Life Imitates Art: Trayvon Martin Shooting is Bonfire of the Vanities Redux

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Remember Tom Wolfe's 80's novel Bonfire of the Vanities? Henry Lamb was the hit-and-run victim of a callous investment banker's mistress. Maria Ruskin struck Lamb with money man Sherman McCoy's Mercedes when the pair missed...

ATF Death Watch 140: The Non-Retail Connection

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You have to take your little victories where you get get 'em. We're not sure this actually constitutes a win, but it's a new week, spring has sprung and we're feeling more half full...

More Gun Laws to Prevent Accidental Shootings. Or Something.

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Friday March 16th's Seattle Times had four letters to the editor, all of which were about the tragedies of three accidental child shootings in recent weeks. The first and last of which were especially...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Home Town Pantry, Again

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Springfield is, of course, the capital of the great state of Illinois, one of the least firearm-friendly locales in the nation. Most of the anti-gun antipathy  there emanates from the corrupt county of Cook...

3 Ways To Prevent Children’s’ Firearms Accidents. Or Not.

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  As TTAG has reported, there have been three firearms accidents involving children in Washington state over the last three weeks. While one wonders how many automobile accidents have claimed young lives in the same...

Self-Defense Tip of the Day: STFU

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I'm on vacation. Obviously. Flying down to West Palm via Washington, D.C. I met a prominent conservative TV personality who shall remain nameless. He mentioned Emily Miller's Washington Times series on exercising her Second...

Quote of the Day: Capitulation Edition

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"Judge Legg was obligated to follow precedent recognizing that the Supreme Court’s creation of a narrow right to a gun in the home does not override the public’s right to a policy that keeps...

If Only Assault Knives Weren’t So Easily Available

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"A man armed with three knives stabbed four people at a downtown office building Wednesday afternoon and was shot by a police officer as he tried to leave, authorities said," cbsnews.com reports. This senseless...

What’s Next for Gun Rights? Respect for Settled Law, Maybe?

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National Review Online covers a recent  forum hosted by the Fordham Urban Law Journal on where gun rights legal issues are going to be headed in the post-Heller and McDonald world. According to Robert VerBruggen,...

Concealed Carry Versus the Mob Mentality

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If you carry concealed, it's likely that you've given a good bit of thought as to what you would do if, God forbid, you ever had to shoot someone. If you're smart, you've played...

OMG OMG! They’re Selling Machine Guns at Walmart! OMG!

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Quote of the Day: Jump Street Junk Edition

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"I think it's crazy that you're on a set with people who don't know how to use guns and you're giving them actual live weapons. I thought that was the scariest, wierdest energy to...