Federal Judge: Open Carry Inherently Disruptive
No reasonable person would dispute that walking into a retail store openly carrying a firearm is highly disruptive conduct which is virtually certain to create a disturbance. This is so because when employees and...
58% of Americans OK With Concealed Carry; 41 % Cool With Open Carry
Rasmussen Reports. You decide. "A new national telephone survey finds that 41% of Adults are at least somewhat concerned about their safety in the presence of those who have 'concealed carry' gun permits. Fifty-eight...
Starbucks CEO: “Only Unloaded Guns at Starbucks”
So, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz screwed the pooch at the shareholder's meeting re: the whole gun control thing. Maybe. After a sensible statement about the logistical issues surrounding the idea of asking employees to...
Has The Open Carry Campaign Found a Champion in Kurt Kirby?
The so-called Open Carry movement---whose adherents openly wear their weapons to assert their right to own and carry guns---is a cause in search of a champion or two. Or three. Or more. You know;...
Should Gun Control Advocates Have A Concealed Handgun License?
Let's say you're a pro-mass transit environmentalist; you considered automobiles the devil in-car-nate. Chances are you'd have both a theoretic and emperical understanding of how cars work; what they can and can not do....
Open Carry for the UK?
Hell just got a little chillier. Still, the fact that the Christian Science Monitor (CSM) published a piece from the ultra-left wing (just kidding) Adam Smith Institute suggesting that Brits would be better off...
GeorgiaCarry.org: No Waffling On Gun Control
Ed Stone, the President of Georgia gun rights organization GeorgiaCarry.org, recently wrote about the following event in his column on the Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner website.
Matt Brannan and J.P. Mitchell were dining in the...
Why is The Brady Campaign Picking On Starbucks?
The Brady Campaign (TBC) is America's foremost---or at least most media-friendly---gun control advocacy group. Fair enough. The Brady Campaign has the right to express their views and lobby for legislation as they see fit....
Starbucks Sticks to It’s Guns. Well, Someone’s . . .
Starbucks has been the focus of a lot of pro- and anti-gun control kerfuffle lately. This after California supporters of "Open Carry" legislation---allowing licensed gun owners to carry weapons without a concealed carry permit---held...
Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?
The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...
Canadian Columnist Slams Second Amendment
"The Queen is the symbolic head of Canada and the Commonwealth. She has exactly zero power. I, too, am a citizen but I regard myself as more free than you because I don't need...
Open Carry Crusaders to Protest at Presidio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B8WEPRaNX8
The New York Times' Bay Area blog notes that the Bay Area Open Carry campaign is set to meet-up at The Presidio. No, they're not going to gather to watch the Sean Connery /...