America’s Shooting Gallery, our daily roundup of shootin’ action from around the country, really needs a theme song. We’re thinking something loungey, maybe a little bossanova with a hint of lime. Anybody interested in recording something for us? Send it to gunguys@gunguys.com. PA: Man robs gas station, may or may not have been armed TN: [...]
You’ve been waiting for it all week, and now it’s here: Friday is Mailbag day! Here’s your chance to check out what’s been stuffed in our Inbox this week. There’s a few angry missives, an uninformed attack or two, and even a reader question, which we helpfully answer! If you have something to say, shoot [...]
Following the announcement of the new attempt at concealed weapons yesterday in Wisconsin, antiviolence advocates and local law enforcement held a rally in Racine, WI where around 120 people spoke out against the legislators that are trying to make their streets less safe by filling them with hidden guns. credit: Brad Karas The Journal Times [...]
Despite our efforts to the contrary, looks like today is going to be hunting day. We found two more pieces of hunting news for ya. The Christian Science Monitor has a piece up about hunting advocates who are freaking out because their ranks are declining, and under the impression that they need to recruit kids [...]
A federal grand jury has passed out indictments against a huge drug and gun distribution gang in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The group was called “Fifty Million Soldiers,” and the charges they face read like a laundry list of illegal activities. The charges included nine counts of distributing crack; maintaining a drug facility; using and carrying [...]
Mike Seate of the Pittsburg Tribune-Review just wanted to go for a walk in the great outdoors. He figured all he needed was a door and a way to walk out of it. Then he found out he was wrong. Before heading anywhere near trees, mud or wildlife, I was told that a visit to [...]
WKMG in Orlando has released two pictures (they look like a phonecam) of the last moments of Mario Jenkins’ life. Jenkins was a University of Central Florida undercover officer at last Saturday’s home opener at the Citrus Bowl. He got involved in a fight in the parking lot, pulled his gun and badge, and fired [...]
Here’s today’s America’s Shooting Gallery. Fortunately, the kill count is surprisingly low. But we do have a guy who tried to blame a murder on ghosts, and a suspect who may or may not be a child’s toy. Enjoy! CO: Suspect finally admits it wasn’t “God” or a “ghost” that shot a man. It was [...]
The St. Petersburg Times covers the Brady Campaign’s warnings to tourists about stepping inside a state where a new “shoot first” law allows anyone to legally shoot anyone else anytime they “feel threatened.” the Brady group will hire people to hand out leaflets at Miami International Airport about “Florida’s Shoot First Law.” Hamm said temporary [...]
Shooters fighting in the streets in broad daylight, “bringing their battles into people’s homes,” business, and onto buses. A resident who complains their building was shot with a rifle so high-powered the bullets went through four walls. And patrolmen who claim more assault rifles are being used than ever before. Sound like a war zone? [...]
Wisconsin legislators have revealed details of the concealed weapons bill they’re planning to introduce there. The Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort announced yesterday that the bill was coming, after the gun lobby’s unsuccessful attempt to hoist concealed carry legislation on Wisconsin last year. News is flying around about this new bill, so here’s a handy Gun Guys [...]
Oh, ho ho ho, Ohioans for Concealed Carry, you are so funny. Shocking News: Armed Robber Ignores Gun Ban The Marion Star is reporting a shocking incident in which an armed robber completely disregarded Ohio law and brought a gun into a bar while robbing it. “I don’t understand how this could have happened,” said [...]
Is it just us, or does this piece about the Samoset Rod and Gun Club outside of Boston make it seem like a seedy, creepy hangout? Kathy Hill won’t hunt bears because she doesn’t eat them. Lara Madison loves shooting pistols for the joy of watching things blow up. Gary Davis brings extra handguns and [...]
Feeling a little anxious right about now? A little paranoid maybe? It’s probably because today’s America’s Shooting Gallery is almost here. Oh wait, here it is! Run!! IN: Suspect in VFW shooting drunk, high as a kite IL: Shots from wooded area kill one, wound one. Further proof for the theory that guns migrate to [...]
The Miami Herald has published a strong editorial that backs the Brady Campaign’s movement to warn tourists about Florida’s “shoot first” law. The Brady Campaign has placed signs in public places warning tourists to watch their backs, because the law, recently passed in Florida (and being considered in Michigan), enables anyone to legally shoot anyone [...]
The Braintree Forum has posted an editorial about “zero tolerance” policies in schools regarding students bringing in weapons. They argue that even if it’s a toy, any type of gun in school must be taken seriously. Guns, real or toy, are nothing to joke about. The police and the courts consider a toy gun as [...]
We loved college. We don’t remember much of it (for various reasons), but what we do remember involves a lot of studying, a lot of partying, and an incident we’d rather not remember involving a beer keg, a farm animal, and 140 pounds of pudding. Good times. And so when the University of Oregon’s Army [...]
Horrible story from Lakeland, Florida’s The Ledger that sounds like a crazy scene from a Quentin Tarantino movie. On Monday night, four young boys in Lakeland decided they were going to run away from home. Three of the boys went home and got their backpacks, and the fourth went home, and was able to get [...]
Hot on the heels of the Eddie Eagle animated special, the NRA is trying to spin out an Eddie Eagle comic book, and get it distributed to kids in Wisconsin’s school districts. But at least one Alderman still has his head on straight. Eddie Eagle – a feathered National Rifle Association cartoon character who teaches [...]
Time once again for another edition of America’s Shooting Gallery, where we line up shootings from around the country like so many perps at the police station. Give me the keys! MI: Six-time felon arrested with handgun after shooting incident LA: Shreveporter charged in shooting. Maybe he was angry at being called a “Shreveporter” MI: [...]
No more clicking and shooting! Click-and-shoot online hunting sites in New York are banned under a new law. Peter Constantakes, a spokesman for Governor George Pataki, says the law includes a fine of up 2,500 dollars for hunting online. New York joins a growing number of states to outlaw the activity that critics call barbaric [...]
What exactly is a “justifiable” homicide? Is it OK to kill people sometimes and not others. The Detroit Free Press takes a hard look at “justifiable homicide,” citing FBI crime records that say Detroit is city number one among “justifiable homicides.” In the still of the night, after her southwest Detroit bar has closed, Adela [...]
This week, the Iowans for the Prevention of Gun Violence’s First Monday series takes a look at the link between guns and suicide. Catherine Barber from the Harvard Injury Control Research Center asks if most suicide victims really want to die. We can’t ask suicide victims. But we can ask victims who nearly died from [...]
The Violence Policy Center has released a new study about murders of women by men, a common domestic violence situation. Not only did they release state by state information about which states suffer from the highest rates of female homicides, but they also have come up with some alarming information about the involvment of firearms [...]
The ATF has joined investigation of the JM Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore, Oklahoma, where auditors of the state run museum noticed that 6,000 of the museum’s 20,000 guns have gone missing. The investigation of the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum comes after state Auditor Jeff McMahan reported last week that three [...]
Police are trying to put together a picture of the attack at the purfume and nail polish plant in Upstate NY yesterday. The gunman’s name was Victor M. Piazza, and AP is saying he was a former employee at the factory where he shot three managers and himself. But while there are theories on why [...]
The Palm Beach Post has more info on the Brady Campaign’s plan to target tourists with ads opposing Florida’s new “shoot first” law that makes it legal to shoot anyone anytime you feel threatened. A red-and-black billboard planned for at least one highway site states: “Visitor Warning. Florida residents can use deadly force. Please be [...]
According to the Justice Department, The nation’s crime rate is hanging around at a thirty year low, the lowest since the government first started surveying victims in 1973. And of course the question is, “Why?” Let’s ask a man who knows, a man who’s been on the front lines of crime reduction. Alcohol, Tobacco, and [...]
America’s Shooting Gallery is our daily compilation of all the gun action from around the country. Here’s your daily taste of what our loose gun laws are doing to American citizens. TX: Man accused of killing mother, brother, lied about it to police, finally arrested AL: Third robbery by female suspect, tells teller, “I’m sorry” [...]
From our buddies at .50caliberterror.com: Indeed, a picture is worth a thousand words. Today for our .50-caliber news alert, we thought we would show you what a .50-caliber bullet looks like compared to both a standard hunting round and a common round used in many semi-automatic assault rifles. Notice on the far right how the [...]
This from WNDU in South Bend, IN. A South Bend teen is recovering Sunday night after police say he was accidentally shot in the stomach. It happened on North Blaine Avenue on the west side of South Bend. When police arrived, they say a 13-year-old boy had been shot once in the stomach by his [...]
Details are sketchy about the shooting at the University of Central Florida’s home opener on Saturday, but here’s what the story looks like so far. Mario Jenkins was working as an undercover UCF officer, in coordination with state police to stop illegal underage drinking. At about two in the afternoon on Saturday, he started his [...]
Police in Wausau, Wisconsin have released a video to combat gun violence entitled “Teen Gun Violence: A Dead End Choice.” WSAW says it was “designed to promote awareness of the dangers of illegal gun use and aid in the prevention of violence.” On their own website, the department describes the video as a documentary style [...]
Is it just us, or does nothing seem sacred anymore? (We know, we didn’t seem sacred in the first place, but still). Like when we were kids in high school, we always used to go to this little coffee shop where the owner had set up free boardgames to play and free internet access. That [...]
The temporary restraining order that the NRA pushed into court last week has been approved by a judge in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana. The judge didn’t approve it on the grounds that having a weapon is a God-given right (because, y’know, it isn’t), but that the seizures of weapons [...]
We wondered last week why Ohio’s concealed weapon permitholders were trying to pass a bill to keep lists of their names out of the paper. They claim it’s to keep them off hitlists of burglars and robbers, but we said that we thought that’s what they wanted in the first place– a chance to defend [...]
Every day at Gun Guys, we post a list of all the gun action happening around the country, and it’s called America’s Shooting Gallery. On today’s ASG: A special guest appearance from Jesus Christ! PA: Man was high on pot at time of shooting MO: Police believe body found in lot is suspect, who committed [...]
Every Friday on Gun Guys, we’ll give you a sampling of what people are sending us from both sides of the gun issue. We get some crazy mail here at our little website, and this is our chance to share it with you. If you have a comment, send away to gunguys@gunguys.com (or you can [...]
A day after that study was released about the $100 billion/year insurance costs of gun violence, two major insurance cases come down the line. In Fulton County, GA, a judge upheld a jury’s decision that Mamie Luke’s insurance company would have to pay for her passenger Simon Smith’s injuries, caused when a rifle sitting in [...]
You’ll have to be careful heading down to Florida nowadays. After the “deadly force” bill passed there last year, it’s now legal for anyone to shoot you first if they at all feel threatened. Look at someone the wrong way? Take some lead home with you from your vacation! And bless their souls, the Brady [...]
On July 23, officers from the NYPD were called to Wyandanch, NY about shots being fired. When they showed up, they saw Michael Cooper holding a black .380 caliber Hi-Point handgun. He was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a handgun. But his arrest was only the last link in a chain of shootings [...]
Jeff Mankoff, a history student at Yale, has written a piece for the Yale Daily News criticizing the new made-up holiday “Constitution Day” in which founder Louise Leigh wants us to pretend that the authors of the Constitution were perfect and divine people. This past Saturday was something called “Constitution Day,” though, except for some [...]
Earlier this week we posted this New York Times article about Kevin Hoyt, a hunting advocate who’s creepily committed to making sure kids get to hunt with him. Today the NYT ran a few letters about the piece that show Hoyt is just as weird as we thought he was: To the Editor: Re “Girls [...]
Time once again for another edition of America’s Shooting Gallery, where we line up, for your perusing pleasure, a list of all the gunning action from around these United States. Ladies and gentlemen, start your readin’! FL: Political Activist Accused of Threatening Panhandlers with Handgun MD: Gun Used to Kill High School Senior Found OH: [...]
In 1989, Joe Heindlmeyer was clinically depressed. He was disappointed over losing a Naval scholarship, and so he did what any reasonable person would do: He threatened to blow himself up with a pipe bomb. Ok, maybe that wasn’t so reasonable. In fact, five mental health professionals agreed that it wasn’t– they diagnosed Heindlmeyer with [...]
Alan Burkhart is a trucker. He probably spends plenty of time on the road, and he’s probably seen much of this country of ours. Literally, he’s got to be a pretty well traveled guy. And, as much time as he’s spent on the road, he’s had his share of road rage incidents. Like this one [...]
Stolen weapons seem to be the news of the week– or maybe it’s just happening all the time. That seems a little more likely, actually. Anyway, here’s another one. A gun in Ladysmith, Wisconsin was stolen 17 years ago, and now it’s been found in California at the site of a drug bust. We could [...]
On February 3, 2004, William Reed came home to find two armed men robbing his home. He was able to grab a gun from them, and drive them off before help arrived. And now he’s fighting back by joining an initiative called Project Unite. Run by the Ross County, Ohio Sheriff’s Office, it’s an educational [...]
Well, the NRA’s “investigations” have decided that the gun seizures reported weeks ago in the wake of Katrina did actually happen. By investigations, we mean they called their brother Cletus just outside of Baton Rouge to see if he still had his gun. Apparently he didn’t because now, finally, after what seems like an eternity, [...]
The people of Yemen, like many of the people in America, are fed up with gun violence in their country. Their Ministry of the Interior reports that there are probably three guns for every member of their population, brought in mostly by terrorists. Many are reported to be automatic weapons, brought to the country by [...]
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