NYU Student Arrested For Allegedly Keeping Air Rifles In His Dorm Room
MANHATTAN — A New York University psychology student was arrested Monday night and charged with misdemeanor weapons possession for having air rifles in his TriBeCa dorm room, according to cops and the...
View ArticleGun Control Advocates Have Scored A Major Victory That Nobody Is Talking About
This week G.E. Capital Finance announced that it would no longer finance gun purchases, becoming the latest in a string of companies that have decided to leave a large amount of money on the table...
View ArticleAmerican Kids Are Wearing Bulletproof Backpacks Now
The pink bulletproof rucksack that 5-year-old Jaliyah wears to school every day reaches almost down to her knees and weighs 3lbs even when empty, but for her Colorado father, the size and solidity are...
View Article5-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots, Kills His Sister Using A Rifle Made For Children
BURKESVILLE, Ky. (AP) — In southern Kentucky, where children get their first guns even before they start first grade, Stephanie Sparks paid little attention as her 5-year-old son, Kristian, played with...
View ArticleStephen Colbert Shames Rand Paul And Other Conservatives For 'Demonizing'...
During Wednesday's episode of The Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert mocked the string of conservatives who he said demonized the families of victims of gun violence lobbying for increased gun...
View ArticleThe First Entirely 3D-Printed Gun Is Here
Well, it's finally happened.Defense Distributed, a group focused on making easily printable weapons, has succeeded.It made a handgun using a 3D-printer, according to Andy Greenberg at Forbes, who was...
View ArticleHere's Video Of The First Ever 3D Printed Handgun Being Fired
The world's first-ever 3D printed gun is available for download.Below are two videos of it being fired made by the Defense Distributed, the non-profit that developed the gun and is putting the file...
View ArticleActivist Is Trying To Get 10,000 People To March On DC With Loaded Rifles
Independence Day in Washington, D.C. may see bigger fireworks if the "Open Carry March" put forth by a Marine veteran turned libertarian activist actually goes forward.Adam Kokesh, 31, is planning a...
View ArticleNEW NRA PRESIDENT: Obama Is On A 'Revenge' Campaign Against Gun Owners
Newly elected National Rifle Association president Jim Porter said that “revenge is what is motivating” President Obama’s second-term push to for new gun control regulations.Porter, an attorney from...
View ArticleThere's Potentially 100,000 People Now Printing Out Their Own Handguns
Downloaders have successfully acquired at least 100,000 schematics for Defense Distributed's printable 3D handgun over the course of two days.By comparison, the first episode of Game of Thrones clocked...
View ArticleAmericans Have No Idea What They're Talking About When It Comes To Gun Crime
A new poll from Pew Research found that most Americans believe demonstrably false things about some of the core data behind the gun control debate. Since 1993, firearm homicide deaths have decreased...
View ArticleGun Homicide Rates Have COLLAPSED
The Pew Center has released a new poll indicating that 82% of Americans didn't know that the gun homicide rate has halved over the past twenty years. Well, it has. Here's the chart showing the drop,...
View ArticleThe 5 Most Popular Guns Found At TSA Airport Checkpoints
Despite the focus on the Transportation Security Administration’s proposed and then scuttled plan allowing on board tiny knives and novelty sporting goods equipment, the agency has been busy as usual...
View ArticleUS Government Suspects 3D Gunmaker Of Being An International Arms Dealer
When Defense Distributed put its blueprints for a 3D-printable plastic gun on the internet (see above), the Texas non-profit put an internet freedom spin on the gun control debate.It also led the US...
View Article3D Gunmaker Defense Distributed Has Already Changed The World
Defense Distributed's goal is to evaporate the container described by the Second Amendment, making obtaining a firearm trivial enough that even trying to place restrictions on gun manufacturing becomes...
View ArticleStep Inside The Connecticut Gun Factory That Is Leaving The State In Protest
CEO Josh Fiorini and his gun manufacturing company PTR Industries, are right in the center of the national gun control debate.PTR makes clones of the HK-91 semi-automatic rifle and is located in...
View ArticleCalifornia School Asks Kids To Swap Their Toy Guns For A Free Bike
An elementary school in Hayward, Calif. will sponsor a toy gun trade-in, encouraging kids to swap their harmless toy weapons for a chance to win a new bicycle.The purpose of the trade-in is to stop...
View Article4-Year-Old Boy Accidentally Shoots And Kills Army Special Forces Father
An Army Special Forces veteran who served in the Iraq War was accidentally shot and killed by his 4-year-old son in northern Arizona, police said.Justin Stanfield Thomas took his son to visit a friend...
View ArticleArmy Kills Competition To Replace Service Rifle
The Army announced today it is formally concluding its Individual Carbine competition without selecting a winner to replace the M4 Carbine.“None of the carbines evaluated during the testing phase of...
View Article8th Grader Arrested Over NRA T-Shirt Argument Now Faces A Year in Jail
The West Virginia eight-grader arrested and suspended over his National Rifle Association T-shirt with an image of a firearm is now facing a $500 fine and a year in jail.A judge is allowing prosecutors...
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