References, information, and sources useful for partisans.
Check back periodically, as we will be adding more.
TZP Links
- A Gun Culture Primer
History, laws, nomenclature, and other assorted things that a person new to the world of shooting and RKBA should know about. - Imaginary Stuff: Things Gun Controllers Think Exist
- Gun Goofs In the News
- Free(dom)Cycle Ads
Free stuff for freedomistas - Rogue Commenters Registry
- Machineguns Used In Crimes, Post-NFA
- White Paper: Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (PDF, 65KB)
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) has long been known by the firearms industry and owners as arbitrary, capricious, and full of enough uncertainty to make Werner Heisenberg jealous. And just as Schrödinger had to peer into that box to discover whether cat had perished or lived on, gun owners must wait on the ATF to randomly determine the state of our implements; whether they be guns or piles of ore, and what sort of gun. Even the caliber can change from the ATF’s act of observation. - How often are .50 caliber weapons used in crime?
External Links
- NICS/Universal Background Checks: Nearly all denials are false positives; 77 actual prosecutions (2009)
- Abuses of the BATF
- Yes, the ATF did classify a shoestring as a machinegun
- The four cardinal rules of safe gun handling
- BIDS (Blind Identification Database System) v. NICS: A proposed alternative for universal preemptively prove-your-innocence
- Debunking Kellerman: Kellerman’s “gun violence” studies are often referenced by victim disarmers (“you’re 3/43/XX more likely to kill a family member than to defend yourself”), by have been repeatedly debunked.
- Internet Movie Firearms Database: Just what was the gun the good guy had in that movie? Find out.
- Bullet Energy Calculator
- Return of GunKid:Know your Internet trolls. He could come back. [grin-just because]
- Study: Criminals acquire guns through social connections , not through straw purchases from FFLs or gun shows.