A member of an Oklahoma-based “patriot group” became the punchline of his own racist joke when he accidentally shot himself in front of the “Muslim-free” gun store he was guarding.
George Zimmerman, the human embodiment of both the flawed American justice system and everything that can go wrong in one person’s soul, is now making Confederate flag art. He’s teamed up with a Florida gun shop owner who declared his business a “Muslim-free zone.” Perfect. That’s perfect.
After pulling over a vehicle for having tinted windows, Brooklyn police officers found a loaded gun concealed inside of a fake Bible. At least they were creative!
One person has died after several shots were fired at the Carmine Hickory 8 movie theater just outside Nashville, Tennessee Wednesday afternoon, according to reports. Another victim may have sustained hatchet wounds.
Ted Cruz has done a number of garbage publicity stunts in his fairly brief presidential campaign designed to brainwash us into thinking he is a normal, likable man and not a Texas sewer weasel.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer and his slightly better-known cousin Amy held a joint press conference Monday, calling for stronger background checks and better mental health funding as part of a plan to try to reduce the devastating number of mass shootings in the United States. A gunman killed two women and injured…
Delonte Thomas’ first mistake in trying to be the best boyfriend he could be was to hijack the birthday party of a friend and demand that his own girlfriend be serenaded with “Happy Birthday.” His second mistake was trying to kill everyone who didn’t comply.
If you are a police officer, one of your primary responsibilities (other than protecting the peace, blah blah) is ensuring that your gun doesn’t get stolen. That said, and I don’t know anything about police work but I do know something about purses, maybe don’t keep your gun somewhere so snatchable?
The FBI has just announced that Dylann Roof was allowed to purchase the .45-caliber handgun he used to shoot and kill nine members of the Emanuel AME church in Charleston, SC last month due to a “background check failure.”
Some people like taking pictures of themselves with their guns. That’s fine, as the world needs all kinds. Most people, though, would understand that trying to take a picture with your guns should be done at home and not in a busy mall on the eve of Independence Day. Army sergeant Bryan Scott Wolfinger didn’t.
A wedding reception at the Waldorf-Astoria was interrupted and ultimately shut down last weekend when a guest’s gun accidentally discharged during a pre-wedding cocktail hour, injuring 5 people. Incredibly, the ceremony went on without a hitch; the bride didn’t discover what had happened until the hotel told her the…
George Zimmerman—possibly the slipperiest, dumbest motherfucker on the planet—was involved in yet another shooting in Florida. There are probably men and women with Purple Hearts who didn’t seen as much gunfire as this man.
Capitol Police officers seem to have a habit of forgetting their guns whenever they take a leak. Several incidents have occurred in the past few months with Glocks being left out in the open by absent-minded security. In January, a Glock and its magazine were found jammed in a toilet seat cover holder at the Capitol…
If someone asks for bacon on their burger, that means they want bacon on their burger. Capiche?
A bill recently introduced into the Texas State Legislature would make it illegal for doctors to ask their patients if they own guns. Doctors ask about guns to make sure that they're being stored safely and to gauge a patient's domestic violence risks. But the bill sponsor, State Representative Stuart Spitzer, seems…
An Alaska boy was shot in the leg after his mother's .357 caliber handgun accidentally fell out of its holster and went off. According to The Guardian, no one has been charged.
Today, the New York Times spotlights a movement at the intersection of two immensely violent American misunderstandings: first, the idea that carrying guns makes your surroundings safer, and second, the idea that the onus is on rape victims—rather than their rapists—to prevent their rapes.
Michael Bloomberg's advocacy group, Everytown for Gun Safety, recently completed an analysis that found a strong connection between mass shootings and domestic violence. Everytown's report looked at mass shootings dating between January 2009 and and July 2014. The group used the FBI's definition of a mass shooting:…
From the world of "things that need to stop happening:" the Albuquerque Journal reports that a 3-year-old boy shot both of his parents on Saturday after he reached into his mother's purse for her iPod. The toddler found a loaded handgun instead.
In a Sunday op-ed at the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof writes about the contentious-among-idiots invention of "smart guns"—guns that (for example) fire only if a recognized fingerprint is on the trigger, or if the shooter is wearing a companion wristwatch. Recently, a 17-year-old Boulder resident named Kai Kloepfer…
