The shooter who murdered 12 people in a Virginia Beach municipal building on May 31 was enough of a concern to at least one fellow city employee that she considered bringing a firearm to work to protect herself the day of the shooting. Kate Nixon was a city engineer who worked with the shooter. Her […]
As Reuters reports, United Sporting Cos, a large firearms distributor whose roots date to the Great Depression, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday and said it plans to liquidate, hurt by falling sales after President Donald Trump was elected and as Dick’s Sporting Goods Inc began moving away from firearms. United owns longtime distributor Ellet […]
After some down months vs year-earlier numbers, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that May’s NICS total were up slightly over May 2018. All in all, good news. While not a perfect measure of firearm sales, NICS checks are a decent barometer of the state of the business. Here’s the NSSF’s press release . . […]
As a reminder to anyone hunting in California this year, the state’s full lead ammunition ban will take effect July 1. California’s lead ammo ban, which was officially signed as a new law in 2013, required the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) to gradually build up to a full prohibition. As of July 1, the ban will be in […]
FactCheck.org calls BS on President Obama’s recent lies about America’s gun laws and allegedly lax regulation told to an audience in Brazil: We asked Eric Schultz, a spokesman for the former president, what Obama meant when he said “anybody … can buy machine guns.” Schultz said the Obama used the term “machine gun,” which are fully […]
“This started out as as disturbance…We tell our community all the time that sometimes going out on disturbances is one of the most dangerous parts of our team’s job.” So says Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey after one of his deputies was shot by a man involved in an argument with a neighbor over the […]
Something extraordinary happened in Australia today. A paroled convict used a banned shotgun to open fire in downtown Darwin. He killed four people and wounded a fifth. The firearm he used — a pump action shotgun — was banned in Australia 13 years ago. That’s beside the fact that it’s illegal for a parolee to […]
Men who attack women are cowards. Men who challenge others over whether they’re entitled to park in a handicapped parking space are annoying prigs with far too much time on their hands. Put them together and you have what happened yesterday in downtown Milwaukee. Right outside of police headquarters. WISN reports that . . . […]
A would-be hold-up man strolled into a Portland, Oregon convenience store just after midnight, thinking he’d pick up some cash. Surveillance video shows him approach the store clerk and produce a hatchet from under his hoodie. That’s when the clerk in turn drew a handgun. As the Daily Mail relates . . . The unidentified […]
More carriers are equipping their pistols with red dot sights. They can get you on target fast. But what if your pistol isn’t cut for a red dot sight mount? You can buy aftermarket slides or pay a gunsmith to cut yours, but that’s not inexpensive. Strike Industries has another option. If you run a […]
We have leather-backed holsters, but they can get clammy with sweat in the summer. We have fabric-backed holsters, but they can accumulate dirt and smells over time. Versacarry’s new Comfort-Flex holster is designed to fix both problems with a Velcro’s removable backing that’s washable. Here’s their press release . . . Versacarry® Eliminates Common Problems […]
Gun owners are watching New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York very closely. The case has the potential, if it goes the way many observers (even those on the anti-gun left) anticipate, to be a landmark gun rights decision on the order of the Heller and McDonald cases. The Second […]
