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A BLAST FROM THE PAST (MY PAST, ANYWAY)

The Firearms Blog is one of the most interesting and instructive firearms sites on the Internet. Here’s one that brought me back…way back.  A Springfield 87-A was the first firearm I ever shot. My dad told me I was four years old. I remember him balancing the gun on his palm while I sort of […]

EMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

In this space in the past, you’ve seen reviews of other books by T.C. Fuller, a retired FBI agent I shot matches with back in the day. His latest is “Empathy For the Devil,” focusing on his time interrogating terrorists at Guantanamo. The first thing you notice is that the Bureau has redacted certain things […]

AN ANTI-GUNNER SPEAKS

Are you a law-abiding gun owner who may have low blood pressure? I have a cure you can find in a bookstore: “What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms” by Jonathan M. Metzl.  It’s sure to raise your blood pressure. Metzl’s belief system says (direct quote) “I don’t own a gun, […]

HANDGUNS FOR BEAR DEFENSE

On my recent Alaska trip I talked to local lawmen, firearms instructors, and gun dealers about handguns for defense against bear attacks. In years past, the .44 Magnum revolver was the hands-down choice. In recent years, however, the most popular sidearm in bear country has become the 16-shot 10mm autoloader. Ten more torpedoes ready for […]

PROOF THAT GUN CONTROL DOESN’T REDUCE HOMICIDES

From no less an authority than Duke University School of Medicine comes the important study, that shows that gun laws have little influence on homicide rates

GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE SPEAKERS ANNOUNCED

Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Association, has announced some of the speakers for this year’s Gun Rights Policy Conference as follows: Immerse yourself in the heart of the Second Amendment movement at the 2024 Gun Rights Policy Conference, where the nation’s foremost advocates will converge to share insights and strategies that will shape the future of […]

A SAD STORY OF A MAN WHO FROZE

The controversial novelist Salman Rushdie was born in India in 1947 and became a British citizen in 1964, and grew up without a touch of the gun culture. When his 1988 novel “The Satanic Verses” came out, the Muslim world condemned him for it. The Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa on him for blasphemy and […]

A KIND WORD FOR KIMBERLY CHEATLE

Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigned recently after being roasted by a committee in DC over the Trump assassination attempt. I’ll give her one thing: when an obsessively anti-gun congressman tried to get her to blame AR15s, she didn’t fall for it. See it here, courtesy of Mark Chesnut and TTAG, with narrative by Phil […]

BIDEN’S ATTACK ON THE SUPREME COURT OF THE US

When even the Washington Post says President Biden is way off base, I am reassured that it’s not just me who thinks so.

AN INSPIRATIONAL STORY OF AN AMERICAN RIFLEMAN

Why does the Second Amendment Foundation fight for the right of 18- to 20-year-old Americans to buy firearms such as the AR15? Among other reasons, because if they’re old enough to die fighting for their country with a real government-issue assault rifle or something much deadlier in their hands, they’re old enough to buy an […]