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Tomorrow in Sarasota, Florida, the local police are going to have a "Done With The Gun" turn-in event. I didn't see any mention of money. I wonder if a guy stood by the road nearby with a sign reading something like "Wait! I'll Buy It!" and carried on transactions with interested sellers on the...

I've got an old .50 Lyman Deerstalker with a peep sight, and have been having great fun working up the best load for it. I finally settled on a .495 patched ball pushed by 70gr. of Goex 2f black. Pretty good accuracy and mild recoil. Anyway, lately I've been reading forum posts and watching...

Met up with this sow in the Myakka State Forest muzzleloader season last month. Thirty yard, head-on shot with a .50 cal PRB and 70gr of real black powder.

Our local police department recently held a gun buy-back event that was covered by all the local TV news media. 120 guns were collected. http://www.fmpolice.com/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=496 As the camera panned across the table, I could make out numerous long guns mixed in among the usual...

Found this enlightening article about a Center For Disease Control study on gun violence in Wilmington, Delaware: http://stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-center-for-disease-control-cdc.html

About ten years ago I was an OTR truck driver. While parked at a truck stop in California (can't remember which town), I discovered there was a public library just a few blocks from the truck stop. I didn't have a laptop, and it had been several months since I checked my e-mail. So, I set out...

Years ago, Guns & Ammo Magazine had a monthly column entitled "Armed Response" where readers sent in stories of near-misses with the criminal element. For some reason no one was ever shot, police were never involved, the local media never reported these incidents, and the thugs always backed...

If there was a petition on the White House website asking to have the Clinton-Era ban on the importation of Norinco arms and ammunition rescinded, would you sign it? Is there, or has there been such a petition? Edit: I just found this old thread...

Apparently, former Vice President Dick Cheney experienced what the press is calling a "gun malfunction" on a recent Wyoming antelope hunt. Although I've googled all over the place, I can't seem to find any specifics. What exactly was the "malfunction?" What make and model was the...

I'm assuming that the Soviets, Chinese, North Koreans, VC and NVA fired billions, if not trillions of rounds of corrosive ammo during their various wars from the turn of the Twentieth Century to the Afghanistan Occupation. Seeing as how today we religiously clean our weapons immediately...

Let's say a guy with a concealed carry permit is jumped by a robber or armed carjacker out in public (not in his own home), and he draws his handgun and kills the bad guy. The police arrive and he tells his story, and maybe even backed up by eyewitnesses. The investigating officers are satisfied...

Here we go again! http://www.sarasotasheriff.org/press_detail.asp?r=11-041 Wendy Rose is the Public Information Officer and she refuses to answer any of my questions, such as: "If someone turns in Grandpa's deer rifle with a scope and tooled-leather sling on it, do the scope and sling get...

Anyone who's been stopped by an LEO for a routine traffic violation knows that they will be asked to produce a drivers license, vehicle registration, and proof of insurance. Pretty routine stuff. Ho-hum. Will the new "normal" include the LEO asking every driver whether or not there is a...

I arrived in the parking lot before the 10AM start time, and they already had three guns: http://www.sarasotasheriff.org/currentevents.asp As I hung around, more and more people started showing up, turning in gun after gun. So many elderly ladies getting rid of their late husband's guns...

Yesterday, I watched a PBS TV show about the life and times of Andrew Jackson. They had some 1812 and Indian War re-enactors firing flintlocks. There were close-up camera shots on the faces of the shooters the moment they pulled the trigger. Every one of these men shut their eyes...

Today, I found a post on Shotgunworld's Left-Handed Shooter's board saying that Lee Harvey Oswald shot left-handed. I googled all over the place, looking for a second opinion, but found nothing on the subject. Has anybody ever heard this before?

The thread about the two fellows being "checked out" by the cops in Ohio gave me an idea. What if we designated one day a year as "Open Carry Day" in all places where it is legal. We could make sure the local police and media know about it ahead of time. Who knows, maybe once...

How come cartoon characters have more interesting shotguns than we do? I'm thinking of THE SIMPSONS episode where Cletus the hillbilly racks the forearm of his double-barrel shotgun threateningly at the phony religious cult leader who fell on his roof. CLACK-CLACK! I think maybe...

Are you guys allowed to buy/store 00, #1, etc, buckshot shells in the UK? I've heard you have a tradition of bird/rabbit hunting with small shot, but is buckshot sold there?

I'd love to see statistics between the official difference between the felt recoil in different shotguns. The thread about the difference between the recoil of a Ithaca 37 and a Browning BPS perked my interest.