Geeks With Guns

A sheriff says a North Carolina state senator shot one of two intruders at his home and hospital officials say the man is in fair condition.
Multiple media outlets reported that Columbus County Sheriff Chris Batten said that 74-year-old Sen. R.C. Soles of Tabor City shot Kyle Blackburn late Sunday afternoon.

A spokeswoman at Loris Community Hospital [...]

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay
Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting
behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained [...]

Tthe world’s #1 volume Hummer dealer, has announced the opening of the world’s first combined Hummer and firearms dealership. Jim Lynch has turned his $7.5 million Hummer facility in this upscale St. Louis suburb into every shooting enthusiast’s must-visit attraction.
“It is a natural fit,” says Jim. “Our customers enjoy outdoor sports and the firearms have [...]

On the "CBS Evening News," Katie Couric asked: "Are we really still debating health care when a man brings a handgun to a church where the president is speaking?" Kostric did bring a gun to the church, but Couric was plainly wrong about where the president was speaking. He spoke at the town hall at [...]

Reporting from Colorado Springs, Colo. – This conservative city is
taking an unusual, some might say extreme, step to try to stem its
fiscal woes: It’s entering the gun business.

The
Colorado Springs City Council is expected in coming weeks to approve
the final details of a program that would allow the Police Department
to sell confiscated firearms to federally licensed [...]

Police have dropped charges against an 18-year-old Scottsdale man who dressed in military fatigues and toted a faux rifle on a trail at McDowell Sonoran Preserve last week.

Max Hoemke was arrested Aug. 11 for disorderly conduct stemming from the early-morning incident which gave hikers a scare and put local authorities on alert. However, consultation [...]

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restrictions on citizens carrying weapons, openly or concealed, while in the vicinity of President Barack Obama.Norton, who sits on the Homeland Security Committee, made the request after numerous news reports have shown groups of [...]

The Second Amendment Foundation today accused MSNBC of using deceptively-edited video from a Phoenix, Arizona anti-tax rally on Monday to invent a racial stereotype in its on-going effort to demonize and marginalize American firearms owners as "racists."
The MSNBC video, narrated by reporter Contessa Brewer, appearing with "Morning Meeting" host Dylan Ratigan, shows an AR-15 [...]

The CIA hired private contractors at Blackwater USA in 2004 as part of a secret program to kill top-level members of Al Qaeda, FOX News has confirmed.
At the time, Blackwater was under contract with the CIA to help the agency with training at its North Carolina facility, sources told FOX News. The CIA reached out [...]

"Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends," the Associated Press reports. The story is headlined, "Officials see rise in militia groups across US," but the "officials" turn out to be just those researchers for the far-left race-baiting Southern [...]