OF GUNS AND TOYS

19
It is axiomatic that guns aren’t toys. But guns are FUN. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, more recreational dollars are spent in America on guns and the gun sports than are spent on...

THE BIG SEVEN-OH

70
Today is my seventieth birthday. Hell, I’d need a fire extinguisher to blow out that many candles. It’s been a fun ride, and I’m thankful to still be rolling forward, if not quite as fast...

It Ain’t the Guns, It’s the People

0
We hear the boringly predictable cry of “ban ‘assault rifles’” after two mass murders of police in recent weeks.  In Oakland, as discussed earlier in this blog, four officers were murdered by a stone...

NEGATIVE ADVERTISING

60
For many years, I’ve warned against bumper stickers, T-shirt slogans, etc. that could make you sound bloodthirsty if you were ever involved in a shooting. Here, an attorney underscores that advice The same goes for anything...

ABOUT ALL THOSE FIRST-TIME GUN BUYERS

32
We’ve had several cycles of so-called “panic buying” of firearms and ammunition in the last twenty years.  There was Y2K, when credible authorities warned us that the ticking of the clocks into the Year 2000 would blast all...