U.S. forces used a combination of spy drones and bomb-handling robots to help beat back Iraq's insurgents. Now, those militants have a warning for those American troops still remaining in Iraq: We've got robots, too.
The Obama administration picked a quiet late-summer day to finally remove acting ATF director Kenneth Melson over the botched "Fast and Furious" operation that ultimately put assault rifles into the hands of criminals along the border. Melson wasn't fired though — merely relocated to a new Justice Department job. This…
Summer's here, so it's time for some handy outdoors D.I.Y. projects. Like this delightful homemade "tank," one of "at least 100" built by Mexican drug cartels!
Did Renee Deshaies of Mesa, Arizona enter a local Dairy Queen and "threaten" employees with the grenade she supposedly found lying around in a park? Or did she just "show" the grenade, as if to say, "Whoa look, grenade! Weird. Anybody know what I should do with this?"
Just when you thought he was too busy to deal with anything else, especially something with annoying culture-war implications, Barack Obama went and published an op-ed in this past Sunday's Arizona Daily Star to start a conversation on gun reforms. That does not mean, as he anxiously rushed to note in his column, that…
Now that the furor over Jared Loughner's Tucson shooting spree is subsiding, Arizona's legislature can resume the important work of making sure every citizen has as many guns as possible. What's in the state's "Firearms Omnibus" bill?
As we learned earlier, everyone wasn't happy with last night's memorial service for the victims of the Arizona shooting. And by "everyone," I mean Fox News. Tonight, Jon Stewart knocked down the network's ridiculous criticism of the event. Watch inside.
Insufferable talk radio blowhard Laura Ingraham graced Bill O'Reilly with her appearance on tonight's Factor for a chat about President Obama's speech at last night's post-shooting memorial in Tucson, Arizona. Her thoughts? It was a shameless "campaign rally." Watch inside.
Yesterday, Sarah Palin released a curious video wherein she accused the lamestream media of "blood libel" against her regarding her possible role in provoking Arizona shooting suspect Jared Loughner. Here's a supercut of every breath Palin took during that speech!
Tonight, Jon Stewart continued to reflect on Saturday's deadly Arizona shooting by highlighting a couple of proposed (and reactionary) laws aimed at preventing it from happening again—though one is just "saying 'Fuck you!' to Sarah Palin." Watch inside.
This particular battle started, as all great struggles do, when one participant became angry that his bedroom was being illuminated by headlights from a car in the street. He expressed his displeasure with the man in the car with "a wooden club," at which point things got weird:
Now that Elena Kagan is on the Supreme Court bench, it's vital that she learn how to shoot a gun. That, perhaps, is why fellow Justice Antonin Scalia supposedly took Kagan to a Virginia shooting range last week.
Today in "Meet Your Candidates," we look at West Virginia Senate candidate John Raese. What's your plan, John? "We need 1000 laser systems put in the sky and we need it right now." John Raese, everybody. [via]
Legendary Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death," was cleared for extradition to the US in August on weapons charges, but extra charges the US tacked on have stalled his extradition, or maybe not. Nice work, DoJ.
Celebrities: scaredy-cats! Turns out it's not just paranoid right-wing action star wannabes like Roger Ailes and Sean Hannity who are licensed to carry guns. So do a host of other New York celebrities. What is Marc Anthony so scared of?
How bad is the economy? So bad that even the usually-booming "things you can kill other people with" sector is doing badly. According to a recent report, the value of worldwide arms deals in 2009 dropped 8.5 percent from 2008.
A Goodwill store in Albuquerque, New Mexico received a bizarre donation in its collection box last week: a pistol, a grenade, some ammo and some weed. The store was evacuated until the bomb squad arrived and gave the all clear.
The NRA has begun mobilizing its usual election-year lie campaign about Democrats wanting to ban all weapons. Today, the gun lobby's "Trigger the Vote" wing released this redneck-comedy video featuring Chuck Norris, an actor from the 1990s. It's not terrible!
A Los Angeles County jail is pioneering a gigantic cannon that shoots invisible lasers that produce a "deep burning sensation" in humans. Here's a disturbing video of prison officials shooting each other with it and giggling with horrified glee.
