Gun Nation

Washington Post: ‘Excess’ Legal Gun Purchases Behind Nationwide Spike in Shootings

Courtesy NYPD Earlier this morning, police officers from the 73rd Precinct responded to a 911 call of a male and female shot in front of 41 New Lots Avenue. When they arrived, they discovered a…


The Supreme Court Fiddles While the Second Amendment Burns – Part 3, The Way Forward

Bigstock [This is the final article in a three-part series. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.] By John Velleco This article concludes a three-part series explaining the courts’ shabby treatment of the Second…




Lancet’s Diagnosis of Millions of Americans Buying Guns: Fear, Loathing and Racism

Richmond armed Black Lives Matter protesters (courtesy Jeff Hulbert) By Dennis Petrocelli, MD The latest Lancet Psychiatry editorial mixes several poorly articulated ideas in a swing-and-a-miss effort to impugn American gun owners by suggesting that current gun purchase…



Want to See What Real Civil Unrest Looks Like? Try Confiscating Americans’ Guns

(AP Photo/Nick Ut) Active attempting gun confiscation in this country will make the past month’s violence look like a Sunday picnic. Gun confiscation is a thoroughly unworkable policy, and probably the idea most likely to…


What Videos Do You Use to Figure Out How to Disassemble or Clean a New Gun? [VIDEO]

Courtesy Hoppe’s No. 9   I’ve been asked by three different people in the last month how to clean their new gun. Two were semi-automatic pistols and one was a shotgun. There are a lot…



Florida Sheriff Says He’ll Deputize Lawful Gun Owners to Fight Violent Protesters [VIDEO]

Courtesy Clay County Sheriff’s Office Clay County Sheriff Darryl Daniels, no stranger to making viral videos appealing to tough-on-crime politics, released a video (click here to watch) Tuesday that said he will make “special deputies…