Jeff Pittman

FBI and media misleading about mass shootings (again)

The FBI and the media apparently teamed up (again) to mislead us about mass shootings. But also this week, FBI director and former veteran federal prosecutor James Comey testified on the agency’s budget in front of a House panel. At the end of the two-hour budget hearing, US Rep. John Culberson (R-TX), chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Justice, asked […]

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News on new ATF Acting Director Thomas Brandon

It seems that ATF’s announced new Acting Director, the current Deputy Director, Thomas Brandon, has a shady past (see also here). That doesn’t surprise me. Meanwhile we learn that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, said that departing ATF director B. Todd Jones will be the league’s new chief disciplinary officer. The new special counsel would allow Goodell to no longer have to

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Litigation in the 4th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing a challenge to Maryland’s “assault weapons” and magazine ban law. The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered an en banc rehearing of the Peruta v. San Diego and the related Richards v. (Yolo County Sheriff Ed) Prieto decisions (made by 3-judge panels). We understand that now a larger panel

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Right to Carry States

CCW legislation in Kansas & Mississippi

Kansas is poised to become the fifth US state to allow CCW everywhere without a permit (see MS legislation below). You haven’t heard much out of the other four states (Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming, plus unincorporated areas of Montana [and Idaho — April 3, 2015 correction]) because the predicted bloodbath didn’t happen. Again. In the green states in the

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“We aren’t wards of the university, we are citizens of the United States”

“We aren’t wards of the university, we are citizens of the United States.” — Rebecca Hargrove, a member of Students for Concealed Carry at Florida State University (Florida Carry, Students for Concealed Carry, the Unified Sportsmen of Florida, and the NRA learned this week that Florida’s University Police are using public funds [tax dollars] to lobby the legislature against the

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March 20, 2015 product highlights

Grabagun.com has the Ruger LC9S-Pro 9mm for $335 and the Smith and Wesson M&P 15 Sport Rifle 5.56 NATO 16″ for $579. If you don’t have a pocket 9 or an AR, you’re running out of excuses. Discrete Defense has an AR15 Truck Console Mount (between the seats gun rack) for only $35. Every redneck should have one. They also

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Training women shooters, war heroes, ballistics, AKs, video, more

How to train women shooters War heroes — If you get GUNS magazine, you’ve probably already read this. If not, you should. (May 2015 issue is available as a free pdf download.) US Army training film on ballistics (video) AK’s are inaccurate. Except when they’re not. Sports — Texas A&M University has a 3-gun team. Cool. TV — “Safe Haven” is a

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