Crime in Dallas during the NRA annual meeting.

NICS checks up. Crime down.

You can’t argue with science Guess what happens with record gun sales and more carry permit holders.

Gun Ownership at All-Time High, Nation’s Murder Rate at Nearly All-Time Low. But they tell me gun ownership is on the decline!

Gun related violent crime drops while gun sales soar.

FBI releases crime data and crime is down. And this while gun sales are up.

A recurring theme but this chart tells an interesting tale.

Gun sales spiked again in 2011. The FBI released it’s preliminary crime reports and crime is down overall, even violent crime. Yeah, correlation and all, I know. But the anti-gunners would have us believe that guns cause crime so more guns would mean more crime, right?

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States with stricter gun controls are less safe. More a chicken and egg issue, though. Places that are less safe tend to get increases in gun control because it’s what you do instead of something. It doesn’t help but it gives the appearance that politicos are doing something. Even if it’s the wrong thing. And […]

So says the Violence Policy Center. Well, they didn’t mean to say it. But, you know, when they’re not passing off Google searches as research, they find some interesting stuff.

Debunking Ayres and Donohue.

A pro-gun article in a newspaper?

Hillary Clinton thinks that you’re a terrorist and that you shouldn’t value constitutional rights. So, why does this “minority” keep winning? Besides, I thought Dems were all about minorities. She’s advocating banning guns that are already banned. So, she’s ignorant or an opportunist. This is Why We Live in a Constitutional Republic

Less crime

Occasionally, Reason gets its gun blogging on. Today, it’s how gun laws in Mexico don’t guarantee compliance. Shocking. And in DC, more guns, less crime.

Less crime

Gun sales are at a record high. Homicide is at a 50 year low. Odd, since the anti-gunners say that guns cause crime.

Gun sales are, by most accounts, at a record high. The NRA notes, however, that gun accidents are at an all time low. Now, that is not to say that there is a causative effect. But the anti-gunners would have us believe that more guns equals more crime and more guns equals more accidents. But […]

Less crime: The introduction of the flintlock coincided with the largest decline in homicide in English history.

Less crime: statistics from the Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report show that all forms of violent crime were down in 2009 from 2008, with homicides showing the greatest percentage decline (7.2 percent).

More guns, less crime: The District of Columbia’s murder rate plummeted by an astounding 25 percent last year, much faster than for the US as a whole or for similarly sized cities. If you had asked Chicago’s Mayor Daley, that wasn’t supposed to happen. The Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to strike down DC’s handgun ban […]

They always say it. But they never mean it. So, they instead usually pass one more pointless law. After all, imprisoning someone costs money. Passing one more law is cheap.

In 2008, there were some laxed gun laws and the tail end of the great Obama gun rush. And, turns out, violent crime rates are the lowest recorded. And places that have gun bans saw an increase. Joe says: This was in the presence of a huge economic downturn which usually is an indicator for […]

We had heard rumors of this before on gun boards. And also a mention in the press a bit back. Now, the Houston Chronicle is in on it: Success on the front lines of a government blitz on gunrunners supplying Mexican drug cartels with Houston weaponry hinges on logging heavy miles and knocking on countless […]

A pharmacist in OK is accused of murder. In lieu of payment to his lawyer, he gave his lawyer his guns. It’s a fairly common practice for folks with large collections of weapons who maybe going to trial to place weapons in their lawyer’s custody to avoid confiscation of them. The lawyer can, then, lawfully […]

FactCheck.org, which is ordinarily in the tank for Obama, comes out and says that the 90% of guns in Mexico come from the US that the administration parrots is false: But is it true as President Obama said, that “More than 90 percent of the guns recovered in Mexico come from the United States?” No, […]

KAG emails a link to her bit on moms and guns. The original piece here notes that: At a recent pediatrician’s visit, the nurse asked me — as part of a series of standard questions — if we had any guns in our house. Like I always do, I answered with a quick, emphatic “no.” […]

That’s a bit of hyperbole. I’m using gun-ban-speak. But this was amusing: The ATF lost 76 weapons and hundreds of laptops over five years, the Justice Department reported Wednesday, blaming carelessness and sloppy record-keeping. Thirty-five of the missing handguns, rifles, Tasers and other weapons were stolen, as were 50 laptops, the internal audit found. Two […]

Step one: pick issue. Step two: repeat Brady Campaign & Violence Policy Center talking points. Well, at least that’s what Matt Sedensky did. We have all sorts of misleading scary phrases like spray of bullets, high-powered assault weapon and weapons of choice for gangs. All of that, of course, is misleading. Additionally, Matt pulls some […]