from Fox News. Amid calls nationwide for stricter gun control laws, Virginia is experiencing a unique trend: the state's gun-related crime is declining but firearms sales are increasing. Firearms sales rose 16 percent to a record 490,119 guns purchased from licensed gun dealers in 2012, according to sales estimates obtained by the Richmond ... MORE
A cop shot a dog the other day. Again. Maybe you’ve seen the video -- it was all over the Internet, complete with the dog's grisly death spasms. Hawthorne, Calif., resident Leon Rosby was using his cellphone to record a standoff between police officers and armed robbers. At the end of the standoff, officers headed Rosby’s way. He put his dog, ... MORE
by John Whitehead. What do college girls and bottled water have to do with the emerging American police state? Quite a bit, it seems. Public outcry has gone viral over an incident in which a college student was targeted and terrorized by Alcohol Beverage Control agents (ABC) after she purchased sparkling water at a grocery store. The girl ... MORE
New technology challenges gun control laws. In February, the techie gun-rights group Defense Distributed unveiled a 3D-printed lower receiver for an AR-15 rifle that withstood hundreds of rounds of fire. A YouTube video of the component in action was accompanied by the terse statement, “Does not fail from firing stresses. 600+ rounds.” ... MORE
Introducing BENGHAZIGATE. Liberals don’t want honest Americans like you to have guns. Liberals
just want to arm foreign rebels in crapshoot attempts to “end global
violence.” But liberals feign ignorance when the rebels they arm end up
being criminals who kill innocent Americans like the late U.S.
Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. ... MORE
by Miranda Green. If you live in Arkansas, you can now carry a concealed gun into a bar, or a liquor store—or a church. College staffers can bring guns on campus. Folks with a permit from other states can pack heat in Arkansas without filing any paperwork. These are among the half-dozen legal changes in the state that passed only four months ... MORE
Just what is the Obama regime up to? The Denver Post, on February 15th, ran an Associated Press article entitled Homeland Security aims to buy 1.6b rounds of ammo, to far too little notice. It confirmed that the Department of Homeland Security has issued an open purchase order for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. As elsewhere reported, ... MORE
How the war on drugs is a war on children. On a warm spring afternoon at American colleges, the intoxicating aroma
of surely medicinal marijuana will be floating like a soft caress in the
breeze, and hard-working students will be stocking up on amphetamine
cocktails to sharpen their overstressed young minds for the coming
exams. ... MORE
Could you visualize yourself needing one? The two strongest reasons for civilians to own assault weapons are self-defense and defense against tyranny. One self-defense situation that comes to mind is the L.A. riots. Who can forget the nightly news's live footage of thugs hurling rocks at passing cars, buildings on fire, and looters smashing storefront ... MORE
Scare terms and reality. There are many articles
on the internet where people can learn the origins of the term “assault
rifle”, so I won’t go into that here. Nor will I get into the topic of
gun control effectiveness. Larry Correia has done such a good job here that anything I add would be redundant. “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what ... MORE
Where is the outrage? Every time there is a natural disaster of some sort, gas station owners
are considered monstrous for raising prices to coincide with increased
demand of their scarce resources. However, I have not heard anyone
calling for the immediate lynching of those greedy gun shop owners who
have doubled or even tripled prices on ... MORE