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Bump stocks and automatic operations

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

So according to the ATF and Sotomayor’s dissent in the “bump stock” case, Garland v. Cargill, these two operations are identical: and Yeah, ob...

Firearms and Ammunition/Law Enforcement/Police

Inspect your holsters!

Posted on March 25, 2024 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Holsters serve two important purposes: they carry your firearm and, more importantly, they retain your firearm. The retention mechanisms in holsters are extreme...

Firearms and Ammunition/Law Enforcement/Police/Second Amendment

Responding to a knife with a firearm

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

LA Times Letters to the Editor: “Why do police officers keep shooting people armed with knives?” Oh this is a good one… To the editor: I read ...

Firearms and Ammunition

No, there is no such thing as an “accidental discharge”

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s lay out a scenario. A firearm owner decides they want a different trigger on their Glock 34. So they purchase the parts and attempt the installation...

Firearms and Ammunition/Product and service reviews

Alien Gear ShapeShift 4.0 IWB

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Let’s flashback about three years to when I wrote a review on the Alien Gear Cloak Tuck 2.0. At the time, I said it was the best value holster available a...

Firearms and Ammunition

Feinstein’s latest overreach

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Last week, Senator Feinstein introduced S.1916, a bill in response to the Las Vegas attack, the text of which only recently became available through Congress.go...

Crime/Firearms and Ammunition/Second Amendment

Breeding fear

Posted on October 7, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Firearms are both exciting and terrifying. Depending on the person, they’ll either command respect and awe for the marvels of engineering they are, or the...

Firearms and Ammunition/Law

Straw purchase Catch-22

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Some months back, I was asked by a friend to comment on a situation that had developed in a small town East of Kansas City. Colby Sue Weathers had been trying t...

Firearms and Ammunition

CNN Money gets it horribly wrong

Posted on June 16, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Recently CNN Money published an an article by Aaron Smith called “The long history of the gun used in the GOP baseball attack“. Turns out the attemp...

Firearms and Ammunition

Safety regulations and firearms

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

The site TeddyGun.com has recently cropped up, sponsored by the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence. And it aims to mislead you into thinking that there i...

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