Gun Control

Rick Perry Gives Small California Gun Shop a Warm Texas Welcome

It's thirsty work being Rick Perry. You have to stand in the warm May sun outside a gun shop and wax poetic about the virtues of firearms, laissez-faire capitalism and how much California blows. It's no wonder then that you would promptly hightail it across town to the local brewery. After all, what ... More >>

Obama, Bloomberg Groups Are Teaming Up for Dallas Gun Control Rally This Weekend

Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the advocacy group funded and founded by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, is struggling to stoke the kind of grass-roots passion for gun regulation that has made its arch-nemesis, the NRA, such a political force. Organizing For America, the post-electoral version o ... More >>

Congressman Steve Stockman to Gunmakers: Come Check Out Texas

U.S. Representative Steve Stockman is not a subtle man. We could go so far as to say he has a flair for the dramatic. He is, after all, the man who brought Ted Nugent as his plus-one to the State of the Union address, and compared the Earth to a sort of fuel-filled water balloon. And even further ba ... More >>

Nonprofit that 'Empowers Neighborhoods' By Handing Out Free Guns is Coming to Dallas

Kyle Coplen can pinpoint the exact moment the idea came to him. He was visiting a 93-year-old World War II veteran on January 23 whose home had just been vandalized. Mementos were broken. The walls had been covered with spray paint. The man was distraught, and so was Coplen, who wondered whether the ... More >>

State Rep. Yvonne Davis' Proposal to Fire Sheriffs Who Buck Federal Gun Laws Has the Right Stirred Up

It's been two-and-a-half months since Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made headlines (and, some might say, a bit of an ass of himself) by proclaiming that he and his deputies would have no part in enforcing federal gun laws that might "violate our precious constitutional rights." It's not a terribl ... More >>

State Lawmakers Are Really Serious About Making it Illegal to Enforce Federal Gun Laws

As Washington shuffles forward toward some sort of expansion of gun control (universal background checks, yes; bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, maybe not), state legislators in Texas are debating the optimal technique for thumbing their noses at the federal government. On Wednes ... More >>

The NRA is Now Sponsoring the NASCAR Race at Texas Motor Speedway, Because of Course they Are

File this one under things we're surprised to learn didn't happen 50 years ago: the folks at Texas Motor Speedway announced today that the National Rifle Association -- as in the rabidly pro-gun lobbying group -- is now the title sponsor of the NASCAR race there this spring. But no. This is new. So ... More >>

Gun Lovers Will Gather at Dallas' Flagpole Hill for a "Day of Resistance" Against Obama

On January 16, President Obama, flanked by family members of some of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary the month before, laid out his plans to curb gun violence. These included 23 executive orders that tweak the system for background checks, lift a ban on federal funding for gun viol ... More >>

Rockwall Mulls Declaring Federal Gun Laws Unconstitutional

Longtime Collin County Sheriff Terry Box made it clear in January that he would not be party to President Obama's attempt to disarm the Real America and, presumably, pave the way for a permanent Marxist dictatorship through a handful of modest gun control proposals. Never mind that or that a county ... More >>

A State Rep. Wants Schools to Offer Gun Classes, Because This is Texas, Goddammit

In the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the guns-in-schools debate in Texas has focused on teachers: whether to arm them; what training they should receive; whether it's better to shoot or ask questions first; etc. But limiting the use of firearms on campus to trained, presumab ... More >>

A Majority of Texans Favor an Assault Weapons Ban, But Their Politicians Don't

Texas, the Second Amendment bastion of sport shooters, concealed carriers and Stand-Your-Grounders, also favors a ban on assault weapons by a surprising margin -- 49 percent to 41 percent, according to Public Policy Polling. Texans oppose arming school teachers (56 percent to 31 percent), but also ... More >>

Hundreds of Texas Bikers Lobby Lawmakers in Austin This Morning

A friend of mine works in Austin, doing something or other for state government. Her office is right next to the Capitol building. When she arrived at work this morning, she couldn't help but notice that the whole place was covered in bikers. The Harley kind. "Hundreds of dudes wearing leather," as ... More >>

Photos From First Presby's Gun Buyback, and the Armed Counter-Protest it Inspired

This morning, the First Presbyterian Church hosted a gun buyback, offering cold, hard cash for unwanted firearms which will later be destroyed. The idea, as Rev. Bruce Buchanan told the Morning News, is to "make Dallas homes and families safer, one gun at a time." As far as gun-control measures go, ... More >>

Mayor Rawlings: Obama's Gun Proposals "Are Solid and I Support Them."

Mayor Mike Rawlings said today that he's behind President Obama's push for new restrictions aimed at curbing gun violence. "We already say we can't own Stinger rockets. So the question is where does the line go? And the line being at semiautomatics is the right place," Rawlings told the Morning New ... More >>

Rick Perry Responds to Obama's Gun Proposal: "No Gun Law Could Have Saved the Children"

In a midday press conference, President Obama laid out proposals to combat gun violence. You can read them in full here. In a nutshell, he called for background checks on all gun sales and bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Rick Perry wasted no time in issuing a proclamation of hi ... More >>

Rawlings Unveils Plan to Curb Violence, Says Dallas "Cannot Tolerate" Troubling Trend

Domestic violence killings were on the rise in Dallas last year, which might be one reason why Mayor Mike Rawlings called a presser Monday afternoon. Another could be the fact that exactly a month has passed since a deeply troubled young man slaughtered 26 people in Newtown, Connecticut, most of the ... More >>

Why Do We Need High-Capacity Clips on Our Guns? Really: We Want to Know.

Alright, believe it or not, this is a question, not a diatribe. I really do want to know. What is the downside of a ban on high-capacity ammo clips? First I should ask: Do you think high-capacity clips are a significant factor in gun slaughters? It seems to me they are. In the Gabby Giffords slaugh ... More >>

Louis Gohmert Really Wishes Sandy Hook's Principal Had a High-Powered Assault Rifle

Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson was among the first to opine that the 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday were a testament to the need for more guns in schools, not fewer. That other pundits and politicians would deploy the same argument in the days that followed, casting even ... More >>

Bob Costas' Sin: By Talking About Gun Violence, He Let Reality Intrude into Football's Fantasyland

So what was it -- really -- that got everybody so fired up about Bob Costas' timid little attempt at a gun control message on Sunday Night Football last Sunday? Was it less about gun violence than the intrusion of real life into the violent dreamscape of professional football? In the first place, C ... More >>

Colorado Shooting Shows Again How the NRA Plays us for Patsies

You're kidding me, right? We just sit here like patsies and let the gun nuts tell us we're not allowed to protect ourselves from the next James Holmes? We know there will be a next one, because we know there was a Jared Lee Loughner,  a George "Jo Jo" Pierre Hennard, a Mark David Chapman, a John W ... More >>

Get Locked and Loaded

Feds: Voter ID Law "Legally Unenforceable," Can't Rule Out "Discriminatory Purpose"

State legislation requiring voters to present state-issued identification such as a driver's license, a concealed-carry permit, or a U.S. passport or military ID was rejected Monday morning by the U.S. Department of Justice. "Because we conclude that the state has failed to meet its burden of dem ... More >>

A Pro-Guns-On-Campus Buzz! (Someone Else Wrote It)

Concealed Guns on Campus a Fait Accompli?

Governor Perry Drops By East Dallas Gun Shop to Remind Us How Much He Loves Second Amendment, Hates Coyotes

Sam Merten​Gov. Rick Perry said concealed handgun laws have made Texas safer during a campaign stop at McClelland Gun Shop yesterday afternoon while receiving endorsements from the National Rifle Association and the Texas State Rifle Association. He also continued to milk his story about killi ... More >>

Texas Concealed Gun Laws Loosen

Have a gun? Feel free to travel.

Former UTD Student Gets Six Years

The Gun Club

Presidency of the Wild

With a gun in one hand and a crossbow in the other, we warm to the dream of a Nuge '08 ticket

Have Gun, Will Unravel

Lars von Trier goes off on another rant about American violence

The Same, but Different

Plus: Panic Button; Ready, Aim...

Best place to buy a firearm

First Call Firearms Sales

Deep impact

A West Texas divorce case could soon change the nation's gun laws

Granny get your gun

Dallas' pistol-packing 'Second Amendment Sister'--63-year-old grandma Mary Thompson--takes aim at a million moms

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Daddy got his gun; Bronx cheer

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