Question of the Day: Are Cops Too Fat for Gunfights? What About You?
A gun is a great leveler. A small, weak, handicapped and/or elderly person can defend themselves against any attacker. Yes well, there are handicaps and there are handicaps. In one of his recent email blasts,...
Washington Post Renews Its Attack on Realco Guns
And there I was thinking that the Washington Post had spent all it ammo against gun dealers whose sales were tied to criminal activity. This morning the WaPo unleashed a fresh salvo, taking their...
Grand Rapids Press: Lock Up Your Guns!
The Grand Rapids Press must've been bummed when the Washington Post published the results of its year-long investigation into the source of firearms used in local crimes. Not that the WaPo piece had anything substantive...
Question of the Day: What Would You Have Done?
From adelaidenow.com.au's post 'Panic room' foils eastern suburbs home raid:
The woman . . . had only just gone to bed around 9.30pm when two men used iron bars to smash through the front door. Her...
ATF Nabs One Felon With Two Guns
Uncle Sam's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (and Really Big Fires) is the $1 billion dollar-plus per year agency charged with arresting perps who violate federal gun laws. This website has long...
Thoughts on Equipment Placement, Conditioned Response, Reaction Time, Hick’s Law, the 21 foot guideline,...
The following article was written by Ben Kurata, Senior Staff Instructor at Texas' International Training, Inc. We republish it here with the permission of the article's sponsor, Action Targets
Recently, a transit Officer was convicted of...
Petit Home Invasion: What Went Wrong?
"On Thursday's episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr. William Petit sits down with Oprah in his first interview since the tragic loss of his wife, Jennifer, and their two young daughters, Hayley and Michaela,...
Gun Control: Time to Close the Loophole Loopholes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pCZ5E5tn4I
There are three types of bad guys: opportunists, professionals and psychos . . .
Opportunists commit crimes without planning or forethought, when the need for money is high (like them) and there's a chance they...
Judge Allows Video—But Maybe Not Audio—of Boy’s Death In MA Machine Gun Trial
The New York Times reports that Judge Peter A. Velis of Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, Mass. has ruled that jurors will watch video of 8-year-old Christopher Bizilj shooting himself in the head with a machine...
Mexican Children Get Firearms Response Training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa9-hLfWjEo
And the good news is . . . the drills may save lives. (Eyeore seems to have forgotten that bit.)
How Not to Handle a Home Invasion
http://ktvi.vid.trb.com/player/PaperVideoTest.swf
Whoa! How many mistakes can you make and still live to tell the tale? One, if you know there's a threat and you have the time, call the cops. THEN deal. Two, don't deal....
ATF Project Gunrunner Nets 16 Guns (Not Shown)
As we reported previously, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) recently hit up Uncle Sam for $81.3 million to fund Project Gunrunner. That's the program the ATF created to stem the...