California Crime Follies: Int’l Thieves Flying Into SoCal to Take Advantage Revolving Door Justice System
A recent article at the Los Angeles Times tells the wild story of “burglary tourists”, people who have been flying in from other countries, mostly in South America, to rob California homes. According to the Daily Mail, it’s been going on for a couple of years now and they’re coming from countries like Chile, Ecuador, […]
Murder Victim Shoots Attacker Before Dying, Passerby Picks Up the Gun & Shoots the Killer ‘Multiple’ Times
A wild story from Chicago this past week as cops say 20-year-old Quijuan Lewis ambushed a 36-year-old man walking down the street. Lewis, recently paroled on a (go figure) gun conviction, allegedly shot and killed Delegance Crawl, 36. Before he died, Mr. Crawl did the only polite thing he could: he shot Lewis. But wait, […]
Everytown Sues GLOCK Because Gang Bangers are Using Illegal Switches to Make Illegal Machine Guns
Remember when Lizzie Borden took and axe and gave her mother forty whacks? That wasn’t all, because according to the old song, she then gave her father forty-one. Lizzie was charged and tried for the two murders (and later acquitted, but that’s a long story for another day). You know what didn’t happen, though? No […]
Gear Review: Trijicon RMR HD Reflex Sight
By Dave Spaulding When it comes to pistol optics, I’ve gone over to the dot side. In retrospect, this should not be a surprise. I was an advocate of brightly colored front sights back when many were calling for black on black or the three-dot configurations. After years of research into armed conflict, I came […]
Everytown’s Juvenile Shooting ‘Data’ Chock Full of Errors, Advocacy
Children unintentionally shot and killed more than 157 people last year and wounded more than 270, or so Everytown for Gun Safety claims. NBC News was the first media outlet to lap up this fake-news story. “The children who pulled the trigger were most often teenagers ages 14 to 17 or children ages 5 and […]
Knapp: It’s Time to Finally Give Up the Fantasy of Gun Control
“Those who would outlaw weapons,” the late L. Neil Smith wrote, “must first outlaw the knowledge of weapons. And those who would outlaw the knowledge of weapons must outlaw knowledge itself.” Specifically, knowledge of things like engineering, machining, and chemistry. Guns are, at this point, simple examples of those arts and sciences. While it’s been […]