Buried 46 paragraphs into a Saturday report posted by CNN that details the cable news network’s perspective on the current chaos swirling around the National Rifle Association is a statement by the head of the nation’s wealthiest gun prohibition lobbying group that should put gun owners on full alert. The quote is from John Feinblatt, […]
Not So Fast on Bump Stock Ban, Says Overwhelming Opposition
While the Washington State Legislature appears determined to ban “bump stock” devices, a move supported by newspaper editorials including one in the Daily Olympian, there appears to be overwhelming opposition to the idea, both in the Evergreen State and across the country. The Trace reported Tuesday that after the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms […]
Seattle Takes 2nd in Car Gun Thefts, 7th in ‘Snobbishness’
Seattle was second on a list of ten cities where gun thefts from automobiles have allegedly spiked, in a story published by The Trace earlier this week, an online magazine that has received financing from billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety, but is that accurate? Curiously, The Trace based its “Top Ten” gun theft […]
Are You a ‘Super Gun Owner?’ Here’s How to Tell But Should You?
What is being touted as “the most definitive portrait of US gun ownership in two decades” is the backbone of a series of stories in recent days by The Guardian and The Trace, and now is a good time to ask why there is such attention to firearms and people who own them. A Guardian […]