Guns News

VIDEO: Gun Fest Features Nazi Shirts

5:05 pm EST April 13th, 2011 | Conservative | 2 Comments

Nice gun culture you’ve got there.

I was on site at the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot fewer than 20 minutes last Saturday before I passed a shaved-head lad with with a Totenkopf death head on his chest. (The Totenkopf was the symbol of the Nazi SS division that ran death camps like Auschwitz during the Holocaust.)

The shirt looked brand new. I took that to mean the kid or whoever gave it to him bought it from one of the dozen or so permitted vendors who openly sold white supremacist merchandise. This included a wide selection of t-shirts and flags bearing symbols popular with racist skinheads and neo-Nazis. (And no, I’m not counting Confederate battle flags.) Also for sale were the race war fantasy novels Hunter and The Turner Diaries by William Pierce, founder of the National Alliance, a notorious hate group. A Friends of the NRA fundraising booth was located within sight of a stall of swastika flags.

Topic: Guns

Still Don’t Believe John Lott

12:44 pm EST April 1st, 2011 | Conservative | 1 Comment

He’s a serial conservative liar, why would you ever trust him? You shouldn’t.

Topic: Guns, John Lott

Write A Negative Story About The NRA, Get Racist Hate Mail

9:30 am EST January 26th, 2011 | Conservative | 72 Comments

Michael Luo of the New York Times wrote this story about the NRA

In the wake of the shootings in Tucson, the familiar questions inevitably resurfaced: Are communities where more people carry guns safer or less safe? Does the availability of high-capacity magazines increase deaths? Do more rigorous background checks make a difference?

The reality is that even these and other basic questions cannot be fully answered, because not enough research has been done. And there is a reason for that. Scientists in the field and former officials with the government agency that used to finance the great bulk of this research say the influence of the National Rife Association has all but choked off money for such work.

“We’ve been stopped from answering the basic questions,” said Mark Rosenberg, former director of the National Center for Injury Control and Prevention, part of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which was for about a decade the leading source of financing for firearms research.

This morning he revealed the response from the right:

They are who we thought they were.

Topic: Guns, New York Times, NRA

Gun Crimes Linked To Lax Gun Laws

4:23 pm EST September 27th, 2010 | Crime | 5 Comments

Gee, shocker.

A study due to be released this week by a coalition called Mayors Against Illegal Guns uses previously unavailable federal gun data to identify what it says are the states that most often export guns used in crimes across state lines. It concludes that the 10 worst offenders per capita, led by Mississippi, West Virginia and Kentucky, supplied nearly half the 43,000 guns traced to crime scenes in other states last year.

The study also seeks to draw a link between gun trafficking and gun control laws by analyzing gun restrictions in all 50 states in areas like background checks for gun purchases, policies on concealed weapons permits and state inspections of gun dealers. It finds that, across the board, those states with less restrictive gun laws exported guns used in crimes at significantly higher rates than states with more stringent laws. An advance copy of the study was provided to The New York Times.

The site Trace The Guns has some good interactive info on the flow of guns via lax gun laws.

Organizations like the NRA simply don’t care about gun crime and tamping down on this stuff.

Topic: Guns

Report: Mexican Drug War Being Armed By American Guns

11:42 am EST September 8th, 2010 | Crime | 12 Comments

Guns

From Mayors Against Illegal Guns:

The report shows that of the guns recovered from Mexican crime scenes and submitted for tracing by ATF between 2006 and 2009, four in ten of those guns were originally sold in Texas. The three other border states – Arizona, California, and New Mexico – were the source for another third of those guns.

When controlling for state population, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas each have export rates 169 percent greater than any other state and at a rate three times as high as the fourth border state, California. Relatively lax gun laws in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas may contribute to that disparity.

The report also notes that the time between the original sale of guns at U.S. gun dealers and the recovery of those guns at Mexican crime scenes is decreasing – a sign of ever more sophisticated gun trafficking.”

Topic: Drugs, Guns, Mexico

VIDEO: Sean Hannity Explains That Gun Locks Are Dumb. Then Says He Has One.

10:34 pm EST June 28th, 2010 | Conservative | 9 Comments

It’s almost like Sean’s talking points had a collision with reality.

Topic: Fox News, Guns, Sean Hannity

NRA Uses Offensive Italian Stereotype To Promote Bob McDonnell

3:53 pm EST October 23rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 38 Comments

And people wonder why the NRA’s political swagger isn’t what it used to be.

This ad is just clumsy, offensive, and stupid. So yeah, just like the NRA.

The ad is very reminiscent of the ad the conservative Free Enterprise Fund ran against Bob Menendez in 2006. That didn’t work.

Topic: Guns, Virginia

Video Exposes The Gun Show Loophole

4:21 pm EST October 7th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 65 Comments

This video shows something that anti-gun control advocates say doesn’t exist.

More detail here.

Topic: Guns

Study: Wild West Gun Policy Doesn’t Work

7:41 pm EST October 5th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 155 Comments

Shock

In a first-of its-kind study, epidemiologists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine found that, on average, guns did not protect those who possessed them from being shot in an assault. The study estimated that people with a gun were 4.5 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not possessing a gun.

Topic: Guns