Teaching Americans gun safety is like teaching politicians how to lie. It comes naturally. Despite the National Rifle Association (NRA)’s high profile political activities, gun safety training and marksmanships comprise the overwhelming majority of its activities. Roughly 80% of its budget goes to these types of programs. Gun control organizations, recognizing a way to rebuild themselves and fool the public into being less critical of their gun ban messages, have deceptively rebranded th [...]

If you aren’t registered to vote, you may as well turn in your guns now. The gun prohibition lobby has been charging ahead ever since the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy. Here in California, more bad bills have been introduced this year than since gun control’s millennial rally. Make no mistake about how serious the other side is – one state senator has publicly declared that your guns or magazines will be confiscated. {LINK TO SENATE VIDEO On MAPC Youtube} The cure is to vote such polit [...]

When it comes to tracking crime guns, California is immune to scientific infection. Knowledge should precede policy. Yet California gun policy is often made in engineered ignorance. Despite pleas from law enforcement and assistance from the National Rifle Association, California’s most basic crime gun research processes wouldn’t receive a passing grade for a Research Methodologies 101 class. Nowhere has the dearth of data on crime guns been more profound than on so-called “assault weap [...]

Whenever politicians promote new gun control measures, they surround themselves on stage with nervous looking cops. The officers fidget because they don’t want to be there. One of the best kept secrets about gun control is that street cops, the ones who patrol your neighborhoods, don’t think highly of gun control. Having the advantage of dealing daily with your neighbors and criminals, they know the difference. They understand the methods and motivations of thugs and thieves, and how crim [...]

In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, America’s gun control movement was momentarily reenergized. Many reasoned voices sought solutions for such events, which unimpassioned analysis showed to mainly be a mental health issue. Gun control groups also concurred on the mental health aspect, then squandered that brief moment of collaboration by tossing their dusty legislative wish list into the political maelstrom. Knowing that their more extreme measures had little or no ch [...]