guns

Alabama Republican Gets Right to the Point With This Gun Parade Float

Adam Weinstein · 04/22/14 12:00PM

Are you from Talladega? Do you like guns? But I repeat myself. The point is: Your conservative state representative likes guns. A lot. He's a big fan of big guns. With big barbecue smokers inside of them. Now, who are you voting for in November?

Adam Weinstein · 04/14/14 11:35AM

The Washington Post published a book excerpt by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens titled "The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment" late last week. The words aren't "fewer crazy dipshits with guns," but that's their basic gist.

South Carolina Wants Fetuses to Stand Their Ground

Adam Weinstein · 04/11/14 01:46PM

In an earth-shattering breakthrough, senators in Columbia, S.C., sent a gun-nut particle colliding into an abortion-nut particle, and the two fused together in a brilliant release of energy to produce a new, hitherto unknown super-heavy mass of conservative stupidity.

Florida Second Amendment Men Have a Lot of Crazy Gun Bills to Pass

Adam Weinstein · 04/10/14 02:02PM

As Florida's rubber-stamp GOP Legislature burns through its wingnut agenda faster than the shards of a 10mm Black Talon slug through a thug's internal organs, the nation's leader in gun-nuttery stands poised to pass a bevy of new laws to liberate handcannon culture from the pistol-prudes.

Second Amendment Men Rally in New York Around Crazy Effigy of Cuomo

Adam Weinstein · 04/01/14 02:28PM

Is it an effigy? Is it a "puppet"? Dude, when it's a likeness of the governor being hoisted by a demonstrator in a minuteman uniform over a crowd of angry gun-toting protesters in the capital, the optics sort of overpower the semantics.

Adam Weinstein · 03/31/14 08:57AM

Second Amendment Man is stunned to learn that a concealed carry permit doesn't let him take his gun out and point it at people he's mad at, then hide it from the cops.

George Zimmerman Was the "Guest of Honor" at a Florida Gun Show

Jay Hathaway · 03/10/14 10:05AM

The organizers of an Orlando, Fla. gun show had to find a new venue due to the controversy around their guest of honor, firearms aficionado George Zimmerman—best known for fatally shooting unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012.

Sarah Hedgecock · 03/06/14 01:00PM

[Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell stands with Sen. Tom Coburn after giving him a rifle, on stage at the Conservative Political Action Committee annual conference in National Harbor, Md., on Thursday. Image via Susan Walsh/AP.]

Ga. Man Who Shot Confused Elderly Alzheimer's Sufferer Walks Free

Adam Weinstein · 02/28/14 02:14PM

Local prosecutors said Friday that they won't pursue any charges against a North Georgia man who shot and killed a disoriented septuagenarian who'd wandered the neighborhood in search of his home one dark morning late last fall.

Adam Weinstein · 02/25/14 11:17AM

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a National Rifle Association challenge to state laws that forbid under-21s from buying handguns. So there's that.

Adam Weinstein · 02/21/14 01:27PM

Florida man "shoots himself in leg after leaving gun safety class" because Florida, man.

"Loud Music" Killing Juror Wanted to Convict Michael Dunn of Murder

Adam Weinstein · 02/19/14 08:57AM

A home care nurse administrator who was known as "Juror No. 4" in the Florida murder trial of Michael Dunn—the white man not convicted last week of murdering Jordan Davis over the black teen's "loud music"—says she, and most of her peers, wanted to convict Dunn of the killing.