Month: February 2018

A crazed gunman with a semi-automatic rifle runs into a schoolyard and the children are in his crosshairs. “I’m gonna kill somebody in here,” he shouts. Then, he bursts into the auditorium and is surprised by students who swarm him as the younger children hide underneath the seats. But, it isn’t what you think. It’s

“Another school shooting” has rocked America, once more bringing out how divided the country is on guns. As we’ve seen before, furious words are being hurled by  raging citizen disarmament zealots manifesting their hatred of those who believe in the right to keep and bear arms, and accusing “NRA” of having “blood on its hands.” As usual, we

Before I started researching gun deaths, gun-control policy used to frustrate me. I wished the National Rifle Association would stop blocking common-sense gun-control reforms such as banning assault weapons, restricting silencers, shrinking magazine sizes and all the other measures that could make guns less deadly. Then, my colleagues and I at FiveThirtyEight spent three months

The millennial generation might be surprised to learn that theirs is the first without guns in school. Just 30 years ago, high school kids rode the bus with rifles and shot their guns at high school rifle ranges. After another school shooting, it’s time to ask: what changed? Cross guns off the list of things

Among those who remain frustrated by Americans’ continuing distaste for harsh, European-style gun control, a favorite point of complaint is that the Second Amendment is more vigorously and consistently enforced than are all the others and that this supposed disparity isn’t fair. Writing recently in The Atlantic, David Frum lamented that the right to keep

“There are still plenty of citizens who don’t “get it” and who ridicule fears that brutal tyranny could ever happen in America as paranoid ravings of the “tinfoil hat” crowd. That’s especially true when it comes to reminding them of past genocides enabled greatly by citizen disarmament.” “A sadistic prison officer who has cost New

Without much fanfare the production of one of the most important pistol designs of the 20th century has ended. Browning have ceased production of the iconic Hi-Power. The Hi-Power page on Browning’s website has this short notice announcing the news: No longer in production. The Hi-Power is one of John Moses Browning’s finest designs. And although

JERUSALEM — A prominent Polish historian presented evidence Wednesday about Polish villagers’ widespread killing of Jews fleeing Nazis during World War II, touching a raw nerve in a country still grappling with its role during the Holocaust. The research is likely to irk the nationalist Polish government, which has taken aim at those seeking to

Arizona –  -(Ammoland.com)- If you care about your rights, your finances, your children’s future, there is a way for you to dramatically impact those things, and it’s not really that difficult or time-consuming. Most Americans view politics as something of a necessary evil. To them, it is an activity going on in a separate world,

If you have arthritis, you know what pain and stiffness are, and you know how the disease affects your joints, energy level, strength, and functionality. Yours truly has degenerative disc disease and low back pain—a package that makes some days more of a challenge than others. As such, I am aware of how my body