OMG! A Gun! A State Senator with a Gun! Who Shows It To People!...

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Michigan State Senator Arlan Meekhof "made a dramatic show this week as he pulled back his coat to reveal his gun during a Senate committee meeting," hollandsentinel.com reports. Dramatic perhaps. Illegal? No. Michigan is an open carry...

Quote of the Day: Radio Silence Edition

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"The Brady Campaign is arguably America’s most successful gun-control organization. It has helped advocate for successfully passed laws and has filed suits on behalf of victims of gun violence. Yet they have not issued...

Santorum “Supporter” at Gun Range: “Pretend It’s Obama”

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If you want to drive yourself crazy, click here for the expected left-wing agit-prop interpretation of the "pretend it's Obama" remark jokingly offered by an observer during the Rick's Santorum's range time. The...

Pike County to Cook County: Drop Dead

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Fed up with the control the Chicago machine has exercised over Illinois state politics in general and firearms laws specifically, Pike County has voted to legalize concealed carry effective immediately. The measure was approved...

Question of the Day: Are All Gun Laws Bad?

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Across the United States, gun rights advocate are rolling back restrictive firearms laws. With the exception of Chicago's post-McDonald anti-gun city ordinances and California's recent ban on open carry, we've seen a consistent move...

Sanford Commissioners Vote No Confidence in Chief Bill Lee Jr. After Trayvon Martin Shooting

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The Sanford, Florida city commission, in a 3-2 vote, signaled their lack if confidence in police chief Bill Lee Jr. over the handling of the Trayvon Martin shooting investigation. What that vote means, though,...

Brady Campaign Prez: Right to Carry = More Trayvon Martin Shootings

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Brady Campaign Vice-President Dennis Henigan is once again presenting a carefully woven fabric of undulating lies, half-truths, misstatements and outright fabrications. He somehow has linked the recent court decision in Woolard v. Sheridan...

Ryan Jerome Takes Same NYC Plea Deal as Meredith Graves

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After earlier refusing a plea deal offered by the city of New York to settle felony gun possession charges, former Marine Ryan Jerome accepted the same misdemeanor plea deal yesterday that Tennessean Meredith Graves...

Life Imitates Art: Trayvon Martin Shooting is Bonfire of the Vanities Redux

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Remember Tom Wolfe's 80's novel Bonfire of the Vanities? Henry Lamb was the hit-and-run victim of a callous investment banker's mistress. Maria Ruskin struck Lamb with money man Sherman McCoy's Mercedes when the pair missed...

ATF Death Watch 140: The Non-Retail Connection

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You have to take your little victories where you get get 'em. We're not sure this actually constitutes a win, but it's a new week, spring has sprung and we're feeling more half full...

More Gun Laws to Prevent Accidental Shootings. Or Something.

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Friday March 16th's Seattle Times had four letters to the editor, all of which were about the tragedies of three accidental child shootings in recent weeks. The first and last of which were especially...

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Home Town Pantry, Again

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Springfield is, of course, the capital of the great state of Illinois, one of the least firearm-friendly locales in the nation. Most of the anti-gun antipathy  there emanates from the corrupt county of Cook...