My Favorite Hunt: Chasing Wild Hogs in Texas
Wanting to escape city life for a day or two, I took my then 10-y/o and 8-y/o daughters to Lonesome Boar Adventures in Mountain Home, Texas. This wasn’t a hunting trip so much as getting…
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Everytown Reveals Itself as the Man Behind the Curtain of States’ ‘Nuisance’ Laws Aimed at the Gun Industry
For years, gun control organizations have been seeking to dismantle the bipartisan Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). That’s the crucial federal law that shields firearm manufacturers and sellers from frivolous lawsuits designed…
Gun-Free Zones Kill: Data Shows Armed Citizens Stop Mass Killers Most of the Time
By Rob Morse We live in a media-driven culture. We also have government agencies putting out biased reports that serve their political masters. And it’s rare that the media even question those agencies’ reports. That…
Mike Rowe’s Unintentional But Valuable Range Safety Tip
Mike Rowe, the well-known dirty job do-er, work raconteur and mover of the book markets, did a safety video that has application to shooters. In the video, below, Rowe describes how he and his crew…
Washington State Highway Fatalities Skyrocket, Yet No One is Calling for a Ban On Cars
From the CCRKBA . . . New data from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission suggests the Evergreen State is on track to see one of the deadliest years on state highways since the 1990s, yet…
Politics is Downstream of Culture: Let’s Look at Single-Parent Homes and Homicide Rates
Here’s a fun fact using data published recently in an article at stacker.com listing states with the most single-parent households. As always, correlation is not causation. That said, not one state of the ten ranked…
Swearer: America Has a Mental Health Infrastructure Problem, Not a Gun Problem
We have a very real national crisis of disillusioned young men who are increasingly alienated from society, overly connected to the internet, and full of anger. They are too easily pulled into extremism and too…
Bottomless Demand: Americans Added Another 1.1 Million Firearms to Their Safes in August
Another month — 49 consecutive, to be exact — with 1 million or more gun sold in August. Because of Despite the Biden administration’s ongoing War on Guns, Americans have show exactly zero inclination to…
Faulty Data: CPRC Finds FBI Data Wildly Understates the Number of Active Shooters Stopped by Armed Citizens
The FBI defines active shooter incidents as those in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area. But it does not include shootings that are deemed related to other criminal…
Author of a Screed on the Societal Costs of Civilian Gun Ownership Somehow Fails to Include the Value of Crimes Prevented and Lives Saved
Importantly, when we talk about the costs of guns, it’s not just crime. It includes accidents. It includes suicide attempts, even failed ones. As reported by Casey Smith of the Indiana Capital Chronicle on Aug….