Month: October 2012

Paul Vallandigham – A life remembered

[caption id="attachment_2421" align="alignnone" width="915"] Paul with John Naese (left) at Guns Save Life's 16th birthday celebration.[/caption] by John Naese Paul Vallandigham was an officer and director of Guns Save Life, but he was more than that – he was one of the original founding members.  The first meeting of what…

GSL Director Paul Vallandigham passes away.

[caption id="attachment_2417" align="alignright" width="284"] Paul Vallandigham.[/caption] by John Boch It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Paul H. Vallandigham, a long-time gun rights giant in Illinois. Mr. Vallandigham was a life member of the NRA, a former director of the Illinois State Rifle Association, as well…

“Common sense gun control” explained at last

  Redress Information & Analysis (no, we're not going to link to them and drive traffic to them) proudly and robustly proclaims it exposes "injustice, disinformation and bigotry". Like many things on the internet, just because you claim it doesn't make it true. In a recent hit piece on civil…

Indy gun store clerk describes shooting ordeal (VIDEO)

  [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="607"] Don’s Guns in Indianapolis where the attack happened. A customer there rented a gun, then shot one of the clerks twice. The clerk returned fire, killing the attacker. The owner of the stores said, “If you shoot us, we’ll shoot you right back.”Photo courtesy Indianapolis…

Gun sales up sharply; merchants plan for post-election sales

[caption id="attachment_2374" align="alignnone" width="672"] Photo courtesy NewsOne.com.[/caption] The 2012 elections are just over a month away and gun sales continue to soar as Americans vote with their pocketbook to acquire the means with which to protect their families in uncertain times. The National Shooting Sports Association reported that in August…

Starve the Beast

“Who is John Galt?” was the common refrain of characters in Ayn Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged.  In the book, productive members of a dystopian society in the US refused to be further taxed and exploited by government and society in general.  To varying degrees, they dropped out from being productive,…

Vet in Indy kills armed robber at liquor store

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="738"] Photo courtesy 21st Amendment Liquors.[/caption] A clerk on his third day at work at a liquor store in Indianapolis early Sunday morning shot and killed an armed robber waving around a gun. "He took his eyes off me and that was a bad decision for him,"…

They came for it… 3-D printer company comes for its printer…

[caption id="attachment_2367" align="alignnone" width="525"] An HP DesignJet 3D printer.Photo courtesy Popular Science.[/caption] Well, a hiccup for Cody Wilson and the people at Defense Distributed, who are working to create a contest to build the world's first "3-D printed" gun. Boing Boing has the story... Defense Distributed is a collective that…