Nanny Bloomberg (D R I) and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino (D) have thoughtfully provided us with an excellent opportunity to take a bathroom break without missing any of this year’s crop of clever Super Bowl commercials. They’re going to run a spot hawking Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the gun-control group they founded in 2006 whose [...]

The latest revelations about Operation Fast And Furious raise more questions than they answer.

Raw Story tweeted “Republicans in Rep. Giffords’ district plan to raffle off the same type of gun Jared Loughner used. ” This links to their own story demonstrating that they’re doing no such thing.

Customers at a Radio Shack in Montana have an opportunity to get a free gun if they switch to Dish Network.

This one comes from our Is This Really Necessary? Department: Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) health care-era “you lie” interruption of President Obama is now reportedly being commemorated with a place on a new, limited edition line of assault rifle components. The Columbia Free Times reports that the words are being engraved on a series of [...]

We have laws preventing the sales of gun to crazy people. We’re not enforcing them very well.

Should we limit the number of rounds guns can hold in order to minimize shooting sprees?

This is a bizarre and somewhat scary story. h/t DougJ

Funny because it’s true: In fairness, these are sometimes referred to as “assault rifles” or “semi-automatic weapons.”

Ladies and Gentlemen, the ATF has made a gigantic leap forward in the field of making sure adorable blonde moppets can’t shoot their eye out. A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma. Brad Martin and his son, Ben, sell [...]

Steve Chapman runs down Obama’s record on gun control: On the list of issues for which Obama is willing to put himself on the line, gun control ranks somewhere below free trade with Uzbekistan. So he has proposed nothing in the way of new federal restrictions on firearms. Even the “assault weapons” ban signed by [...]

Neuroscientist Amy Bishop was denied tenure by the biology faculty at the University of Alabama at Huntsville.  So she shot them. WAFF48: The woman accused of killing three faculty members at University of Alabama Huntsville has been charged with capital murder. Police said a female member of the UA-Huntsville faculty shot and killed three co-workers [...]

A self-professed gun nut named Caleb: Saturday leaving my office, I was the subject of an attempted mugging by a member of the Indianapolis Choir Boy School of Good Men Who are Only Down on Their Luck.  As I was leaving my office, said altar boy came around the corner of my building to the [...]

Yes, that headline is not an exaggeration. The Chief of the Jericho Fire Department went to court and was shot by the police for disputing two tickets requiring two trips to the court house. JERICHO, Ark. — It was just too much, having to return to court twice on the same day to contest yet [...]

Michael Barone (via Glenn Reynolds) argues that elites are “out of touch” on climate change and gun control: Many years ago, political scientists came up with a theory that elites lead public opinion. And on some issues, they clearly do. But on some issues, they don’t. Two examples of the latter phenomenon are conspicuous at [...]

Dick Heller, the plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court decision that overturned Washington, D.C.’s 32-year-old ban on handguns and established that the 2nd Amendment provided an individual right to own guns, was denied a handgun permit by the District yesterday. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit. [...]

The District of Columbia has made it legal for residents to own a handgun after being so ordered by the United States Supreme Court.  But they’re not making it easy. The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington’s strict 32-year-old handgun ban was among the first to arrive as the city started registering [...]

Under the provocative headline “The Thugs Win the Case,” WaPo columnist Colbert King sniffs of the Supreme Court’s ruling yesterday in Heller, There’s one group of District residents absolutely unfazed by today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling shooting down the District’s strict handgun ban: the dudes who have been blowing away their fellow citizens with abandon [...]

Megan McArdle has some interesting thoughts on the Supreme Court’s decision today overturning DC’s handgun ban. As she readily admits, you can get better legal analysis elsewhere. This, however, is a unique contribution to the debate: There is a distressing lack of attention to the female market in gun companies. I want something with accuracy [...]

A crazed Tokyo man has killed seven people in a stabbing spree. A man who police said “was tired of life” drove into a crowd of pedestrians Sunday and then went on a stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s premier electronics and video game district, killing seven people and wounding 10, authorities said. The deadly lunchtime assault [...]

I just had a lunch with Glenn Reynolds, who was in town to speak to the NRA Convention about Heller. We discussed such things as local politics, the high amusement value of the Democrat Presidential primary, Joss Whedon returning to Fox, and the fact that while the overall quality of movies is declining there are [...]

Syracuse University professor Arthur Brooks steps past the politics of “Bittergate” and looks at the actual facts. Barack Obama said of people in small town American that, “They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or antitrade sentiment as a way to explain [...]

So I’m just now getting around to following “bittergate”–the blogospheric furor that has erupted from Barack Obama’s sociological observation that people vote on cultural issues because they don’t trust the government on economic issues. (My colleague James has covered this matter here and here.) For further reference, here is the particular portion of the speech [...]

Barack Obama’s foray into pop psychology, trying to explain why rural Pennsylvanians aren’t warming to him and are asking him to talk more about patriotism, is causing quite the stir in the blogosphere. “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs [...]

A man who mistakenly brought a load gun to Ronald Reagan National Airport was arrested by the TSA. At first glance you might think, “Well duh. Sounds like government is doing its job for once.” Not so fast. WASHINGTON (CNN) — A passenger who went through an airport security checkpoint — before remembering that he [...]

Michigan sees fewer gun deaths — with more permits (Detroit Free Press): Six years after new rules made it much easier to get a license to carry concealed weapons, the number of Michiganders legally packing heat has increased more than six-fold. But dire predictions about increased violence and bloodshed have largely gone unfulfilled, according to [...]

SupCt agrees to hear DC gun ban case: In a decision that could affect gun control laws across the nation, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a gun…. The Supreme Court agreed to step in because the issue has caused a deep split in [...]

The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to take action on D.C.’s appeal of an appellate court decision last March striking down its ban on handguns. Linda Greenhouse provides background: Both sides in a closely watched legal battle over the District of Columbia’s strict gun-control law are urging the Supreme Court to hear the case. [...]

David Grant reports for the Collegiate Times that nationally syndicated talk show host Neal Boortz’ show may be pulled from Pulaski, Virginia’s WFNR AM for some controversial remarks he made in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings. Boortz echoed a theme expressed by many that the victims were “standing in terror waiting for (their) [...]

Federal agents raided a ragtag collection group of tent dwellers calling themselves the “Alabama Free Militia” and arrested them for conspiring to make a firearm. Raids that resulted in the arrests of six alleged militia members and the seizure of hundreds of hand grenades and bullets were “much ado about nothing,” a defense lawyer said [...]

Venus Ramey, Miss America 1944, may need a walker but that doesn’t stop her from running down would-be thieves. Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man [...]

I just thought that after reading this story, the above needed to be said. Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which [...]

Glenn Reynolds argues in a column in today’s NY Daily News that we’d be safer if only more of us carried guns. In fact, some mass shootings have been stopped by armed citizens. Though press accounts downplayed it, the 2002 shooting at Appalachian Law School was stopped when a student retrieved a gun from his [...]

Washington Times assistant national editor Robert Stacy McCain takes ABC News’ Brian Ross and Dana Hughes to the woodshed for using the tragic

From page A1 of today’s Washington Post:   Guns Worn In Open Legal, But Alarm Virginia On July 2, Fairfax County police received a 911 call from a Champps restaurant in Reston. Six men are seated at a table, the caller said. They’re all armed. Dispatchers quickly sent four officers to the scene. The officers were [...]