There's no way this could ever go wrong: The Daily Caller plans to give away a gun a week until election day.
Bummer. You won't be able "super soaker" water gun to Democratic and Republican National Convention this year, but hey, that concealed 9mm pistol in your jacket is totally fine in the states hosting the conventions, North Carolina and Florida.
Tuesday's New York Times offers up what seems a rather tone-deaf story on "gun fashion trends," like chinos made by Woolrich, the 182-year-old clothing company that's made "gunwear"—if not, perhaps, fashionable gunwear like today's gunwear—for more than a century.
In the lead-up to Thursday's meeting about New York City's proposed five-borough taxi plan, Pete Donohue has written a rather stress-inducing piece in the New York Daily News. Its headline: "Let livery drivers carry guns: trade group."
Last night, in the fervor against Komen for cutting their Planned Parenthood funding (a decision now reversed), someone discovered a pink gun sold by Discount Gun Sales, which lead Scott Wooledge to quip, "Perfect for shooting yourself in the foot!" Might it also be good for killing off pink for good?
In a bizarre and truly awful turn of events, an Amish man fired a gun into the air while cleaning his musket near Wooster, Ohio, and accidentally killed a teenage girl who was driving a buggy over a mile away.
The Texas governor proclaims his "love affair" with guns, and heightens the contrast with rivals who seem more comfortable in business-casual than Day-Glo.
That's about 18 guns lost daily, on average
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