Crime and Punishment

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AmWHobTnk Your concealed carry firearm is the gun you're most likely to use on another human being. God forbid you should ever need to do so. But if you do, rest assured that you will...

Queensland, to be precise. "ANY ITEM that looks like a gun will have to be licensed under several changes to the Weapons Act being considered by the Queensland State Government," news.com.au reports. "Even guns...

"Randy Hawes, minister state for mining, says he's heard some First Nations members talking about using shotguns and giving their lives to prevent Taseko's Prosperity Mine project," ctvbc.ctv.ca reports. "He says he understands the...

For those of you who haven't seen the Jack Nicholson movie Hoffa, James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa was the Teamsters' boss who was so politically connected that Richard Nixon pardoned the union man for jury...

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I've taken a number of home defense courses. At the beginning of each class, I imagine an episode of Family Guy. Brian's sitting in a row of students. The firearms instructor's got guns everywhere, at...

Yesterday, a police officer's firearm was cleared of blowing a three-year-old boy's thumb to smithereens. Today, we learn that a cop's gun was pronounced guilty of shooting a suspected drug dealer. Which really isn't a big...

Nope. And I have to say it's incredibly refreshing to read a piece from Time mag's media moguls that shoots down Detroit's gun buyback program with TTAGian gusto. Motown blogger Darrell Dawsey penned the...

Here's an update on TTAG's Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day for August 24 from charlotte.news14.com. Police say no charges will be filed against a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who's gun was involved in an accidental...

North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland are all under an official state of emergency ahead of Hurricane Earl. In North Carolina, residents no longer have the right to carry a gun. "This highlights exactly why...

We've already run a video wherein a criminal defense attorney presents an exhaustive and compelling case for not talking to the police before, during or after arrest. We'll have another post on that later,...

And there you have it: the Philadelphia Police Department's view of its citizens' right to bear arms.  This via Lt. Fran Healy, special adviser to the police commissioner, responding to a story  about...