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The terms of the gun debate have been set so firmly and for so long that any attempt to venture past the slogans employed by the respective sides is typically met with derision. I suspect that, for many, there is very little thinking about this topic anymore; what is called argument is really just posturing or strategizing. Where there are no genuine questions being asked, there is no thinking. The participants in the debate come largely from two camps: on one side there are the gun enthusiasts for whom guns are an expression of identity and who therefore regard any...

The phrase gun culture means different things to different people. Gun enthusiasts herald and defend their constitutional right to own and use firearms. On the other hand, many gun control advocates view gun culture in the United States as a national shame, one that makes us world leaders in gun ownership and violence. The polarization between these two camps is well-chronicled, and former firearms executive Ryan Busse finds himself smack in the middle. He calls himself “a proud outdoorsman, gun owner, father, and resident of Montana.” If there is a reasonable, sustainable middle ground between gun rights and gun control,...

In this informative video, Reid Henrichs of Valor Ridge discusses "instructors" who compromise on the Bill of Rights and their descent into irrelevancy. If they have a problem with me or what I say in this video, they are more than welcome to come to Valor Ridge and meet me and I can show them just how incompetent, unskilled, and ignorant they are when it comes to firearms via some simple marksmanship tests and tasks. But I doubt they have the courage or motivation to truly see what they really are. 5 minute video

“Let’s be frank: Hunters know that high-capacity magazines and semi-automatic rifles are unnecessary for our sport. These guns are weapons of war, designed to kill human beings. You could say the same about handguns. My dad often talks about bringing a sidearm for protection while hunting in serious grizzly bear country, but I tell him not to bother. Studies have shown that bear spray is more effective, anyway, and there’s a good deal less collateral damage likely to be caused.” – Greg Luther in Hunters, sportsmen must speak up now on gun control [via abqjournal.com]

Agent details arms cache found in home of doctor BY LINDA SATTER ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE Along with 98 live grenades and 110 machine guns, federal agents found $50,000 in cash, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and a gun-concealing briefcase with a trigger built into the handle [A $5 registered AOW-emphisis mine] during a search last week of the Pope County home of Dr. Randeep Mann, a federal agent testified Monday. David Oliver of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified at a detention hearing for Mann that continues today. U.S. Magistrate Judge H. David Young will decide whether Mann should...