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More details have emerged about Adam Lanza: Adam Lanza left a home stuffed with weaponry and carried out the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in a 154-bullet barrage that took less than five minutes, investigators said Thursday in the first detailed account of his surroundings and troubled state of mind. Search warrants from the second-worst school shooting in American …

Virgin Atlantic billionaire Richard Branson appears to be echoing the Vietnam War era chant used against President Lyndon Johnson: “LBJ LBJ how many kids did you kill today?”  Predictably, the wingnuts are already calling for a boycott of his companies.

Hip-hop mogul Blue Williams wants to launch a program in which New Yorkers can trade in their guns for Beyonce concert tickets. And the NYPD might be down for it. Williams, the head of Family Tree Entertainment, has pitched the city’s first private-sector gun buyback program to NYPD brass and is waiting for Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly’s okay. “We want …

According to Gun Owners of America president Larry Pratt and some crackpot teabagger radio host.

Lesson learned. Never store ammo in the oven.

Remember that Virginia pizza joint that is offering a 15% discount to customers that bring a gun?  That’s the owner’s mother posing with the Ruger semi-automatic carried in by a patron.  Hit the link for a photo of another customer with a baby on one hip and a pistol on the other.  According to the owner, response to the promotion …

At a pizza shop in Virginia Beach: “All they have to do is show me that they’re carrying a weapon or they can show me their concealed weapons permit and they can get the discount,” says All Around Pizza owner, Jay Laze. So far, Laze says the response has been great. Brendan Kelly openly carries his handgun and says it’s …

“After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.” – NRA head Wayne LaPierre, writing …

Texas GOP state Rep. James White has introduced a bill that would allow public schools to offer an elective course on the use of firearms. HB 1142 would include training in the use of firearms including rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers. “Education, foremost, as stated in our Constitution, is about teaching our people their rights and responsibilities as a free …

Olympic Arms says they won’t sell any more weapons to law enforcement agencies in New York state until Gov. Cuomo’s gun control bill is repealed and an apology is issued to “the good American people.” Here’s their statement: “Legislation recently passed in the State of New York outlaws the AR15 and many other firearms, and will make it illegal for …

The (non-gay) highlight of last night’s speech.

My pal Dr. Jeff took this photo today at the Bass Pro Shop in the Concord Mills Mall outside Charlotte, North Carolina.  My first thought was to wonder when hunters started carrying pistols, but a quick check reveals that Bass presently sells 112 models of handguns.  At the mall which bills itself as “North Carolina’s largest tourist attraction” with over …

The national media is going nuts today on the news that Ted Nugent, who has threatened to kill the president, will attend tonight’s State Of The Union address as a guest of Texas GOP Rep. Steve Stockman, who has called for Obama’s impeachment over gun control.  Stockman’s spokesman, Donny Ferguson (left), yesterday promised that Nugent won’t bring guns to the …

The man who last October shot a security guard at the Washington DC headquarters of the Family Research Council today pleaded guilty to several felony charges related to the shooting. Floyd Corkins pleaded guilty to one federal count of crossing state lines with guns and ammunition. He also pleaded guilty to one count of intent to kill while armed and …

“Obama and his socialist-fascist regime now wants to take our guns. Like hell you say. America answers by buying guns in record numbers. Americans will never allow themselves to be disarmed. The founding fathers intended American citizens to be armed to defend themselves from just such runaway tyrannical government. America’s response to Obama’s attempted gun grab: FUBO!! You want my …

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