Gun Nation

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  Air war. No-fly zone. Surgical strike. No combat troops. As the President caves on sending missiles into Syria without Congressional authorization, I just want to ask: what is it with all this crap...

"The NFL launched a preemptive strike against playful celebration gestures and fined the New York Jets' Matt Simms for pretending his hands were guns," bleacherreport.com reports. The website got the heads-up from Newsday sports writer Kimberly...

Ever since the first "Obama surge," the civilian disarmament industry's been telling the world that the gun industry's soaring sales are down to racist, right-wing paranoid OFWG's stocking-up for armed insurrection . The People...

"This, remember, is a constitutional issue. It is not a political one. Contra the zeitgeist, 'constitutional' and 'unconstitutional' are not synonyms for 'things I like' and 'things I don’t like,' but statements of legal fact. If...

"This is what it looks like when a gun is pointing at you," gizmodo.com points out (for the visually impaired). "It's a terrifying view that I hope nobody ever has to see." See what...

So here I am, blogging at Starbucks in Austin, carrying concealed in the liberal heart of red state Texas. The city of tall men and beautiful women may not be entirely representative of Starbucks...

TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia are pretty much unanimous when it comes to the advisability of posting "we will shoot you dead" warning signs outside private residences. The notices alert criminals to the presence of stealable...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_iGpXb1Fto I have a sneaking suspicion TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia were inspired by Westerns---in a good way. You know: honor, courage, justice, gun fighting. High Noon. True Grit. That sort of thing. By the same token,...

According to perceived wisdom, the left is pro-environment, pro-choice, pro-regulation and anti-gun; while the right is anti-environment (a.k.a., pro-growth), anti-Big Brother, anti-abortion and pro-gun. As TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia have proven time and time again,...

I detest gun buybacks. Not only are they anti-gun agitprop---security theater for politically correct politicians bent on civilian disarmament---but they destroy tens of thousands of perfectly good guns at taxpayers' expense (even when we're...

TTAG reader BG writes: "A friend from Indiana said his niece was at an Indianapolis-area WalMart recently and took this picture of a lady she saw while shopping. Yes, disturbing on so many levels. Does...