Rape Survivor testifies at Maryland Legislator for Concealed Carry

Maryland is going through CCW law hearings right now and the following is testimony from a resident who lends a personal face to what is otherwise just statistics: Kudos to the Daily Mail for actually being impartial in presenting this in their story: This incredibly difficult moment a rape survivor stood up in Maryland state Senate hearing …

Former Commander of the Maryland State Police Gun Licensing Division on Gun Owners, Concealed Carry and misconceptions about them.

Maryland is one of the most hostile states to firearms owners.  In this video, Jack McCauley (the former commander of Maryland's Gun Licensing Division) explains why he was wrong about gun owners & his preconceptions about them. His credentials: Commander of the Maryland State Police Licensing Division, 24 year veteran of the MSP Member of …

Kentucky knife law repeal introduced

Kniferights.com has had a preemption bill introduced in the state senate that will force local areas to follow state law. Read about the bill here:http://www.kniferights.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=307&Itemid=1

A Redditor knocks it out of the park with regards to Australian Gun Politics

Ban advocates always use misleading statistics leaving out violent crime, battery, and murder and focusing only on gun crime even though when you remove guns statistically the violence simply transfers to stabbings and beatings. Having lived in Oz and America I have to point out that the aussie government makes these statements omg no guns …

Reason gets it right again: How to Count the Defensive Uses of Guns

Reason's always been pro-gun and a source for rational discourse when it comes to debunking the various flawed arguments gun control proponents come up with.  They have a new article out addressing the many issues with the antigun tactic of "driving the numbers down" for Defensive Gun Uses: Stringent gun control advocates are fond of underestimating the possible importance …

Antigun propaganda of the day: Brave New Film’s “The NRA vs Pediatricians • The REAL NRA • Part 1 • BRAVE NEW FILMS”

Brave New Films, a left wing video production group that regularly posts "documentaries" on YouTube, posted the following video today about how the NRA is a bunch of mean meanies trying to harm medicine: The problem is that it's extremely misleading. The "Docs vs Glocks" law came about after numerous doctors were reported asking political …

Due process? LOL no – “Schumer: Close Loophole Allowing Possible Terrorists To Buy Guns In US”

For me, gun rights is the equivalent of the old time "canary in the coal mine" - if a politician doesn't trust you to own firearms, they really aren't going to care much about any of your other civil rights either.  Chuck Schumer & Diane Feinstein both make no bones about wanting to remove your access …

Kentucky CCDW changes since 2004

Someone on Reddit linked to this article from back in Nov 2014, but it's worth sharing.  Since 2004 there have been a number of changes to the Kentucky CCDW law: • Active and honorably discharged military personnel who apply for licenses are no longer required to undergo training on state laws related to legal liability and the use …

The tears are delicious – Rick Cohen’s “Gun Control Stalls: Assault Rifles and Us” pity party

From Nonprofit Quarterly's Rick Cohen, comes this missive: "Gun Control Stalls: Assault Rifles and Us" It is so strange that the American movement for gun control has flickered and come close to disappearing despite the ubiquity of gun violence in the U.S. and its resurgence in Western Europe. In liberal Vermont, for example, a bill …

41 studies reviewed, no evidence to support “More Guns, More Crime “

Full study is behind a paywall, but Kleck has done it again.  His new paper highlights the shoddy science used by most antigun "researchers" and boils it down to three main points. From the page: Abstract Purpose This paper reviews 41 English-language studies that tested the hypothesis that higher gun prevalence levels cause higher crime …