An employee of WTS Paradigm in Middleton, Wisconsin shot four co-workers last Wednesday. Three were hospitalized and are recovering. One was grazed by a bullet, treated, and released. The shooter, Anthony Y. Tong, was killed in a shootout with police. Tong was prohibited from possessing firearms in 2004, after an incident in which he […]
The 2018 Gun Rights Policy Conference is being held at the Chicago O’Hare airport Hyatt Regency this year. I arrived after driving up from Dallas. The hotel had something new this year. A small “no guns” sign in red on the entrance doors. We were told the hotel coffee for the conference costs the Second Amendment […]
The city of Evansville, Indiana has finally settled an ongoing lawsuit stemming from the wrongful ejection of a man from the city’s zoo for openly carrying a firearm. The initial incident occurred on September 10, 2011. From a 2011 press release from the Law Offices of Guy A. Relford announcing the lawsuit captured at opencarry.org: On […]
Earlier this week, Russian businessman, Yevgeny Dedanin, was attacked by armed robbers in his own home. The robbers were armed and tied up Dedadin, his wife, and a friend. In Dedanin’s words, his house was broken into when he was about to leave for the garage. The criminals took him in back at gunpoint and made enter […]
Yesterday afternoon, gunfire broke out between police and a suspect in Cicero, Illinois after a traffic stop gone bad. One officer was hit four times, but a legally armed citizen got out of his car and came to the aid of the officers and engaged the suspect. “We were lucky enough to have a citizen […]
On morning of July 25, 2018, Bridger Petrini was working out his dogs for the upcoming bear season in New Mexico near the Colorado border. Petrini purchased his professional guide service eight years ago from his father, who started it in 1985. Bear season would open in less than three weeks, and the dogs had […]
Background checks completed in the FBI’s National Instant Background Check system totaled 2,073,296 in August, a 7.7% increase over 2017. That’s the highest number for August since NICS was established in 1998. For reference, the August 1999 NICS total was 703,394 about one-third of the current total. More and more NICS checks are being used […]
Following some prominent recent shootings in Toronto, Canada’s leftist government is considering a complete ban on all handguns in the country, similar to the one that currently exists in the UK. It’s a perfect example of the gun control “slippery slope” that US supporters of the Second Amendment have been warning against for decades. Canada […]
Two police departments in Indiana are trading in their duty guns for new ones of a different caliber. The Valparaiso Police Department is swapping their .40 caliber GLOCKs that are only a few years old for newer 9mm pistols. For better or worse, much of the gun-buying public takes queues from what law enforcement agencies […]
Levi Strauss & Co. CEO and president Chip Bergh has jumped with both feet into the debate over the Second Amendment and Americans’ rights to armed self-defense. And he’s come down squarely on the side of those who advocated civilian disarmament. In 2016, Levi Strauss asked gun owners not to bring guns to their stores. […]
Promised reforms to extreme firearm restrictions in the Australian state of Tasmania appear to have stalled. In the March, 2018 general election, the ruling Tasmanian government had promised some common sense reforms to their extreme gun laws. The Liberal Party in Australia is a center right party. Here is a summation of reforms promised by […]
Arizona dove season started on September 1. This year, I took a new dove hunter out on on opening day. My policy is to introduce new hunters to hunting as often as I can. Jesse had fired a few shots with a .22 rifle before, but had never fired a shotgun at a moving target. […]
