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By Scott Smith | Contributing Editor While working on this article it is hard to believe we are thinking about graduations and Father’s Day. We just had a foot of snow, its thirtyish raining, and the weather folks say this could be the weather for a couple more weeks. I looked at that calendar to […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Two gun rights organizations based in Washington State have issued a demand to backers of Initiative 1639, the new gun control measure aimed at blocking sales of so-called “assault rifles” to 18-20-year-olds in that state, asserting that the typeface used to print the text of the initiative on the rear […]

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  By Dave Workman Senior Editor The armed Samaritan who fatally shot a rampaging gunman at a Washington State Walmart has issued a statement detailing the incident from his perspective, while asking for privacy. “The events of last Sunday evening were tragic and shocking from all points of view,” said David George the armed citizen […]

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By Michael A. Black I first saw Ideal Conceal’s cellphone gun at the 2018 SHOT Show in Las Vegas. The gun is the same size and shape as your standard smart phone, so it’s easily concealable, and can be deployed as a weapon in a matter of seconds. Since the company is located in Minneapolis […]

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By James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA When you go to the Rice Barrel Company website the first thing you will see is that quote. I appreciated that quote because as a young Tool & Die Maker my seniors always told me the same “Once what you made leaves this shop, it will never […]

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By Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Probably the most prolific years for the invention of wildcat cartridges spanned the period from about 1910 through the Great Depression, and again following WWII and into the 1960s. Open any gun magazine from those periods and it will be the rare one indeed that doesn’t include mention of […]

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  By Tanya Metaksa Latest developments— Fed. Legislative: H.R. 1625; H.R. 4909, DOJ Bump stocks ; H.R. 5087, H.R. 2810, H.R.38/S.446; H.R. 447; H.R. 3576; H.R. 2706; Political: Alabama; California; Nevada Judicial: NRA v. Cuomo; Village of Deerfield; Workman v. Healey: National Rifle Association of America, Inc. v. Bondi; State Legislation: California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, […]

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A federal judge ruled in May that anonymous teenage plaintiffs helping to challenge Florida’s sweeping anti-gun law must identify themselves publicly, even as he acknowledged the order would probably expose them to intense leftist “vitriol” and “harassment.” In what media reports indicated was “a surprising turn,” US District Judge Mark Walker even suggested that he […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre delivered a fiery — some might call it pure boilerplate — speech to a crowded members’ meeting in Dallas during which he urged gun owners to “stand and fight like hell to save our great nation.” It was one of the […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor A pregnant Michigan woman was due to deliver her second child in prison after being convicted of assault and felony firearms – a term alluding to the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony – in a case from 2017 that has fired up gun rights […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor   About 2,500 Evergreen State gun owners recently gathered at the Washington State capitol in Olympia, promising to fight a new anti-gun ballot initiative that would raise the minimum age for purchasing a modern sporting rifle to 21, and add other requirements including a 10-day waiting period. The turnout […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor When Sturm Ruger CEO Christopher Killoy reacted to a push by so-called “gun safety advocates” to force the company to adopt policies that required a report on how the company keeps tabs on so-called “gun violence,” it brought chuckles from gun owners and Second Amendment activists. Quoted by the […]

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By Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor The 1979 SHOT Show was held in St. Louis, MO, some 200 miles southwest of its predecessor the National Sporting Goods Show held at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL. The entire show was on one octagon-shaped floor, and could easily be covered in one day. (The floor plan […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The ballot title of a Washington State gun control initiative is facing at least three challenges, including one supported by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and another filed by the National Rifle Association. Initiative 1639 seeks to raise the minimum […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor While anti-gun activists have been dancing in the blood of the Parkland, FL, school shooting victims, the vultures have been circling overhead. Banks, unions and state governments, as well as Internet providers, have been busy trying to cut off the financial blood of the gun industry and firearms […]

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By Scott Smith | Contributing Editor Back at the SHOT Show in 2015 I was introduced to Real Avid Tools. Back then they offered some amazing compact tool kits for shooters. They were well thought out and priced not to break the bank. Well, in 2018, Real Avid Tools is still at it; they have […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Over the last few years, many manufacturers have been exploring new technologies to create more effective ammunition, especially for some concealed carry defensive pistols considered by many to be too puny to be reliable. As a result, consumers now have more choices in selecting reliable loads that perform […]

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By Art Merrill | Contributing Editor An acquaintance asked my help via email in troubleshooting incipient case head separations when using Hodgdon H1000 for the first time in a 7mm Rem Mag that has, he said, never before shown any headspace or chamber problems. His load was the recommended starting load in the Sierra manual […]

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By James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA “Pulver Eerst” was one of the first things I learned at Blue Mountain Muzzle Loaders as a kid learning how to shoot muzzleloaders here in Pennsylvania. It is Pennsylvania Dutch for “Powder First!” The older shooters would remind me of this when I loaded without powder. The […]

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By John Markwell | Contributing Editor We have shot Glock pistols belonging to others over the years and must say we were underwhelmed by the experience. Bear in mind also that our hands have deteriorated over the years due to joint abuse from rock climbing and the subsequent arthritis; not to mention a ruptured tendon […]

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