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Gun rights supporters "celebrate" open carry law Posted: Oct 19, 2013 11:39 PM CDTUpdated: Oct 19, 2013 11:39 PM CDTBy Jeannette Reyes, Reporter - Link Removed | email BRYANT (KATV) - Armed supporters took to the streets of Bryant Saturday to bring attention to a new law that allows the public...

Would Be Mass Murderer Stopped by Bystander With a Gun Posted by: Steven Ahle Posted date: October 22, 2013 In: News Link Removed liberal Link Removed control proponents insist that an armed person would not have been able to stop it. That’s not true. What is true is that whenever a mass...

Thank God that the victims didn’t have guns :haha: By BearingArms.com Staff / 30 August 2013 Normally, a headline like that would only be reserved for the strongest sort of sarcasm, but just look at the perpetrators of this attempted armed robbery. I have a suspicion that if the two...

Historic open carry march planned in Arkansas On August 24th, 2013, Arkansas Carry will host the first legal armed citizen assembly in decades (possibly the first such armed gathering since the Civil War) in Fort Smith. As reported in earlier articles, Link Removed and other Link Removeds have...

Washington Open Carrier Awarded $15k Settlement After Cop Drew Gun on Him AUGUST 15 2013 BY DAN CANNON Openly carrying firearms is legal in Washington State, but apparently at least one Bellingham city police officer wasn’t aware of that fact. According to KIROTV, John Laigaie, a retired...

Texas Homeowner Shoots and Kills Axe Wielding Intruder A homeowner in Montgomery County, TX was forced to defend himself and his family last Friday night. Following some sort of disturbance, the suspect drove his truck into the yard of the homeowner. The suspect exited the vehicle carrying an...

Gun toting teachers' names must remain private By Link Removed Published August 09, 2013FoxNews.com Read more: Gun toting teachers' names must remain private | Fox News Are people safer if criminals know who is carrying concealed handguns? Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel seems to...

JULY 29, 2013 4:00 AM Licensed to Carry Gun ownership is regulated more than critics ever admit. By Charles C. W. Cooke Perhaps the most boring thing that gun-controllers throw at advocates of the right to bear arms is the assertion, almost guaranteed to rear its doltish head in any...

Ark. district arming more than 20 teachers, staffBy ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated PressUpdated 8:50 am, Tuesday, July 30, 2013CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (AP) — As Cheyne Dougan rounded the corner at Clarksville High School, he saw three students on the floor moaning and crying. In a split-second, two more...

The face of liberal tolerance and gun control’ in Seattle, says OC citizen Link Removed JULY 24, 2013 BY: Link Removed UPDATED: Spanaway resident Steve Coffman was waiting for a bus in downtown Link Removed Tuesday afternoon, minding his own business, leaning against a wall listening to...

Massad Ayoob Link Removed Posted: 24 Jul 2013 09:27 AM PDT The discovery materials which the defense finally received from the prosecution after a long and arduous fight revealed Trayvon Martin to be deeply into drugs, and a young man who reveled in street fighting, and more. (Didn’t seem...

Link Removed Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013Much of this case came down to speculation versus fact. We saw it in the trial, we saw it in the prosecution’s case, we see it even in comments on this blog. In the spring of 2012, in the question/answer session that followed the CATO Institute “Stand Your...

Massad Ayoob Link Removed Posted: 21 Jul 2013 10:02 AM PDT The firearms and ballistics evidence in this case was very important, one reason why the Kel-Tec PF9 9mm death weapon was first and foremost in the minds of journalists reporting on Eric Holder’s recent decision to have all...

NRA Responds to Attacks on "Stand Your Ground" Laws Posted on July 19, 2013 A few days after a jury acquitted George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was busy exploiting the trial outcome by attacking "stand‑your‑ground" self-defense laws. As...

Massad Ayoob« Link Removed ZIMMERMAN VERDICT: THE STAND YOUR GROUND ELEMENT Friday, July 19th, 2013Few elements of this case have been more widely misunderstood than the “stand your ground” (SYG) element. Quite simply, Florida’s SYG law, statuteLink Removed, simply rescinded a previous...

Illinois: Cook County and Chicago Deal Serious Blows to Gun Rights in Wake of Concealed Carry Legislation Posted on July 18, 2013 Yesterday, the Cook County Board of Commissioners and the Chicago City Council met in order to consider ordinances that would ban so-called “assault weapons.”...

As people angered over the not guilty verdict handed down by the jury to George Zimmerman continue their demonstrations across the country including Seattle, one wonders how they would have reacted in 2008 if Ed McMichael had been armed and was able to defend himself against the thugs who...

Massad Ayoob« Link Removed ZIMMERMAN VERDICT PART 3: “WHO STARTED IT?”Wednesday, July 17th, 2013Welcome to the new commentators here, many of whom seem to feel that Zimmerman started the encounter, a concept that concerns many of our regulars as well. Whenever there’s a fight, no matter the...

Gun rights advocates received a big boost yesterday when Arkansas State Representative Nate Bell, R-Mena, gave his opinion that Act 746 will decriminalize open carry on August 16th, 2013, the date it takes effect. Representative Bell was one of many sponsors of HB1700, the enacting bill that...

Massad Ayoob« Link Removed Link Removed Tuesday, July 16th, 2013 It seems that the verdict of a sworn jury in our criminal justice system means little to the haters, who are still screaming that George Zimmerman killed “an unarmed seventeen-year-old.” Given that seventeen is old enough to...