Study: Murder Rates Lower Where Concealed Weapons Allowed

A recent study showing a reverse correlation between concealed weapons and murder rates has renewed the contentious national debate about the effect of gun controls on violent crime.

The four rules of gun safety

1. Treat all firearms as if they are loaded.
2. Never point the muzzle at anything you are not willing to destroy.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target and you are ready to fire.
4. Be sure of your target and what is beyond it.

Be prepared: Wall Street advisor recommends guns, ammo for protection in collapse

A top financial advisor, worried that Obamacare, the NSA spying scandal and spiraling national debt is increasing the chances for a fiscal and social disaster, is recommending that Americans prepare a “bug-out bag” that includes food, a gun and ammo to help them stay alive.

Congressional Study: Murder Rate Plummets as Gun Ownership Soars

A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that while gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009, crime fell — and fell sharply.

Why good people should be armed

“Saying ‘I don’t want a firearm because I don’t want violence and bloodshed,’ is no more rational than saying ‘I don’t want an airbag, because I don’t want to crash.’”

Josie the Outlaw

Label your in-car gun carrier

Courtesy of Front Sight.

Injured robber’s family says armed citizen should have ‘just left the store’

The family of a suspect who was shot by an armed customer while attempting to rob a Family Dollar store in Mobile, Alabama earlier this month told Fox 10 that the Good Samaritan should not have gotten involved and “just left the store.”

Foiled carjacking

A man driving with his vehicle’s windows down was stopped at a red light when he was approached by another man he did not know.

Foiled carjacking

Tariq Bell and his 13-year-old daughter had just left a music store when they were approached by a 40-year-old stranger.

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Gun Fever Too — Still hot

Liquor store clerk defends himself

A Marionville, Mo., liquor store clerk was working his shift on Sunday night when a would-be robber walked in smoking a cigarette, according to WUSA.

CDC Study: Use of Firearms For Self-Defense is ‘Important Crime Deterrent’

(CNSNews.com) — “Self-defense can be an important crime deterrent,” says a new report by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The $10 million study was commissioned by President Barack Obama as part of 23 executive orders he signed in January.

Rethinging gun control

• Surprising findings from a comprehensive report on gun violence.

Front Sight CCW (review)

It’s too bad Front Sight can’t dovetail this class better with the Sheriff’s department, to make it easier for course attendees to complete the Nevada portion of the CCW process. The people who process applications for the Sheriff’s department can only handle a relatively few applicants in the afternoon between the end of the class at Front Sight and when they close the office for the evening. Lots of Front Sight CCW graduates arrived too late to be processed that afternoon, which means either they have to stay over until the next day, come back later, or forego applying for the permit. A Sheriff’s department “CCW-processing sub-station” at Front Sight (with some way of obtaining a money order) would seem to be a tremendous boon to class graduates.

Front Sight 4-Day Defensive Handgun (review)

This visit to Front Sight was much better than my previous visit, because this time I arrived with a better mind-set. My mindset prior to my first visit to Front Sight was colored by a combat hand-gunning class from Chuck Taylor’s American Small Arms Academy many years before. Taylor was a bit of a demi-god back then — a guy who tested the efficacy of bullet-proof vests by putting them on and having someone shoot him in the chest from a few feet away. The stuff of legend, Taylor was rumored to have been in several actual gun fights, emerging the winner in each one. Back then, modern combat hand-gunning was more or less in its infancy, and as one of its most credible proponents, if Taylor said something, that was considered to be the way it was. Jeff Cooper was probably better known, but Taylor had street cred that couldn’t be equalled.

Every mass shooting shares one thing in common & it’s NOT weapons

Manasquan, NJ — (Ammoland.com) — Nearly every mass shooting incident in the last twenty years, and multiple other instances of suicide and isolated shootings all share one thing in common, and it’s not the weapons used.

Burger King diner defeats would-be robber by shooting him

A father who was trying to eat with his family at Burger King was able to defeat an armed robber by pulling his own weapon and shooting at him, Miami police said.

Joe Biden advises women on self-defense weapon choices

Vice-President Joe Biden appeared at an online town hall on gun control and offered advice on his weapon of choice.

Armed citizens stop massacres

August 1995 — Muskegon, Michigan: Plans to slay everyone in the Muskegon, Michigan, store and steal enough cash and jewelry to feed their “gnawing hunger for crack cocaine” fell apart for a band of would-be killers after one of their victims fought back. Store owner Clare Cooper was returning behind the counter after showing three of the four conspirators some jewelry, when one of the group pulled out a gun and shot him four times in the back. Stumbling for the safety of his bullet-proof glass-encased counter, Cooper managed to grab his shotgun and fire as the suspects fled.

History of gun confiscation

In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.