The Shooters Hangout

HARTFORD, Conn. –  Connecticut officials are urging owners of now-illegal assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines to relinquish them to the police or make them permanently inoperable. The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection announced Friday it had sent a letter to owners who had failed to register the items by a Jan. […]

Just to show how ridiculous the gun control argument is, some have listed 80% lowers on Amazon as “paperweights”.  After all, it’s merely a chunk of metal and does make a great decorative piece for any home.  They can’t call it an AR-15 lower, but someone got a little creative with their listing. Read more… […]

Even though the anti-gun activists tell us that you don’t have to worry about criminals breaking into your house in the middle of the night (After all, you have 911, right?), a Montana homeowner was forced to defend himself early Monday morning in his home. A burglar decided to invade the Ravalli County home just […]

This bill was actually called “the most extreme gun bill in the country” by Mom’s Demand Action and other anti-gun groups, so you know it has to be good. First off, a big shout out the grassroots organization GeorgiaCarry.org. Their work over the last two years made the passage of this bill possible. Just yesterday […]

School officials in Pueblo County, Colorado are bucking the anti-gun trend and recently approved a field trip for middle school students to a local shooting range where they learned about gun safety and how to properly handle a firearm. The gun safety and marksman group Project Appleseed, an activity of The Revolutionary War Veterans Association, […]

The Peruta dominos continue to fall. In an earlier decision in Baker v Kealoha, a District Court refused to rule in favor of the plaintiff, Christopher Baker. Baker had moved for an injunction against various Hawaii state agencies that had denied him a carry license. As a Ninth Circuit panel summed up the District Court’s […]

Jitterz Java, a Spokane coffee house, was robbed twice in February. Given that track record, the store’s owner has adopted some new preventative measures. She’s letting her baristas pack heat on the job. As spokesman.com reports, “…on Sunday, a man who appeared to be armed ran off after a barista grabbed her gun and called police.” The local 5-0 […]

Around noon on Saturday, the ATF escalated what had to that point been a war of words with Oceanside, California-based Ares Armor.That’s when ATF agents raided Ares’ Oceanside location and seized what we’ve been told was as many as 6,000 of the Ares/EP Armory lowers that are at the heart of the matter. No Ares […]

The owner of a California gun parts store says he plans to take legal action after federal agents raided his business, confiscating computers, customer lists and 80 percent lower receivers as part of an investigation into alleged federal firearms violations. Dimitrios Karras, owner of Ares Armor in National City, told Fox5SanDiego.com the raid by Bureau […]

John W. Whitehead is president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. Whitehead also drafted anti-drone legislation which is making its way through state and local legislatures. You can largely determine where a person will fall in the debate over gun control and the Second Amendment […]