Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Fact: In 80% of gun defenses, the defender used a concealable handgun. A quarter of the gun defenses occurred in places away from the defender’s home.1
Fact: 77% of all violent crime occurs in public places.2 This makes concealed carry necessary for almost all self-defense needs. But due to onerous laws forbidding concealed carry, only 26.8% [...]

Fact: Recall the Rodney King riots in that anti-gun city of Los Angeles. Every major news network carried footage of Korean store owners sitting on the roofs of their stores, armed with “assault weapons”.1 Those were the stores that did not get burned to the ground, and those were the people that were not dragged [...]

An interesting article on the rise of violent crime in England following their stringent ban on private ownership of handguns:
…violence in England has gotten markedly worse. Over the course of a few days in the summer of 2001, gun-toting men burst into an English court and freed two defendants; a shooting outside a London nightclub [...]

Fact: Only 8% of criminals use anything that is classified (even incorrectly) as an “assault weapon”1, though less than 1% claimed to use these firearms when committing crimes.2
Fact: Criminals are as likely to carry single shot (derringer-type) handguns as they are to carry “assault weapons”.3
Fact: “Assault rifles have never been an issue in law enforcement. [...]

Fact: Firing pins are designed to be pushed deeply into the primer (igniter) of the round. The depth of the engraving (approximately 0.005 inch)1 is vastly smaller than the tolerance of the firing pins drive depth.
Fact: In a test, the engravings were removed using a 50-year-old knife sharpening stone in less than a minute. The [...]

Alderman Charles Quincy Troupe, frustrated with the police response to rising crime, called Tuesday on residents to arm themselves to protect their lives and property.
“The community has to be ready to defend itself, because it’s clear the economy is going to get worse, and criminals are getting more bold,” Troupe, 72, said Tuesday.
Read the [...]

Officer Leroy Pyle debunks myths about semi-autos. He uses demonstrations with live firearms and congressional testimony by DEA, ATF, and FBI agents to show what the truth really is. This eye opening video shows that there is really no functional difference between “assualt weapons” and everyday hunting and self defense rifles.