• Michigan Concealed Carry Reforms Ready For Governor

    Both houses of the Michigan legislature have passed their signature gun reform legislation.  The bills will be sent to Governor Snyder again.  In January, the Governor vetoed nearly identical bills over minor parts that had been trumpeted in the media as significant.   The legislature took out the minor parts of the bill that the media…

  • [BREAKING] Kansas Senate Passes Constitutional Carry

    The Kansas Senate has passed SB 45, the bill that moves Kansas into the constitutional carry status of Arkansas, Arizona, Alaska, Wyoming, and Vermont.  If the bill passes the house and is signed by Governor Brownback, a person who can legally own a firearm and who is 21 or over will be able to carry…

  • How Many People Forget They Have A Gun At The Airport?

    As the graphic from TSA shows, they interdicted over 2,200 firearms, mostly loaded, from travelers’ carry-on bags, holsters, pockets and a few other places and items last year.  No doubt most of the interdicted firearms were those inadvertently brought into the security checkpoint by someone who otherwise could legally carry the firearm.  The top ten…

  • Wisconsin CCW Permit Homicide Rate Lower Than Japan’s

    Wisconsin was the next to the last state to enact a concealed carry law.   It passed in 2011.  The law had been thwarted for years by the actions of former Democrat Governor Jim Doyle.  Lawmakers in Wisconsin learned many lessons from the efforts of previous states, and it showed.  Over 59,000 Wisconsin residents had applied…

  • [VIDEO] Armed and Alert Business Owner Stops Crime Spree

    An alert and armed business owner made a citizens arrest of the third suspect in a string of over 40 burglaries.   Police had distributed email alerts describing the suspect, and Charles Fouche, owner of Beach Pawn Shop was able to get the drop on the suspect, William Hasencamp. Mr. Fouche, along with a number of…

  • WV Shooting Shows Support for Armed Defense

    In West Virginia, a pharmacist used a .45 to stop an attempted robbery.  There is little doubt about what happened.   The case is noteworthy for a number of reasons.  From wvmetronews.com: PINCH, W.Va. – Investigators with the Kanawha County Sheriff’s Department say a pharmacist who shot a man who later died will not be charged with…

  • Another Reason To Home Carry – Or Carry Home

    Matthew Haight survived an encounter with a burglar, but not by much.  He acknowledges that he made mistakes, and they cost him a great deal. Haight came home from watching the Superbowl on Sunday night, the 1st of February, 2015 in Snohomish County, Washington State.   When he walked up the stairs to his apartment, he…

  • [VIDEO] How To Provoke A Shooting

    The Rite-Aid shooting saga has just resulted in another mistrial for Bernell Benn.  In the video, Benn is the large black man on the cell phone.   Colorado is the white man in white shorts and dark, short sleeved shirt.  From the recent article at wavy.com: Benn has claimed he acted in self-defense during the altercation…

  • Arizona Proposes Gun Free Zones With Teeth

    Arizona representatives have introduced a bill to require ‘gun free zones’ in public buildings to have teeth.   If the public officials are not willing to insure that the buildings actually prevent people from bringing guns into them, then people who are licensed to carry concealed weapons will not be required to disarm, merely by ‘gun…