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Yesterday I receive at least two separate alerts from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATF&E). This is a rare thing and I thought maybe they were announcing everyone there saw the handwriting on the wall and were picking up the Trump/DOJ/OPM initiative to resign by today, or…
Photocredit: caniphish.com So I get a confused call from Adventure Wife this morning, about an email she got purporting to be from Docusign (an online service use to e-sign documents) about a Paypal payment to "your wallet" in the amount of $449.88 for the purchase of a "Springfield Armory Gun"…
After a smashing day at the show yesterday, Wednesday, official Day 2 started a bit slower- mostly centered around more sleep and big food before going back to the Convention Center. I posted the Day 1 article at what would have ben 330 AM Chicago time, so I needed a…
SHOT Show 2025 kicked off 21JAN25 in Las Vegas with an anticipated audience of 70,000 attendees. The very first show was held in St Louis in 1979. Now only Vegas can hold it. It is enormous. The show is the world's largest firearms trade show, and with U.S. sales of…
So yeah, I spent Inauguration Day shooting all the latest guns and ammo at the Boulder Rifle & Pistol Club in Nevada the day before SHOT Show 2025 opens at the annual Industry Day at the Range. How great is that? Well, great for me anyway. It was below 0…
Gun Broker, arguably the world's biggest online retailer of firearms published their list of the 10 most purchased semi-auto pistols in 2024. Now they are just one sample, and I never bothered to take any statistics classes in college, but I still think this is a pretty good snapshot of…
Photo Credit: www.heyjackass.com I love www.heyjackass.com. If you have never looked at their website go take a peek. They gather real time data on Chicago violence incidents, and keep running monthly and yearly track of what is really going on with Chicago murders.Final figures are in for Chi-raq's 2024 homicides…
Welcome 2025. First news of the day was the overnight attack in New Orleans down in the French Quarter at the intersection of Bourbon and Canal streets- the most frequented area of the Quarter.Apparently a truck sped into the crowd about 0315 hrs- no barriers closed off the French Quarter…
Photo Credit: Istandforfreedom.com We all saw the horrific headlines two days ago about a shooter getting into a Madison, WI school and shooting staff and students. It was an awful way to start the week. It was apparently school shooting #322 of 2024.Predictably, lame duck President Biden called for more…
Well I have been watching the news about the murder of Brian Thompson , CEO of United Health Care with some interest probably much like you have. I have a bit of a background with murder investigations, (30 years with a fed agency and being in charge of all violent…
