “anti-gun” family. He shot his first gun in the Boy Scouts and was instantly hooked on shooting sports.
While attending Penn State, Nick started practicing Olympic smallbore rifle with the Penn State Rifle team. After only a few months of practice he was performing well enough to begin competing against other schools with the team. During his senior year he started branching out into different types of competitions, including USPSA handgun shooting (production division), NRA/CMP High Power Rifle (Service Rifle division), and eventually 3-gun (Tactical Optics division). He also founded and runs his own competition shooting team, consisting of dozens of members in multiple states and countries, who all compete and share tips and information together.
Nick’s main areas of interest in shooting are competition sports, long range accuracy, and scientific testing. He really enjoys using his knowledge of statistics and analytical abilities to solve questions and do interesting experiments with firearms. To that end he also handloads his own ammunition and is constantly looking for tools and gear to better his score or just simply to test and figure out if it performs as advertised.
In his free time (what’s left after writing for TTAG, at least) he also volunteers as an EMT and is an amateur lockpicker. He also recently published his first book, Getting Started with Firearms in the United States.
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Chris Dumm – Writer
Chris grew up in the mountains of Colorado. At the age of 13, to the puzzlement of his parents, he got into shooting and hunting. After dabbling in journalism and classical music in college, he chose Political Science as his major (no mathematics required). Chris swore he’d never join the majority of his fellow Political Science majors and go to law school. After college he moved to California, where Chris worked odd jobs for a few years, and then went to law school.
Chris’ previous publications include “Phallic Cameras,” a satirical letter to the editor in a 1990 edition of the (Boulder) Colorado Daily newspaper, and a supporting role in the Washington Court of Appeals case State v. Thompson/State v. Ober. Chris owns and reviews budget-priced guns of all persuasions, and handloads his own ammunition. Occasionally, his friends let him review something new and expensive. (Hint, hint)
When he’s not commenting on guns, laws, and politics for TTAG, Chris is a criminal defense lawyer in southwest Washington State, where he recently handled a high-profile Open Carry case.
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Ryan Finn – Writer
I first shot my grandfather’s .22 bolt action when I was three years old. Ever since I’ve yearned to shoot as many firearms as I can. After spending my formative years moving around the country from the East Coast to the Rocky Mountains and parts in between; I found myself studying Political Science at The Citadel (The Military College of South Carolina) in Charleston.
After spending some time herding livestock, I started working as a Detention Officer for the county Sheriff’s Office. I eventually became an armed transport officer and soaked up all the knowledge I could from our very talented firearms instructors, gleefully getting to shoot hundreds of rounds a week. Eventually the other two loves of my life, my daughters, came along and I found myself looking for a job with which I could better support my growing family. My best compadre in arms Ben helped me out and I became a bureaucrat just like him in the DC area. Now I spend my time writing, wishing for more range time and lustfully dreaming of Big Sky country.
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James Grant – Writer
James is a techno-hillbilly from West Virginia, an award-winning game designer from Massachusetts and now a media specialist from South Carolina. He holds a bachelor of arts in interactive entertainment and a has received a certificate of awesomeness from Kurt Shilling. Twice.
Despite having grown up in the shotgun capital of the world, he had never fired a gun until his 21st birthday. A Walther PPK – it was love at first bite. But after being bitten by the gun bug, he knew he never wanted to get better. Unless getting better meant buying more exotic guns to ease/soothe his pain.
James divides his time among competitive shooting, reading (usually about guns or shooting),animation, video games, and running. Hey, you have to prepare for the inevitable Z-Day somehow!
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Tyler Kee – Writer
Tyler Kee is a 2009 graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he studied engineering, physics, breakfast tacos, and finance. Once out of college, he spent time back home and out in Phoenix, AZ before settling down with a gorgeous redheaded ICU nurse in Austin, TX.
He is originally from a very small town nestled in the Hill Country of Texas. Born on Texas Independence Day, he considers Texas to be the finest country in the world. It was living the small town life that introduced him to firearms and hunting. His first firearm was a Ruger 10/22 that still sees regular action at the range and the ranch.
Tyler’s main interests outside of work are general aviation, motorcycles, cooking, and the family ranch. He can be found riding, plane spotting, or cooking for friends on most weekends. Hunting season at the ranch picks up around November and most weekends are spent there until winter is over (approximately 2 months later).
He secretly hopes his wife makes lots of money to support all of his expensive habits.
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Ralph – Writer
Our resident humorist and smartass, Ralph has only a one name because his parents wouldn’t give him theirs. We know only that Ralph was born in The Bronx and first learned about guns at the knee of a kindly old button man for the Bonanno crime family. Ralph showed an aptitude for guns at an early age. By the time he was six, he could recognize every pistol ever made just by hearing it shot outside of his window.
Wanting to escape the hustle and flow of New York City for something more bucolic and tranquil, Ralph enlisted during the Viet Nam War. He demonstrated the spectacular judgment for which he would be known as a lawyer by giving up an academic scholarship and a student deferment in order to learn to count cadence and salute lampposts.
Throughout his military career, Ralph specialized in the critical function sometimes known as “KP.” After callously peeling the flesh from millions of potatoes, Ralph
obtained an honorable discharge from the military (on-line) and went to law school, thereby vastly improving both professions.
Ralph has been a shooter for over fifty years and a lawyer for over thirty, so he’s been on both sides of the gun. Now retired from both the practice of law and a burgeoning career as a Chippendale, Ralph lives a reclusive life with his two cats, both of whom are learning to shoot despite their lack of opposable thumbs. Ralph has three great passions in his life; one of them is shooting and one of them is not getting shot.
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Brett Solomon – Writer
Brett Solomon got his first taste of the magazine world covering car electronics for CarSound & Performance Magazine. He landed the job by being noticed for designing high-end car audio systems. Which was fine by him because there was no way he was going to pass the third level of calculus toward an electrical engineering degree at University of Delaware. Not with those DuPont scholars around campus, he’ll take Journalism over Engineering, thank you very much.
He has since written for a number of publications (think in-flight journalism) that lack the chutzpah of Robert Farago, and having all of those milquetoast reviews pent up in his system now allows his pen to spit fire. We’ll, he is just not that mean but happy to tell the truth…and the truth is most firearms are fun!
He got his first taste of marksmanship at a summer camp in the mountains of Pennsylvania, and has loved the shooting sports ever since. The only downside is growing up in the environs of New York City, shooting always took a backseat to PCdom. Where can you find a range? His passion was recently reignited by his father who showed him the fun that can be had with pistols. When he is not writing, you might find him running a high-rise window cleaning company (its four generations old- I’m stuck with it but I love it!) or just hanging out (of a building, that is).
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Well Robert, I’m glad to see you landed somewhere after TTAC. I wish you as much success here as you had there.
Thanks. Hopefully more.
I like the order of your priorities. And best of luck over here at TTAG.
Merci mon ami. Et bon chance a toi aussi.
I really like your website.
The Truth About Guns? What the hell? What happened to the CARS, dammit?
OK, seriously, this is crazier than your old web site but the few articles I've read so far are interesting and I wish you well.
VerticalScope happened to cars. Guns? Guns are fun. Fascinating. I'm happier here than I've been in a long, long time. Anyway, welcome back my friend to the show that never ends. Until it does. Meanwhile, what's in YOUR holster?
Love your site! As a "liberal" gun owner, I quickly tire of knee-jerk righties, their conspiracy theories and their outright hatred of the current President. There's nothing worse than gun show freaks . . . well, maybe gun freak's blogs . ..
With all due respect, it gets quite tiring seeing *certain* Liberals and Conservatives using dumb epithets like “righties” “gun show freaks” etc. And there’s no need to stereotype “righties” as having “conspiracy theories.” Take, for counterexample, the conspiracy theories about 9/11 that have been circulating for years. Also, there’re the theories that Bush decided to go into Iraq for the oil or that Cheney was running a puppet gov’t and was evil, just because he’s a bespectacled white male in a wheelchair and reminds people of a movie villain or two. The vast majority of the people circulating and subscribing to these theories are/were liberal. Notice I don’t say “communist tree-huggers.” Also there’s the almost universal HATRED, and the still common death threats and outright mockery of Bush43 on the left. Much more angry, spiteful, and more disrespectful than most criticism I’ve heard of Obama. None of this is to say “lefties” or “righties” are right all the time, or that one side’s better than the other. I just wanted to put things in perspective and demonstrate the fact that all this **** goes both ways. Neither side is dumber than the other. Just different philosophies about how a country should be run. It’s obvious that there are bigoted, closed-minded hypocrites on both sides. Don’t be one of them.
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If we can ALL stop using such veiled epithets, it would be fine with me. Including “lefties,” “gun-bashing liberals,” “hussein,” and using the term “liberal,” as a four-letter word. The country would be served well. Along those lines, here is a definition of “liberal:”
a. Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry.
b. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.
c. Of, relating to, or characteristic of liberalism.
d. Liberal Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political liberalism, especially in Great Britain, Canada, and the United States.
Great progress on the site! I look forward to reading more!
So THAT's what you're up to.
When I was doing my Man and Machine monthly column for Popular Science, I did one that the magazine titled "Hot Date With a Handgun." (NOT my title.)
My thesis was that I had never in my life fired a handgun, but seeing one in a cop's holster always tweaked me like looking down Britney Spears' dress. So I got a pal, who happens to be the police chief in the next town over, my former scuba insturctor and a gym-rat workout buddy, to take me to the county police range and we fired off $300 worth of rounds. Hella fun, but the gun nuts hated what I wrote, because I said I'd done it once now and that was enough, and I got enough threats that I literally told my wife to call the cops if she ever saw a strange car come up our long, lonely, rural driveway.
I could be your faggot left-wing Harvard-degree non-gun-owning writer. I am fascinated by them as machines, but I don't want to kill anybody. Or anything.
When I was a teenager, I shot skeet and actually was very good at it.
"I could be your faggot left-wing Harvard-degree non-gun-owning writer." You're hired! We need the balance—relative to all the muy macho right-wing pig ignorant gun-owning writers hereabouts.
Seriously. The field is yours!
How about something about the idea/fear that Republicans are fomenting armed insurrection? (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-horwitz/second-amendment-remedies_b_616191.html) Or would you like to meet me a secret location (just don't forget to tell me) to sample a modern sporting rifle? You can call it an assault rifle, SVP. They're supposed to be ace for more . . . mature shooters.
Anything you please, please (guntruth@me.com).
RF!
Your absence from the blogosphere was short, but all too long. It's great to see you back in the saddle, and I could not be more delighted by your new choice of subject matter. It's a relief that I'm not the only guy with an enduring fascination for things that go 'vroom' and things that go 'boom.'
I BET WHEN THE REAL TIME COMES NONE OF YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO USE THEIR GUNS!!!!
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i bet when the real time comes i’ll send a hail of jacketed lead in the general direction of the nearest threat.
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Woohoo! Great to see Robert & Co. writing about a subject I like even more than cars! And I've missed 8 months of stuff, lots to catch up on!
Thanks for stopping by. How's you?
Shame about TTAC, I stopped visiting months ago. Glad you're finding someplace to float about and make a splash or two.
Mr. Farago, it is with great delight that I stumbled across The Truth About Guns today. I was a TTAC fan from the very beginning, fueled by a passion for autos and your relentlessly pragmatic and endlessly humorous prose. I was a nearly daily visitor to TTAC, up until about the time you left. I still frequent the site, as it is still a very informative source, but, put quite simply, no one else writing for TTAC has your panache, your flair for language. To have found fresh writing from you is a joy, and to find you writing on another subject of great interest certainly doesn't hurt.
I hope TTAG brings you as much success as TTAC. I'll certainly do my part to promote it to everyone I know.
I stumbled onto this site via Linked In, if you'd believe that. Glad to see it! I wrote a few editorials for TTAC a few years back, but lost interest after the GM bankruptcy and seeing a few not-as-refined >800 word articles under the new leadership. I think I'll lurk around here for a while, and I've already got some TTAG editorial ideas brewing!
Welcome Matthew! Your work is most welcome here. Meanwhile, enjoy!
TTAC has some great writing, so why the venom?
I wonder if S & W’s past is catching up. Bill Clinton Administration and anti-gun policies. S & W signed compromise forms to escape DOJ’s rampage against gun manufacturers. I wonder if this is retribution for showing no backbone to withstand governmental pressure and possibilities of suits by the general public for acting stupid and being negligent in their handling of firearms. S & W fine firearms but their management and owners leave a lot to be desired.
Mr. Farago,
What a great forum this is! I stumbled on your site while crusin’ the interwebs and I couldn’t be more excited. Fantastic format for a forum, I was pleasantly surprised to discover it was you behind it. Just please don’t create another juggernaut and then leave it too, OK? I miss your contributions to TTAC.
Are you going to start any Death Watches here??
Anywho, I look forward to being an active member of the site. Again, congratulations.
Johnnie F. – recovering Statist.
Hi Bob, I was at AFS today along with my BONE COLLECTER S&W 500 (10.5 INCH #125 of 1000) This is one amazing piece of art to fire and admire. I let a fellow 500 owner try her out, (he had a 6 inch 500 and a 454 casull that he let me try). He was shooting the 440 grain buffalo ammo, so I had to let him and both his friends try the 700 grain out of my new baby. I hope to meet you again at AFS sometime soon (I’m there most Friday evenings and every Sat. and Sunday. I would like to have you try out my new girl (um the gun not my real girl) and I hope to see her on your site along side the snubbie that you shot last time. (I’ll also bring my 8 3/8 inch 500 cuz I don’t want her to feel left out cuz I luv all my girls, including the real one.)
P.S. My real live girl just pointed out that I forgot to mention that I love HER more than some silly guns. SORRY, but sometimes my mind gets a lil confused (it must have something to do with all the flying lead and smell of burning gunpowder affecting my sences because I also forgot to mention my first true loves, My KIMBERS. I had them before the 500′s and the real girl LMAO)
Interesting site! Good articles, too. I have a suggestion for a gun review; I own a Sig Sauer P239 “SAS” in .40 S & W, which is designed specifically for concealed-carry (rounded edges, bobbed hammer, DAO, etc.). The finish work is done in their custom shop. To date, I’ve seen no reviews of this fine firearm. Right out of the box, mine shot as though it had eyes, is sturdy and, while not as light as a polymer-frame pistol is still reasonable. Holds 7 + 1, comes with a tritium front sight and pretty rosewood grips. (I added a tritium rear sight and Crimson Trace Lasergrips®). I’ve shot it in some IDPA get-togethers and put all kinds of ammo through it, including some home-loaded hollow points, with not one failure-to-fire in the nearly two years I’ve owned it. Just sayin’.
How about you write a full review of the gun for us? Just make it objective! Not kidding. guntruth@me.com
Or .. If you’d like, John .. transfer it to me for a short period and I’ll conduct a test / eval then compose a review
.. (And no, I’m really not kidding!)
None of this blog’s writers have the firearm or other credentials, or life experience , to criticize the actions of Mr. Thalheimer. Not one of you were there, and not one of you likely knows him personally. And, finally, you have recited as facts your own conclusions and the likely misstatements of someone who had just been in a gunfight. (That is why nobody in such circumstances should ever speak with the press).
Mr. Thalheimer broke no law, did not endanger the public, and was not looking for a gunfight. Had he not spoken to the press or had he saved one of your loved ones from these thugs (his actions may still do that) you all would express a much different opinion. Maybe you will when the bad guys are apprehended due to his actions that day.
And by the way, the pictures of this blog’s writers holding guns are not only proof of amateurship at skill at arms, they are downright silly.
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Ha, I knew you’d turn up somewhere, but writing about guns? Awesome! I hope this works out for you as well as TTAC did and then some. I’ll tell all the gun owners I know about your new site. Most will appreciate your style of writing and wit.
Add Nevada to the list of states with pending Constitutional Carry!
See
SB-176 http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Reports/history.cfm?ID=426
and
AB-231 http://www.leg.state.nv.us/Session/76th2011/Reports/history.cfm?ID=515
Robert. I was talking with Brad Kozak the other night in Dallas. I have enjoyed getting to know him, shooting and talking with him over the past couple of months. He told me about this site and I am just getting around to it. So far I love it.
About me: I grew up as an Auto Mechanic and have hunted all of my life, thanks to my ancestors. (Granddad, Dad, Uncles) I currently run a Small Boat Repair Shop and am an Avid Outdoorsman. All of my firearms are used for hunting and pleasure. I do not carry nor do I own many pistols and no so called Assault Weapons. Love to hunt and take lots of pictures of live wildlife. Just thought I would throw in the live part. I take pictures and video a lot more than I shoot. I have fallen into the trophy hunters category since we as hunters are being forced to abide by the Texas Department of Wildlife Antler Restrictions Program. Whew, AR’s for short. I have always been a game management conservationist but now being forced into it by the controllers of the system. To much control in our daily life I see. I will refrain from going further there right now.
I just thought I would comment since I could. This seems like a very fitting site for any person concerned about firearms and/or their use. There are many benefits and a different use for every firearm I own, from the antiques to the current new wave.
I really enjoy watching the ladies getting involved in the gun scene, just don’t shoot me.
Maybe we can get to know one another very soon.
Nice picture Brad, I like.
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To Robert Farago: Back in the February edition of 1st Freedom I enjoyed your article “Time to Close the Loophole Loopholes”. It is one of the best of such that I have ever read. Thus, I would like your approval to take excerpts to pass on to some friends, mostly ladies who have safety concerns, and of course credit you as the resource. — I’m a member of N.C. Retired Peace Officer Association, but did not retire directly from the police service. Kind regards.
I’m honored. Feel free.
I am quite happily surprised to have stumbled upon your website. Besides being an avid shooter (and motorcyclist) since 5 years old (we start early down South), I was the manager of a Law Enforcement Firearms and Supply business. I am a former Marine, Sailor and Soldier. I even literally gave my left nut in service to my country. I later was a law enforcement firearms instructor, worked and fought in 2 prisons and 2 jails, and was a deputy corporal up until injuries caused a stroke-ending my career. I own more firearms and custom edged weapons than your average bear, (waiting on the zombies!), and as a former Citadel cadet majoring in English I can write more than my name! I would be honored to submit some of my reviews, pro bono, as I detest biased reviews and uninformed armchair mercenaries putting out bad dope to our kind! Sometimes it’s hard enough to slip that new toy past the old lady, and worse if it ends up disappointing! As a disabled, time-on-my-hands, (young) old codger I’d be proud to jaw on one of my favorite subjects, with real world experience. Always remember-What Would Jesus Shoot! De Oppresso Liber Mike Perrine wtwdgarybuseydo@gmail.com
Keep up the good work Dadio.
Robert,
There I was reading along in my America’s 1st Freedom for April and came across a mention of you and this site. I’m glad to see you’re still at it and kicking. I wondered where you went after TTAC (I still recommend people read the review about the Subaru Tribeca for a good laugh). Hope all is well with you. I’ll enjoy exploring your new work here.
Best regards,
Ben Huddleston
Thanks Ben. Glad to reconnect.
Question??? What relevance and/or why did you identify yourself as “Jewish?” You told that to us for what? Are we supposed to bow down before you, treat you differently, what??? Let me know…
Jews are born to kvetch. That was my point. But you’re right: it’s superfluous. Text amended.
i dont see how relating to yourself as jewish is any different from relating to yourself as god fearing, christian, american, right wing, liberal, etc.
Hey Robert,
I used to work with you at the aforementioned Waltham-based internet company, running ad operations on TTAC and their other sites. Glad to see you’ve moved on to better things. Love the site, good luck!
-Patrick Shea
PS- My fiancée and I both shoot down at AFS a few times a month (both recent shooting enthusiasts), I’ll say hi if you see you!
Robert,
perhaps I am wrong, but at one point, I thought you mentioned earning a Ph.D. What was your field and what did you write your dissertation on?
No Ph.D. English major with a minor in Child Psychology
I must have mis-read/mis-remembered that. What area of literature were you most interested?
I’ guessing it was either Golden Books or DC Comics.
Today I experienced,1st time, a tremendous difference in trigger pull in my 40 caliber Beretta versus a Kimber 45 caliber handgun. The Kimber pull being smooth as glass versus the Beretta. I came home,googled ”creeping break guns”, got your ask Foghorn article of May 19, 2011..” What Makes a Good Trigger?”But, I’ve printed it out twice and for some reason pages 1,2,3 will print… but not 4,5,6. Could you send me a hard copy of 4,5,6 please.Bob christman 315 silo dr. Lenoir City,TN 37772.Many Thanx.
The 8th. Amendment “military research” “experiments that were designed to harm”! [2]
PLEASE HELP. On May 23, 2011 was the U.S. Supreme, Court Brown v. Plata (09-1233) decision that crowded prisons are in violation of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment no cruel and unusual punishments. In 1992 the U.S. Senate signed the United Nation, International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) with its “.. Article 7 – Freedom from Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.” It gives convicted U.S. rapists and murderers protection from experiments by the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, Amendment 8. Under, “Basic Rights of Prisoners.” is, “Written policy and practice prohibit the use of inmates for medical…experiments.” and “Nonconsensual experimentation is illegal”! Nineteen (19) times cited is the U.S. Constitution plus its 8th Amendment’s no cruel and unusual punishment.[4] However, for 67 years still not Eighth Amendment addressed are the “military research” “experiments that were designed to harm” [2] conducted on U.S. Service Personnel! This is 1994 documented by the U.S. Senate and Government Accountability Office (GAO).[2 & 3] Also in 1994 the Court of Veterans Appeals (COVA) Chief Judge stated the related evidence restricting, “The court may not review the schedule of ratings for disabilities or the policies underlying the schedule.”[5] Based on the U.S. Senate’s, “the last 50 years” back to 1944, it is now 67 years of no change in “underlying” policy, e.g., the17 years ago still ignored “..Feres Doctrine should not be applied…”![2] The U.S. Supreme Court’s 1950 Feres Doctrine [8] was used to ignore the Eight Amendment in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1987 Stanley case [6]. Its Department of Defense (DOD) non-consensual, “to harm” experiment was classified as just a continuing Feres Doctrine “incident to service” event! It was in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary’s 1953 NO non-consensual experiments![7] These DOD experiments were conducted on “hundreds of thousands” [2], under the ongoing secrecy cover of our ‘national interests’, e.g., WWII, Cold War, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. Doesn’t this mean the continuing use of deceived U.S. Service Personnel as guinea pigs in deliberate injury experiments? Shouldn’t U.S. Service Personnel and Veterans get back those Constitutional Amendment 8 Rights that they die for and convicted rapists and murderers keep? Please hold your members in the U.S. Congress accountable!
The 2002 U.S. Senate Hearing on the Feres Doctrine [8] is 127 pages of 19 Testimonials and Submissions for the Record that ignored the previously documented: 1. Fact that convicted rapists and murderers receive U.S. Constitutional, Amendment 8, U.S. Citizenship experimentation protection [4] that U.S. Service Personnel DO NOT!! 2. GAO [2] and U.S. Senate [3] 1994 Reports that recorded “hundreds of thousands” of in-service personnel injured by non-consensual, experiments. The Senate 1994 Report’s noted withheld needed for treatment but experiment identifying evidence [2] and the 1994 COVA related “may not review” [5] were overlooked. 3. The U.S. Supreme Courts 1987 STANLEY case was a Feres Doctrine based approval of a 1958 injurious non-consensual, military experiment.[6] 4. Not 2002 recognized was that many experiments were in direct disobedience of the DOD Secretary’s 1953 NO non-consensual experiments! [7]
OVERSIGHTS: Starting on page 64 of the 2002 Senate Hearing PDF version, [1] the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE stated that in the 1950 U.S. Supreme Court’s Feres Doctrine decision [8], “The Court relied upon three principal reasons in coming to its decision: (1) The existence and availability of a separate, uniform, comprehensive, no-fault compensation scheme for injured military personnel;….” Answering this issue are the millions of service records that were destroyed in a 1973 National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) fire. Followed by Congress’s 1974 Privacy Act that censored experiment verifying witnesses from any surviving and future records and the withheld experimentation evidence of the 1994 U.S. Senate Report.[2] The Report noted, “The Feres Doctrine should not be applied for military personnel who are harmed by inappropriate human experimentation when informed consent has not been given.” Then, “During the last 50 years, hundreds of thousands of military personnel” were subjected to “experiments that were designed to harm”, e.g., their reported biological and chemical agents, radiation exposure, hallucinogenic and investigational drugs, experimental vaccines and behavior modification projects. In 2011 still ignored is this and the Senate Report’s past and present, “III. Findings and conclusions”, “K. DOD and DVA have repeatedly failed to provide information and medical followup to those who participate in military research…” and “N. Participation in military research is rarely included in military medical records, making it impossible to support a veteran’s claim for service-connected disabilities from military research.”, i.e., the withheld needed for treatment but “experiments that were designed to harm” evidence.
In the “three principal reasons” continuation, the Dept. of Justice reported the Supreme Court’s, “….(2) The effect upon military order, discipline, and effectiveness if service member were permitted to sue the government or each other; and, (3) The distinctly federal relationship between the government and members of its armed services, and the corresponding unfairness of permitting service-connected claims to be determined by nonuniform law.” [1], i.e., the “unfairness” of applying the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights, Amendment 8 to U.S. Citizens and Prisoners but NOT to U.S. Service Personnel?
U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION? Overlooked by many in Congress is their Oath of Office to defend the U.S. Constitution, their “Pledge of Allegiance” “with liberty and justice for all” checks and balances function, their U.S. Constitution 8th Amendment protection of convicted rapists and murderers (but NOT U.S. Service Personnel) with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ignored, carved in stone over its entrance, “EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW”!
In 2011 shouldn’t U.S. Service Personnel have the same U.S. Constitutional Rights that all other U.S. Citizens plus convicted rapists and murderers keep?
REFERENCES:
[1] “THE FERES DOCTRINE: AN EXAMINATION OF THIS MILITARY EXCEPTION TO THE FEDERAL TORT CLAIMS ACT OCTOBER 8, 2002.” http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate/pdf/107hrg/88833.pdf
[2] December 8, 1994 REPORT 103-97 “Is Military Research Hazardous to Veterans’ Health? Lessons Spanning Half a Century.” Hearings Before the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, 103rd Congress 2nd Session.
[3] GAO September 28, 1994 “Human Experimentation Overview on Co1d War Era Programs” T-NSIAD-94-266 archive.gao.gov/t2pbat2/152601.pdf
[4] U.S. State Dept., “U.S. Report under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights July 1994, Article 7 – Freedom from Torture, or Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”
[5] “STATE OF COURT, CHIEF JUDGE FRANK Q. NEBEKER, STATE OF THE COURT, FOR PRESENTATION TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF VETERANS APPEALS THIRD JUDICIAL CONFERENCE, OCTOBER 17-18, 1994
[6] U.S. SUPREME COURT, JUNE 25, 1987, U.S. V. STANLEY , 107 S. CT.. 3054 (VOLUME 483 U.S., SECTION 669, PAGES 699 TO 710). http://supreme.justia.com/ us/483/669/ case.html
[7] Pages. 343-345: “The Nazi Doctors and the Nuremberg Code; Human Rights in Human Experimentation” George J. Annas and Michael A. Grodin (N. Y.: Oxford University Press, 1992).
[8] Feres v. United States, 340 U.S. 135, 146 (1950).
Robert said, “…I’m a family man first, an American second, a journalist third and then a gun owner.”
It truly is a nice sentiment however it might behoove us all to realize that without being a ‘gun owner’ (and hopefully a gun user/trainer) we wouldn’t be able to be any of the first three!
Very nice site!!
I get that.
What? I am a family man (three children), an American and a scientist – I don`t need a gun to be all three.
someone with a gun gave you the chance to be all three………………. just say “THANK YOU” and keep the pompousness to yourself
These are my kind of writers!
I like this site. Iwas very interested on the article you did on the Garand .the scope mount on that rifle just what i was looken for for that old war horse
i understand youre telling us the united nations small arms treaty is not a a gun grabbing scheme but what the heck is the NG abbreviation u seem so found of using
pls send the explanation to the email address i supplied thx
The UN small arms treaty is a gun grab!!!! It sounds all nice and protective now, but when Mr. Evil wants to change the parameters, he already has president set and good-bye good-guy!!!!
first, it’s precedent, not president. second, I invite you to read the Constitution of the United States. The Bill of Rights clearly states the rules of the game when it comes to America. And please don’t say, yeah but that damned Obama is out to change it. I also invite you to thoroughly search the records of bills introduced, and the summaries of speeches given by Obama for any kernel of evidence that he will : A) becme a dictator tomorrow and summarily discard the said BOR;
B) propose ANY bill that will take away your rights;
C) propose ANY bill that puts the UN in charge of protecting your gun rights.
SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE. NOT RUMOR OR POLITICAL COMMENTARY FROM THE NRA OR OTHER GROUPS OR TV STATIONS. SHOW ME THE HARD, IN WRITING, CONCRETE PROOF/EVIDENCE FROM NOTES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, ITS STAFF, OR FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE WITH “FINGERPRINTS” ON IT, NOT FROM A DISINTERESTED THIRD PARTY (AND THAT DEFINITELY IS NOT THE NRA), THAT OBAMA IS GOING TO CEDE CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY’S CONSTITUTION OVER TO THE UN. I’LL BE WAITING.
Mr. Farago,
I avidly read your work with the The Truth About Cars.
When you left that site, I was disappointed to say the least, but I was thrilled to find your new undertaking here on The Truth About Guns.
Your writing and reporting has always been clear and insightful and having your talent applied to guns, a subject even dearer to my heart than cars, is particularly gratifying.
Thank you and keep up the great work.
Thanks for the kind words. I’ll do my best to live up to them.
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Attn: Mr. Brad Kozak
My post Thoughtcrime is a reference to (and recommendation for) your recent post Freedom of Speech Evidently Has No Place In a University.
Sadly, my pitiful volume of 3 to 4 hundred a month is not likely to boost your readership by much.
FYI
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I’m working on a report for french tv about violence and self-defense. For this purpose I need videos of gun practice. I would like to use some on your website. Thank to answer to me asap.
regards
alex
I could not find another way to make contact.. so if I have violated any rules please accept my apology. As I read through the forums there are a number of discussions on the subject of discreet concealed carry for everything from mountain bikers to M.D.s
Badger Holster is new on the market this year (www.badgerholster.com). The holster all is a modified deep concealment shoulder holster which can effectively a weapon the size of a Glock 23 and is so comfortable you can sleep in it. Please take a look and I’m not looking for you post this…. just want you to be aware of the product. Thanks.
I’m glad to have found your website. Very informative and entertaining. Thanks.
I was quite disturbed to read that some of the members of this website have children and still remain gun enthusiasts. As a sport, perhaps, it can be okay, but the fact people can take their guns home in the United States of America is something that I find crazy and completely outdated. The right to bear arms is something that is surely no longer needed in the USA? I don’t think someone’s human rights would be infringed upon that much if they weren’t allowed, so easily, to own a weapon capable of doing such damage.
This is just my opinion, and I’m not assuming that you all live up to the red-neck stereotype that many place upon American gun owners, I could just never imagine someone telling their kids the joys of guns.
This post must be a joke. My son started target shooting at 5 and earned his first rifle (a 44 mag lever gun) at 11. Currently serving in the US Army, my now twenty-year-old son would be my first choice to cover my ass in a fight. He’s a well-spoken, thoughtful young gentleman; I damn well pity the fool that would try to back him into a corner. Wondering now if they still have people like that in anti-gun countries?
Charlie………..ole buddy, just say “Thank you” to all of us rednecks that have trained our children to grow up and protect the freedom that you use to demonize us
…………….just say “Thank You” and go back to the loon sites where you are lauded for preaching support for restrictions on the freedoms we have provided you
and remember……………..when it hits the fan, you will hit the wall in our support for your freedoms
You are obviously not an American, sir, and so you can be forgiven, to some extent, your ignorance. In whatever country, or fantasyland, you do inhabit, however, when you or your children or loved ones are faced with impending danger from deranged or just plain evil people who want to do you harm, what is your possible response? It is simply this: Hide, pray, try to call for help from someone who IS in fact carrying a gun, hope they get there before the evil person kills you or your family.
We are not teaching our children the joy of owning guns so much as teaching them the appreciation of proper tools for doing proper jobs wielded by persons trained to use them in the proper manner. This is no different than training someone to fly a jet airliner for the purpose it was intended, as opposed to training your kids that it is appropriate or somehow moral to steal one and fly it into a skyscraper full of people. The tool is the same, the potential for extensive damage is the same, the intent is what matters.
Great site- check it daily since finding it a couple months ago.
I thought your op-ed article in The Washington Times last August regarding “Fast and Furious” was excellent. Are you planning to write more on the subject of the CIA and the drug trade and its history under many administrations from both parties?
Can you help? guntruth@me.com
Is Brad Kozak ever going to finish the story he started on Baton Rouge, LA politics and crime?
Yes.
John Browning was a genius.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15660438
Interesting Article.
Gun Review: Smith & Wesson Governor (Take Four)
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Robert Farago
If you cut it open you get a lot of lead as projectile at the target. Weigh it. THAT is what turned my head after hearing it took .45ACP as well.
OOPS !! That should be .45 Colt (also known as .45 Long Colt) -=- .45ACP is for you M1911 ** Colt Auto.
Do you correct errors in old posts?
P.S. Most self-defense is less than 20 ft. Otherwise my 8 shot S&W .357 will find the bad guy – nowhere to hide from a ‘REAL’ .357 load!! Accurate to 100+ yds. easy – try that with a .40 Glock.
Regards,
another Ralph
Grist for the mill?
http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/nebraska/colorado-man-shot-while-target-shooting-near-minatare/article_6b02685b-6502-500b-8301-fcddf221a218.html
Really enjoy this site. I grew up with, and am still surrounded by, highly educated people who think that if you have a gun in the house (even locked in a safe) it will inevitably go off and kill someone innocent, probably your grandchild. They can’t be persuaded by facts because they already know the truth. They think I’ve gone off my rocker because I would like to have a gun at my country house to protect my family and take to the range to develop my shooting skills. One of the nice things about being a lifelong skeptic is that I’ve learned to respect facts and reason and to trust my own judgment. I also enjoy good writing and self-deprecating humor. That’s why I love TTAG. Keep up the good work.
You will truly enjoy the day that they are forced to come to you for help in their defense ……………….absolutely, one of the purely memorable life momentsand you will get much pleasure in not letting them live it down
as with a lot of the “gun nuts” having the “superior” friends/families, that time WILL come
I like the website. I would like to encourage you to do a review of the redoubtable Browning Hi-Power in 9mm. Used in over 50 militaries and 93 countries, it would be a good idea to have a review from you that we could judge other 9mm pistols against.
Thank you!
Barbie for men, I didn’t like it. It should be, GI JOE for Kids. Like you and me!
Keep Up the Good Writing.
The problem with a lot of the anti-gun”highly educated” people (not all of them—just some) is that they often refuse to acknowledge factual hard data about private firearms ownership and it’s proven social antiseptic results by reducing violent crime. This also includes the argument of “collective right” *select government only* or *severely restricted* ownership and it’s proven malignant results of increase in violent crime.
Violent crime rates skyrocketed in both the UK and Australia as private citizen gun ownership was either phased out or subjected to heavy regulations and restrictions——not an opinion or position—-this is a PROVEN FACT…
I’m retired from law enforcement and can say that the cops are only minutes away when precious seconds are the distance literally between life and death. The police are, generally speaking, REACTIVE in nature and play a role in fighting crime by responding after the ****bag already broke in and raped, assaulted, and/or killed you, your significant other, or your children.
They then investigate, collect evidence, and then console you for having been a poor victim. Maybe or even very likely they will catch the turd responsible, but the permanent damage has been done because someone didn’t plant a good three or so well placed shots into the ****er’s chest and head. Sorry, but this is reality and what is often necessary is not always a pleasant picture..
Fortunately, the people have spoken in recent elections by way of vote in most parts of the U.S. favoring less restrictive firearms laws. I myself hold nationally recognized credentials as a firearms instructor and reside in the state of Wisconsin where we recently quashed a 130+ yr old unconstitutional ban on concealed weapons.
I believe the historically rabidly anti-gun Wisconsin law enforcement administrative community is still reeling from the recent passage of CCL laws here. I don’t think they actually believed their beloved far left golden boy and then Governor Jim Doyle’s reign of proud veto to all the carry legislation mentality would ever go away. I couldn’t stand Doyle as the State Atty General back when I was a cop, it was great seeing him sign off from the position of Governor. As well it was good voting against his clone Tom Barret and witnessing his failed attempt to pick up where Doyle had left off……And I am a lifelong Democrat by the way………….
It’s very good to see a fellow pro-rights democrat. Thats what the democratic party should be standing for are God given rights. I feel no better place I could serve then by condeming certain folks in the demcratic party for their outright stupidy by supporting Unconstitutional gun laws precent administration included and by voting for the other parties pro-rights canidate. And thanks for your support.
“Violent crime rates skyrocketed in both the UK and Australia as private citizen gun ownership was either phased out or subjected to heavy regulations and restrictions——not an opinion or position—-this is a PROVEN FACT…”
Yes, it is a fact that crime rates rose in the UK and Australia at the times when private gun ownership was being phased out, but that doesn’t mean there is any correlation between the two. It is not a “PROVEN FACT” that rising crime rates are due to the gun legistlation, but rather a logical fallacy. You must prove the correlation between the two, not merely allege it.
I assert that it is a completely false allegation, and that gun ownership has basically nothing to do with violent crime rates. Switzerland has one of the highest per-capita (if not the highest) gun ownership in the world, and also one of the lowest rates of violent crime, gun crime included. Yet in Japan, Germany, Canada and scores of other industrialized nations it is illegal to own handguns and most all firearms and yet still violent crime rates are very low.
The rise in crime in the UK and Australia can more likely be attributed to poor economic conditions, cut-backs in education, or a number of other things. I’m going to say for sure, because I can’t prove a correlation without a doubt. But, I can say that if you look at the evidence (there are dozens of countries where guns are illegal), it’s pretty clear that where people have guns or not, it doesn’t effect the crime rate significantly in anyway. In my opinion, the factor that most heavily influences violent crime is education. A well-educated person is incredibly much less likely to commit violent crime.
Hello guys,
Just wanted to inform you that there is a problem with the images linked in your RSS feed (I think it’s a permissions issue).
Please read this story from Seattle regarding the DOJ.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2017459682_guest09hickman.html
going back to case 110 entrapment you said you would like to see the transripts, Ill do you one better being one of the two guys i can tell you for a fact. I never meet, talked, sean, or sold anything to the ATF or under cover agents. the other guy however only talked and sold stuff to no one but the ATF. No sales to drug deales or bikers or gangster just the ATF. Want more
Hey guys,
Your website is great and I really like the no-nonsense reviews. Your analysis spans a pretty diverse set of rifles, pistols and shotguns. I’m wondering, however, why you don’t have a review for the Browning Hi Power. I see that you accept applications for gun reviews and I am interested in giving it a go. What are your requirements for a gun review? Would you consider accepting my Browning Hi Power review if it fits your specifications? Thanks and keep up the great work!
Hello,
You guys have some great info and reading here.
I am new to guns and just picked up my dads Marlin 30 30, 336-a. He got it in 1953 in Japan and has some great stories to go with it.
The stock has been cracked and needs to be replaced. Can you help me and let me know where I can get the best stock to bring the gun back to it original state?
Thanks for the help!
Mark
Try this http://www.midwayusa.com/find?userSearchQuery=marlin+336+stock
I saw this article about the proposal to require backup cameras in all cars. Take a look at the statistics on backover deaths and injuries and compare it to the much lower totals for accidental firearm deaths.
http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/03/autos/backup_cameras_nhtsa/index.htm
I am surpised that there is no citizen group calling for the removal of all reverse gears in vehicles to prevent harm to “the children”. The hipocricy is amazing sometimes.
Pat C
I can not use my website in my information because I founded a charity. If the anti-gunners found out I had founded the charity they would boycott my charity and donations would disappear.
In my 60 years on this planet I have never hidden from a soul. This however could and would cause thousands to be in pain just because I do what is LEGAL!
It sickens me. I feel terrible for those who were murdered of course, but not a single one I ever heard of was permitted. The firearms and they were illegal.
More children are permanently disabled playing football than have been shot.
Been a fan of this blog for almost a year, but I’ve just started commenting regularly! Thanks to the staff for all the work you do, especially the gun / gear reviews, and highlighting various gun related issues.
From my home state of WA:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017860145_shooting29m.html
A couple was recently charged with manslaughter related to a gun accident. The boyfriend, who has a CW permit, took his loaded 9mm handgun and stupidly stuck it under the seat before going into the store. Both adults left the car, the kid got at gun, played with it, and now a 3 year old is dead. Sad.
What are your thoughts on where is the best to carry. Meaning the 2 O’clock position versus ( what seems to be the favorite) 4 o’clock position. I’m a women not fat but not skinny either, so yes some curve and I can pro and cons for all and tried to make my own opinion, right now 2 o’clock for comfort , till you sit down then yike! 4 oclock for sure but for draw 4 is odd and unnatural for me ( and i may be closer to 5 that might be why too), but i’m very new to this and you guys often bring out points i never thoughts of before. And yes love you blog! I dont always agree with your reviews but love the interesting writing!!
Your review pages hang up. i can’t scroll to the bottom of any of them.
Bill Semion
media relations, travel/outdoor writing
Their can be no truth about guns with all white boys as your writers, lets see a little diversity (Color) on you writing staff and that MAYBE will see some TRUTH-ABOUT-GUNS.
J. Stravage Gun Fighter from the South Bronx, Vet USN
Your criticism is well taken, and we’d love to have a more diverse stable of writers and reviewers. (I’m not kidding: we even had a pro-gun-control liberal writer for a while.) Seriously, if you’ve got a review idea (or better yet, a gun or a story you’ve written up) send it in to Farago.
This move by a few senators (noted in the NYTimes) seems to be
nothing short of federal blackmail:
http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/may/8/house-vote-trayvon-amendment/
Was wondering does the slide fire fit a Bushmaster .223?? If so, how much is it and is it easy to switch over??
When I go to http://www.TheTruthAboutGuns.com in Windows Explorer, my Norton internet security program warns me that it is a “known fraudulent web page”. Are you guys having problems? If not, I suggest you contact Symantec, Norton’s publisher, to have the site taken off their bad guy list.
Norton was mistakenly flagging several websites including Facebook. The solution was to manually run Live Update. Problem solved.
Where’s Brad Kozak??
Did you guys have a falling out?
Why is he no longer listed with TTAG as a writer?
And why am I seeing Brad’s articles on Guns.com?
I ALWAYS enjoyed his articles.
I know what it’s like pulling 4 on, 4 off for three days/nights straight. The stress can actually induce months long polywangers in your head so that you never know what is reality and what is “Not Reality” (insert question mark for dramatic effect)
The fact that you guys seem to be working 24-7 is Super Human to me. How do you do it?
Unless of course you have a software program, like Hollywood uses, to create anti-gun press releases,,,,In that case, where are my meds?
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Guys,
Great job on everything.
But… FYI, ALL the scrolling, and ALL the videos run “choppy” ALL the time.
Just in case you didn’t know that
Stephen
Here is a link to an article I wrote.
http://libertythinkers.com/political/swords-guns-and-fighter-jets-in-relation-to-liberty/
If you wish you can post it on your website.
I have written a number of other articles on that website which may also interest you.
The review of the CZ — CZ-750 Sniper does not work .Just letting you know . Great website and keep up the good work also i am intrested in becoming a writer or gun/gear reviewer please let me know how thanks james d.
I have a solution to this gun control debate…I’ve been called names and threatened sense I’ve been posting on this topic. No matter how nicely I try to explain the 2nd amnd the anti-gun comm just won’t listen to the tyranny argument, or the victim argument, or the criminals don’t follow laws argument. It’s clear everyones heart is in the right place but not there heads… So hypothetically…what if the US was broken into 2 sections? Everything from IL to the east coast is a gun free zone..100%.. and everything from MO to the west stays the same. If you just hate guns,? move to the east…and vise versa…Gun Control will never be looked at the same……the mid-east would be a gun free zone.. fyi..all these killings are in gun free zones
Hi guys,
I would like to ask you if you can make a comparison between some items (if you don’t mind):
Benelli MR1 vs Sig Sport 550 vs HK MR223 vs Sabre Defence Competition
Here, in Bulgaria these are the available gears in .223 semi.
Thank you in advance and have a white X-mas!
Peter
Great job guys!
The issue is not gun control .. it is the mental capacity of the people who need help and cannot get it! I don’t disagree that illegal guns aren’t an issue .. but in every act of violence – everyone knew that the shooter had issues but no one could do anything about it – I grew up with a mother who had manic highs and lows .. and we could not commit her when she needed help … SO……
when you promise me you will address the issue with mental health care, I sill support your gun control issues .. until then .. don’t bother me ..
Check out this load of bullpucky!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/how-conservatives-reinvented-the-second-amendment/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium&utm_campaign
Guys,
Has anyone seen or posted this? http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/an-opinion-on-gun-control/
Thanks
You guys are so out of touch with reality. The reason you want your semi-automatics and your glocks is to make up for the fact you have no brains and your dicks are small. You are over compensating for you lack of manhood.
Says the man with the anonymous name…
Doesn’t change the fact most gun owners cling to their second amendment as if you’re still back in the 1700′s. Tell me when you need a Bushmaster to hunt? Unless of course you want to hunt people.
How about the fact it’s a well-handling, lightweight, reliable (if regularly cleaned), versatile rifle with fantastic ergonomics?
How about the fact it’s a semi-automatic clone of what veterans of wars since Vietnam were trained with and is probably the rifle they are most comfortable with?
How about the fact it’s one of the most versatile rifles ever? With interchangeable uppers you can change calibers to hunt almost any game animal in North America. Gophers? 22. Elk or black bear? .50 Beowulf will serve you well. Deer? Pick from 308, 7.62×40, or 6.8 SPC. For coyote, the most popular cartridge, .223/5.56 NATO will work just fine. And with a million aftermarket accessories you can customize it JUST to your needs, whether it’s a brush gun, competition rifle, or for home defense.
That’s what a Bushmaster, or any AR for that matter is good for.
Well when you stop clinging to your 1st Amendment I’ll stop clinging to the 2nd. Remember the founders of this country did not have 24/7 cable news, the internet, cell phones and text messaging in mind when the scripted that “so-called right to free speech.”
I suggest that you tape your mouth shut and give away all your communication devices – it’s for THE BETTER GOOD.
So excuse me, “John”, if you are ever faced with a lethal threat from an armed criminal, which do you plan to use to save your sorry ass, your swelled head or your giant dick?
I caught Geraldo Rivera on Fox News this morning saying he would shred his NRA membership card if, when the NRA gave their post-Newtown statement, they didn’t endorse a mag-cap and AWB.
They didn’t – so I’m wondering if that fake, fair-weather-fan of the 2nd Amendment did the rest of us a favor and shredded it? Another knee-jerk media stooge who has shown his true colors.
Robert,
What are your thoughts regarding a federally funded Voluntary gun buyback program? Emphasis on voluntary. The firearms the gun buybacks bring in are definitely the ones we need off of our streets. These programs also do not affect responsible gun owners whom wish to keep their guns(like myself).
Basic outline
No questions asked
No I.d. Required
Take into any law enforcement facility in U.S. for specified dollar amount
Thanks for any thoughts, love your site. It has been nice to read non extremist articles related to all topics of firearms
Marc G
Hi Bob-enjoyed our recent chat! Just came across a posting of mine from last year sometime regarding my Sig-Sauer P-239 SAS; I forgot I’d posted that, so I guess I’m overdue to submit a review. Soon as I get back to the Cape from visiting family, I’ll get on it. If I get a chance to get to R.I. in January, maybe we can warm it up together; I’d be interested in your feedback.
Probably not worth pointing out to “john doe” that the 2nd Amendment has virtually nothing to do with hunting, and really only peripherally to do with self-defense. It is in our Bill of Rights to ensure that those who govern do so with the consent of the governed, or to put it another way, to ensure that we the people have a monopoly on the availability of armed force over the government, rather than vice-versa. The 2nd Amendment will become obsolete only when tyranny and government abuse becomes obsolete. I wouldn’t look for that to happen anytime soon. The Founders communicated with quill pens and primitive hand-set-type printing presses; does the free-speech clause of the 1st Amendment not protect desktop publishing, the internet, etc.?
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This sums it up
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Great talking to you this evening, I appreciate you taking the time to speak with me at such a late/early hour. I look forward to updates
what an astonishing amount of bs…….
For Chris Dumm
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a tweet from our friends at the The New Republic
A new generation of more sophisticated gun control advocates is emerging. @CitizenCohn explains who, what, & how: http://on.tnr.com/14zXEtY
The Linked Article
“How to Build a Better Assault Weapons Ban Or: Why the NRA’s best argument is still bunk”
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/112296/nra-and-assault-weapons-ban-how-improve-it
Read the comments section it will creep you out and make your blood boil.
Best Regards,
Jim R Morris
Hey folks, long time reader, have only posted a few times recently but wanted to say I love the work you folks do. Thank you.
I was having a discussion with my wife about gun-control advocates calling for “universal background checks” and trying to explain to her why they ONLY way such a system could possibly exist is to have either a national gun registry or perhaps one at the state level.
I do want to mention, my wife is NOT anti-gun, we submitted her paperwork for a firearms ID and purchase permit here in NJ a few weeks ago and is very excited in getting a handgun and taking some self-defense and home invasion courses, but she still thinks that at a high level, universal background checks would be good and I am trying to logically explain to her that while it may “sound good” at a high level, the loss of freedom/privacy and the future implications it could have are so bad.
I proceeded to explain the slippery slope that is created when there are centralized registration databases and the fact that history tells us they are a stepping stone to incremental confiscation and possibly sweeping confiscation.
My main example was one where after an “assault weapons” ban (and yes I explained the manufactured political term) was put in place, anti-gun legislators expanded said legislation to be retroactive making firearms you once owned legally to now be illegal. Some government agency runs a report against their database to see who owns the newly “illegal” firearms and a notice is sent out to everyone on the list that they have 30 days to turn in said firearms upon which time they will be compensated the current market value, i.e. a mandatory buy-back program.
When the database is updated after 30 days to see who didn’t turn in their firearm, a new list is generated, the list of folks that are possibly going to get a knock on the door from local authorities or some higher level agency, a notice to appear in court to explain themselves/defend themselves, or a simple bench warrant issued for their arrest. This type of action would incrementally take place over time and as more and more firearms are “classified” as big scarey black things, i.e. “hey Mr. Hunter you don’t NEED that same ‘sniper rifle’ they use in the military to kill deer at 300 yards, it is now banned”.
My wife countered with the usual “but we have to register our cars with motor vehicle”. I immediately rebutted this common argument with the fact that it is not mandatory to register or even insure a car unless you want the privilege of operating it on public roads. I could trailer that car home from the dealer, drop it in the driveway, and back it in and out of the garage all day long or run it around in my backyard if it is big enough and not need a driver’s license, have the vehicle registered, or even insured (unless it was bought with a bank loan of course). Not until those tires were driven on a public roadway would I be in violation of the law by not being registered and insured.
She understood what I was saying, but I still don’t think that she totally buys into why “universal background checks” are a bad idea. She still kinda thinks “but a criminal can go to a gun show and just buy a gun from a private seller, or go to his neighbor and do the same thing” with no background check. Truth be told, they could do just that, I admit that, but how how much or MY freedom and privacy am I willing to surrender to close that tiny little “loophole”? Pretty much none at this point.
My wife is a very rational person, she tries to understand these things with logic and reason and I try to explain them with both those things. There are SO many people just like her that are in the middle of this debate, people that never cared to try and understand that with any free society there comes risk but with a “secure” society there is an even greater risk, “those who give up liberty for security deserve neither and will eventually have neither” comes to mind.
It would be great if someone here at TTAG could write a solid piece on logically combating the “universal background check” notion. It can be difficult to deconstruct that notion just like when someone throws “you’re against welfare” at you and you have to spend the time deconstructing that with a person that is usually more emotional than rational. I understand that as soon as an argument tries to use the word “confiscation” the normal emotional reaction is “you’re a right-wing gun nut who thinks Obama is comin’ fer’ yer’ guns” but there are a lot of people that are actually willing to listen to a rational discussion about the issue.
A lot of what is written here at TTAG confirms a lot of what I have believed for a long time, I also use a lot of the content to further my ability to defend the Second Amendment with logic, reason, and above all, substance which is why I am reaching out now to try and arm myself with more substance to help people from walking off the “universal background check” cliff.
Thanks in advance….
Bob
Just found this site while perusing the web. Enjoyed reading the comments and some of the articles /reviews. I’m still amazed at how some would have views that contradict our constitutional rights. Freedom of choice, etc. This country was created on having freedom. I wouldn’t begrudge someone else in doing or having something that doesn’t effect me.
I received my first 22 rifle from my father at 12 yrs. old. He taught me the proper handling of firearms and the responsibility that went with it. Like a right of passage from a boy to a young man. There was a bonding moment at that point also. Shooting targets in the back woods was an enjoyable moment for me with my dad. He knew that I had enjoyed shooting at scout camp. I still have that gun and would not ever sell it for any amount of money. Then I got older and he took me out with him deer hunting. I didn’t carry a gun. I just was offered the experience to be with my dad on a trip into the woods. More bonding. I had my first skeet shooting experience at 14 with friends of the family,uncles and my father. More bonding and growing up.
My point is that at each stage of my growing older it was an enjoyable time to shoot and spend time with others doing the same. There wasn’t violent teaching or the thought of killing other people infused in the time spent. It seems to me that people think that. They think when you are taught to use a gun ,you are taught to be violent. It’s quite the contrary. You are taught that you have a great responsibility and to respect that.
Now I’m a dad. I have 3 kids. Two daughters 15 & 13 and a son that’s 11. I offered to take them to shoot my first 22 rifle. If they want. I won’t force them. They know that I have a few guns and I explained to them what’s right and what’s wrong. I will have even further discussion with them when we go to the range for the first time.
Some would think that you become a crazed maniac when your a gun owner. I’m a casual gun owner that enjoys shooting them now and again. Not a raving maniac that some would have you believe. Protect our rights in this country. Our forefathers gave them to us and its up to all of us to make sure we keep them. Keep up the good work on this site.
Glad the Washington Post gave out your web site, best bit of reporting they;ve ever done. Been telling EVERYONE > charles
Why is writer Ralph pointing his gun directly at the photographer? This goes against your campaign for responsible gun ownership.
Ever heard of the self-timer on a camera?
3 pics of Dan Zimmerman, master of disguise! Gotta admit, you pulled off the cross dressing thing really well Dan.
Just looking to receive new post notices.
a minor tech note: when trying the “email us” button at the header I get instructions to use “the email app on right side” but I can not find that app on the TTAG sidebar. No rush to reply if your resident IT guy is busy practicing 3gun skilz….and it may be an artifact of the klunky Kindle browser…
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It seems that the Missouri Department of Revenue has twice in the past year turned over its confidential list of CCW holders to the Feds “to see if anyone on the list was mentally ill or handicapped.”
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20271
Has any one mentioned that it says “siad” instead of said?
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soooo pretty much the site is run and articles written by a bunch of guys who have no background experience in any professions that involve being shot at or being shooters to resolve a conflict?
“Pretty much” you missed the bios of the former LEO, and the Vietnam Vet. Feel free to go start your own website.