ATF Nabs One Felon With Two Guns

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Uncle Sam's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) is the $1 billion dollar-plus per year agency charged with arresting perps who violate federal gun laws. This website has long...

Thoughts on Equipment Placement, Conditioned Response, Reaction Time, Hick’s Law, the 21 foot guideline,...

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The following article was written by Ben Kurata, Senior Staff Instructor at Texas' International Training, Inc. We republish it here with the permission of the article's sponsor, Action Targets Recently, a transit Officer was convicted of...

Petit Home Invasion: What Went Wrong?

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"On Thursday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. William Petit sits down with Oprah in his first interview since the tragic loss of his wife, Jennifer, and their two young daughters, Hayley and Michaela,...

Gun Control: Time to Close the Loophole Loopholes

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCZ5E5tn4I There are three types of bad guys: opportunists, professionals and psychos . . . Opportunists commit crimes without planning or forethought, when the need for money is high (like them) and there's a chance they...

Judge Allows Video—But Maybe Not Audio—of Boy’s Death In MA Machine Gun Trial

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The New York Times reports that Judge Peter A. Velis of Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Mass. has ruled that jurors will watch video of 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj shooting himself in the head with a machine...

Mexican Children Get Firearms Response Training

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa9-hLfWjEo And the good news is . . . the drills may save lives. (Eyeore seems to have forgotten that bit.)

How Not to Handle a Home Invasion

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http://ktvi.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf Whoa! How many mistakes can you make and still live to tell the tale? One, if you know there's a threat and you have the time, call the cops. THEN deal. Two, don't deal....

ATF Project Gunrunner Nets 16 Guns (Not Shown)

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As we reported previously, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently hit up Uncle Sam for $81.3 million to fund Project Gunrunner. That's the program the ATF created to stem the...

Car Crashes Kill More Cops Than Bullets

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I suppose it's a pretty obvious fact: car crashes claim more cops' lives than felons' firearms. I imagine that donuts (a.k.a. heart disease) kill more police than bullets as well. Here are the stats...

Chicago Cops Don’t Know Who Has A Gun. Still.

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Chicago Pubic Radio offers listeners a post-Heller profile of the Windy City's firearms environment. As you might imagine, WBEZ reporter Robert Wildeboer isn't exactly what you'd call fair and balanced on the subject, a fact...

Armed Students Offer A Piercing Glimpse Into the Obvious

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iFnNDRLqg "This is meant to be an educational video which will hopefully address some common fears and misconceptions about concealed carry, as well as establish a basis of understanding for those who may not know...

Feds Finger GunPal as Possible Ponzi Scheme

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GunPal (now GPal) was launched on November 3, 2009 as an alternative to the firearms-unfriendly PalPal service. Not 2004, as CEO Benjamin Phillip Canon claimed. That would be the same Benjamin Phillip Canon who was...