GUNS Magazine: May 1955 Issue

"The Legend of Davy Crockett"

"The Scotch Pistol Mystery"

"A Six Shooter for TV Cowboys"

What's not to like? And it's free!

The May 1955 issue of GUNS Magazine is now online in .pdf format.

Inherit the Windbag

"Sounds like the Old West is returning to the Sunshine State!" Ron Reagan intros in his MSNBC discussion panel on Florida's new "stand your ground" law.

Ron mugs. Ron grimaces. Ron laughs at his own wit ("Snarf, snarf, snarf!").

Ron argues that the average person doesn't have the training or the judgment or the intelligence that police do, to know when it's appropriate to use lethal force.

Ron doesn't think a regular person would have time to react appropriately to an attack. Interestingly, Ron's guest and fellow citizen disarmament fanatic, Richard Aborn, argues just the opposite--he's against Florida's bill because he thinks people need to deliberate and cogitate and think about consequences and weigh and evaluate and think some more before deciding to consider responding to an immediate, life-endangering threat.

Ron speculates that if he pulled a knife on a woman and she responded by retrieving a gun instead of a wallet from her purse, he could take it away and use it against her.

I'm sure I could find some people who would love to see him try. Hey Ron, any time you want to give a public demonstration, have your people call my people.

"By the way, you're not packin' heat are ya?" Ron asks his other guest, CCRKBA's Alan Gottlieb. "Because if I ask you a threatening question I don't want you drawing down on me! Snarf, snarf, snarf!"

Yeah, maintain the bigoted lie that peaceable gun owners are prone to violence when they don't get their way. Hopefully, in the future, now that he has the benefit of hindsight for this sort of question, Alan will use it as an opportunity to correct the record and educate the viewers instead of laughing along with such catty insults.

"Untrained amateurs are notoriously bad at recognizing threats and responding to them with a cool head," Ron claims with authority. "The last thing we want is someone who's never been in this sort of situation before waving a gun around firing off rounds."

Right, Ron. Tell these people they were wrong.

"Hey everybody," Ron concludes, "I love to say this when we do this sort of segment. Keep your powder dry. Snarf, snarf, snarf!"

What a talentless moron. What a prime example of how inheriting a famous name puts totally unworthy people in the spotlight.

So, Ron, how does it feel to be MSNBC's answer to Paris Hilton? Snarf, snarf, snarf!

Gun Control=People Control

Writer William R. Tonso informs me that he's just published an anthology.

"Gun Control=People Control [is] a short collection of my pro-gun essays that have been published over the past twenty years in such publications as Reason, Liberty, Chronicles, and Gun Week . Three of the essays analyze the mainstream media bias against guns, two deal with guns and popular culture, four analyze the roots of the people-control agenda of the gun-prohibitionist movement, and two are spoof pieces. This collection is intended to be a think piece, not an up-to-date chronicle of the activities of the anti-gunners.

"[I]t's received favorable comments through reviews in America's 1st Freedom and Gun Week, and an interview on Larry Pratt's radio show. I'm scheduled to be on the NRA's Cam and Company tomorrow.

"The public can get the book through AuthorHouse, Amazon, or ordered through any of the major book stores.

"I'm a retired sociology prof and lifelong gun enthusiast who has written quite a bit on the social and cultural aspects of the gun issue."

Sounds good. I inserted a link in Prof. Tonso's name, above. Click on it and check out some of his work on the internet. If you like what you see, there's a book waiting to be bought.

Seraphic Trigger Time

Screenwriter, novelist and blogger Robert J. Avrech teaches three Orthodox Jewish boys to shoot.