Geeks With Guns

The furor over the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates continued this week, with Barack Obama and Gates digging in and insisting that Sgt. James Crowley of the Cambridge police was in the wrong. Yet Obama invited both men to the White House Thursday evening to resolve their differences over a beer. We presume [...]

During a time period of great economic uncertainty, firearm and
ammunition sales have continued to increase throughout the country.

According to the most recent Firearms and Ammunition
Excise Tax Collection Report, released earlier today by the Department
of the Treasury, firearm and ammunition manufacturers paid more than $109.8 million in the first calendar quarter of 2009; [...]

La Mesa man finds out when free speech is no longer protected, after he is convicted of making threats against a candidate for president.

SAN DIEGO, California – Walter Edward Bagdasarian walked out of federal court Tuesday morning the same way he walked in, wearing a stoic expression on his face and clutching the hand [...]

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Charter Arms announces an affordable revolver that chambers rimless semi-automtic rounds the same way as a standard rimmed-cartridge revolver.

Now the average gun owner can own an affordable, trouble-free revolver chambered in these popular semi-auto rounds without the need for specialized ammunition clips and a specialized gun.

With the patent-pending Charter Arms Rimless Revolver Round System a [...]

BOULDER, Colo. — It took three rounds from a shotgun, five bullets from a handgun and two shots from a rifle to kill the 120-pound black bear that broke into a Boulder County home early Monday morning.

The bear break-in was the fifth time in a week hungry bears have gotten into Boulder County residences, all [...]

Oxford scientists have created a transparent form of aluminium
by bombarding the metal with the world’s most powerful soft X-ray
laser. ‘Transparent aluminium’ previously only existed in science
fiction, featuring in the movie Star Trek IV, but the real material is
an exotic new state of matter with implications for planetary science
and nuclear fusion.

The Oxford team, along with their [...]

Palin speaks out for the 2nd Amendmenthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhAnDsXEPEI

OSHA has proposed $255,150 in fines against Sturm Ruger & Co.
Inc. for 60 alleged violations of safety and health standards
identified during the agency’s inspections of the firearms
manufacturer’s Newport, N.H., plant conducted between November 2008 and
May 2009.
"Our inspections identified a large number of
mechanical, respirator protection, electrical, lead, fire, explosive
and other hazards that must be effectively and [...]

John Dillinger’s big-screen reincarnation is bringing heightened interest in the gangster, and a Tucsonan got a hefty sum for one of Dillinger’s guns sold at auction this weekend.

As the Dillinger movie "Public Enemies" plays at eight metro-area theaters, the small pistol Dillinger carried in his sock when he was arrested here in 1934 was sold [...]