When I first read this article, it made me think about a gun shop in a town about 30 miles from me. For the longest time, it was the ONLY “grassroots” locally owned gun shop in town. It had been there since the late seventies and was locally owned. Due to the competition from an…
Category: Concealed and Open Carry Issues
Active Shooter Scenarios should Drive your Firearms Training
By Hammerhead I am a big believer in having your firearms and self-defense training reflect the real-world threats that wait outside your comfort zone. When you look at the events in Paris, (Charlie Hebdo in January and the most recent attack in November) combined with the attack on the Police Officer in Philadelphia last week…
Injured Veterans will have to “Prove” They are Not Crazy to Buy Guns?
“Our 2nd Amendment is about is more than just guns. It is about casting off those who would enslave us. It is about daily breathing the blessed air of freedom, with all it’s disappointments and responsibilities. It is about individual accountability and personal independence.” ~ Ranchhod Mental health? Under BHO’s new plan intended to drastically…
Travelling with Firearms – a Three State Trip by Air
As a frequent HCS contributor, Mr E., made a trip recently to a few states and wanted to share some observations about the TSA, airline ticket counters and the processes he encountered in various airports while travelling with a weapon. Pay attention all you travelling businessman with CCL’s, this will come in handy! -SF By Mr….
National Readiness Impossible without Personal Readiness
By John Farnam “Who will not admit he is wrong, cannot repent of his mistake. Who cannot repent of his mistakes, cannot learn from them. Who cannot learn from their mistakes, are doomed to repeat them!” ~ Anon “Given that some attacks have been stopped by gun-carrying civilians, Israeli Public Security Minister, Gilad Erdan, in…
H-E-B Grocery Stores: The Ugly Truth
For all of your fellow Texans out there who shop at H-E-B, this story may discourage you from patronizing them any longer. -SF Charles Butt, the Texas billionaire magnate behind the H-E-B supermarket chain which forbid the open carry of firearms law that went into effect January 1, 2016, opposes school choice, funds anti-school choice lobbyists, and is even…
TX Governor to Obama on “Executive Gun Control”: COME AND TAKE IT
Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s response on Twitter to Obama saying he will be imposing more gun control – “COME AND TAKE IT.” The Texas Governor who himself graced the front of a Texas Monthly magazine cover armed with a shotgun, tweeted, “Obama wants to impose more gun control. My response.#? COME AND TAKE IT @NRA #tcot…
There is No Such Thing as “Regulating Rights”
By John Farnam “Rights?” When someone says, in so many words, “I have a ‘right’ to never have anything bad happen to me,” they are displaying a level of ignorance and self-delusion that ultimately makes for them a short, and unhappy, life. And, they are unfit for citizenship in a free Republic! Our Constitution provides…
NO! You can’t have my Civil Rights, I am Using Them Right Now!
“The ‘looters’ credo’ has brought you to regard your proudest achievements as a hallmark of shame, your prosperity as guilt, your greatest men, the industrialists, as blackguards, and your magnificent factories as the product and property of muscular labor, the labor of whip-driven slaves, like the pyramids of Egypt. The rotter, who simpers that he…
H-E-B Grocery Stores in Texas say NO to Open Carry
The same thing happened with a ton of Texas Retailers when Concealed Carry became law in the Nineties. But eventually After a while (and enough letters and emails) H-E-B (and Randalls) changed their position on Concealed Carry; that is what it is going to take here with Open Carry. Personally, as long as a business does…