Illinois Man Has Nearly Fatal Negligent Discharge in Peoria Doctor’s Office
While virtually all gun owners act responsibly and ethically with their guns, sometimes “that guy” can’t do either. We call them squirrels in our concealed carry classes. Anyway, one of these squirrels nearly killed himself with a negligent discharge during a medical office visit in Peoria last week. The man carried a Cobra .38 Special […]
Man Arrested After Pulling a Gun on MAGA Hat-Wearing Sams Club Customers
Most of the news concerning MAGA hats in recent days has been concerning bogus accounts of Trump supporters allegedly assaulting pedestrians in Chicago. And as we noted, some consider the red hats to be the modern equivalent of a Klan hood. Yesterday, however, things were ratcheted up to a new level in a Bowling Green, […]
VIDEO Released of Road Rage Shooting Of Minneapolis School Bus Driver
Kenneth W. Lilly, an armed security guard, got into an altercation with a 78-year-old school bus driver on a snowy Minneapolis area interstate Tuesday. In a fit of apparent road rage, Lilly exited his car, approached the bus and fired five shots at the driver. The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released this video of […]
Woman ‘Accidentally’ Kills Her Boyfriend While Posing for Snapchat Photo
On December 23, 2018 in Austin, Texas, a 20-year-old woman named Autumn Ravonne King shot and killed her boyfriend, 26-year-old Erick Charles Allen. Three weeks later, King is being held on a manslaughter charge with bail set at $200,000. According to King, her boyfriend’s death was an accident: Allen was preparing to take a Snapchat […]
5-year-old Shoots Himself in the Face With Gun He Found in His Mother’s Car
On today’s episode of Your Vehicle is Not a Gun Safe, tragedy struck: Police have released more information about the shooting of 5-year-old outside a Wendy’s restaurant in North Carolina on Sunday. The boy is in critical condition after being shot in the face, according to WGHP. The boy, described as about 5 years old, […]
Montana Man Shot At When He Was Mistaken for Bigfoot
While target shooting on public land outside of Helena, Montana, a 27-year old man suddenly found himself taking incoming fire. The Idaho Statesman tells us that the near-victim was setting up fresh targets when bullets began whizzing by him and striking the ground around his feet. Ducking behind trees for cover, the man waited for […]
Beware: ‘Assault Rifle’ Shoots OK Hunter Twice and Throws Him Out of Tree Stand
Oklahoma News 4 puts a rather blatant slant on a Thanksgiving Day hunting accident in a story they titled ‘Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Warns Against Hunting with Assault Rifles.’ Granted it would have helped if the DNR/DoW guy they interviewed hadn’t also thrown around the phrase “assault rifle” like it was pepper on mashed potatoes. […]
How Can You Lose a $50,000 ‘Assault Rifle’?
How do criminals get their guns? They’re not filling out 4473 forms at the counter of your local gun store. Depending on the source you look at, over 200,000 firearms are stolen each year. One thing that gun owners can do to reduce that number is to make it harder for would-be thieves to get […]
VIDEO: This Is Why We Have Range Safety Officers
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 […]
Oops! Gender Reveal Ballistic Boom Starts 45,000 Acre Wildfire, Costs Dad Over $100,000
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 […]
Florida Man Gets Drunk, Holds Neighbors at Gunpoint Mistaking Them For Burglars
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 […]
