I’ve been struggling with something for a long as I’ve been involved in the shooting sports, and that is IDPA and USPSA both holding national championships in states that hate our gun rights. This week IDPA is holding the S&W Indoor Nationals at S&W in Massachusetts. Mass isn’t known as a bastion of gun rights (although after listening to Weer’d on the Squirrel Report for a while I understand that it isn’t quite as awful …
Read More »Question: Are You “Out” as a Gun Owner?
There seems to be two types of people in the gun owning world: those who talk about it, and those who keep it a secret. A lot of folks will tell you that you shouldn’t tell people that you own guns for personal security reasons, and I can sort of agree with that, but I’ve become the “out” gun owner in my circles, and I’m okay with that. Here’s what we had to say about …
Read More »2AToday Podcast – Battleground State Series Wrap-Up
A few weeks back Ben and I were invited on the 2AToday Podcast to help with their “Battleground State” series of shows. Earlier in the series ‘YaDaddy’ and Peter Gould interviewed people from the different battleground states about how the anti-gun laws were passed in those states: California – Jacob Rascon Connecticut – Rich Burgess New York – Tom King New York City – Glenn Herman (Part 1) New York City -Glenn Herman (Part 2) …
Read More »“Nobody Wants to Take Your Guns”
Whenever folks on the anti-gun side of things are engaged in argument, they always go to the argument of “Nobody wants to take your guns!” Fortunately for us, social media archives their lies for us: If you have a gun, you’ll start killing when you get in an argument. Yeah… Guns are only for cops who have all that training… Ban the evil black guns, they are most scariest: Lock up all violent people…right. Assaulty …
Read More »UNLICENSED Possession of a Gun Prohibited
Tonight a pro-gun facebook page posted this picture without comment to their page. I quickly scanned it, and didn’t think much of it. I ended up scrolling past it again a couple of minutes later, and I gave it a closer look after I noticed that there were lots of comments asking where these cards could be purchased. As a gun blogger (I think I’ve achieved that status now?) I’m going to come out and …
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