A Texas man has made headlines again since a NJ court decided that he would stay in prison on weapons charges stemming from a 2009 incident when he was moving from Maine to Texas and while driving through NJ officers discovered 21 firearms in his car. While some are saying NJ’s tough gun laws have made him a victim of the system, others say there’s more to the story. Read more
America has been looking for ways to stop a seemingly endless wave of drugs from washing up on our shores for about 100 years now and since 1999, the men and women of the United States Coast Guard’s HITRON have had beautifully simple answer: shoot at them from helicopters. Read more
Following the ending to a tragic hostage situation at Hostra University in New York, the officer who accidentally shot and killed Andrea Rebello is said to be inconsolable, replaying the event in his head and blaming himself for the girl’s death. Read more
At its best government is inept, but at it’s worst, government is corrupt. Where does the Obama administration fall between these two paradigms? Read more
Adaptive Tactical is now selling adapter kits for Mossberg and Mossberg Mavericks to equip these pump shotguns with magazine adapters. The kits include a new forend and either 5-round box or 10-round drum magazines. Read more
Despite the governor’s disapproval of the bill, lawmakers voted to pass the bill that would allow teachers to be armed in Franklin County schools. Read more
Once again policy-makers are attempting to tackle the idea of “smart guns,” firearms that can tell the right users apart from the wrong ones. But one company is taking it further: networked smart guns that can be disabled remotely. Read more
IWI’s not new to American gun culture, but this is the first we’ve seen of the Tavor. At a time when tactical rifles are hard to come by, IWI’s appearance in American gun stores could not have come at a better time. Will fans of the AR-15 move over to the bullpup? Read more
The Phoenix Police Department received a record-breaking number of firearms in its latest gun buyback. Now the department is rushing to destroy as many of the firearms as possible before the new law goes in effect which will require the firearms to be resold rather than destroyed. Read more
Gun control cost money. Taxpayers in Connecticut are going to have to pick up the tab where state police want to hire 39 additional workers to meet the workload created by the state’s new onerous gun laws. Read more
