Crimes committed by concealed-carry gun owners are rare in Illinois, which has been issuing concealed weapons permits for less than two years…
Gun Crimes
Murder Rates: Why Comparing The U.S. Only To Other Developed Countries Is Deceitful
Let’s finally put to rest the idea that forcibly disarming people will make them safer and reduce Murder Rates. We need to stop wasting time and implement liberty…
Crime Prevention Research Center Has 5 Of The Top 7 Most Downloaded Gun Crime Papers
The Crime Prevention Research Center has five of the top seven most downloaded criminology papers related to guns…
MO: Prosecutor Drops Gun Charge After Police Turn Off Dahscam Video
In St. Louis, MO, an 18-year-old is arrested for drug and gun charges. The charges are dropped because an officer deliberately turned off the dashcam video…
Police Attitudes On Armed Self Defense Are Changing
Police attitudes toward armed Americans are changing. Police are saying “Get training in the use of deadly force”, instead of “leave it to the professionals”…
Robber Fails to Watch Hands… and Survives
An armed robber in Florida makes a number of mistakes, but manages to survive them all in this surveillance video of an attempted robbery.
Most Armed Robbers are Reluctant to Shoot
This armed robbery attempt in Houston shows that most armed robbers are reluctant to shoot, and reluctant to kill their victims.
US Murder Rate Falls Again in 2013 (& Other Bad News for Gun Control Supporters)
Additional computations may reveal that the 2013 crime rate was at or near the lowest in American history, while at the same time Americans own more guns than ever…
NYC Councilman Constantinides Doesn’t Trust Gun Control? I’m So Confused…
Can it be that a New York City councilman doesn’t believe in effectiveness of New York gun control laws…
The Social Utility of Firearms
If we focus on the causes – mental health and out of control criminals – America could have a society nearly free from bodies catching bullets…
Post-Heller D.C. Continues to Experience Historically Low Homicides
This ceaseless pattern of anti-gun fear mongering coinciding with any easing of a jurisdiction’s gun control laws, followed by a time which proves those fears to be unfounded, should now be familiar…
Not So Stupid Criminals
Maybe police should consider leaving their guns at the station until they’re actually needed for a gunfight…
Gun Ownership Up, Crime Rate Down
The FBI’s semi-annual uniform crime data for the first half of 2013 confirms once again what the firearms community already knew, that violent crime has continued to decline while gun sales have continued to climb…
Understanding Mixed Verdicts in ‘Loud Music’ Murder Trial – Law of Self Defense Question of the Week
This week’s Law of Self Defense: Question of the Week comes from, I’m afraid, from just about everybody. What’ the heck happened with the verdict in the Michael Dunn “loud music” murder trial???
British Crime Statistics: Rotten From the Head
British subjects have become accustomed to bobbies whose goal is to fine tune the stats instead of recovering their stolen goods or protecting their own disarmed selves…
Triple Murder Reward Poster Has Glock Logo Front & Center
I find the juxtaposition of Glock Perfection with a double child murder case to be a little disturbing…
Swimming Pools Six Times More Deadly for Kids than Guns
From a safety perspective, swimming pools and hot tubs are far more dangerous to children then guns are, by over a six to one margin. ..
European Murder Rates Compared to the United States: Demographics vs Guns
Those who demand more gun control for the United States always point to Europe. Europe, they say, has more gun control than the United States, & lower murder rates. Not so true lets look at the facts…
Wisconsin CCW Holder First to be Convicted of Homicide
There does not seem to be any contention that Banks was the aggressor. The reckless homicide charge seems to be based on the contention that Banks had stopped beating on Green when Green shot…
Would Murdered Gun Shop Owner Been Better Off Without Guns? Would Society?
It appears that Frank Petro, the owner of Frank’s Gun and Taxidermy Shop in Tunnelton, Pennsylvania, was being extorted by Jack Edmunson, who was poising as a dirty undercover police officer…
32 Officers Killed by Gunfire in 2013, Lowest Number Since 1887
The trend is down, though not as much as the homicide rate in general. It is clear that the number of citizen owned guns is not linked to the number of police killed with guns…
Deaf and Dumb DC Gun Regulations
It isn’t the honest gun owners causing crime in DC, but honest gun owners are the target as DC politicians double down on stupid…
Gun Control – Be Careful What You Wish (and Vote) For…
Every time there has been a mass public shooting, governments lose no time in enacting massive new restrictions which seek to disarm all peaceable civilians…
The British Crime Rate Review 2013: The Hidden Winsor Report
We don’t have to lie or obfuscate any facts to know we’re right. But the British gun control philosophy needs exactly that. So it’s no surprise that the latest Winsor report has gone missing…
Special Investigation: The Biggest Crime of Them All, Gaming the UK Crime Rate
It must be embarrassing for British firearm-prohibitionists to see their philosophy failing in their own backyard, especially in view of their intense desire to export that philosophy to other nations around the globe…
Texas Concealed Handgun License Murder Rates
Texas is one of the few states that tracks crimes committed by concealed carry weapon permit holders. In Texas, the permit is called a concealed handgun license, or CHL…
There is Murder & Then There is Modern Progressive Elite Murder
There are two models of modern murder that are used in the debate about how to deal with crime. The assumptions about reality that the models are based on are significantly different…
Special Investigation: The Truth About British Crime Rates – 2013
In 1997, a restrictive firearms law virtually banned handguns in Britain. Crime rose rapidly, but then, according to government figures, crime began to fall. Is this really so???
The Tallest Tale: U.K. Crime is Down…NOT
To hide the facts from its citizens, and from the rest of the world, the British government has been working overtime, by fudging the statistics…
Not a Peep from Obama: Violent Crime Reaches 42-Year Low
President Obama had nothing to do with the decrease in crime, of course. But you would think he’d be happy to take credit for it. It’s not like he has much else to show for himself lately…