It hasn’t been a good couple of weeks in the courts for Michigan’s governing class. On October 12, the Michigan Supreme Court struck down Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s executive orders restricting most aspects of everyday life in the Big Mitten. The court ruled that she had exceeded her authority under state law by shutting down schools, […]
On Monday I got a visit from the Big Brown Truck. The driver dropped off a corrugated cardboard box and inside was the beautiful Grey Ghost Precision GGP320 slide you see above. I’ll be using it along with SIG SAUER’s new fire control unit and some other parts to build a new pistol (actually a […]
“We should all be sick and tired of picking up the newspaper and seeing the things that we see literally every single day — our fellow Ohioans injured or killed through senseless violence,” DeWine said on Oct. 6, noting at least 42 people had been shot in the past week and more than half died. […]
Here’s some news we missed last week: Kimber Mfg., is pleased to name Troy, Alabama, as its official corporate headquarters and to announce it is hiring aggressively in all departments. After a carefully planned shift of leadership, R&D and manufacturing resources, Kimber has made substantial progress in the transition to its new, state-of-the-art headquarters in […]
Police responded to a west Philadelphia neighborhood yesterday afternoon due to reports of a man with a weapon. When police arrived, they found 27-year-old Walter Wallace armed with a knife. Following the investigation, the resulting protests turned into rioting and looting that spun out of control. [Video language NSFW] You can hear people on the […]
If you spend time watching YouTube videos and trolling the gunosphere, you may have run across some videos and other posts announcing that the ATF has now considers any braced AR or AK pistol to be “any other weapon” and is therefore regulated under the National Firearms Act, with all of the paperwork and taxes […]
Firearms Policy Coalition congratulates #SupremeCourtJustice #AmyConeyBarrett on her confirmation as Associate Justice to #SCOTUShttps://t.co/VbvWTMMNkv — Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) October 27, 2020 As you might expect, the firearms industry, gun rights orgs and firearms owners were very pleased with the confirmation and swearing in of Justice Amy Coney Barrett last night. Here’s a selection of […]
[Instructor Michael] Cargill returned to a case that had riveted Austin itself. Daniel Perry, an Army sergeant shot and killed Garrett Foster, an armed Black Lives Matter demonstrator in July. Some people at the scene have said Foster didn’t raise the AK-47 rifle he was carrying, and that Perry, who had made statements on social media critical of […]
It is done. Judge Amy Coney Barrett is now Justice Amy Coney Barrett…well, she will be shortly once she’s sworn in by, heh, Justice Clarence Thomas in a White House ceremony. The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body™, the US Senate, just voted to confirm her by a vote of 52-48. Maine’s Susan Collins was the only […]
Government agencies and the civilian disarmament industrial complex apparently are still under the impression that it’s not too late to stop the signal. That they can still somehow stuff the 3D gun toothpaste back in the tube. A recent article at The Regulatory Review posits some of the latest ways the gun control industry might […]
Michael Matthews, manager of the Virginia State Police’s Firearms Transaction Center, told The Free Lance–Star that 587,107 background checks were conducted in just the first nine months of 2020. “This is more than our previous highest year, which was 2016, with 505,722 transactions for the entire year,” he noted. The General Assembly’s action would have […]
Armed self defense is justified in situation in which a reasonable person believes they’re being threatened with death or serious bodily harm. That’s the general standard by which the police and prosecutors examine self-defense shootings. Once an attacker starts to leave — whatever he may have said, done or stolen — he no longer presents […]