This Week

Hillary Clinton is the great white hope for the gun-control movement. What president Obama failed to do in terms of rolling back the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding gun owners, many hope that Hillary will be able to achieve should she be elected in 2016.

The gun industry is filled with good people. One such person is ArmaLite president Tommy Thacker. Tommy is currently raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and we thought we’d help him out by syndicating his letter to friends and family to see if the GunsAmerica readership would also like to get involved with this worthy cause.

I don’t mean to pee on someone’s parade, but I have to ask a question that’s been bugging me for a very long time, what the heck does Rev. Al Sharpton bring to the table in terms of his ability to calm tensions between protesters and police? What can he possibly do to make things better in Baltimore?

Hickok45 shoots and discusses the “gorgeous” Chiappa Rhino!

“If it has no other effect, Highland Park’s ordinance may increase the public’s sense of safety,” wrote Easterbrook. “Mass shootings are rare, but they are highly salient, and people tend to overestimate the likelihood of salient events. If a ban on semi‐automatic guns and large‐capacity magazines reduces the perceived risk from a mass shooting, and makes the public feel safer as a result, that’s a substantial benefit.”

State Sen. Van Wanggaard, “There’s no statistical evidence that it [the 48-hour handgun waiting period] reduces violence whatsoever.” Is he right?

Hank Strange recounts the details of a traffic stop he encountered on Easter Sunday.

A customer outside a Kroger grocery store used his concealed weapon to help an elderly man who was being assaulted by seven men.

Hickok45 looks at a Mossberg MVP.