The Gun Mag

By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show is the world’s largest exhibition of firearms, ammunition and accessories that unfolds every January in Las Vegas, attracting tens of thousands of industry professionals including manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. This is a monstrous show, held on two levels of the […]

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by R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor The .38 ACP Super is easily our least popular handgun chambering that is still in production. Just the same, many thousands are in use with a small but dedicated group of fans. The history of the .38 Super is a thrice-told tale. (Fans refer to the cartridge as the […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA   With the month of January comes a new 2017 calendar. This calendar is where the year-long schedule of shooting, rendezvous, re-enactments, gun shows, hunting, fishing, and everything else will be marked down. You can still only be at one place at a time and many of […]

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 The New York Times’ perennially anti-Second Amendment editorial page recently came out swinging against the notion of nationwide concealed carry reciprocity just one day after the CEO of Levi Strauss essentially told millions of legally-licensed Americans that he doesn’t want them carrying firearms into the company’s retail outlets. One day later, the United States Concealed […]

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New Jersey’s attorney general wants to settle a lawsuit that would end the state’s ban on civilians buying stun guns, according to ABC News.. The settlement talks involve a federal lawsuit filed in August by Mark Cheeseman and the New Jersey Second Amendment Society and stem from a US Supreme Court ruling that suggests stun […]

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   A dozen men died and more than 30 other people were wounded over the Christmas holidays in Chicago, adding a grim noted to a weekend that should have celebrated peace on earth.    The city was on track to rack up 800 homicides by the end of the year.    According to the Chicago […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Washington Congresswoman Suzan DelBene has introduced legislation that would prohibit the government from “creating religious registries” in response to an alleged proposal from President-elect Donald Trump about “the noxious concept of a registry.” The Seattle Times supported DelBene’s plan in an editorial, observing, “Today it’s Muslims but tomorrow it […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Almost immediately after taking office, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to make a difference because, according to the Washington Post, more than 100 federal court vacancies need to be filled, including an empty seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.    If Trump lives up to his campaign rhetoric, […]

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A unique fund raising effort is at the heart of a new television project by California producer Alan Pezzuto at Reel Magic Productions that aims to “track the life and times of specific firearms,” and he is launching an INDIEGOGO.COM campaign on inauguration day, Jan. 20. His goal is to raise $360,000. “That is the […]

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“Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of motor vehicle deaths and firearms (deaths),” the Drug Enforcement Agency announced on Dec. 7, according to reports in the Washington Post and CNSNews.com. In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, 46,471 people in the United […]

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A new lawsuit that challenges New York State laws prohibiting possession of electronic weapons including stun guns and Tasers has been filed by the Firearms Policy Foundation and Matthew Avitabile, who happens to be mayor of Middleburgh, NY. They are suing New York state over a regulation that outlaws the possession of electronic weapons including […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) was rightfully pleased after scoring two small but significant victories in California in December, settling one case and getting another remanded back to a lower court for hearing of arguments. It amounted to a couple on the chin for Golden State anti-gunners. The […]

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The coverage of the 2016 general election was marked with overwhelming negativity, according to a new report from The Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, released on Dec. 7. The study, which analyzed news reports on the main newscasts from the major cable and broadcast networks along with major daily newspapers like The New York Times […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Under a new “directive” called “Arming and the Use of Force,” the Department of Defense (DoD) is going to allow soldiers to carry guns…on military bases and office facilities. The Washington Free Beacon has reported that the DoD released its 26-page directive that minutely details how and when service […]

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Inland Liberator .45 ACP 2-shot Derringer From Inland Manufacturing, the maker of truly “real” M1 Carbines comes the modern Liberator .45 ACP Derringer pistol. The Inland Derringer celebrates the original OSS single-shot Liberator pistol of WWII fame manufactured by the Inland Division of General Motors in Dayton, Oh, for resistance forces in Europe. In an […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA   Rendezvousing, muzzleloading target shooting, and living history events all have one thing in common for me: “Friendship.” Where muzzleloaders gather and do these various events all over the country is where I have made some of my best friendships, and this last year was no different. […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor When some shooters lose a close match, they frequently push for a change in the rules. They are a lot like the Hillary Clinton supporters, politicians and media that are once again suggesting we amend the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and elect presidents by a popular […]

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By Colleen Conley SAF Investigative Reporter From Colorado to Florida, campuses, school districts and legislatures have been increasingly willing to toss out the vulnerabilities that come hand-in-hand with “gun-free zones” in favor of concealed carry for adequately trained individuals. School officials in rural Hanover, CO voted 3-2 on Dec. 14 in favor of a measure […]

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Lawful gun owners are ‘new witches’ of Bay State   Dear Editor: Re: Lawful gun owners, the “new” witches to fear. In the 1690s, the good people of Massachusetts Bay were all incensed over the “witches” they found in their community. They jailed, hung and pressed them to death. Justice Stoughton sat in judgment of many […]

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Compiled by Rhett Workman Lawmakers in at least five states will likely face a slew of new gun legislation, some of it aimed at gun control and some aimed at reforming current laws and expanding Second Amendment rights. In Nebraska, according to the Columbus Telegram, Second Amendment activists are looking at a proposal for state […]

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