Free Republic

St. Louis Park, Minnesota mayor Nadia Mohamed says we should not "point fingers" at the Somali teens who keep shooting guns. Instead, she wants to "ban guns." https://www.tiktok.com/@nadia.mohamed/video/7693268567613082911

1879 Reichsrevolver with a homemade ejector rod and optical sight. The 1879 Reichsrevolver was adopted by the German military a few years after German unification. Author attached a red dot optical sight without modifying the revolver. It is clamped on, with no metal removed. Ejector rods were separate. The one above is homemade.Consider the pistol the revolvers were to replace, the Kavalleriepistol M 1850. It is about .59 caliber, firing a 267 grain round ball from a smooth bore, contained in a paper cartridge with about 67 grains of black powder.Interpolating from data measured at the YouTube channel capandball, the...

Newly unsealed police bodycam footage shows the aftermath of the 2023 Richneck Elementary School shooting in Newport News, Virginia, where a 6-year-old student shot his first-grade teacher. Officers enter the classroom and secure the handgun before taking the child into custody. During the encounter, the 6-year-old repeatedly curses at officers and a teacher, challenges them, and tells police that he stole the gun from his mother. The bodycam footage was later unsealed by a Virginia court after media organizations challenged the decision to keep it sealed. The child's face and identifying information have been blurred in accordance with the court's...

A Portland jury was faced with an unusual question: Should a 71-year-old man who shot a stranger flashing his genitals at him on a MAX train be convicted of any crimes? It was after midnight when Michael Grover Phill and his legally blind life partner boarded a MAX train in North Portland in January.Later, a 40-year-old man with a gaping hole in the crotch of his pants and his penis clearly visible boarded the train. The man walked up and down the aisle, past the three passengers who were fumbling with some aluminum foil, a straw and what Phill presumed...

Handguns have been shown to be extremely effective at stopping bear attacks. This correspondent and colleagues have documented over 200 cases in North America where handguns were fired in defense against bears. Handguns have been effective in about 98% of the cases. One objection to these findings is often stated this way:If a person is killed before the handgun is fired, you will not include the incident in your statistics, because the handgun was not fired. Fair enough. It is a limitation worth exploring.Wikipedia and others maintain a database of all the people who have been recorded as having been...

A federal judge issued an injunction blocking Connecticut from enforcing a ban on Glock pistols Wednesday. Glock and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) sued to block Connecticut’s ban on the manufacturer’s popular pistols, which Democratic Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed into law in May. United States District Judge Kari A. Dooley of the District of Connecticut, a Trump appointee, said that the state’s ban failed the test established by the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. “The Defendants offer no adequate explanation as to how the sale of a firearm manufactured on...

BELL COUNTY, Ky. (WYMT) - A Middlesboro woman faces a wanton endangerment charge after a neighbor reported finding a bullet hole in her shower and a stray round wrapped in a bathroom towel. According to an arrest citation, an apartment resident on Exeter Avenue reported to the Middlesboro Police Department Monday that she discovered a bullet hole in her shower and a bullet inside a towel in her bathroom. Officers responded to the neighboring apartment and spoke with Teresa Stout, 55. Police say Stout gave consent for officers to search the apartment and retrieve a small revolver from her bedside...

It's that time of the year again where we start watching all the new petitions being filed before the Supreme Court as we track them through the briefing and conference schedule. Washington Gun Law President, William Kirk, discusses the 57 firearms cases that were scheduled for conference just yesterday so that you can get a flavor of what's before the court already. From the usual suspects that we see every year, to some very nuanced and creative arguments, this year's docket so far is packed with important cases. Today, we start highlighting some of the matters we should probably start...

They asked for help, then locked the replies. "We are seeking assistance locating a lost firearm magazine. On September 26, 2026, an on-duty WRPS officer lost their Service-issued magazine from their ballistic vest. The magazine, which was loaded, is similar to the one pictured. The magazine is believed to have been lost in Woolwich or Wellesley Township. Anyone with information is asked to contact police" You'll be happy to know that they found the magazine, but didn't tell us where it was found, which was even more lame than locking the replies.

A tech executive behind the popular New York Times games was allegedly shot dead by his elderly parents-in-law in a brazen broad daylight attack, police say. Shouyong Zhang and Shili Chen, both 77, allegedly fatally shot their son-in-law Jonathan McKinsey, 40, in the parking lot in California on Saturday. McKinsey, the head of engineering for games player experience at the New York Times since 2023, was raced to hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and died at the scene, police say. Witnesses reported seeing two masked shooters approach McKinsey in the parking lot and took turns unloading a barrage of shots...

I guess they think you'll shoot your eye out? This legislation introduced by Kevin Mullin, a California Democrat, was sparked by a tragic incident where a young man used an air rifle to commit suicide. Former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in 2011 by a protester with a 9mm Glock pistol, has signaled support for the bill. The young man, Garrett Edwards (the one public photo available of him puts him in his mid-20s) reportedly became psychotic during the pandemic lockdowns. He was barred from purchasing or owning guns, but managed to buy an air rifle and used...

Trump Uses Executive Order to Expand Hunting and Fishing OpportunitiesPresident Trump signed an executive order Thursday expanding the amount of federal land available for use by hunters and fishermen and removing years of anti-hunting regulations.The White House noted that the order erases years of regulatory actions that targeted lead ammo and fishing tackle.... Link to the EO itself:https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2026/09/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-reinvigorates-americas-hunting-heritage/"...The Order directs the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of War, and the Secretary of Commerce to propose changes to polices that prevent access of public lands for recreation, infrastructure repair, and wildlife management, as well as to...

Innocent Florida father is under attack by left-wing activists and local agitators after stepping in to defend his son from a violent bully Despite law enforcement confirming that the father acted completely within the law to protect himself and his child, outraged activists, including local branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), are demanding that the father be locked up for assault with a deadly weapon. According to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, the dispute began Thursday, September 17, on a Martin County school bus headed toward South Fork High School, WPBF reported. A 16-year-old...

Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed Decree 1368 on September 8, 2026, ending the country’s nationwide suspension of firearm carry permits and restoring the effectiveness of qualifying permits already issued to private citizens.Here is a translation from the article in eltiempo.com:“’For years, the law-abiding citizen was restricted while criminals kept arming themselves illegally to the teeth. That has to change,’ the head of state said in a video on social media, emphasizing that the measure, which expressly repeals the restrictions established since 2018 and extended until the end of 2025 , does not translate into unrestricted authorization or indiscriminate...

The Justice Department on Friday released a new legal opinion that concludes a federal gun law prohibiting firearms dealers from selling handguns or handgun ammunition to young adults between the ages of 18 and 20 is unconstitutional by violating their Second Amendment rights. The OLC opinion is not legally binding, nor does it create any precedent. However, it is likely to lead federal prosecutors across the country to refrain from pursuing felony charges against licensed firearms dealers who are suspected of knowingly selling handguns to young adults under the age of 21.

NEW ORLEANS (September 18, 2026) — Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced today a major victory in Elite Precision Customs v. ATF, with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit holding that the federal government’s ban on direct interstate handgun purchases violates the Second Amendment. The Court reversed the lower court’s dismissal of the case and rendered judgment for FPC and its co-plaintiffs. [snip] The federal laws challenged by FPC categorically prohibit people from directly purchasing handguns from licensed dealers outside their state of residence. While federal law provides exceptions for interstate rifle and shotgun purchases, handgun buyers...

While researching bear-human conflicts, two additional incidents were found in which Slovaks used handguns to successfully defend themselves against European brown bears (Ursus arctos). Slovakia is one of the Central European countries that has adopted statutes allowing people to legally carry handguns for self-defense and the defense of others. The areas of both attacks are located about 20 km north of Banská Bystrica, in central Slovakia. On March 30, 2024, a young man was searching for mushrooms in a dense forest in the Žilina district, near the village of Stráňavy. He was off the hiking trail when a brown bear...

Today, the Justice Department filed suit against the City of San Jose, California, and the San Jose Police Department for charging private individuals unreasonable fees to exercise their Second Amendment right to lawfully carry a firearm. At nearly $1,600 per license, the City’s application fee to carry a firearm is the highest in the nation. Indeed, San Jose’s fee towers over those imposed by the country’s biggest cities. New York, Washington, D.C., Boston, and Chicago all charge a small fraction of San Jose’s fee. The Supreme Court has held that “exorbitant fees” such as San Jose’s violate the Second Amendment...

Harel Shapira, a sociologist at the University of Texas at Austin, is one of the country’s leading scholars of the American political right. For his first book, Waiting for José: The Minutemen’s Pursuit of America (Princeton University Press, 2013), Shapira spent years embedded with a militia group, which helped point him to his next subject, gun culture. To research his new book, Basic Pistol: Living and Dying by the Gun in America (Pantheon, September 15), Shapira spent four years immersing himself in that culture, participating in firearms and self-defense training courses in Texas and around the country and getting to...

From the gun cabinet of his shooting range, Volodymyr Sukhomlyn pulls out a semiautomatic shotgun. **SNIP** Not an easy target “But more recently it’s been bus drivers and cabbies buying them, too — anyone who is out on the streets a lot.” One FPV attack this month injured several people at a supermarket, leaving the floor stained with blood. Another ploughed into the upper floors of a government building downtown. “I heard it coming and we had to hide in a shop when it exploded,” said Julia Sologub, 31. “It used to be just a problem for soldiers — now...