The Shooters Hangout

“I understand the Second Amendment, and I understand everyone’s right, or their belief that they have a right to bear arms,” he says. “It doesn’t give them a right to use that weapon.” * Apparently , according to this would-be tyrant, we only BELIEVE we have a right to keep and bear arms and we […]

If we are to believe the mainstream media, the powerful NRA has used its political muscle to keep people ignorant of how guns impact our safety. They are supposedly to blame for the elimination of firearms research. This is all a result of a 1996 amendment to the federal budget stating “None of the funds […]

For all the rhetoric and handwringing of leftist school administrators regarding recent school shootings, few are proposing any responses that would result in safer campuses. Expelling kids for innocent hand gestures or because they unknowingly left a knife in their car are examples of zero-tolerance rules that do nothing to neutralize real threats to students […]

Emily Miller: Drake Case to Supreme Court? An Exclusive NRA News Cam & Co Interview In New Jersey, businessman John Drake attempted to obtain a concealed-carry permit, but was denied. The state did not consider his reason of self-defense to be “justifiable need.” Author Emily Miller of The Washington Times tells Drake’s story, and why […]

Illinois’ first concealed carry gun licenses — about 5,000 of them — are being printed and mailed today, Illinois State Police officials said in a morning press conference. Officials said they have received more than 50,000 applications. Those being mailed today were early approvals, mostly for those who submitted fingerprints along with their application. So […]

I just got off the phone with the San Diego County Sheriffs office. Turns out their policy as of now is that they are taking CCW applications first come first served dropped off in person or by mail. However they are not issuing any permits until a final court ruling. I’m guessing that means they […]

Just when residents of San Diego thought they finally had won back the right to bear arms in the county, state politicians used dirty tactics in to block it. Late Thursday, California State Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a petition on behalf of the state to ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to […]

An 11-year-old girl shot a cougar that was following her 14-year-old brother to their home at Twisp, in north central Washington, the state Fish and Wildlife Department said. The female cougar killed last week was about 4 years old and weighed about 50 pounds — half of what it should weigh, said Officer Cal Treser. […]

Gun owners are flooding the sheriff’s offices in two California counties with applications for concealed weapon permits following a bombshell ruling two weeks ago by a federal appeals court that citizens need not justify their requests. Orange and Ventura counties have dropped the “good cause” standard for issuing conceal carry permits after the requirement was […]