The vast majority of gun owners practice safe gun handling on a regular basis. The four rules of firearm safety are easy to memorize and simple to follow. You have to break at least two of them for something bad to happen. But with 330,000,000 people in the US, the law of averages means there […]
Remember these things? We wrote about the latest trend in gender reveal parties earlier this year. The idea is the proud parents gather all of their friends and relatives, then one of them shoots either a blue or a pink binary target to let the whole world know that they’re the first parents ever in […]
On Sunday, August 19, Charles Arant, 73, of Tallahassee, Florida was arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department for pulling a gun on his neighbor’s family because he thought they were burglars. According to WTXL News; the neighbor told TPD that he was unpacking his car with his family at their home when Arant walked out […]
UPDATE: According to nbcdfw.com, Ms. Valdez’s pistol has been found in the sheriff’s department property room: The sheriff’s department said Tuesday the Beretta 9mm pistol issued to Valdez and reported last week to be missing was found during a “thorough inventory of every weapon” in the property room. “After a previous audit failed to locate the weapon, […]
Brett Taylor of Tallahassee, FL, owner of a local Lindy’s Chicken restaurant, was arrested last week by the Leon County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday over an incident that occurred in a McDonald’s drive-thru. A video showed him pulling a handgun and threatening employees after arguing over slow service. Investigators say on Aug. 1, Taylor was […]
According to the Omaha World-Herald, Seth Rennie was awfully proud of his new .410 shotgun. So proud, in fact, that the 20-year-old wanted to show it to his mother. Why that included pointing it in her direction really isn’t really clear. While showing her how to use the shotgun, which Rennie thought was unloaded, a […]
Yesterday we showed you an unusual situation. A man who had holstered his concealed carry pistol later bent over, causing the gun to discharge. The question was…how did that happen? Many of you had your theories (bad holster, shirt got in the way, it’s a GLOCK!). This morning, we have a discharge of a different […]
A customer at a Santa Ana, California restaurant, waiting in his car for his burger and fries, looked through the drive-thru window and saw a masked man with a gun walk in and demand cash. The driver then pulled a gun and opened fire on the armed robber. At least one shot hits the drink […]
You’d think that would be fairly obvious. After all, safe storage practices dictate that a handgun should be on your hip or in your safe. Notice there’s no mention there of major appliances. Besides, there are plenty of good, affordable storage options out there if you want to keep a pistol in close proximity. But […]
Why is it that smoke alarms always beep in the middle of the night? It never happens on a Saturday afternoon, when grabbing a ladder and a replacement battery is no problem. Then there are the overly-sensitive kind that beep if you let the bacon go two minutes too long. That seems to be the […]
Since the Parkland shooting, many teachers have decided that passive resistance and relying on someone else to provide school security is no longer an option. Hundreds of them nationwide have received training as districts decide to allow teachers to defend themselves and their students from potential shooters using firearms. So you’ll probably understand why advocates of […]
Long story short, Alexis Bukrym (above) shot her “pranking” roommate Anthony Schwartz, mistaking him for a lethal threat. Our good friends at The Trace, doing what they’re paid so handsomely to do, wave the bloody flag on Ms. Bukrym’s behalf, exploiting the tragedy as proof — proof! — that armed self-defense is a bad, bad thing […]
