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Three Home Invaders Shot This Week in Unrelated Self-Defense Shootings, DGUs That Some People Call a ‘Myth’

October 12, 2018 by admin

Contrary to what some would have you believe, defensive gun uses happen literally every single day. Over a million annually, preventing assaults, robberies, rapes and murders. Besides other stories we’ve already reported, here are three more DGUs that barely made the news, further discrediting the myth that guns don’t make a home safer. One happened early … Read more

The Anti-Gun Left Isn’t Taking the Kavanaugh Confirmation Well

October 7, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

We are deeply troubled by Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court. When it comes to Second Amendment cases, we urge Judge Kavanaugh to consider the thousands of lives that have been saved by common-sense gun laws. — Everytown (@Everytown) October 6, 2018 #Kavanaugh‘s ordeal is just beginning. We will never forgive or forget and … Read more

Gabrielle Giffords: “100 Lives a Day Are Lost Because of Guns”

September 26, 2018 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

“If gun violence feels like it’s become an everyday occurrence, that’s because it is. Every single day, nearly 100 lives are lost because of guns. But every time you hear news of another shooting, remind yourself that this level of gun violence is not normal. No other developed nation experiences this kind of daily heartbreak … Read more

The Singer 1911, DiFi Lies and Another Giffords Low – TTAG Daily Digest

September 24, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

When the Singer Sewing Machine Company Built the Best .45 Pistol Ever Made Rock Island sold one in 2010 for $80,500 . . . In 1939, the U.S. War Department contracted the Singer Sewing Machine Company to build 500 1911A1s. The contract, Educational Order W-ORD-396, was a test to see if Singer could produce 100 … Read more

Starving SlideFire, Celebrating a Massacre and the Pink Pistols is Growing – TTAG Daily Digest

June 16, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

Bank Withheld $1.6 Million From Top Bump Stock Maker After Las Vegas Shooting The financial system’s attack on gun makers and equipment companies started earlier than we knew . . . The inventor and manufacturer of the bump stock is suing the bank that once processed its online sales, claiming the financial institution is holding … Read more

They Know They Can’t Win If They Call It Gun Control – Quote of the Day

April 26, 2018 by Dan Zimmerman

“For a long time, gun safety had kind of fallen off the radar as a major issue. We want to re-focus attention on gun safety as something [voters] should be thinking about when deciding who to support.” – Giffords political director Isabelle James in 8 races where gun control is front and center [via washingtonexaminer.com]

Here We Go Again: Arizona Gun Rampages

June 2, 2011 by ttag

From the “Just when you thought it was safe to put Arizona out of your mind re: mass murders” file comes this news item, courtesy of Reuters:

AP: Loners Hard to Catch. In Other News, Water is Still Wet.

January 17, 2011 by ttag

Yep. The crack reporters at the Associated (de)Press(ed – hat tip to Mark Levin) are rested, ready and a-rarin’ to go, with coverage on the Jared Lee Loughner phenomenon. Well, that is if you count “incompetent sheriff’s apologist” as Excellence in Journalism. When even the New York Times feels obligated to point out that the police and sheriff’s office knew about Loughner long before the attack, and had several run-ins with him, you’ve got to enjoy the contortions the AP’s going through, to spin the story to exonerate the sheriff, and implicate the Right.

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Brett Reese

January 17, 2011 by ttag

Speaking as one scrupulously-law-abiding citizen who doesn’t do anything, ever, that would endanger the status of his concealed handgun license, I’m scratching my head over Greeley, Colorado school board member/DJ Brett Reese and his behavior. Well, kinda. You see, it also turns out he’s apparently a far-right whack job (hey, MikeB302000, we found one!), who’s got a hair up his…um…ejector port about the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, among other things . . .

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