TTAG’s most popular content has always been our gun reviews. But while our objective opinions on rifles, pistols and shotguns may draw the most readers over time, breaking news tends to get a lot of attention here, too.
Looking back at 2019, a few posts drew — by far — the most eyeballs and attention of our readers. Here are the stories that grabbed your attention most last year, in ascending order . . .
[VIDEO] Home Owner Opening Fire on 4 Home Invaders Caught on Camera
From wkyt.com:
A Kentucky sheriff’s office has released video of a home invasion where the homeowner and one of the intruders exchanged gunfire.
Warren County deputies responded to a home on Louisville Road Wednesday night after receiving a call about shots being fired. When they arrived, they found the homeowner had a gunshot wound to his right hand.
[VIDEO] Antifa Member Shot To Death After Drawing Down on Eugene, OR Cops in School
Police believe the radical Antifa activist showed up at his daughter’s school on January 11 intending to pick her up. Cascade Middle School administrators, however, knew that he had recently lost custody of his child and called police to remove him from school property. What they didn’t know was Charlie had a gun on his hip along with a backpack full of loaded magazines and more 9mm ammunition.
Anti-Gun Chicago Alderman Ed Burke Charged With Extortion, Had 23 Guns in His Office
Ed Burke, Chicago’s longest-serving alderman and one if its most powerful, was charged with extortion in federal court on Thursday. The chairman of the city’s finance committee, who’s been in office for fifty years after succeeding his father, knows a thing or two about money.
According to federal investigators, the former city cop used his power to tie up the business licensing process for a southwest Chicago Burger King restaurant to force the owners to steer their legal business to his firm. …
But in an almost Leland Yee-like twist, when the feds raided the allegedly corrupt alderman’s offices, they found the long-time gun control proponent was armed to the teeth.
Alaska Bureaucrat Picks Wrong Gun Owner to Bully, Gets 15-Day Unpaid Leave
Marti Buscaglia, the executive director of the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights, spotted a “Black Rifles Matter” sticker on Linegar’s commercial pickup truck parked in the building’s parking lot. That little sticker proved a big deal to the state-employed social justice warrior.
She snapped a photo and promptly posted it on the official Alaska State Commission for Human Rights website with the caption, “In what world is this okay?” She did this on state computers, on state time on an official state of Alaska social media page. As though her position allows her to regulate Alaskans’ free speech rights.
And the biggest TTAG gun story in 2019 — the most-read by a very wide margin — was this one . . .
Video Shows Armed Fort Worth Church Security Take Down Hooded Shooter
Don’t look now, but this is a textbook version of a good guy with a gun taking down a bad guy with a shotgun. Even though we’ve been told by all the smartest people that the whole good guy thing is a myth.
Two people have reportedly been killed, in addition to the shooter. But had the church not had armed individuals in the congregation ready to respond, this could have been a far worse situation than it already was.