This week’s revelation that Salesforce.com, a San Francisco-based business software company, has changed its company policy to bar the use of its technology to companies that sell “a range of firearms, including automatic and certain semi-automatic firearms,” got a swift and scathing reaction from a major gun rights organization. The Citizens Committee for the Right […]
Do Increased Gun Thefts Show Futility of Background Check Laws?
Bloomberg News reported Friday that gun store robberies have increased by an alarming 227 percent since 2013 and burglaries have spiked 71 percent during the same period, raising the question whether so-called “universal background check” laws are a feel-good exercise in futility. The Bloomberg story comes two weeks to the day after American Handgunner’s “Insider […]
Rasmussen Poll on Suicide Timely for Gun Rights Conference
A new Rasmussen survey on suicide comes as the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference prepares to take on the issue in Dallas, Sept. 30. (Dave Workman) A new Rasmussen survey released Tuesday showing that 55 percent of American adults know someone who has committed suicide offers a timely tie-in to a topic that will be […]
When Guns Are Wrongly Destroyed, Should Cops Pay or Replace?
Buried in a Wednesday Fox News story about how police sometimes wrongly seize firearms from people was a reference to a California case in which the Torrance, California Police Department wrongly destroyed 21 firearms that were family heirlooms taken and then held despite two court orders. According to Fox, and the Daily Breeze, in the […]