I’d heard of a company called Tennessee Guns International on a few gun boards. Never thought much of it but recently realized they’re located in my county of residence. And, apparently, the feds are looking into them as part of an audit of some sort: An East Tennessee gun-maker and importer is facing a federal […]

You get ready for the holidays, the weather changes, and crybabies in NY whine about how southerners buy their guns sales tax free and blame us for their problems. Complete with bigoted dixie reference.

Seen at SIH on the one gun a month bill: “As it stands now, retailers would be prohibited from purchasing guns from their suppliers,” said Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi, who leads the task force. “I think that was an oversight when the legislation was passed.” The law exempts sales between licensed gun dealers, but […]

Reuters: The United States reversed policy on Wednesday and said it would back launching talks on a treaty to regulate arms sales as long as the talks operated by consensus, a stance critics said gave every nation a veto. The decision, announced in a statement released by the U.S. State Department, overturns the position of […]

Gun shop owner says he’s accused of racism if he refuses certain sales: “People asking for Glocks, because they hear about them in rapper songs,” said O’Brien, who has worked in the gun industry for 12 years. “I try to steer them back to models more suited for first-time buyers, but they say: ‘No, I […]

In the second quarter of 2009, $1.14B in sales of firearms and ammo: Pistols and revolvers: $33,552,785.73 / .10 = $33,552,857.30 = $335.5 million for handguns Long guns: $42,373,696.86 / .11 = $385,215,426.00 = $385.2 million for long guns Ammunition: $46,157,400.88 / .11 = $419,612,735.27 = $419.6 million for ammunition

Gun owners still think Obama may try to ban guns. I don’t think so. And definitely not first term.

To get something out of the way, the dealers who broke the law, well, broke the law. And that’s damaging. I’m not defending them. And don’t care to. They do more harm than good. But they didn’t break the law because they were at a gun show. They broke the law because they broke the […]

Gunbroker does $1B in sales.

I’ve heard of bug out bags. But Go Pants are new to me. Good idea though.

Colorado Springs police to sell confiscated guns.

Eugene Volokh: Many people don’t want guns for “sporting” purposes. They want them to defend their and their family’s lives. Hence, he says, why gun control arguments aren’t convincing. In recent years, I would say it’s not many but most. Hunting is on the decline and has been for years. Yet the recent uptick in […]

A push for age limits on private sales of firearms. Realtors carrying guns. Preemption coming: Murfreesboro, Clarksville outlaw guns in parks

Since McNair was killed by someone who bought a gun without going through a licensed dealer, there is a push (and by push, I mean casual mention by one person picked up on by the press) to look at regulating person-to-person sales: “You should not just be able to walk up and down the street […]

Nate Rau says he brings the truth about the claim that 40 states do not prohibit guns where alcohol is served: Based on extensive legal research conducted by Nashville attorney David Randolph Smith of the local firm Smith and Schmidt, the actual figure is nearly the inverse. I’d love to see the research because my […]

At the GSSF, I was talking to some of the Glock guys about how their sales were up 36% over last year. Well, they told me that right now Glock is backordered over 200,000 pistols. Wow.

At dinner last night, my non-gun-nut father in law said something like: I’m guessing that the record increase in sales of firearms and ammo has sent a message to Democrats in congress and the administration that the public is not convinced they’re not going to take guns away.

Heh: Since the Obama administration’s talk of banning so-called ‘assault weapons’ has resulted in a huge spike in semi-automatic weapon sales nationwide, the White House has recently begun a covert ‘whisper campaign’ suggesting the president might also ban U.S.-manufactured cars and trucks with fully-automatic transmissions, now dubbed ‘assault vehicles’.

The trend continues: Assault weapon ban talk increases guns sales Kinda neat. Also, before 1994, weapons that look like assault rifles comprised about 1% of guns in the country. Now, the AR-15 is one of the most popular sporting rifle on the market. I thank Al Gore and Bill Clinton.

It’s worse than a mere ban on private sales. Also, one of the bill’s sponsors is Kirsten Gillibrand: isn’t this the same Kirsten Gillibrand everyone was sending money to because she was such a pro-gun Democrat? I’m sure there’s a lot of buyers’ remorse for her, now.

BBC: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is pledging further effort to help Mexico in its anti-drugs campaign. Mrs Clinton said the use of military-style assault weapons was a particular concern, and she would discuss reimposing a ban on their sale. A previous US decision to lift a ban on such sales had been a […]

So, while I was out, DoD decided to end sales of once fired brass to ammo manufacturers, which would put people out of jobs and be seen as a big finger snub of gun owners by the Obama administration. Also while I was gone, a couple of Senators got wind of it and put a […]

How is this possible: For the second time in eight weeks, Alliant Techsystems is laying off workers at its Federal Cartridge ammunition plant in Anoka because of the end of an orders backlog, officials announced Thursday. About 70 to 80 workers will be affected. In November, 40 to 50 workers were let go. Federal Cartridge […]

What are people still buying in these tough economic times? Forbes has a list. Noticeably absent is firearms. And we know they’re selling like hotcakes.

Revenue from hunting licenses declines in Tennessee. Yet gun ownership is up in the state.

A look at gun purchases as recorded by NICS. Look out, he has graphs. And will you dumb, cousin-humping rednecks stop buying guns. You have nothing to fear. Well, nothing to fear unless you have an assault weapon; or a handgun; or want to use one for self-defense; or carry one. As long as you’re […]

At Tricities.com: “It’s not a Democrat vs. Republican issue,” Hamm said. “It’s a rural vs. urban issue. And the urban people don’t do a good enough job of saying ‘Look, we need some help, people are dying here.’ And the rural people don’t do a good enough job of saying, ‘Look, I live in the […]

I dig Brownells. They are my first choice when it comes to buying stuff because, at last year’s Gun Blogger Rendezvous, Larry showed up and told us a bit about what Brownells did with respect to activism. They contribute heavily to pro-gun products. Because of Larry’s talk, I tend to buy from them whenever I […]

Good: A federal judge decided Tuesday that Jim?s Gun Jobbery of Fayetteville and the Jim?s store in Wilmington can keep their licenses to sell firearms. Jim?s Gun Jobbery in Fayetteville and Jim?s Pawn & Gun in Wilmington sometimes violated regulations requiring dealers to closely track their inventory, U.S. District Judge Malcolm J. Howard said in […]

Or maybe not: WASILLA, Alaska — The biggest project that Sarah Palin undertook as mayor of this small town was an indoor sports complex, where locals played hockey, soccer, and basketball, especially during the long, dark Alaskan winters. The only catch was that the city began building roads and installing utilities for the project before […]