SIH: At a press conference announcing the arrests, Holder also suggested that re-instituting a U.S. ban on the sale of assault weapons would help reduce the bloodshed in Mexico, where last year 6,000 people were killed in drug-related violence. Ah, the Mexican gun canard rears its head once again. I told you it was dogma […]

Reader Rick emails the following in response to this anti-gun column (long, grab your coffee): THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO SAY IT, OUR CURRENT GUN CULTURE IS LEADING THE COUNTRY DOWN A PATH TO MAYHEM. My gun has lead no one anywhere. It merely sits in the drawer until I use it. And I […]

I swear, I just saw this article a month ago, but now a new verion, with more pants shitting hysterics, has popped up in Forbes.  The gist of it is that guns from the United States are the source of most of the guns used in crime in Mexico.   Link to article here. Authorities are […]

The press seems hard on the VT police over what is seemingly a delay in securing the school. I think, based on the info at the time, they made the right call. They had witnesses say it was a domestic shooting and assumed it was over. The media doesn’t get guns: Williams: With numbers like […]

Paul Helmke, in a bit of irony that’s so obvious anti-gunners can’t see it, says: It’s easy to mobilize people for political purposes if you scare them into thinking that their rights are about to be taken away. Inventing urgency and injustice can create a mob on the streets or on the blogs. Time and […]

If the assault weapons ban did not have a sunset provision, this is what would be happening federally: Earlier this year the New York State Assembly passed Assemblyman Lavelle’s bill (A.2466) to expand the State’s current ban on assault weapons (modeled after the federal ban which expired in 2004) to prohibit more of these deadly […]

Carnaby runs down past pipe dreams and makes predictions about the future of gun control: Here’s my prediction for what’s coming from the BC: Go back to what’s tried and true: The Slippery Slope. Just need to start higher. We were on the slope, but somehow the gun nuts got some traction. Start over and […]

Delaware might get a handgun-only deer season: Under a bill passed last week, Delaware hunters will have a one-week deer hunting season in which only large-caliber handguns can be used. Hunting with handguns had not been allowed at any time previously. Hunters will be allowed to use pistols ranging from .357 caliber to .50 caliber […]

Posting has been light today largely due to emails about guns and what gun should someone buy since the ban expired and yada yada yada. And another quick check of the streets reveals no blood. Here’s how some gun bloggers (and non gun bloggers) are celebrating its expiration: AWBanSunset is all over it, like white […]