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| Permitless carry | 29 states |
| Suppressors legal | 42 states |
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If you get a chance to attend a HAVA event…take it! For the past five years, Honored American Veterans Afield (HAVA) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) have held their HAVA/NSSF Golf Classic just before the advent of SHOT Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 2019’s was better than ever. The Classic is designed…
Let’s not “reward” the mysterious armed citizen who saved a stranger’s life by ruining his… On January 28, we were treated to a wicked pissah tale of road rage from–where else?–Massachusetts. According to this news report from Fox, it all started with a typical ‘Pike event: a minor crash. The two drivers started to argue,…
Here’s all the weird gun-related news we missed while we were in Las Vegas… There are two types of people who read the news: Those who skip straight to the “news of the weird” entries, and those who pretend they don’t. Thanks to the SHOT Show, we have to admit that in the last week…
Lubricia’s back with another reader letter! Hello, lovers! I’m Lubricia Cosmoline, your hoe-stess of “After Dark.” As a long-time aficionado of everything that goes “bang,” I seek to offer a platform for all of your most intimate, personal experiences in the world of guns and hunting. I’ve seen it all—a .50 BMG can’t go too…
If David Hogg didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him… …because Joe Biden isn’t going to live forever, and we’re always going to need some comic relief in our lives, aren’t we? Ever since the moment he burst onto the political scene like a long-overdue pimple, David Hogg has been the media’s latest anti-gun darling….
I played with toy guns as a kid, and I bet you did too…but there is a pro-gun argument against toy guns. On a windswept hillside, I had finally brought my enemy to bay. He turned to me, hair a-tangle and knees a-scabbed, and said, “At last, it’s come to this.” He brought his weapon…
In this video, Personal Defense Network’s Rob Pincus dissects a particularly heartbreaking law-enforcement bodycam video–and we’ll warn you, although it’s not graphic, it’s definitely tough to watch. What makes this so tragic is that, as Pincus demonstrates, neither the armed homeowner who was shot by the officer nor the officer himself did anything wrong legally,…
Last week, when we were talking about my “can’t-miss” plan to stop mass shootings, the discussion centered (somewhat snarkily) on what the media and we, the reading public, could do to deter would-be shooters. That “modest proposal” had one fatal flaw, however: It would have required the cooperation of the media, and therefore wouldn’t be…
Once upon a time, when I was just a wee Munson, I used to answer these in earnest. Not anymore. Have you ever noticed that so many of the average anti-gunner’s commentary regarding gun rights seems to all come, not just from the same playbook, but the same photocopied handwritten crib notes your frat passed…
It’s simple, it costs nothing, and it’ll work better than what we’re doing now. Hear me out… What’s always struck me the hardest after each headline-grabbing mass shooting is that murder of this type really seems to be the only kind of crime in which the public’s reaction is to blame all of the people…
Every gun owner meets at least one of these in their lifetime… If you own firearms and you don’t mind letting people know it, sooner or later one of them will ask you if they can borrow one of those guns. Although there are about 300 million people in America, and every one is a…
The funniest video you’ll see all week leads us to a useful question… It’s a tense, suspenseful video depicting a tense, suspenseful situation. Indian police have brought a dangerous criminal to bay, and are trying to open fire when…well, you know? It’s probably best if you watch it for yourself. So, today I learned two things:…
