MSNBC: Six Million Americans Licensed for Concealed Carry

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It's a GD shame that MSNBC couldn't give a proper citation for that figure. And gives us some idea of how many actually carry. And where. And when. And how. And why. All we...

Violence Policy Center: “Concealed Carry Killers” March Update

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"Because most state systems that allow the carrying of concealed handguns in public by private citizens release little data about crimes committed by permit holders, the VPC reviews and tallies concealed handgun permit...

Should Gun Control Advocates Have A Concealed Handgun License?

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Let's say you're a pro-mass transit environmentalist; you considered automobiles the devil in-car-nate. Chances are you'd have both a theoretic and emperical understanding of how cars work; what they can and can not do....

Texas Starbucks Robbed At Gunpoint

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Lost among the hyperbole of Starbucks' policy of allowing local custom/laws to determine their position on conceal carry is the question: "has Starbucks ever been robbed at gunpoint?" To which I can reply without...

Is This Why the African American Community Doesn’t Carry Guns?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTs-LzTxRI I've been putting a lot of time and thought into the racial implications of U.S. gun laws. As you may know, American gun control legislation has its roots in the south, as a method...

GeorgiaCarry.org: No Waffling On Gun Control

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Ed Stone, the President of Georgia gun rights organization GeorgiaCarry.org, recently wrote about the following event in his column on the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner website. Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell were dining in the...

Campaign to Arm and Train American Worshippers Continues

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Dr. Ignatius Piazza is like a dog with a bone. When he finds a media meme that justifies his "most everyone should be armed and extremely well-trained," the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute founder...

Ha! Connecticut Considers Legalizing Tasers for Concealed Carry

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I'm not shilling for Taser, I swear. It was the AP who made TTAG's stun gun coverage a trifecta. To wit: the news org reports that The Nutmeg State is considering a bill that...

School Suspends 6-Year-Old for Playing Guns With His Fingers. Amongst Other Things. Allegedly.

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C'mon, really? The idea that a six-year-old was suspended from a Michigan kindergarten for playing guns with his fingers is just Rush Limbaugh having a laugh at the driveby media, right? Not according...

Evansville Gun Control Columnist: Charmed Life or Sensible Soul?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhgwHQCJwWw I spent the better part of yesterday watching the full version of this Thunder Ranch video on shotgun defense. Actually, it was only about twenty minutes. But it SEEMED to take up most of...

Hollywood Versus Handguns

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Films and firearms. Even before movies had sound, directors, producers and studios discovered that a lot of action, a bit of violence, and a whole lotta shootin' puts bums on seats. Then as now,...

Romney: Palin is Armed and Dangerous

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Ha! We SO knew that! Well, actually, not exactly. The only gun we can positively identify as belonging to Republican ex-Governor and non-presidential candidate Sarah Palin is the Henry Repeating Arms "Big Boy," which...