I have been so caught up trying to understand the overall structure of the gun training industry and its central individuals and organizations that I have neglected the proverbial elephant in the room: the National Rifle Association Education and Training Department. At some point this past summer I realized I had never taken the NRA’s … Continue reading
While I’m at it with the media, I thought I would post comments on American gun culture I shared recently with a journalist from at the French daily newspaper Le Monde. The comments offer a summarize of some of my overarching views of American gun culture, for what they are worth. They are what I … Continue reading
According to a gun control group I have never heard of until this media campaign, the companies underwriting the new NRA Carry Guard “insurance” plan, Chubb and Lockton, are actually selling “murder insurance.” And they should stop doing so. (Not sure why Guns Down America is not all over Lockton Affinity for also administering Second … Continue reading
That which has been is what will be, That which is done is what will be done, And there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). Reading year after year of The American Rifleman, this well-known passage from the Tanakh ring ever so true. Two examples below are similar to others I have found, … Continue reading
The movement of the National Rifle Association into the world of concealed carry training and “insurance” in the form of Carry Guard certainly took many people, myself included, by surprise. There is much that remains unknown about the training side of the Carry Guard equation (itself the source of much head scratching), but the movement … Continue reading
There has been alot of buzz on my social media lately about an opinion essay published by the Los Angeles Times by William Alexander. Alexander wrote about his experience as a 60-something liberal who has just gotten into guns and attended his first NRA annual meeting this spring. Suffice to say he didn’t have a … Continue reading
This post lists all of my blog posts on the NRA annual meeting and exhibits (updated May 14, 2017): 2016 at the Kentucky Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky 10 Acres of Exhibits at the NRA Annual Meeting in Louisville Crimson Trace’s Interesting Banner at the NRA Annual Meeting Meeting Michael Bane for the First Time … Continue reading
