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  • Pocono Township police lobby for more firepower

    08/22/2013 2:20:05 PM PDT · by RBW in PA · 13 replies
    Pocono Record ^ | August 22, 2013 | Jenna Ebersole
    In Pocono Township, police officers are searching for a new way to make sure they are ready for any situation amid budget constraints.Two officers approached Pocono Township Police Department Chief Phil Riley several months ago, questioning whether they could use their own privately owned firearms as patrol rifles on the job. Riley said the township is now considering an ordinance to cover the liability as it has not yet purchased enough rifles for every officer in the department. Riley said the department has about five or six rifles for the 18-person force, which creates several safety problems.These days, Riley said,...
  • Christie: Balance need for security with rights of law-abiding gun owners

    08/08/2013 12:53:26 PM PDT · by ZULU · 24 replies
    New Jersey Politicker ^ | August 8, 2013 | State Street Wire Staff
    TRENTON – One of the bills Gov. Chris Christie signed into law today deals with keeping guns out of the hands of those on the Terrorist Watch List. In signing A3687, Christie talked in an accompanying statement about the need to balance national security needs with a desire to ensure law-abiding citizens are not improperly implicated with wrongdoing. He said that “To the extent that this bill will keep guns out of the hands of known terrorists, or those who have taken active steps to support terrorist activities, my signature on this bill represents my commitment to keeping the citizens...
  • FBI Handgun Training Changed

    08/05/2013 6:45:14 AM PDT · by rover3 · 28 replies
    Western Shooting Journal ^ | 8/5/2013 | J Hin
    This year the FBI changed their course of fire for the handgun. Due to the incidents of special agents getting killed while involved in shootout with assailants. These shootouts occurred within 10 feet, that's 65%. The conventional thinking is that if you can shoot at 25 yards and beyond, then shooting at 20 feet should be easy. However, statistics shows differently. The irony of this change in the pistol course of fire is that the FBI was toting their horn for all law enforcement agency (nationwide) to implement a close quarter shooting course that focuses on fighting with the handgun...
  • Advice needed on personal protection handgun

    08/01/2013 7:57:08 AM PDT · by circlecity · 124 replies
    08-01-2013 | Circlecity
    Looking for advice on which pistol to buy. After my first child was born 30 years ago I sold my pistol so as not to have it around the house. Now I am an empty nester and would like to get back into having a few handguns. After so many years I consider myself a newbie so all advice on which handgun to purchase is appreciated. For my first gun I would like a 9mm autoloader. I intend to use it primarily for shooting at the range and for personal carry. Eventually I will also purchase a revolver to use...
  • Cost of shotgun and firearm licences must rise say police chiefs (UK)

    07/29/2013 2:44:54 PM PDT · by Stoat · 5 replies
    The Telegraph (UK) ^ | June 9, 2013 | Ben Farmer
    Fees have not risen for more than a decade and there is a shortfall of £19 million each year for police forces to process certificates. Chief Constable Andy Marsh, the association’s spokesman on firearms licensing, also called on the Treasury to plug the financial hole. Sporting gun users immediately said they feared the move was a backdoor attempt to cut the number of gun owners in the country. A five-year firearms or shotgun certificate currently costs £50, yet police forces estimate they cost around £200 each to process the paperwork and ensure the guns are being stored safely.
  • Gun Fans Will Love These Pictures of S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley

    07/22/2013 7:31:37 AM PDT · by rktman · 17 replies
    The Blaze ^ | 7/22/2013 | Liz Klimas
    South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley after posting on Facebook about a “great meeting” on education reform efforts, published now viral photos of herself testing out a variety of firearms at a gun manufacturer in the state.
  • A Gun Maker Moves On

    06/30/2013 5:17:35 AM PDT · by 4buttons · 25 replies
    NYT ^ | 6/29/13 | NYT
    copy&paste from NYT, incredibly heavy-handed anti-gun claptrap.
  • Flood evacuees furious as RCMP enter locked homes to confiscate firearms.

    06/28/2013 7:01:25 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 43 replies
    Radio Canada International ^ | Friday 28 June, 2013 | Marc Montgomery
    High River ( Alberta, Canada) residents mill about an RCMP roadblock where much angry shouting was heard as police refused entry into the town. Residents were astounded to learn the police had broken into homes to confiscate firear Residents of the previously flooded town of High River, are angry at delays in being allowed back in to the town. The 13-thousand citizens were ordered out and the town completely evacuated during the flood, but as waters have receded, residents are eager to return home to assess the damage. The RCMP has been refusing to let people back in as the...
  • Home Invasion Millburn NJ

    06/27/2013 10:03:01 AM PDT · by Winged Hussar · 46 replies
    News12 NJ ^ | 6/24/13 | News12 NJ
    WARNING: VIDEO OF ACTUAL VIOLENT ASSAULT ON A WOMAN IN HER OWN HOME http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dvvHMM6TF50 This is what Governors Cuomo (NY SAFE Act) and Blumenthal (CT), along with Mayor Bloomberg and Mayors Against Illegal Guns, want for every woman in the country. A large home invader broke into a house, and battered a smaller and weaker woman, who was of course unarmed as encouraged by New Jersey's gun laws. Unfortunately, some lower-class individuals have left racist comments on the video, because the attacker happened to be Black. They need to be reminded that violent white criminals (e.g. KKK) do similar things,...
  • Exercising the right to bear arms Seeking concealed-carry permits in increasing numbers

    06/23/2013 7:36:50 AM PDT · by SLB · 11 replies
    The News Enterprise ^ | June 23, 2012 | Sarah Bennett
    Pizza store owner Laura Goodman raised a .38-caliber revolver with both hands as she stood beneath the canopy of a twisted mulberry tree June 8 behind the Valley Creek Fire Department in Elizabethtown. Goodman, one of six students in a concealed carry permit class, was about 7 yards away from her target, a gray silhouette of a man with his right hand on his hip. The paper target hung from a wooden board riddled with bullet holes. “Whenever you all are ready,” the instructor said. Teeth gritted, she fired. The first of 20 shots struck the target’s lower torso. Goodman...
  • The 10 guns that defined America: Posthumous book by Ex-Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle reveals....

    06/17/2013 10:49:28 AM PDT · by NotYourAverageDhimmi · 38 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | June 17, 2013 | Michael Zennie
    1) Kentucky Long Rifle The Kentucky long rifle was effectively used as a sniping weapon during the Revolutionary War - allowing colonial soldiers to pick off officers at range due to its rifling and superior accuracy. 2) Spencer Repeating Rifle The Spencer repeating rifle put an unheard-of amount of firepower into the hands of the few Union soldiers who wielded them. 3) Cold Single-Action Army: 'The Peacemaker' The Colt Single Action Army was used by lawmen and outlaws alike in the Wild West. It garnered the nickname 'Peacemaker'. 4) Winchester Model 1873 The Winchester 1873 lever action rifle had the...
  • Gun-loving states in frenzy over Connecticut gun makers

    06/17/2013 8:13:40 AM PDT · by EXCH54FE · 13 replies
    Guns.Com ^ | June 17, 2013 | Daniel Terrill
    Yesterday, Texas came a knocking. While most would assume that with the Lone Star State’s love of guns would pair the two together better than peas and carrots, Gov. Rick Perry will have to bring more than just a box of chocolates and some bright red roses. He aims to woo them with things like low taxes, fewer regulations and offer an economic incentive package. On top of the sweet talk, Perry has been laying ground work since the National Rifle Association’s annual convention last month (check out his intro video) and, as of his arrival yesterday, with TV and...
  • NRA goes after Joe Manchin, idiot senator from WV.

    06/13/2013 6:31:43 AM PDT · by meatloaf · 6 replies
    What do you know Joe? I can't wait to vote for unelecting you in 2018. "After years of showering U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin with stellar ratings and campaign endorsements, the National Rifle Association targeted the West Virginia Democrat with a TV ad launched Wednesday over his continuing push for broader gun buyer background checks."
  • Finally, a Smartphone app that makes sense!

    06/12/2013 9:56:42 AM PDT · by MatthewQuigley · 12 replies
    KIVI TV- Boise ^ | 6/12/13 | James Cramer
    N. Idaho company invents world's first rifle adapter for smartphone By James Cramer CREATED Jun. 11, 2013 An Idaho company is mixing weaponry with a taste of Apple. Inteliscope LLC announced the launch of the world’s first tactical rifle adapter for smartphones. The company was founded in Sandpoint by Jason Giddings, who is waiting from Apple to review the application software used for the rifle. “We’re ready to get started with what we came to Idaho to do: hire good employees and help the economy of North Idaho,” Giddings said. The Inteliscope mounts on a rifle using a tactical rail...
  • 72-Year-Old Woman Greets Would-Be Home Invasion Robber With Gunfire

    06/11/2013 11:53:31 PM PDT · by WilliamIII · 12 replies
    CBS LA ^ | June 11 2013 | CBS LA
    ANAHEIM (CBSLA.com) — A 72-year-old woman fired a gun at a would-be home invasion robber over the weekend in an unincorporated area of Anaheim. Jan Cooper said she was home with her 86-year-old husband, a decorated World War II veteran, in the 10000 block of Gilbert Street around 12:30 a.m. Sunday when she heard an intruder at her front door. The suspect, however, couldn’t get through the locked door, so he attempted to enter through a sliding glass door at the back of the home. The grandmother, while on the phone with a 911 dispatcher, said that’s when she warned...
  • 11-Yr-Old Suspended From School For Merely TALKING About Guns (Calvert County, Md)

    06/04/2013 9:09:52 PM PDT · by SWAMPSNIPER · 113 replies
    WMAL ^ | JUNE 03, 2013 | WMAL
    "The boy was questioned by the principal and a sheriff's deputy, who also wanted to search the family home without a warrant, Henkelman said. "He started asking me questions about if I have firearms, and [the deputy said] he's going to have to search my house. Search my house? I just wanted to know what happened."
  • Gun Talk Radio, Sunday, 6/2/2013

    06/02/2013 5:05:15 PM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 84 replies
    Gun Talk Radio ^ | 6/2/2013 | Tom Gresham
    Subbing for mylife...
  • Terrorists behead British soldier in London

    05/22/2013 6:29:30 PM PDT · by rktman · 8 replies
    CNSNews ^ | 5/22/2013 | Richard Thompson
    In what British officials are determining to be an act of terror, two suspected terrorists beheaded a soldier in Woolwich, London Thursday afternoon. Video shows the suspects, who were identified as black males, shouting “Allahu Akbar” — the Arabic phrase for “God is Great” — as they continuously hack at the victim’s lifeless body with machetes.
  • Gun Talk Radio, Sunday 5/19/2013

    05/19/2013 5:10:27 PM PDT · by Carriage Hill · 132 replies
    Gun Talk Radio ^ | 5/19/13 | Tom Gresham
    Subbing for mylife...
  • Anti-Second Amendment Bill Maher: ‘I Ain’t Giving Up My Gun’

    05/18/2013 10:50:57 PM PDT · by Beave Meister · 23 replies
    Fox Nation ^ | 5/18/2013
    Bill Maher on Friday once again exposed himself as a total hypocrite. Minutes after telling his HBO Real Time panel "the Second Amendment is bulls--t," he admitted having two firearms in his house - "one upstairs and one down" - claiming, "As long as we live in the gun country, I ain’t giving up my gun"