SHOT SHOW 2017: PART 3

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The SHOT Show goes far beyond just guns.  One of the hottest accessories today is the sound suppressor – silencer – which is riding a huge wave of popularity that has yet to crest. ...

SHOT SHOW 2017 PART 4

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The mood was upbeat at this next to last day of the SHOT Show as we awaited the January 20 inauguration of the most pro-gun President since maybe, oh, Theodore Roosevelt. Interesting gun news: it...

LIGHTING A CANDLE

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On January 8, the Brady Bunch suggested a lighting of a candle as a protest to gun violence. Awww…how sweet. The 8th, of course, was the one year anniversary of the grotesque mass murder in Tucson,...

A SAD AND MEANINGFUL ANNIVERSARY

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Thirty years ago today – April 11, 1986 – what may have been the most studied gunfight of the Twentieth Century took place in Dade County, Florida. Eight FBI agents on a rolling stakeout...

TOXIN-ANTI-TOXIN: A HERO’S STORY

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In medicine, grave circumstances sometimes require toxin-anti-toxin therapy: poison against poison.  Chemotherapy may make a cancer patient feel sick in different ways, but it can save the patient’s life; therapeutic radiation may have ugly...