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In the Garage
Is your garage piled with junk, yours and the spouse’s? Stacks of rusting, greasy tools and ropes or odd plumbing and electrical fixtures that you can’t throw away because one day, somehow,…
Continue Reading →Now, Black Guns Matter
Murder is big business in Philadelphia. Last year, 280 corpses went to the morgue as either murder or non-negligent manslaughter. Law enforcement struggles to contain crime syndicates. It’s a mess,…
Continue Reading →Poisoning the Jury Pool…
We civilians who carry firearms for personal protection should pay close attention to the recent police shootings, particularly to the media coverage. Because while law enforcement officers operate…
Continue Reading →10 Things to Think About AFTER You Decide to Carry Every Day
Whether you live in a constitutional carry state or a state that requires navigating multiple layers of bureaucracy before you can get a concealed carry permit, you need to think about more than just…
Continue Reading →The Second Amendment Gives Nothing…
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” – The Second Amendment to the United States…
Continue Reading →Supporting the “Spineless” Who Stand for Gun Rights
If you read or watch the news (which I attempt not to do; I’ve been on a media fast for about a decade), you probably hear all the negative talk about guns and all the hype about “common sense gun…
Continue Reading →Unforced Errors: Don’t Send the Wrong Message
No Trespassing. WE’VE ALL SEEN THEM: bumper stickers, welcome mats, signs and placards, each proclaiming some political or social value or point of view. Sometimes, they mean little or nothing to us.…
Continue Reading →The D.C. Project: Revealing the Face of Firearms
We recently celebrated our nation’s 240th birthday. And this is a very important election year. If those two things, alone, don’t get you thinking about our country and what’s happening in our…
Continue Reading →Now More Than Ever … Tread Carefully
Legally carrying firearms always comes with responsibility, and a certain amount of risk, both physical and legal. But the two officer-involved shootings last week, followed by the killings of five…
Continue Reading →Barbarians at the Gates
No, I’m not talking about ISIS—unless you’re a hermit (or get your news exclusively from MSNBC), you’re well aware of the reality of terrorism. From Fort Hood to San Bernardino to Orlando, it’s…
Continue Reading →Here We Go Again…
When the movie Jaws first came out, the tagline on the promotional videos back then was: “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…” So when a gaggle of House Democrats staged a…
Continue Reading →Carry Your Gun in Church? Hell Yes!
Don’t get all upset with me about that headline. I know this is a family publication. But if you are talking about religion, you have to have some concept of Heaven and Hell. I was just being…
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