Sacramento Wants You to Turn In Your Gun for a $50 Gas Card

“Sacramento police want your guns in exchange for gas money,” says a May 6 Sacramento Bee headline. The department asks residents to give away their firearms, which the Second Amendment authorizes them to keep and bear, for a $50 gas gift card that would not even provide a fill-up for many vehicles.  The department claims it will not … Read more

UC Davis Study Reveals What Happens to a Disarmed Populace

By Lee Williams California is a violent place, despite having some of the most stringent anti-gun laws in the country. A new study by the University of California-Davis Firearm Violence Research Center is damning. It reveals that millions of adults in the Golden State have had at least one exposure to what the anti-gun researchers … Read more

Should FDA regulate guns? [VIDEO]

This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights.  Florida Professor: The FDA Should Regulate Firearms Lars Noah, a University of Florida law professor is arguing that the FDA’s authority over devices that can “affect the structure or function of … Read more

Washington Post: ‘Excess’ Legal Gun Purchases Behind Nationwide Spike in Shootings

Earlier this morning, police officers from the 73rd Precinct responded to a 911 call of a male and female shot in front of 41 New Lots Avenue. When they arrived, they discovered a male with a gunshot wound to the head and a female with multiple gunshot wounds. pic.twitter.com/uXNwmhatsO — Chief Rodney Harrison (@NYPDDetectives) July … Read more

Does Handgun Ownership Lead to Suicide?

By Robert B. Young, MD Garen Wintemute, MD (of course) et. al have come up with another study to publish, this one in their anti-gun co-conspirator, The New England Journal of Medicine, purporting to show that gun owners are more likely to commit suicide over time than those who do not own guns. Thanks to Carl Bussjaeger for … Read more