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The Year In Pathetic Gun “Buyback” Attempts
For many big-city officials, there’s nothing quite like a good gun “buyback.” They get lots of publicity, and they look (to the uninformed, at least) as if they’re doing something tangible to cut down on violent crime and accidental gun deaths. Gun “buybacks” are voluntary and pleasantly evoke reward instead …
Refugee Crime Driving Germans to Buy Guns: “Huge Influx of Foreigners Has Frightened Many People”
Germans are adjusting to the new normal, and they aren’t taking it lying down. As SHTF reported, the first reaction of many Europeans to the violent wave of Syrian refugees flooding their countries was to take arms for self-protection, and as a result gun sales soared, and where those weren’t …
Guns In Church? Security Is Heightened As FEMA Helps Churches Prepare For ‘Active Shooter Incidents’
Do you ever wonder if someone might come marching into your church one Sunday morning and start shooting? When I was growing up, I never even imagined that some mentally-imbalanced individual or a group of Islamic terrorists would ever attempt to attack a church service that I was attending, but …
The Voice of a Tyrant: Now Obama wants your Guns!
“To conquer a nation, first disarm it’s citizens.” –Adolph Hitler Is it not absolutely astounding that at every incident in which a gun is used in a crime, engineered or otherwise, the tyrant Barack Hussein Obama, along with other corrupt politicians and Hollywood’s hypocritical ant-gun teachers, stands against The Bill …
The Godless Left
Only hours after an attack of radical jihadi terror on American soil, the New York Daily News became the loudest, vilest, most condescending voice for what many people call the Godless Left. These false prophets at this failing excuse for a newspaper claimed to enjoy special knowledge of God’s plans …
A Rifle for Concealed Carry? Three Practical Choices
Recent events both at home and abroad have many Americans rethinking their everyday carry handgun choices. There’s an excellent chance that you might be one of the thousands of prepared citizens trading in their pocket pistol for something a bit larger, like a gun in the size class of a …
Colorado May Have Its First Large-Capacity-Magazine Criminal Charge
When Colorado’s Larimer County district attorney filed a charge for possessing high-capacity magazines against 29-year-old David Moscow on October 26, 2015, it may have been the first such use of the law since its adoption more than two years ago. A search by U.S. Law Shield did not turn up another …
The Charter Arms Bulldog .44 Special—The Bulldog has a Bite!
As many of you have noticed when doing these Shooters Log reviews, the firearms I use most often are not new guns or loaners,but personal guns I have experience with. Some are long serving. I do not write about anything I do not have personal experience with—even if the experience …
Finally — Gun Confiscation Is Out in the Open
Last week, the New York Times newspaper did something remarkable—the paper ran an editorial on its front page for the first time in nearly 100 years. This has the potential to be very good for gun owners, because the editorial called for an outright ban and implied confiscation of certain types of guns, …
4 Alternatives to the AR-10
Depending on what you’re trying to put holes into, the venerable 5.56 isn’t always the right choice. Sometimes you need that hard-hitting .308. While the AR-10 is a fine choice, here are four .30-caliber rifles you should try before pulling the trigger on the variant you’ve been eyeing. After all, …