New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand appears to have acquired much of her firearms knowledge from Hollywood movies. In a tweet on Tuesday, Gillibrand suggested that guns with “silencers” (also known as “suppressors”) are “quiet” when fired, making it difficult to hear if someone is shot: When someone gets shot by a gun with a silencer,
Read MoreMidday “Report”: Left-wing (fellow) Jews … getting very hard to take. Joined by SW Texas firearms dealer Edward Solomon. (http://simchawholesale.blogspot.com/?m=1) Feel free to comment and, if you’re watching live, to ask questions. Note from Adam: This is not something really I have to deal with much these days. The mutual purging was kind of wrapped
Read MoreThree Pinocchios for Senator Gillibrand’s Claims Against Silencers
On March 13 Breitbart News reported that Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) was fighting deregulation of “deadly gun silencers,” alleging that they put law enforcement and communities at risk. On March 20 The Washington Post examined Gillibrand’s position–especially her claim that “silencers” make guns dangerous by making them “quiet”–and gave her three Pinnochios for “significant factual
Read MoreAnother Federal Court of Appeals Attacks the Second Amendment
Imagine you’re up late one night. It’s after midnight, and maybe you’re finishing a movie. Or perhaps you’re reading a book, and it’s too good to put down. Or maybe you’re like a young man named Andrew Scott: You’re playing video games with your girlfriend. You hear a loud pounding on your front door. You’re
Read MoreSo 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
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