So you just bought your first pistol and cannot wait to get some rounds down range? Congratulations – welcome to the exciting, wonderful world of firearms and shooting! If you’re like most of us, though, you probably don’t have your own private land to shoot on, which means you will definitely be heading to a range on a regular basis. Unfortunately, there
Read MoreThe odd argument supporting the Florida open carry ban
Thursday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state’s general ban on openly carrying guns. The lead opinion acknowledged that an outright ban on carrying guns would seriously burden the right to bear arms “The core of the constitutional right to bear arms for self-defense,” the court concluded, includes carrying “firearms in public where a need
Read MoreWhen Is It Legal to Go Lethal? 8 Tips on the Limits of Self-Defense
If you are legally carrying a firearm, or if you have one safely stored in your home, you fully intend on using that firearm lethally should the need arise. It is not your intent to wave it around or point it at someone just to threaten them. You are to legally draw that gun only
Read MoreGangs Reap Guns from Trains in Violent Chicago Neighborhoods
CHICAGO (AP) – When street-gang thieves slipped with ease into a Norfolk Southern rail yard on Chicago’s South Side and ripped locks off one train, they likely expected to see merchandise like toys or tennis shoes. What they beheld instead was a gangster’s jackpot: box after box of brand new guns. The guns had been
Read MoreSchool approves policy to arm trained staff with guns
GRANGEVILLE, Idaho – Board members approved a new policy to allow trained teachers and staff members to carry guns. School leaders of Mountain View School District said they have wanted to arm teachers because they are unable to afford school resource officers. Mountain View School district is very rural, in fact, it is the sixth
Read MoreUK Soccer Player Gets Star of David Buzz Cut Amid Rise in Anti-Semitic Incidents
A soccer player in the English Football League is proudly displaying his faith with a unique haircut. In an apparent reaction to a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United Kingdom, Tomer Hemed, a striker with Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., posted a photo of himself last week with a Star of David shaved
Read MoreThe moment the Jews decided to resist their Nazi oppressors
“If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars.” Silveira v Lockyer, (9th Cir. 2003) (Kozinski, J. dissenting.) If you want Never Again
Read MorePatriot Pin to Let AR-15 Owners Avoid Registering Guns as Assault Weapons
As of January 1, 2017, new gun controls expanded the definition of “assault weapons” in California and required owners of all such guns to register them with the state government. But now two inventors, Travis Klein and Bart McCurdy, have created a new method of taking down an AR-15 that they say will allow owners of
Read More“My companion attacks his friends; He violates his covenant. His talk is smooth as butter, Yet war is in his heart; His words are more soothing than oil, Yet they are drawn swords.” –Psalm 55:20-21 How often do you hear a story about someone bringing horrible suffering into the lives of others? Or perhaps you
Read MoreIllinois Bill Would Authorize Gun Confiscation Without Owner’s Input
Illinois Senator Julie A. Morrison (D-29) is pushing a bill that allows judges to confiscate guns without input from the firearm owner. This is part of the continuing effort to fight gun crime that gun control has failed to stop in Chicago and the rest of the state. SB 1291 would create a “Lethal Order of
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