Preliminary crime statistics for 2011 released today by the FBI show a 4 percent decrease in violent crime–a continuation of a long-term downward trend nationwide. The report highlights that all four violent crime categories–murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault–declined in the country’s four major geographical regions and in all city …
By Mark Jacob and Stephan Benzkofer There’s a lot of crossfire about guns these days. The Obama administration is under siege over Fast and Furious, a federal sting operation that allowed firearms to go to Mexican drug traffickers and was linked to the slaying of a Border Patrol agent. 1 Around Christmas 1928, Ernest Hemingway …
It is absolutely amazing the way some myths about self-defense continue to get passed around year after year and generation after generation. By Sheriff Jim Wilson (RSS) Just about the time it appears they have been proven false and dismissed, the same stuff pops up again. Part of this is probably due to the fact there are …
We have gone through several successive years of intense development of concealed-carry handguns, the vast majority of which were semi-automatic pistols. You are a mighty picky handgunner if you can’t find a subcompact 9 mm or .380 ACP to suit your needs and preferences. In the past, I have been assigned to review these new …
Paul Gomez, of Gomez Training Intl was reportedly found deceased Sunday or Monday Paul was very well known and held in high regard by many in the training community and will be surely missed. The following comes courtesy of Andy Stanford: Paul Gomez was one of the ten greatest firearms instructors who ever lived. That’s …
The Daily Caller, the conservative website founded by Tucker Carlson, has launched an unusual publicity stunt to say the least: Now through Nov. 6—Election Day—the Washington, D.C.-based site will give away a handgun a week. The gun giveaway is part of the launch of a “Guns and Gear” section “devoted to Second Amendment issues and …
