Category: guns

The Phantom Menace

Gun that killed Charlie Kirk… [More]

Words have meaning. Does “conservative” Fox News really not know any better?

…is WWI-era rifle that may be untraceable…

Before serial numbers were a thing…? So “ghost guns” had always been (and still are!) “in common use at the time” until treasonous prohibitionists started defecating all over “shall not be infringed”…?

HHS Report Ignores ‘Gun Health’

Kennedy’s health commission leaves guns out of its 20-page report [More]

I agree with critics that it should have mentioned guns, but not for the same reasons: If it purports “to help parents improve their children’s health,” it ought to include resources for development appropriate firearms training.

Another One Bites the Dust

All in all, there is hardly any evidence that handgun waiting period laws make a difference in homicides or suicides… As far as suicides are concerned, they have no effect on either gun suicide rates or total suicide rates. [More]

Another prohibitionist bit of calculated misdirection, that is…

Everybody here is totally aware of Gun Facts and relies on it as a go-to resource, right?

Following a Long Tradition

Now, the question is why? Plenty of gun companies have a page for “the only ones”, but those are typically companies like FN and Daniel Defense and others which offer select fire AR15 variants and in FN’s case, belt fed machine guns as well. But why Glock? They only make pistols. Pistols aren’t NFA or Hughes Act regulated (infringed). [More]

Because they’re suck-ups that will never pull a Barrett.

“The industry” has proven time and again what they’re interested in is their bottom line, from NSSF’s “partnership” with ATF, to the Rose Garden sellout, to Bill Ruger’s throwing other semi-autos under the bus.

Uncommon Use at the Time

Fact is, most firearms innovations have come from outside the government. [More]

Which is why “in common use at the time” can go from being a winning strategy in some circumstances to a trap more fundamental ones.

Face it: Every new idea starts as a monopoly.

Why our “gun rights leaders” seem deliberately indifferent to that is something you’ll have to ask them.

Their legal arguments are heavy on self defense and light on the militia, too.

[Via Michael G]

Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

President of Argentina Javier Milei signed a decree Wednesday broadening gun rights in the country by allowing Argentine civilians to purchase and possess semiautomatic weapons for the first time in 30 years. [More]

It’s not uninfringed, but it’s a damn sight better than it was.

[Via bondmen]

Tangentially-Related UPDATE

The US government skyrocketed the USAID budget for Brazil while Bolsonaro was there. Not to help Brazilians economically, but to flood the political opposition in Brazil with money to try to take him out. [More]

Unsurprisingly…

[Via Michael G]

NSSF’s Happy Talk®

“Today’s gun owners are representative of America because they come from every part of American society. We don’t all look the same or talk the same, but we share the very important idea that safe and lawful firearm ownership is our right.” [More]

We don’t all vote the same either, do we, Joe?

And define “lawful.”

It’s not about guns. It’s about freedom.

[Via Andy M]

A Right Delayed

Florida House votes to repeal gun control measure enacted after Parkland shooting… When asked if the House bill was dead in the Senate, House Speaker Daniel Perez, R-Miami, said there’s still time. “I think that’s premature,” Perez said. [More]

Why?

When won’t it be?

[Via Michael G]

The Eye of the Beholder

Arkansas public school students will soon be required to take gun safety courses [More]

“Gun safety” as in Youth for National Security or “gun safety” as in Everytown for Gun Safety?

A potential “live fire” option sounds promising, but will it be with more than a single-shot .22 and will it be high school before it’s declared “age appropriate” (I always preferred “development appropriate,” that focuses on the individual instead of the collective) ?

And I wonder how many Democrat parents will go ballistic…

[Via Antigone]

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