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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The National Rifle Association has reportedly filed a second lawsuit against its advertising agency as an open letter of support for embattled Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre has been posted on the organization’s website. Meanwhile, the CEO of United Airlines was challenged during a stockholders’ meeting this week about the […]

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Counties join 17 state amici in 2A Supreme Court case There is some irony in the following report of little governments challenging the big guys. The Schuyler County, NY, legislature has voted to join a constitutional challenge to a New York City law that could have broad implications for the state’s gun control measures. The […]

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    A federal lawsuit challenging Washington State’s gun control Initiative 1639 advanced one more step when a federal judge in Tacoma denied a motion to dismiss the action, saying that law-abiding gun owners and firearms retailers do not have to violate the law and risk punishment in order to challenge infringements of the Second […]

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Ruger adds new Security-9 Compact Sturm, Ruger has added a new, compact version of the popular Security-9® pistol. Smaller, lighter and more concealable than its full-size counterpart, the Security-9 Compact is ideal for everyday carry with an overall length of 6.5” and weighing in at just under 22 ounces. It ships with two, 9mm 10-round, […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor I don’t mind carrying a small handgun that is very efficient for its size. Some handguns are a wonder of downsizing. But small 9mm handguns have a set of problems that isn’t easily addressed. These include lower magazine capacity and lower hit probability. A short sight radius doesn’t make […]

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By Art Merrill | Contributing Editor The simple pleasure of shooting led somebody somewhere to invent a device with which we can shoot more cheaply and more often by reducing the feeding requirements of a larger cartridge to that of a smaller. Or perhaps its impetus was in developing a less expensive means of training […]

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7th Concealed Handgun Manual important modern survival guide Review by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor THE CONCEALED HANDGUN MANUAL, Seventh Edition, by Chris Bird. © 2019. Privateer Publiations, San Antonio, TX. 566 pages, soft cover, with some illustrations. $24.95. This is a book of advice and guidance subtitled How to choose, carry, and shoot […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor The Connecticut Supreme Court on March 14 by a narrow 4-3 vote reversed a ruling by a lower court judge dismissing a lawsuit by the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting against Remington Arms Company and others in the industry, thus allowing the […]

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By Scott Smith | Contributing Editor As always the SHOT Show can be overwhelming. A snippet I read put out by a blogger said if you visited every booth you could spend 33 seconds. You could see a lot and walk about 12 miles, but that would be it. I opted to look for a […]

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On March 13, the Iowa state Senate voted 33-16 to pass Senate Joint Resolution 18 to propose an amendment to the state Constitution affirming and recognizing the right of Iowans’ to keep and bear arms as a fundamental individual right, the National Rifle Association reported. Later the same day, the state House of Representatives voted […]

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A recent report published by FiveThirtyEight.com alleged that annual estimates by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the number of people sustaining non-fatal injuries from firearms “may not be trustworthy.” The agency reportedly estimated that in 2017, there were “somewhere between 31,000 and 236,000 people…injured by guns.” The story quoted Dr. David Hemenway, […]

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Less than a week after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) outlined his $38.6 billion state budget, including a proposed $9 million hike on gun fees and taxes, shockwaves could be felt throughout the state’s community of licensed gun owners and second amendment supporters, New Jersey 101.5 reported. Higher taxes and fees for guns and […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A federal judge’s ruling that the California ban on “large capacity magazines” is unconstitutional prompted state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, the defendant in the case, to quickly file for a stay of the judge’s ruling while an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court in San Francisco proceeds. U.S. District Judge […]

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By Tanya Metaksa Latest developments— Fed. Legislative: S. 821; H.R. 1263; H.R. 8; H.R. 1112, S.8; Judicial: Duncan v. Becerra; People of the State of Illinois, Appellant, v. Vivian Brown, Appellee; CT Supreme Court-Soto v. Bushmaster; SCOTUS grants cert in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. The City of New York: Mark and […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Maryland Democratic Party Secretary Robbie Leonard found himself in hot water for suggesting on social media that his followers should “dox” Second Amendment activists for appearing at a state House Judiciary Committee meeting wearing T-shirts that had the message “We Will Not Comply.” It’s a message that rights activists […]

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Homicide is taking a bite out of the Big Apple, where the New York Daily News recently reported that murder was up 55 percent over the same period last year. According to Fox News, “The number of shootings that have not resulted in death are on the rise as well, with 22 people shot compared […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has filed suit in federal district court seeking to have federal and state laws preventing persons who, at one time in their lives, were subject to a mental health “hold” on the exercise of their Second Amendment rights overturned on the grounds that the way those laws and regulations are […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor While House Democrats led by anti-gun Speaker Nancy Pelosi were cheering passage of H.R. 8, the so-called “universal background check” gun control bill, it could be a short celebration, as the measure is almost certain to be dead-on-arrival in the Senate. The “Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019,” passed on […]

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By Chuck Klein PREFACE: Championed by former SCOTUS Justice John Paul Stevens, there is a current push developing to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Instead of defending our sacred right, we might be better off taking the offensive by promoting a new confirmation to the Bill of Rights – one that strengthens the Second and does […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Evergreen State lawmen were investigating alleged threats on social media against several county sheriffs for their refusal to enforce provisions of anti-gun Initiative 1639, a measure passed by Washington voters in November that raised the minimum age for buying and owning a so-called “semiautomatic assault rifle.” Named specifically as […]

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