If you’ve been following the news this week, you’re probably aware of the furious kowtowing the National Basketball Association has been doing in order to avoid displeasing the Chinese Communist Party any more than it already has. The Houston Rockets’ general manager, Daryl Morey, put up a since-deleted tweeted in support of Hongkongers who have […]
Pity the poor United Nations. Or not. The international org on Turtle Bay that gives equal say to bastions of freedom like North Korea, Cuba and Venezuela as America has reportedly nearly exhausted its financial reserves. If nothing changed, the UN will apparently run out of money by the end of this month. Someone pass […]
By Second Amendment Foundation The Second Amendment Foundation today cheered the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to move forward with a case that challenges a New York City gun law that was so restrictive the city amended it, and then tried to get the high court to dismiss the case. “We’re delighted that the Supreme Court […]
By Dennis Petrocelli, MD Virginians have the opportunity soon to vote for candidates for all of the seats in the General Assembly—both Delegates and State Senators. Millions of dollars are pouring in from out-of-state in a shameless attempt to hijack the election and shift the political orientation of the Commonwealth from red to blue. Second […]
Reader Thundervoice writes . . . Earlier this week, a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed in Connecticut, resulting in seven fatalities and six people injured. That particular plane was a historic war bird that traveled the country giving rides to individuals wanting to get some small sense of what it was like for members of the […]
John, a sheepdog from Summerville, SC sends his “Fall” submission. Via Everyday Carry. In his pocket, he wears a Streamlight Pro-Tac 1L AA flashlight. And what he says is a Kershaw Emerson Knife… Even though I think it’s just an Emerson knife. And Emerson makes darn fine blades. Throw in a Gen 2 GLOCK 19 […]
Two Texas firms are combining their talents to create mo’ bettah suppressors for ARs and other rifles. From a recent release: F-1 Firearms, LLC., the Spring, Texas manufacturer of AR-style rifles and skeletonizing features, and Crux Suppressors, which manufactures lightweight titanium silencers, have formed a joint-operating and technology-sharing agreement to supply exciting firearms-suppression devices to […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. On The Growing Executive, The Waning Judicial, and President Trump Last week I penned an article about President Trump’s relationship with gun rights. My friend John Boch made some counterpoints, and a lot of you might […]
The current impeachment inquiry against President Trump is based on an anonymous whistleblower complaint lodged by an intelligence officer. That complaint and the Democrats’ impeachment push that resulted may have doomed any chance they had of getting a background check or red flag bill passed. The Second Amendment Foundation looks at the anonymous complaint and […]
Matt Larosiere gets it half right in Gun Rights Aren’t Safe in a Trump Presidency. Frankly, only a fool would think gun rights are safe in any presidency. Especially while plutocrats like Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and others seem so willing to spend big dollars to sway the less-informed. Again, Matt makes some good points […]
[ED: Earlier this year, when Maryland’s legislature was considering a range of new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, a local group called Patriot Picket attended the committee hearings in Annapolis letting legislators know that they would not comply. Read our post on the the group and the anti-gunners’ resulting freak-out here. […]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) today is praising a milestone achievement of a 241 percent increase of state submissions of adjudicated mental health records to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System database since the firearms industry launched the FixNICS® campaign in 2013. Just 1.7 million such records existed in the FBI’s database when NSSF […]
