Politics

Feckless Chicago Mayor Oversees 18 Murders, 48 More Wounded This Weekend

Here’s a newsflash: Chicago’s Mayor Lori Lightfoot has a violent crime problem in her city. Last week, when President Trump offered to help solve the horrific violence on Murder City, USA’s streets, Lightfoot rudely rebuffed…


16 Attorneys General Declare Support for Ammunition Background Checks [VIDEO]

Dan Z. for TTAG   This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For another look at the topics discussed here, check out this week in…


Minneapolis Council Members Hire Private Armed Security After Voting to Defund Police

Phillipe Cunningham, Andrea Jenkins and Alondra Cano (courtesy Facebook) In Minneapolis — where violence has skyrocketed — the City Council is doing its level best to ensure that in the future, all animals are truly…


‘Gun Violence’ Roaring Towards 1980s Levels Yet Left Demands Cities ‘Defund the Police’

Double homicide suspect runs from scene in Chicago. Image via Chicago Police Twitter. So-called gun violence has spiked in recent weeks since the George Floyd death. Many of America’s big cities, virtually all run by…


Lawmakers: Defund Police? Then Unchain the Second Amendment

Republicans in the U.S. House want those who propose to cut back on police to keep in mind that that gun rights are often hamstrung as well. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com) Republicans on Capitol Hill have…


California Wants to Add More ‘Assault Weapons’ to List of Banned Firearms

Courtesy Franklin Armory Section 40 of California Assembly Bill 88 is expanding the definition of what constitutes an “assault weapon” to include more firearms. Because of course they are. The notable additions are: (9) A…



Liberal Minneapolis Enclave Lives in Fear Without Guns, Police As Those Displaced by Rioting Set Up Camp

BigStock “This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.”  So said John Wayne once in a movie. Truer words have never been spoken. Meanwhile, residents of a ultra-liberal, gun-eschewing enclave of Minneapolis known as…


D.C. Attorney General Sues Polymer80 Over Kits

Polymer80 has been popular with hobbyists in recent years for their pistol and AR frame kits. (Photo: Polymer80) Describing popular hobby gun kit provider Polymer80 as “selling untraceable firearms” to area residents, Washington D.C. Attorney…


Americans Buying Guns Because They Can’t Count on Beleaguered Police or Soft-on-Crime Pols to Protect Them

Image by Oleg Volk. Used with permission. blog.olegvolk.net In recent weeks, Americans voted with their wallets — again — and have stripped gun retailers’ shelves bare of most guns and ammo. Between the Chinese flu…