I Think, Therefore I Am?

It looks like Fits has evidently mistaken me for someone with a brain. He ought to talk to my cubs, who are certain they know better than ...

We're the Only Ones Pleading Enough

A former Milwaukee police officer already convicted of calling in a bomb threat to his former district station pleads guilty to federal gun ...

If I Was Saxon

NWOBHM legends Saxon have been busy boys...they are releasing new single "If I Was You" from their latest album "The Inner S...

State Security

(Scroll down to last story) The House Executive Committee debated a series of gun control bills last week. A gentleman asked to testify abou...

This Day in History: March 31

The Boston Port Act is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (citation 14 Geo. III. c. 19) which became law on March 31, 1774, is one of...

We're the Only Ones Not Reckless Enough

The judge overseeing the case, Gustin L. Reichbach, displays portraits of the civil rights figures Paul Robeson and Nelson Mandela on his ...

Red's Trading Post Videos

They've posted two new video ads defending themselves against BATFU harassment. Ryan Horsley's got guts and he's articulate. ...

We're the Only Ones Gaming Enough

Police who have raided vice-ridden Mexico City neighborhoods in a push against drug violence hope to take guns off the streets by offering t...

We're the Only Ones Tipped Enough

The program, a partnership between Crime Stoppers and law enforcement agencies, will offer a $500 reward when an anonymous tip leads to the ...

Destroy All Monsters!

If Godzilla were a sportsman, the .50-caliber sniper rifle would be his instrument. This is a weapon that can shoot down airplanes or helic...

This Day in History: March 30

Hoping to keep the New England colonies dependent on the British, King George III formally endorses the New England Restraining Act on this...

Mexico AG: US Must Do More to Stop Guns

[I]t's one of the demands we have put on the table. Come and take them .

If Ye Love Wealth...

Republican ex-mayor of New York City Rudolph Giuliani won backing for his 2008 presidential bid from billionaire publisher Steve Forbes , w...

An Idea Worth Exploring

The local market should bury the paper by boycotting any advertiser. E David Quammen articulates an idea I agree with, although I would sug...

Wayne Fincher Update: March 29

From Wayne Fincher's daughter: Dad saw the Probation Officer today. Don't know the results yet. The probation officer said that dad...

Spanking Darren

What a self serving, smug little essay. Too bad your arguments are both disingenuous and puerile. First you start off with the tired old, &q...

We're the Only Ones Leaving "Some Type of Evidence" Enough

According to sources, the officer recently made a traffic stop and asked a male occupant to get out of the vehicle. Police sources tell NBC ...

We're the Only Ones Kidding Around Enough

"It was learned through our investigation that the young girl, when she was 14 years of age, and the officer was 36 years of age, was r...

We're the Only Ones Who Can't Take "No" for an Answer Enough

A former State College police officer was sentenced to serve two years probation Tuesday after pleading guilty to repeatedly vandalizing an ...

This Day in History: March 29

On this day in 1776, General George Washington appoints Major General Israel Putnam commander of the troops in New York. In his new capacity...

And the Christian Trejbal Award Goes To...

..."Criminal Justice" reporter Mike McWilliams , Publisher Mike Beck , and News Editor Teresa Thorpe of The Iowa City Press Citi...

Sounding Off on Bill Brown

My philosophy is to issue CCWs sparingly, according to our policy, if there is a valid reason. And you're the sole arbiter of what's...

Ah, But There's the Rub

"Who knows what the intention of the individual was?" Irvine said. Irvine said if Higgins had a concealed-weapons permit, he would...

Teaching Credentials

Mrs Mitchell travels the country educating people about the dangers of firearms and imitation weapons. Doesn't "educating people&q...

Baby One More Time

The undercover officer, a retired policeman, ran out of the Hollywood church, aimed his weapon and shouted: "Get out of your car, get d...

Unauthorized Journalists Need Not Apply

Parliament rejected his application for accreditation, saying he and other bloggers do not meet the legal definition of a journalist. And we...

We're the Only Ones Who Give a Hoot and Don't Pollute Enough

The acting police chief and three officers in a small resort town on Fire Island were indicted Tuesday in the beating of a vacationer who ha...

This Day in History: March 28

Upset by the Boston Tea Party and other blatant acts of destruction of British property by American colonists, the British Parliament enacts...

We're the Only Ones Having a Night on the Town Enough

Authorities are investigating claims that six off-duty Chicago police officers were captured on video assaulting four men in a bar, the seco...

The Best Poll Ever

I've been doing weekly polls for a few months now here at WarOnGuns , trying my best to come up with entries that are interesting, relev...

We're the Only Ones Pointing Enough

An Omaha police officer has been fired for allegedly waving a gun at a man and his pregnant wife in traffic... DeWitt denied involvement in ...

We're the Only Ones Clean Enough

A retired Jersey City police officer apparently accidentally shot and killed himself yesterday morning while cleaning his gun at the city...

A Change of Heart?

There’s been a change of heart from Governor Bredesen about what is being called the Katrina Gun Bill. I'd be interested to see just w...

The Right Place

"A seaside town centre is not the place to put a gun shop. Many believe this is entirely the wrong place to sell guns. This is not the ...

We're the Only Ones Behind the Bench Enough

A Circuit Court judge pulled a handgun in his courtroom after a man jumped a railing and punched a handcuffed defendant accused of molesting...

Oops, I Did it Again...

Britney Spears' weekend trip to church sparked controversy yesterday when a security guard pulled a gun on a photographer... The papara...

A Tangled Webb

Here are Google News links about the aide to Sen. Jim Webb who was arrested for carrying a loaded handgun into a Senate office building. So...

This Day in History: March 27

Future President Thomas Jefferson is elected to the second Continental Congress on this day in 1775. Jefferson, a Virginia delegate, quickl...

Lessons Learned

Very early on, a rational discussion of this issue became all but impossible. Yeah, people tend to react that way when they're attacked ...

What Nichole Believes

I don't believe that citizens need to carry handguns for any reason, nor should they be allowed to. So, Nichole, how many men like me ar...

We're the Only Ones Implementing Enough

THE National Police has arrested 1,258 persons and seized 1,269 firearms, hand grenades and other deadly weapons since it started implementi...

The Best Interests of Everyone

It is in the best interests of everyone that a firearm be safely stored, unloaded and locked up, especially when children live in or visit t...

We're the Only Ones Sealed Enough

Lawyers for the city, responding to a request to unseal records of police surveillance leading up to the 2004 Republican convention in New Y...

This Day in History: March 26

The Provincial Congress of South Carolina approves a new constitution and government on this day in 1776. The legislature renames itself the...

New WarOnGuns Poll: The Ratings Game

Over the past months we've been discussing Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown , who is revoking previously-issued CCW permits desp...

"A Longtime Gun-Rights Advocate"

[T]hey have support from Councilman Robbie Waters , formerly a sheriff and city homicide detective. A longtime gun-rights advocate, Waters s...

Cancer in the Cantons

Pacifists and centre-left parties want voters to have the final say on breaking with a long-standing Swiss tradition of storing personal arm...

Do as We Say, Not as We Do

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) personnel are processing thousands of firearms and more than a million rounds of a...

I Actually Called in Sick to Finish it

Unintended Consequences truly is required reading for gun owners, and for people who take their liberty and freedoms seriously. (I know I j...

Rearming the Big Easy

People across New Orleans are arming themselves — not only against the possibility of another storm bringing anarchy, but against the violen...

This Day in History: March 25

On this day in 1774, British Parliament passes the Boston Port Act, closing the port of Boston and demanding that the city’s residents pay f...

Wayne Fincher Update: A Plea for Help

Wayne Fincher's daughter tells me he needs legal help. The court-appointed defense attorney advises him he is looking at prison time. ...

VA Bill Makes Illegal Gun Sales...uhh...Illegal

The bill , sponsored by Del. Scott Lingamfelter , R-Prince William County, prohibits anyone but law enforcement officers from trying to make...

We're the Only Ones Political Enough

The Commission on Elections granted gun ban exemptions to at least 8,000 politicians, GMANews.TV learned on Saturday from Commissioner Nicod...

Arms are for Shackles

This is no backwoods survivalist talking, just an African American who grew up in the South at a time when the people in uniform were often ...

Curses! Foiled Again!

In a sleazy political stroke, Republicans played the gun lobby's card... Only a cowardly, anonymous traitor, that is, a Herald Tribune ...

The Sound and the Fury

The Sound: The Fury: Per Larry Rankin : This newspaper reporter was against citizens' having guns rights. I know because I asked him if...

This Day in History: March 24

On this day in 1765, Parliament passes the Quartering Act, outlining the locations and conditions in which British soldiers are to find room...

We're the Only Ones "Not Obliged" Enough

Your request for information has now been considered and I am not obliged to supply the information you have requested. Cryptic Subterranean...

We're the Only Ones Never Disciplined Enough

He told the Chicago Tribune that his client had completed a substance abuse treatment program and had never been disciplined since joining t...

We're the Only Ones Pushy Enough

A police officer shoved a skateboarder into the bushes...and it was caught on tape. There's also a link to the video. Nice marks the kid...

This Day in History: March 23

During a speech before the second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American...

A Matter of Time

Gun purchases would be limited to one per month and anyone selling a gun would have to get a background check on the prospective buyer under...

Common Tyranny

Standing next to a combat rifle that is 5 feet long, weighs 35 pounds and can blow holes through armor a mile-and-a-half away, Gurnee Police...

More Gun Shops Cave In to Bloomberg

"It was going to cost $50,000 in attorney's fees," said Rick Morketter , manager of Dick's Pawn, of North Myrtle Beach. &q...

The "Only Ones" Fever

It looks like Cryptic Subterranean's caught it. Good. We need an incontrovertible body of evidence to throw the argument that "p...

We're the Only Ones Two-Fisted Drinking Enough

This wasn't any barfight caught on tape. An angry man pummels a much smaller female bartender. As it turns out, he's a Chicago polic...

Pokey Get Your Gun

(Scroll down for story) When my daughter is 10 and 11, and especially in the teenage years, I want to be there with a gun. Gee, Pokey Poke ,...

This Day in History: March 22

Hoping to raise sufficient funds to defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War, the British govern...

Up to the Challenge

I defy anyone to “read” into the Amendment that a citizen has the right to carry arms, except to show up as a member of a “well regulated mi...

We're the Only Ones Gone Wild Enough

A nude appearance in an "Girls Gone Wild"-style adult video sold on the Internet has cost a veteran police officer her job — again...

New York Times Logic

But many of the officers who help keep New York’s streets safe are in fact volunteers — unarmed, unpaid and, we learned this week, in some c...

Me, a Pessimist?

I've seen a few posts around where people think I'm overly pessimistic in my assessment of the cops and guns poll . Sorry, fellas, b...

Pokey Poke Does Front Sight

You have to endure a stupid commercial first, but here's a video where Pokey Poke says he got sniper training for his new movie Shooter...

Duncan Hunter on 2A

"The right to keep and bear arms is an absolute right of Americans to protect their families and their communities and their nation wit...

This Day in History: March 21

On March 21, 1778, just three days after British Loyalists and Hessian mercenary forces assault the local New Jersey militia at Quinton’s Br...

33⅓

About one-third of the people living in the national's [sic] capital are functionally illiterate... Along with AP " authorized jour...

We're the Only Ones Groping and Biting Enough

AN UNDERCOVER officer who bragged about being “like 007” grabbed a barmaid’s boobs at a strip club. Boozed-up agent Dominic Headley , 32, al...

We're the Only Ones Dee-de-Deee Enough

During an I.Q. test commissioned by the defense, he scored 77 — a mark that ranks in the bottom sixth percentile. The average score is 100. ...

Police Magazine Poll on Gun Ownership

This partial page is from the March 2007 issue of Police Magazine (posted under the "Fair Use" doctrine because I could find no on...

What Limits on "the Militia" (That Would Be You and Me)?

Self-defense is a self-evident human right. Thankfully, a court finally has reaffirmed that the Constitution and common sense are in alignme...

When Wayne Isn't There

It's a simple fact that the police can't be everywhere at all times, and in some small towns that may mean they're not even at t...

This Day in History: March 20

Benjamin Franklin , Silas Deane and Arthur Lee present themselves to France’s King Louis XVI as official representatives of the United Sta...

Carnival X

Over at Stan's . I had to find out from SayUncle .

An Obvious Solution

Two weeks ago, residents received a [letter? notice?] from their homeowners' association indicating that guns are not allowed on the pro...

Here's Looking at YOU, Kids

New research suggests playing action video games that involve firing guns such as "Gears of War," Lost Planet," and "Hal...

Sick People

"These are sick people," he said in January when questioned about the giveaway at the Mayors Against Illegal Guns summit in the Di...

BATFU: Puerto Rico Going to the Dogs Because of US Freedom

Authorities complain that airline regulations make it tougher to transport a dog to Puerto Rico than a suitcase full of guns and ammunition....

Alistair's Glass House

The black kids got on the bus and the driver shut the door. Riley ran across the front of our car and tried to get onto the bus. You could h...

This Day in History: March 19

On this day in 1734, Patriot politician Thomas McKean is born to Scots-Irish Presbyterian parents in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He will ...

New WarOnGuns Poll: Have You Bought a Copy of "In Search of the Second Amendment"?

Take the new poll in the left margin. This week I'm trying to gauge the effectiveness of my efforts here at WarOnGuns to persuade you ...

Where Credit is Due

See, this is where so-called “conservative” news outlets are either ignorant of the particulars or flat out BS’ing us—either one being inexc...

A Cryptic Subterranean "Only Ones" Twofer

From Jay.Mac : These just keep coming- I see what you mean about not deliberately looking for them too. Remember the police officer in the U...

Red's Under Fire

Red's Trading Post is currently under fire from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). On March 5th our license ...

We're the Only Ones Getting Our Butts Kicked Enough

John Coffin won't spend any more time in jail for beating up two sheriff's deputies inside his house, striking one in the head with...