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By Dan Zimmerman via TTAG By now you’ve probably seen the prank video Sacha Baron Cohen made with a bunch of gun rights supporters. Not everyone he was fooled by his “Israeli commando” disguise. When Cohen went into a Riverside, California gun store in another ludicrous get-up last year, the gun store owner smelled a rat, too. From foxla.com: It happened at Warrior One Guns & Ammo in February…
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FORT WORTH, TX — Four people now face a capital murder charge as the result of an attempted pawn shop robbery that found two dead, the Star-Telegram reports. Crystal Hendrix, the driver, Jensyn Polner, Micharl Ogden, and Melissa Pierce are all behind bars, one of which was actually arrested on a completely unrelated case, have…
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CHICAGO, IL — A ride-share driver was thrown into the fight of his life when a pair of men he picked up decided they’d like to have his car, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. He was able to save his own life, but he took the conflict out beyond what it needed to be — and…
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TULSA, OK — A man was shot and killed after forcing his way into the back of a woman’s home, scaring both her and her boyfriend who was home at the time. The woman grabbed her pistol and shot the burglar dead, only to discover that the man she had just shot was actually her…
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CLEVELAND, OH — A teenage punk attempted to carjack an older woman in her own driveway, Cleveland.com reports. He didn’t know her grandson was visiting, and he was packing heat. The young thug was carrying a gun, but he didn’t want anything approaching a fair fight — he just wanted a car. The grandson drove…
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Sacha Baron Cohen is best known for his characters Ali G and Borat, and has now struck the gun industry with his new series called Who Is America? Among those interviewed by Cohen disguised as Israeli Col. Erran Morad, an anti-terror expert, were Virginia Citizens Defense League President Philip Van Cleave and Executive Director Emeritus of…
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We’ve talked a few times about how members of the media can really hurt American civilians partially because of their own ignorance, and partially out of a drive to misinform the public — where individual reporters fall tends to be based on their own understanding of the firearms community and the Second Amendment. We share…
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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — Any loss of life is tragic, and it’s something that we never want to see. When the lives of others are in danger, however, there is sometimes the need to defend oneself against that threat. A man who was shot and killed by police had hundreds of protesters come out, and they’re…
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Via TTAG John Dingell III writes: Insurance is one of the most regulated industries in America, but its regulation is almost entirely at the state level. That regulation extends to the risk profiling of insureds, due to the various mechanisms to buy and sell risk amongst insurers. The most important mechanism governing the risk profiling…
