Jeff Pittman's Second Amendment News from Mississippi & Beyond
A Cambridge, MA, fire captain was hospitalized this week and is now on sick leave after he accidentally shot himself in a fire station. The captain was in a stairwell of the fire station when he was removing a personal firearm and holster from his jacket pocket in an attempt to attach it to his belt when it fired, hitting […]
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Paris, France vs. Paris, TX, by Matt Bracken: Another video of the Paris attack. Imagine if the videographer had a deer rifle instead of a camera. Nick Leghorn of thetruthaboutguns.com arranged a simulation of the Paris massacre, but with one victim armed. Of a dozen runs, only one armed victim “survived” (by running away) and none got both shooters. Two
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A co-owner of “She’s a Pistol” gun shop in Shawnee, KS died last after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition with gunshot injuries. He was struck in a shootout that was the result of an attempted robbery by four male suspects who were fired upon by the owners. Three suspects were hit by owner Jon Bieker and
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Anti-gun nut and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson weighed in with his thoughts on the differences between France and the US in fighting terrorists, saying that more armed potential victims would make terrorist massacres worse: “In fact, one thing that’s different here is weapons are universally available and so, I mean, it is actually a very good thing that the
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There is quite a buzz surrounding an open letter from a retired FBI agent to Attorney General Eric Holder. So much so that Snopes looked into it and confirms that it is indeed from retired FBI Special Agent K. Dee McCown, currently Director, Global Security and Loss Prevention at W.W. Grainger, Inc. Click for details and the letter.
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Mike Schuetz, the owner of Hawkins Guns LLC, in Hawkins, WI, says the federal government forced the Heritage Credit Union to close his recently opened bank account because he’s in the business of legally selling guns. The United States Consumer Coalition calls this just the latest example of the extralegal overreach of Operation Choke Point, the Obama administration’s illegal effort
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Soon-to-be-ex-US Attorney General Eric Holder, already found to be in civil and criminal contempt, has now suggested requiring everyone obtain a bracelet if they participate in any activity he deems unsafe (such as exercising Second Amendment rights). Holder wants to require a bracelet that connects to a gun so that the bracelet communicates with the gun. Maybe he should have
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“You have a mayor who hates guns. “If it was up to me, we wouldn’t have any handguns in the District of Columbia. I swear to protect the Constitution and what the courts say, but I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible.” — Muriel E. Bowser, D.C. mayor, during her first week in office “You can
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