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….
Category: Gun Laws
What Armed Civilians Can Learn from the Philadelphia Policeman Shooting
Every time an event like this happens, if you are like me, you get so pissed you want to punch the wall, and yes, sometimes I do (well, I actually punch a bag several times…I got tired of patching my own walls). But after working thru the obvious anger, it is also a chance to…
Summary of BHO’s Proposed Gun Regulations
Yesterday’s speech by BHO amounted to a “Tempest in a Teacup” IMO and ranks right up there with some of the most nauseating political theater I have seen in a long while. I will be posting my own 2 cents on this goat rodeo later today. It will be short and succinct I promise. In…
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…
Dallas “Swats” Deadly Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Advice on Open Carry
With Open Carry about to be the Law of the Land in Texas come January 1st, it would behoove ALL TEXANS, regardless if you carry a firearm or not, to brush up on the concealed/open carry laws; remember, IGNORANCE of the law is never an alibi. -SF The City of Dallas has released a video…