Don't worry...
Why would anyone need a gun? The police (and courts) will protect you.
Wish I lived nearer to this fellow
Then I could have Doc Holliday as my dentist.
Civil Rights Movement and arms
I'm reading A most interesting book, Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era
UPDATE: here is the book mentioned in the comment below: Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms, by Prof. Nick Johnson.
Disabled man uses AR-15 to defend home
Story here. Homeowner wounded, two of four perps dead.
Headline I'd never expected to see in the Washington Post
"Ex-Calif. State Sen. Leland Yee, gun control champion, heading to prison for weapons trafficking."
Some useful tests on suppressors
Right here. So much for being "silencers"-- only the suppressed .22 rimfire has a report below the level of "threshold of pain." With everything bigger, you'd be well advised to wear hearing protection.
I was just coming of age, as it were, in the late 1960s, when hearing protection became popular. Most shooters older than I were pretty hard of hearing. I remember one NRA committee meeting, circa 1985, when one member had to take a break to replace his hearing aid batteries, and several others said they'd do the same. Harlon Carter remarked, "Dave, this his got to be the deafest Board of Directors of any major corporation." I once heard a joke about Elmer Keith's silenced .44 Magnum. It was only silent to him....
Virginia's special session
The governor calls a special session of the legislature to pass gun control measures... it meets and adjourns in under two hours. The governor sounds unhappy.
RIP Ray Arnett
Ray Arnett was EVP of NRA in 1985, and before that Assistant Secretary of Interior for Fish, Wildlife and Parks. I was in email communication with him until not long before his death. It was something to be in contact, in 2019, with a Marine who fought at Guadalcanal! He was 18 when he fought, and lived to 95.