Vedder Holsters Daily Digest: A Violent Lefty on the Loose, Israeli Carry Gone Wrong and a Soldier’s Third Arm

Have you seen this violent left wing insurrectionist? . . . Police hunt for gun theft suspect with manifesto for Trump – “The hunt continues Monday for a man suspected of stealing firearms from a Wisconsin gun store who sent an anti-government manifesto to President Donald Trump and has threatened to carry out an unspecified […]

Vedder Holsters Daily Digest: Judicial Review, Zero Tolerance and Providence’s Final Solution

Somehow we’re not optimistic . . . California Supreme Court to rule on gun law – “The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether gun manufacturers have the right to challenge a California law requiring identifying microstamps on bullets fired from semiautomatic pistols, a requirement the manufacturers claim can’t be met with current technology. A state appeals court […]

Valentine’s Day Carnage in Chicago: What We Know So Far

On Valentine’s Day in Chicago, violent criminal predators shot nine people, killing four. Facebook Live streamed the highest profile incident, attracting even more national publicity. In that case . . . a triple-victim attack ended with two fatalities. A two-year-old toddler took a round to the head and died as part of a crime broadcast live. […]

NRA is Anti-Immigrant, Like Trump (Says ‘The Trace’)

Since they began publication, Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun agitators at The Trace have disguised themselves as a source of unbiased information on gun laws and “gun violence.” The hidden agenda has served them well, allowing them entry to Google News listings (unlike TTAG). Yes, well, as Little Richard sang, the girl can’t help it. LaPierre set down the […]

California’s Merced Sun-Star’s Lies About Gun Research Grant

“In California, gun-related homicide and suicide has fallen by more than 20 percent during the past 15 years, mercedsunstar.com’s Editorial Board opines. “Across the nation, the rate of gun-related deaths has been stable. Why?” Wait. What? Check out this chart from pewresearch.org: Even if we accept the Editorial Board’s initial, unsubstantiated estimate of a 20 percent […]

Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Mind the Reactionary Gap

A Sudanese refugee named Omer Ismail Ali found himself rapidly and promiscuously perforated by a police officer in Kelso, Washington recently. Ali assumed room temperature shortly after storming into a convenience store with a four-foot long stick and beating everyone in sight. His rampage didn’t last long. A police officer happened to be in the […]

The New York Times: Chicago’s “Murder Problem” is Worse Than New York’s City Because Guns!

“People who know both cities say there are some significant differences in policing, especially around the issue of guns,” Ford Fessenden and Haeyooun Park write at nytimes.com. “The homicide rate in Chicago is just a little higher than in New York when guns aren’t involved. But when it comes to shootings, both fatal and not, Chicago […]

Georgia Governor Deal: Why I Vetoed Campus Carry

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a bill that would have “allowed” Peach Tree State residents to exercise their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Residents who are already “allowed” to carry a concealed weapon in public (i.e., issued a license by the state State after the applicant has undergone a criminal background check […]

TTAG Daily Digest 4.14.16

Yesterday was Open Carry Day at the Michigan state capital in Lansing. “’I was watching them out my office window and they were marching around the Capitol with signs and guns. And if they entered the Capitol, they would have to leave their sign outside,’ but not their firearms, said state Rep. Jeremy Moss, D-Southfield, one […]

BREAKING: GA Legislature Passes Campus Carry Bill

By James England via concealednation.org Georgia lawmakers have successfully passed legislation through both the House and Senate that would enable concealed carry on the state’s campuses. The new bill, passed on Friday 37 to 17, still needs to be signed by Governor Nathan Deal before it becomes law. According to this bill, concealed carriers would not be […]

Georgia Moves Towards Campus Carry

Yesterday the Georgia House passed a campus safety act that restores some Second Amendment rights to people who have a Georgia Weapons Carry License (WCL). In 2014, a gun law reform bill passed that seemed to allow carry on campus for people with a WCL, but the wording allowed for ambiguity of interpretation. The reform […]