A new survey of veterans who receive mental health care through the Veterans Health Administration finds that 93 percent would approve of the VA offering at least one option to address firearm access. Reduced access might involve having health care providers ask about veterans’ access to firearms, providing gun locks, or teaching veterans’ family and […]
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Legislators who push for gun laws are targeted with intimidation campaigns. I know because it happened to me
Crosses bear the names of the victims of the Borderline shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Nov. 27. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times) The email landed in my inbox on Monday morning of last week. “The gun-grabbing tyrants are on the march,” it screamed in bold text, “but their defeat is possible with your […]
Federal Appeals Court Upholds New Jersey ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban
Active Shooter Study This March 1, 2018 file photo shows a display of various models of semi automatic rifles at a store in Pennsylvania. Research published Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018 in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows active shooters with semi automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using […]
Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15
In a recent item for The Federalist, David Harsanyi considered the M16 rifle one of the five most innovative firearms in American firearm development history. Yet something equally significant can be said about the semi-automatic AR-15 derived from the M16. Second to the muskets used in our revolutionary and civil wars, the AR-15 may be […]
Killer Mike encourages students to stay free and creative
Rapper, activist and business owner Killer Mike spoke in an interview with Webster’s Bernie Hayes, hosted by MCISA, about the mission of his craft: to get people to live with complete freedom. “I would like to see the world become more free,” Killer Mike said. “I know I can’t change society with my one mind […]
A citizen militia can never match military
In his Viewpoint, Lawrence Corbett suggested that those who wrote the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution had taken to heart experiences arising from the Revolutionary War ("What’s missing in the debate over gun control," Nov. 26). He posited, therefore, that since the Continental Army in 1776 had been populated with citizens who brought their […]
The Deep State Wants Your Guns – OpEd
File photo of Houston gun show at the George R. Brown Convention Center. Photo by http://flickr.com/photos/glasgows/, Wikipedia Commons By José Niño* James Bovard notes the threat to private gun ownership posed by the “deep state,” the “officials who secretly wield power permanently in Washington, often in federal agencies with vast sway and little accountability.” While […]
A naive letter from fledging House Democrats
The U.S. Capitol Building at dusk on January 20, 2018, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Edelman/CNP/Zuma Press/TNS) (TNS) An enduring Washington truth: When a politician uses multiple clauses in a sentence, the opening words are camouflage soon to be contradicted by what comes later. Here are a few typical examples of this rhetorical shell game: When […]
Frozen Cold
Art by A.F. Branco Frozen Cold USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Frozen Cold. Record cold reported in the southeast and a sharp drop in the earth’s temperature over the past couple of years is making the Global Warming scenario less realistic among the well informed. Did you enjoy this cartoon? Sign up for Ammoland in your Inbox […]
Lowcountry gun range starts renovations after neighbors report bullets throughout area
Preliminary plans to make the range safer include re-orienting the direction of the rifle range, per owner YEMASSEE, S.C. (WJCL) — The sound of gunshots and bullets is nothing new for Jon Baker, a Yemassee man who’s family owns a local outdoor nursery. “I’ve got a concealed weapon permit. I carry my gun when I […]