A harrowing incident at a smoke shop in Savannah, Georgia, offers several key takeaways for practitioners of armed self-defense. Jerry Lawrence had just opened Mary Jane’s Vape and Smoke Shop when two customers entered the store. Thinking they were innocent patrons, Lawrence turned his back as walked behind the counter while speaking on the phone with the store’s owner.

In the immortal words of Forrest Gump’s mother, “Stupid is as stupid does.” The truth of that axiom was on full display this week in a viral security cam video from an indoor public gun range.

Just weeks after a group of nuns and big-money investors forced Smith & Wesson and Ruger to account for their role in promoting “gun violence,” Wells Fargo took its considerable financial resources and threw them behind one of the world’s largest gunmakers, Sturm, Ruger & Co. The bank issued the company a $40 million line of credit last week, stunning members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, who had been working with investors to force gunmakers to address the “risks” inherent in its products’ association with gun-related violence.

The legendary polymer magazine company has expanded their product line this summer to include a new stock, bipod, apparel, and three eyewear models available in dozens of lens color and tint combinations.

It looks like a shotgun, shoots like a shotgun, and accepts 12GA shot shells, but according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, the Standard Manufacturing SKO Mini isn’t a shotgun. And if it isn’t a shotgun, it can’t be a short-barreled shotgun either, no matter the barrel length.

Crazy can happen anywhere, but one HVAC repairman in North Carolina was ready. The Charlotte Observer reported last week that a pet Japanese macaque had escaped its enclosure and attacked a neighbor woman in the coastal town of Shallotte, NC. The primate “just went bananas,” Shallotte Detective Sgt. John Holman told the Observer.

An elephant advocacy group in Botswana claimed earlier this month that its researchers had discovered 87 dead elephants near a famous wildlife sanctuary they believe were killed by poachers.

A homeowner in a rural neighborhood outside of St. Augustine, Fl., earlier this month fought off five intruders who were in his home at 2am. He killed one with a handgun and forced the remaining four to flee as police arrived. All four suspects are currently in custody, and they’ve been charged with felony murder and attempted robbery.

Top investors in Smith & Wesson’s parent company, American Outdoor Brands (AOB), passed a resolution this week at their annual shareholder’s meeting that forces AOB to publish a report on the company’s role in “gun violence.” Investors want the gun maker to prove that it is adequately addressing the “risks” inherent in its products’ association with gun-related violence and to show evidence the company is exploring ways to reduce this violence by making guns safer.