Those Phantom Gun Sales
The anti-gun leaders keep trying to deny that more people are buying guns. Even when they finally concede that maybe there’s a smidgen of evidence from the NICS numbers, they claim that it’s just...
View ArticleScam Targeting Shooting Instructors
Joshua Wander, NRA Election Volunteer Coordinator in Pittsburgh, recently posted a story on Facebook about how he was a target of a scam targeting shooting instructors. He says that he was contacted by...
View ArticleA Reporter Takes a Shooting Class
A New Haven reporter who had handled guns three times before in very casual ways with no serious instruction decided to actually take a class that would allow him to get a permit to carry. He wrote...
View ArticlePositive Kids & Shooting Coverage
If you’re looking for some positive press for gun ownership and use in your area, make sure you do your homework on who you pitch at a local paper or other outlet. The same group that published an...
View ArticleLong Term Consequences of Ammo Shortages in .22
Clayton Cramer blogged about the possible impact of a copper mine landslide on ammunition production, and that got me thinking about the extended impacts of today’s continued ammunition shortages....
View ArticleProducing the Next Generation of Gun Owners
Yesterday, I was invited to check out the facilities of a Boy Scout reservation that has benefited from a few grants funded by Eastern Pennsylvania Friends of NRA. All I can say is wow. Wow. It’s not...
View ArticleMaryland Training Requirements Released
It would appear that Maryland gun owners may no longer casually introduce friends to shooting and firearms safety. From the Maryland State Police: Unless otherwise exempted, a person may not purchase,...
View ArticleThere are No New Gun Owners!
Remember this little factoid the next time you hear the anti-gun groups claim that the only people driving gun sales are established gun owners just adding to their collections: The report shows that...
View ArticleCreatively Expanding the Gun Culture
I was just telling Sebastian this morning that I have an idea to get people who otherwise might never even consider taking a shooting class or getting to the range out to try guns in a non-threatening...
View ArticleComputer Games are a Gateway
To owning the real thing. Caleb takes quite a while to get to the point, but if you’re in a TL;DR mood (or computer gamer jargon grates on you), skip to the last paragraph, where he points out that...
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