Who watches the watchmen? These guys.
From Reason: KopBusters rented a house in Odessa, Texas and began growing two small Christmas trees under a grow light similar to those used for growing marijuana. When faced with a suspected marijuana...
View ArticleInternal Conflict
It must be that time of year: three police have been shot in Pittsburgh by a gunman. I offer my sincerest condolences to the friends and family of the fallen officers. As expected, the Brady Campaign...
View ArticleSWAT
According to the news, a suicidal man — said to be armed with a handgun — has barricaded himself inside his house three blocks from my apartment. Of course, TPD decided to do a full SWAT callout,...
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British Raid Safe Deposit Boxes
The Daily Mail has more. Honestly, the only good thing I see coming out of that raid is the picture where the cops are displaying good trigger discipline. Everything else seems completely outrageous....
View ArticleHow To Get Shot
Police pose as burglars by trying to open people’s windows and doors in the middle of the night, occasionally dragging residents out of bed to scold them. Why? They want to remind people to secure...
View ArticleMagical Death Rays
Handguns aren’t. Even .40 and 10mm won’t magically stop bad guys with a single shot, particularly if the bad guys are hopped up on adrenaline or other drugs. Practice, practice, practice. That’s how...
View ArticleUK Police Searching for Smuggled Guns
Police in Britain are searching for guns smuggled from the US, according to the BBC. The alleged smuggler, who is in custody in the US, is accused of smuggling 62 guns into the UK. The last paragraph,...
View ArticleOn gun control via government purchasing
As I do on occasion, I was perusing some of the various gun control groups sites and seeing what they were up to. In so doing, I discovered an interesting proposal that I had not previously known...
View ArticleDetroit police chief: “Police wear body armor. Why would a community member...
From NBC: “Police wear body armor. Why would a community member be driving around in body armor?” Craig asked. In this particular case, it’s because the bad guy wanted to protect himself from being...
View ArticleDetroit police chief reiterates pro-CCW stance
From The Detroit News: Police Chief James Craig responded Thursday to a citizen who criticized his pro-gun stance by reiterating his opinion that “good citizens” who legally carry firearms could help...
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Open Carry Rally this Saturday in Texas [corrected]
Updated: Whoops. Turns out I didn’t check the date on the DMN article — the event was this last Saturday and has already occurred. Mea culpa. Additionally, it looks like the group didn’t have...
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Protip: don’t rob live-streaming gamers
It’s probably a bad idea to break into a house owned by gamers who are live-streaming to a global audience. Turns out many of the audience members noticed that the gamer doing the streaming was getting...
View Article911 should be part of a plan, not the whole plan
One of the key points of disagreement between pro-gunners and anti-gunners is on the concept of whether or not it is necessary, or even appropriate, for an “average” citizen to have ready access to a...
View ArticleSpin and the NRA legal challenges in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania recently passed a law that allows membership groups (read: the NRA), including those without legal standing (that is, they haven’t been directly harmed by a law), to sue cities that have...
View ArticleShooting at gun-free, campus-carry-free UCLA
What appears to have been a tragic murder-suicide took place yesterday at UCLA. Terrible. I can particularly relate, as I myself am involved in academia, am a father, and am only a few years younger...
View ArticleTactical Observations
Today’s shooting of Congressional members, staff, police officers, and others in DC (as well as the workplace shooting at a UPS center in San Francisco) prompted me to come out of my...
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