OH YES THEY DID: House Votes to Allow Concealed Carry Across State Lines
Posted: December 7, 2017 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Law & Justice, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Conceal Carry, Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, Congress, Guns, Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution Leave a commentKelly Cohen reports: The House passed legislation Wednesday that would allow concealed carry permit holders from one state to legally carry their guns in other states.
Lawmakers passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which also includes language aimed at improving the federal background check system more commonly known as NICS. The combined bill passed 231-198; six Democrats voted for it, and 14 Republicans voted against it.
The legislation is the first gun legislation to be passed by the House in the wake of major mass shootings in both Las Vegas and Texas. While Democrats argued the concealed carry legislation would only add to gun violence, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., said the legislation is the best way “not to infringe on the rights of law-abiding citizens, but to enforce the laws against criminals.”
“This bill is about the simple proposition that law-abiding Americans should be able to exercise their right to self defense, even when they cross out of their states’ borders,” he said last week. “That is their constitutional right.”
But Democrats angrily opposed the bill, and said it makes no sense to consider legislation easing rules for gun owners after so many tragic shootings around the country. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, D-Conn., whose district includes Newtown, where 20 children were shot to death in 2012, called the bill an “outrage.”
“This will should be called the Act to Carry Any Gun, Anywhere, Any Time, by Anyone,” she said. “The Concealed Carry Reciprocity bill is an outrage and an insult to the families in Newtown and to the hundreds of families who have lost loved ones to gun violence who are gathered here today, at the Capitol, for the fifth annual vigil on gun violence.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Chemical Engineers & Camera Manufacturers: Top 10 Things You Didn’t Know About the Glock 17
Posted: January 10, 2017 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Science & Technology, Self Defense | Tags: Austria, Cameras, design, Engineering, firearms, Glock, Glock 17, Guns, Pistol, Semi-automatic pistol, Switzerland, video Leave a comment
[VIDEO] 50BMG vs Pumpkins
Posted: November 2, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere | Tags: firearms, Guns, Halloween, Pumpkins, video Leave a comment
American Shooter Wins First Gold of the Olympics
Posted: August 6, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Global, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere | Tags: 2016 Summer Olympics, Air Rifle Event, Belo Horizonte, Brazilian people, Competition, Dilma Rousseff, firearms, Guns, International Olympic Committee, Melanie Leupolz, Olympic games, Rifles, Rio de Janeiro, Sport Shooting, Target shooting, Thomas Bach, United States Leave a commentStacy Dash writes:
I love to see strong American women with guns. Way to go, Team USA!
American teenager Virginia Thrasher won the first gold medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games on Saturday, holding her nerve against two Chinese Olympic champions to clinch the women’s 10m air rifle event.
The 19-year-old American edged out China’s Du Li, gold in Athens in 2004, with an Olympic-record score of 208. Defending Olympic champion Yi Siling, also of China, took the bronze medal… Read the rest of this entry »
Despite Gun Control Rhetoric, Obama Arms Federal Civilian Agencies More than Ever
Posted: July 6, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense, White House | Tags: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, AR-15, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Democratic Party (United States), Food and Drug Administration, Guns, Internal Revenue Service, John Catsimatidis, Military weapons, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, Tom Ridge, United States, United States Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, United States Environmental Protection Agency 1 CommentAccording to a recent report from openthebooks.com, non-military spending on guns, ammo and military-style equipment soared from $119.3 million in 2008, President George W. Bush’s last year in office, to a high of $224.7 million dollars in 2012, the year Obama won re-election.
Kellan Howell report: The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service doesn’t seem like a Wild West sort of federal agency since its biologists mostly check on the human health impact of animal and plant species.
“Much of this spending on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment is redundant, inefficient and unnecessary.”
But it reported buying $4.7 million in high-powered weapons, ammunition and military gear during the last decade, including shotguns, night vision goggles, and propane cannons, according to federal purchasing records reviewed by the nonpartisan government spending watchdog openthebooks.com.
About $1.7 million of that spending occurred in 2014 alone.
The agency says it needs the equipment to protect its workers in the wild from feral swine, more commonly known as wild hogs. But spending critics like openthebooks.com see such purchases as part of a much larger trend toward militarizing federal civilian agencies and local police at taxpayer expense.
“Beyond automatic rifles, armored cars and hollow-round bullets, some agencies seemed to have expanded their purchases to the more sublime, even booking hundreds of thousands of dollars of paint ball equipment, the report showed.”
And the irony is such purchases have massively expanded over the last decade, even as President Obama has repeatedly pushed to limit access to high-powered gun and weapons in America, most recently after the Orlando terror attack last month.
“This massacre is, therefore, a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub,” the president said after the most recent mass shooting.
But on his watch, government agencies are arming themselves more than ever before.
According to a recent report from openthebooks.com, non-military spending on guns, ammo and military-style equipment soared from $119.3 million in 2008, President George W. Bush’s last year in office, to a high of $224.7 million dollars in 2012, the year Obama won re-election.
In 2014, the latest year for which there are complete records, total militarized spending by civilian federal agencies dropped to $150 million, still much higher than the end of the Bush years.
The Department of Homeland Security was the biggest spender on guns and ammo, requesting to purchase 1.7 billion bullets alone since 2004. Read the rest of this entry »
Elizabeth Warren’s Change of Heart
Posted: June 21, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Humor, Politics, Self Defense, Terrorism | Tags: Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, California Democratic Party, Congress, Elizabeth Warren, firearms, GOP, Gun control, Guns, Islamism, Orlando Shooting, Parody, satire, Self-defense, Senate Leave a comment[VIDEO] Pathological Media Obsesses Over Gun Control in Wake of Orlando Attack
Posted: June 20, 2016 Filed under: Breaking News, Crime & Corruption, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Gun control, Guns, media, Media bias, news 1 Comment
NARRATIVE, INTERRUPTED: U.S. Becoming Safer Compared to Europe in Both Fatalities and Frequency of Mass Public Shootings
Posted: January 8, 2016 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Politics, Self Defense, Terrorism | Tags: #NotJustAGun, Brussels, Citizenship of the European Union, European Council, European Union, Gun control, Gun violence, Guns, Illegal immigration, Iran, Member state of the European Union, Paris, Sudan, Syria, The Washington Examiner, United States, United States Congress, United States House of Representatives, Washington State 5 CommentsUS Now Ranks 11th in Fatalities and 12th in Frequency.
“But we are the only advanced country on Earth that sees this kind of mass violence erupt with this kind of frequency. It doesn’t happen in other advanced countries. It’s not even close. And as I’ve said before, somehow we’ve become numb to it and we start thinking that this is normal.”
– President Obama, announcing his new executive orders on guns, January 7, 2016
This claim is simply not true. Between January 2009 and December 2015, there are 11 European countries with a higher frequency of these mass public shootings than the US, and 10 European countries with a higher rate of deaths from these attacks.
Indeed, over that same period of time, the European Union (EU) suffered 303 deaths from mass public shootings, while the US had 199. In terms of injuries from these attacks the gap was even much greater, with EU countries facing 680 versus just 197 for the US. However, given the EU’s larger population, the per million people fatality rate for the US and the EU as a whole are virtually identical (0.62 for the US and 0.60 for the EU). By contrast, the injury rate in the EU is much higher (0.61 for the US and 1.34 for the EU).
This past year was a particularly bad one for Europe, with 8 Mass Public Shootings versus only 4 for the United States. Indeed, these 8 Mass Public Shootings for Europe in 2015 count for one-third of all their attacks over the entire seven year period of time…(read more)
Even if one puts it in terms of frequency, the president’s statement is still false, with the US ranking 12th compared to European countries.
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Gun Owners Stop Four Life-Threatening Incidents In Five Days
Posted: December 27, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: Attempted Shooting, Brandon Johnson, Conceal Carry, Craigslist, Daily Caller, Detroit, Gun rights, Guns, Michigan, Self-defense, United States Leave a commentThe Christmas season was a bad time to be a criminal near a person with a weapon.
David Hookstead writes: There were a total of four incidents involving a person using a gun to stop a crime or other life-threatening incident between December 22 and December 26, according to a list compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center.
December 22:
Brandon Johnson was shot and killed after attempting to rob two men looking to buy a vehicle in Gary, Indiana during a Craigslist scam. Johnson’s girlfriend was also shot in the thigh but is expected to survive, according to the Washington Times. The shooter, who is from Illinois, told police that when he arrived to make the Craigslist purchase Johnson instead pulled a gun resulting in the shooter pulling out his own weapon to defend his life.
December 23:
A criminal attempted to hold up Captain Max Seafood in Miramar, Florida. Except the robber didn’t get very far into his plan because an employee pulled out a gun and killed the suspect, according to NBC Miami. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] Gangster Wife Conceal Carry
Posted: December 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Mediasphere, Self Defense | Tags: 1990s, American Film Institute, Conceal Carry, Gangsters, Goodfellas, Guns, Henry Hill, Joe Pesci, Karen Hill, Lorraine Bracco, Mafia, Martin Scorcese, Martin Scorsese, Michael Imperioli, Movies, Nicholas Pileggi, Panties, Pistol, Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) Leave a comment“I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide. But I didn’t. I got to admit the truth. It turned me on.”
Lorraine Bracco as Karen Hill in Martin Scorsese‘s Goodfellas, 1990
[PHOTO] American Self Defense
Posted: December 8, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: 2nd amendment, fashion, Glamour, Guns, Photography, Self-defense, Woman Leave a commentDetroit Police Chief: Citizens Carrying Guns Makes Detroit Safer From Terrorist Attacks
Posted: December 1, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense, Terrorism | Tags: 2nd amendment, Carjacker, Detroit, Detroit Police Chief James Craig, Detroit Police Department, Guns, James Craig, Michigan, The Detroit News 1 CommentDetroit Police Chief Praises Guns
Casey Harper reports: Detroit’s police chief gave a bold proposition for deterring terrorists in his city: arm the citizens.
James Craig points out that a city full of armed residents is not nearly as easy a target as those with strict gun laws.
“If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.”
“A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,” Craig tells The Detroit News. “If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.”
Craig points to a new Michigan law that makes it easier to obtain a concealed carry permit as another way to increase safety in the city. Read the rest of this entry »
Firearms: The Only Question Is…
Posted: November 4, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Arms Dealer, Cinema, Gun control, Gun Dealer, Gun rights, Guns, Movies, Nicolas Cage 1 CommentPew Research Center: Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware
Posted: October 5, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, Law & Justice, Politics, Self Defense, Think Tank | Tags: 2nd amendment, Agence France-Presse, anti-gun, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Civil Rights, Crime Rates, Gun control, Gun Grabbers, Gun Homicide Rate, Gun safety, Guns, homicide, murder, Pew, Pew Research Center, Statistics, United States, University of Oxford, Violent crime 4 CommentsCompared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew.
By D’Vera Cohn, Paul Taylor, Mark Hugo Lopez, Catherine A. Gallagher, Kim Parker and Kevin T. Maass
Chapter 1: Overview
National rates of gun homicide and other violent gun crimes are strikingly lower now than during their peak in the mid-1990s, paralleling a general decline in violent crime, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Beneath the long-term trend, though, are big differences by decade: Violence plunged through the 1990s, but has declined less dramatically since 2000.
Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew. The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm—assaults, robberies and sex crimes—was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.
Nearly all the decline in the firearm homicide rate took place in the 1990s; the downward trend stopped in 2001 and resumed slowly in 2007. The victimization rate for other gun crimes plunged in the 1990s, then declined more slowly from 2000 to 2008. The rate appears to be higher in 2011 compared with 2008, but the increase is not statistically significant. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall also dropped in the 1990s before declining more slowly from 2000 to 2010, then ticked up in 2011.
Despite national attention to the issue of firearm violence, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is lower today than it was two decades ago. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, today 56% of Americans believe gun crime is higher than 20 years ago and only 12% think it is lower.
Looking back 50 years, the U.S. gun homicide rate began rising in the 1960s, surged in the 1970s, and hit peaks in 1980 and the early 1990s. (The number of homicides peaked in the early 1990s.) The plunge in homicides after that meant that firearm homicide rates inthe late 2000s were equal to those not seen since the early 1960s.The sharp decline in the U.S. gun homicide rate, combined with a slower decrease in the gun suicide
rate, means that gun suicides now account for six-in-ten firearms deaths, the highest share since at least 1981.
Trends for robberies followed a similar long-term trajectory as homicides (National Research Council, 2004), hitting a peak in the early 1990s before declining.
This report examines trends in firearm homicide, non-fatal violent gun crime victimization and non-fatal violent crime victimization overall since 1993. Its findings on firearm crime are based mainly on analysis of data from two federal agencies. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using information from death certificates, are the source of rates, counts and trends for all firearm deaths, homicide and suicide, unless otherwise specified. The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey, a household survey conducted by the Census Bureau, supplies annual estimates of non-fatal crime victimization, including those where firearms are used, regardless of whether the crimes were reported to police. Where relevant, this report also quotes from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (see text box at the end of this chapter and the Methodology appendix for more discussion about data sources).
Researchers have studied the decline in firearm crime and violent crime for many years, and though there are theories to explain the decline, there is no consensus among those who study the issue as to why it happened.
There also is debate about the extent of gun ownership in the U.S., although no disagreement that the U.S. has more civilian firearms, both total and per capita, than other nations. Compared with other developed nations, the U.S. has a higher homicide rate and higher rates of gun ownership, but not higher rates for all other crimes. (See Chapter 5 for more details.)
In the months since the mass shooting at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December, the public is paying close attention to the topic of firearms; according to a recent Pew Research Center survey (Pew Research Center, April 2013) no story received more public attention from mid-March to early April than the debate over gun control. Reducing crime has moved up as a priority for the public in polling this year.
- Two Years After Newton, More Americans Support Gun Rights Over Gun Control (punditfromanotherplanet.com)
- The White House Lies About Gun Violence . . . Again (nationalreview.com)
- New government report undercuts Obama antigun agenda (dailycaller.com)
- NO LONGER A SHOCK: As Americans Bought 170 Million Guns, Violent Crime Fell 51% (punditfromanotherplanet.com)
Mass shootings are a matter of great public interest and concern. They also are a relatively small share of shootings overall. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics review, homicides that claimed at least three lives accounted for less than 1% of all homicide deaths from 1980 to 2008. These homicides, most of which are shootings, increased as a share of all homicides from 0.5% in 1980 to 0.8% in 2008, according to the bureau’s data. A Congressional Research Service report, using a definition of four deaths or more, counted 547 deaths from mass shootings in the U.S. from 1983 to 2012.
Looking at the larger topic of firearm deaths, there were 31,672 deaths from guns in the U.S. in 2010. Most (19,392) were suicides; the gun suicide rate has been higher than the gun homicide rate since at least 1981, and the gap is wider than it was in 1981.
Knowledge About Crime
Despite the attention to gun violence in recent months, most Americans are unaware that gun crime is markedly lower than it was two decades ago. A new Pew Research Center survey (March 14-17) found that 56% of Americans believe the number of crimes involving a gun is higher than it was 20 years ago; only 12% say it is lower and 26% say it stayed the same. (An additional 6% did not know or did not answer.)
Men (46%) are less likely than women (65%) to say long-term gun crime is up. Young adults, ages 18 to 29, are markedly less likely than other adults to say long-term crime is up—44% do, compared with more than half of other adults. Minority adults are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to say that long-term gun crime is up, 62% compared with 53%.
Asked about trends in the number of gun crimes “in recent years,” a plurality of 45% believe the number has gone up, 39% say it is about the same and 10% say it has gone down. (An additional 5% did not know or did not answer.) As with long-term crime, women (57%) are more likely than men (32%) to say that gun crime has increased in recent years. So are non-white adults (54%) compared with whites (41%). Adults ages 50 and older (51%) are more likely than those ages 18-49 (42%) to believe gun crime is up.
What is Behind the Crime Decline?
Researchers continue to debate the key factors behind changing crime rates, which is part of a larger discussion about the predictors of crime. There is consensus that demographics played some role: The outsized post-World War II baby boom, which produced a large number of people in the high-crime ages of 15 to 20 in the 1960s and 1970s, helped drive crime up in those years.
A review by the National Academy of Sciences of factors driving recent crime trends (Blumstein and Rosenfeld, 2008) cited a decline in rates in the early 1980s as the young boomers got older, then a flare-up by mid-decade in conjunction with a rising street market for crack cocaine, especially in big cities. It noted recruitment of a younger cohort of drug seller with greater willingness to use guns. By the early 1990s, crack markets withered in part because of lessened demand, and the vibrant national economy made it easier for even low-skilled young people to find jobs rather than get involved in crime.
At the same time, a rising number of people ages 30 and older were incarcerated, due in part to stricter laws, which helped restrain violence among this age group. It is less clear, researchers say, that innovative policing strategies and police crackdowns on use of guns by younger adults played a significant role in reducing crime.
Some researchers have proposed additional explanations as to why crime levels plunged so suddenly, including increased access to abortion and lessened exposure to lead. According to one hypothesis, legalization of abortion after the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision resulted in fewer unwanted births, and unwanted children have an increased risk of growing up to become criminals. Another theory links reduced crime to 1970s-era reductions in lead in gasoline; children’s exposure to lead causes brain damage that could be associated with violent behavior. The National Academy of Sciences review said it was unlikely that either played a major role, but researchers continue to explore both factors.
The plateau in national violent crime rates has raised interest in the topic of how local differences might influence crime levels and trends. Crime reductions took place across the country in the 1990s, but since 2000, patterns have varied more by metropolitan area or city.
One focus of interest is that gun ownership varies widely by region and locality. The National Academy of Sciences review of possible influences on crime trends said there is good evidence of a link between firearm ownership and firearm homicide at the local level; “the causal direction of this relationship remains in dispute, however, with some researchers maintaining that firearm violence elevates rates of gun ownership, but not the reverse.” Read the rest of this entry »
Government Employee Hired To Find Drug Houses, Arrested For Running A Drug House
Posted: September 30, 2015 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, U.S. News | Tags: Arrest, Drug House, Fast food restaurant, Government Work, Guns, Heroin, Illegal drug trade, Milwaukee, Police, Regina Sims, Search warrant, Weed 1 CommentAnd she’s making over $53,000 a year off taxpayer money
Emma Colton reports: A Milwaukee government employee whose job was to know the signs of drug houses and report them was arrested and charged this month for running a drug ring out of her own home.
“Inside the house they found a sandwich bag filled with heroin, 1.5 pounds of weed, multiple guns, ammunition, a digital scale and $3,600 in cash.”
Milwaukee’s Department of Neighborhood Services employ Regina Sims as its property management coordinator to investigate suspected houses of dealing drugs. But after a “citizen witness reported multiple instances of drug dealing going on” at Sims’s house for about a year, according to FOX6, police got a search warrant and found a treasure trove of drugs, weapons and cash.
“citizen witness reported multiple instances of drug dealing going on at that residence for roughly one year.”
The police told FOX6 that inside the house they found a sandwich bag filled with heroin, 1.5 pounds of weed, multiple guns, ammunition, a digital scale and $3,600 in cash. Read the rest of this entry »
Cartoon of the Day
Posted: August 28, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Crime & Corruption, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: 2nd amendment, Cartoons, Gun control, Guns, Humor, media, news, satire Leave a commentAmy Schumer’s Heartbreak: Folks, it’s Legit!
Posted: August 3, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Self Defense, The Butcher's Notebook, U.S. News | Tags: Amy Schumer, Civil Rights, comedy, Daily Show, Gun control, Gun rights, Guns, Hollywood, Jon Stewart, Progressivism, propaganda, Trainwreck Leave a commentGear: 21st Century Accessories
Posted: July 1, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Food & Drink, Guns and Gadgets | Tags: Ammunition, cigarporn, Cigars, Cigarsandguns, design, fashion, Glamour, Gloves, Gun, gunporn, Guns, Rifle, Watches 2 CommentsAmerica, Rejoice! Same Sex Ruling Sets Up National Reciprocity for Concealed Carry
Posted: June 27, 2015 Filed under: Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: 14th Amendment, 2nd amendment, Bible, Civil Rights, Conceal Carry, Gun control, Gun rights, Guns, Health Insurance, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Same-sex marriage, SCOTUS, Supreme Court of the United States 1 CommentAWR Hawkins writes: When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled that every state must recognize same sex marriages, they used a basis for judgement that will not easily stop at same sex marriage. In fact, it is a basis for judgement that should offer itself to national reciprocity of concealed carry permits and permit holders.
The SCOTUS legalized same sex marriage by finding a right which Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg , Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, and Elena Kagan ruled as beyond a state-by-state prerogative via the 14th Amendment.
Crucial in this ruling is the fact that same sex marriage–now recognized by the SCOTUS–is not the only right the 14th Amendment shields from state-by-state prerogative and/or recognition.
Consider this pertinent aspect of the court’s Majority Opinion, written by Justice Kennedy and printed by the LA Times:
Under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, no State shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The fundamental liberties protected by this Clause include most of the rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
Now the question–Are 2nd Amendment rights among those “protected by this Clause”? Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] Man Who Enjoys 24/7 Protection of People Walking Around with Guns: ‘You Can’t Have People Walking Around with Guns’
Posted: June 14, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, Clinton Foundation, CNN, Gun control, Gun rights, Guns, Hillary Clinton, More Guns Less Crime, Politico, Second Amendment, Sidney Blumenthal 2 Comments
Who’s the Driving Force in Nation’s Shift from Gun Control to Gun Rights? Women
Posted: May 30, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Politics, Self Defense | Tags: 2nd amendment, Civil Rights, Conceal Carry, Demographics, firearms, Gun Buyers, Gun control, Gun Permit, Gun rights, Guns, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Self-defense, Women 1 CommentWomen Are Buying More Guns Than Ever
AWR Hawkins writes: Women have emerged as one of the fastest-growing demographics of new gun buyers and concealed carry permit holders in the country, and in the process, they have become a driving force in the shift in American attitudes from pro-gun control to pro-gun rights.
“This growing participation of women in firearm purchases and firearm-related activities has not happened overnight. Rather, it has been steadily increasing over a number of years.”
In January, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that “women [are] buying more guns than ever.” And the result of this surge in women gun buyers has been an expansion of firearms and firearms accessories made to cater to the female market. Many of the accessories are often designed and marketed by fellow women gun owners.
“The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that this is not only providing new markets for the gun industry and expanding the number of concealed carry permits issued to women, but also impacting Americans’ views on guns and gun rights.”
This growing participation of women in firearm purchases and firearm-related activities has not happened overnight. Rather, it has been steadily increasing over a number of years. For example, the National Shooting Sports Foundation found that 2011 and 2012 showed the surge beginning with a “79 percent … increase in female” customers buying firearms and/or firearm accessories. The trend has continued from that point. Read the rest of this entry »
Texas Dept of Public Safety’s New Tourism Ad
Posted: May 7, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Comics, Crime & Corruption, Entertainment, Guns and Gadgets, Humor, Law & Justice, Self Defense | Tags: Freedom, Freedom of speech, Guns, Islamism, Jihadism, Lone Star State, Pamela Geller, Rick Perry, satire, Ted Cruz, Terrorism, Texas, Tourism Leave a commentRemember That Ammo Ban? ATF Reconsiders
Posted: March 10, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: ATF, Bullets, Civil Rights, firearms, Gun control, Guns, media, news, Rifles, Second Amendment, The Hill, Tweet, Twitter 1 CommentDo’s and Don’ts: Household Gun Safety
Posted: February 5, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Self Defense | Tags: firearms, graphics, Gun safety, Guns, Illustration, Rifles, Self-defense, typography 2 CommentsPhoto of the Day: Glockamole
Posted: February 2, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense | Tags: Avacados, firearms, Glock, Guacamole, Guns, Humor, Photography, Pistol, satire, Self-defense 2 CommentsD.C. Issues First Gun Carry Permits
Posted: January 28, 2015 Filed under: Self Defense, U.S. News | Tags: 2nd amendment, Civil Rights, Concealed carry, Concealed carry in the United States, Firearm, Guns, Legislator, Majority leader, Republican Party (United States), Right to keep and bear arms, Self-defense, Terry Bruce (Kansas politician) 2 CommentsApproves 8 Applications, Denies 11
Stephen Gutowski reports; The District of Columbia has issued its first concealed handgun carry permits. As of January 26, there are eight civilians who can legally carry a firearm in the nation’s capital. Currently, more permit applicants have been denied than approved.
“The City Council adopted a ‘may issue’ law which featured a myriad of restrictions, imposed 18 hours of training requirements, cost $110 in application fees, and required applicants prove to city officials their need to carry a firearm. It has been widely criticized by gun rights activists.”
“We’ve had 69 applications, of which 3 were canceled at the request of the applicant,” Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said. “So far eight licenses have been approved and issued.”

Veteran firearms instructor Gerald Vernon
The District was forced to adopt a legal framework allowing civilians to carry firearms after a federal judge declared the city’s previous ban unconstitutional last July. The City Council adopted a “may issue” law which featured a myriad of restrictions, imposed 18 hours of training requirements, cost $110 in application fees, and required applicants prove to city officials their need to carry a firearm.
“So far eight licenses have been approved and issued.”
It has been widely criticized by gun rights activists. The city began accepting applications several months later on October 23rd but established a 90 day review period.
The eight people legally allowed to carry a gun within city limits represent about .00001 percent of the 646,449 people the Census Bureau estimates reside in the city.
[See John R. Lott’s More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control Laws, Third Edition (Studies in Law and Economics) at Amazon]
The MPD did not provide any information about where the eight permittees reside, but there are non-residents represented among the 69 people who have applied for a permit. Read the rest of this entry »
[PHOTO] Chris Kyle: Straight Shooter
Posted: January 21, 2015 Filed under: Guns and Gadgets, Self Defense, War Room | Tags: Academy Award, American Sniper, Autobiography, Box office, Chris Kyle, Clint Eastwood, Guns, Iraq, Navy SEAL, Photography, Rifle, Sniper, U.S. Military, U.S.A. Leave a comment[PHOTO] Alfred Hitchcock Takes a Shot
Posted: January 19, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere | Tags: Alfred Hitchcock, Cinema, Crime fiction, Films, Guns, Hitchcock, Horror, Movies, Mystery, Photography, Thriller, vintage Leave a commentSource: classichorrorblog