Outgoing New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg are taking with them protective details of 6 and 17 armed police officer respectively, according to Murray Weiss of DNAInfo New YorkNow, I do not deny that (due to the prominence of their positions and the ways in which both may have made enemies among New ( Read more... )

According to Rebecca Morelle, "Working gun made with 3D printer," on the BBC news website.
The world's first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US.

The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online.Freedom has won ( Read more... )

Obama's attempt to further infringe on Americans' right to bear arms was defeated in the US Senate.  There were 60 of 100 votes needed for an un-filibusterable approval. Only 40 Senators supported a ban on the arbitrary category of "assault weapons"; 46 a limitation on magazine capacities which would have thrown us technologically back to the early ( Read more... )

I posted this in response to someone who argued that we need to ban "assault weapons."

What you're talking about banning is a semi-automatic or automatic action coupled with a large magazine capacity on a weapon.  Except that one can use small-magazine capacity firearms to accomplish the same feat assuming that one carries several of them or has ( Read more... )

This in response to loganberrybunny at http://loganberrybunny.livejournal.com/1562029.html?view=7406253#t7406253, who said:

I really don't understand this obsession with unarmed civilians, given that the whole bloody thing kicked off with the police shooting ( Read more... )

In Finland on Thursday, a man went on a shooting spree in a shopping mall, killing his ex-girlfriend (who had taken out a restraining order against him) and four other mall workers, before killing himself ( Read more... )

(inspired from a comment I made to a recent post of bdunbar).

It is much easier to gain hold of heavy weapons when one already has light ones than to gain hold of light weapons when one has no weapons. Furthermore, a government who knows its populace is armed is less likely to attempt tyrannical measures that would involve sending its agents among the ( Read more... )

With the current case before the Supreme Court, I've been led to consider the question of "reasonable" restrictions on the right to bear arms. For instance, I may choose to restrict the right of people to bear arms on my property, and those holding public gatherings may demand that those wishing to attend them leave their weapons at the door. This ( Read more... )

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