Don Gwinn | Urging caution
[caption id="attachment_5290" align="alignnone" width="550"] Don Gwinn addresses a crowd at the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting.[/caption] From the January 2013 Sangamon County Rifle Association meeting... Don Gwinn addressed the audience at the Monday SCRA meeting and urged caution as far as our excitement over the recent Seventh…
HYPOCRISY: Media Matters anti-gun founder conspired to arm his bodyguard illegally
Media Matters founder David Brock, a man who has wrestled with mental health issues for years, really did arm his bodyguard with a Glock 9mm handgun according to a story and documents uncovered by the Daily Caller. That bodyguard, Haydn Price-Morris, carried that gun in Washington, D.C., California and a…
PUSH BACK: “Buyback” hijacked into gun show; range closed to anti-gun city’s cops
Barack Obama told his people to "hit back twice as hard". Gun owners have taken that advice to heart. In Seattle, the city held its first gun "buy back" in twenty years this weekend. The city fathers got people coming out to trade their unwanted guns for $80,000 worth…
Obama comes out as a fudd
It doesn't get much more pathetic than this... (The Telegraph) Barack Obama: 'I go shooting all the time' President Barack Obama has claimed that he goes shooting "all the time", while attempting to reassure American gun-owners that he respects their rights to use firearms. Amid conservative anger over Mr Obama's proposals…
Today’s gun owners: Parallels to Jews in Germany in the 1930s
[caption id="attachment_5240" align="alignnone" width="500"] Photo courtesy ushmm.org.[/caption] Propaganda about gun owners has reached a fever pitch in America today, leaving American gun owners feeling like the Jews in Germany before the Second World War. What is propaganda? From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: Scholars, journalists, and politicians have…
The $2 9mm ZIP gun
Found this little gem today, thanks to Say Uncle. A $2 Zip gun. What you need? Rubber dishwashing gloves A 3/8ths inch female to female coupling A 2" 3/8ths inch pipe A 3/8ths to 1/4-inch adapter A drill bit wrapped in duct tape (a 10- to 16-penny nail or similar…
CHICAGO ISN’T SAFE: Nine dead in Chicago in 24 hours
[caption id="attachment_5224" align="alignnone" width="600"] Chicago cops at a double homicide in Chicago.[/caption] Seven dead in 24 hours in Chicago this weekend. Nine if you count two killed changing a tire. A vast majority of the homicides likely had gang affiliations. When are we, as America, going to declare war on…
A different kind of Democrat: Sheriff urges residents to defend themselves from attack
Imagine, a Democrat Sheriff from a big city telling his residents that ultimately, it's up to them to protect themselves from violent attack. We're pleased that there are still plenty of elected officials from the Democrat Party still willing to recognize publicly the proven benefits of firearms ownership -…
The stench of desperation (and Crazy Joe’s lunacy) in Washington grows…
[caption id="attachment_5210" align="alignnone" width="478"] Sheriff Joe Biden and his little friend. Joe, of all people, is advocating for mental health screening for gun owners... something America already does! Sheriff Joe's buffoonery knows no limit.[/caption] Joe Biden is playing Monday morning quarterback, second guessing what *might* have prevented the Virginia…
Illinois Concealed Carry Update: That’s desperation you smell from the other side
[caption id="attachment_5199" align="alignnone" width="620"] Todd Vandermyde, the NRA's guy in Springfield and the Field Marshal of our pro-civil rights armies in Springfield.[/caption] from Todd Vandermyde, NRA. [Edited for readability.] Today, lawyers on behalf of Mary Shepard filed a answer to the AG's request for en bancreview. I'm pleased with the…