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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor It’s almost over—the quadrennial selection of a president, often referred to as the most powerful man in the world. Although, when the ballots are finally counted, recounted and challenged in courtrooms, the voters may have selected the most powerful woman in the world. We’ll see! It seems strange […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor A recently-released study by the Associated Press and USA Today network that claimed there are annually more accidental firearms-related deaths among American youngsters and teens drew immediate skepticism from one of the nation’s largest firearms civil rights organizations. The report, according to CBS News, used information from the Gun […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has announced that its current MegaLink Target Systems will be available for purchase as it upgrades to an optical target system by Kongsberg Target Systems in our air gun ranges. The CMP said it has finalized our installation schedule and is ready to […]

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By Jim Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA “Take your pills! Take your pills!” was a cry that rang through the 2016 Living History and Rendezvous Association’s 40th Anniversary Eastern Primitive Rendezvous each morning. I had to laugh at myself because I hadn’t taken mine. Actually about half the people in camp hadn’t taken theirs either […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor While the City of Seattle remains mum about the revenue it has, or has not, realized from a year-old “gun violence tax” on firearms and ammunition sold in the city, the largest firearms retailer in Seattle is not being so quiet. He thinks the city has lost a lot of […]

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By John Markwell | Contributing Editor Like most outdoors folks, we have a weakness for knives. And, like many folks we seemingly have more than we need or can use. However, like most who are reading this, we do have a couple of truly favorite knives that are much like old friends. We keep them […]

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No matter the outcome of the 2016 US Senate and House races, Hillary Clinton, if victorious, intends to attack everyone’s gun rights. Recently leaked emails of Clinton campaign staffers published by WikiLeaks show that the candidate plans to bypass Congress to enact gun control by executive order. Moreover, undercover video of US Senate candidate Russ […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Criminal cases unfolding against an alleged cop killer in Palm Springs, CA, the accused mall gunman in Burlington, WA, and a suspected “straw purchaser” in Seattle have once again underscored the failure of gun control laws in both states. The Seattle Times reported that detectives investigating the Cascade Mall […]

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A Connecticut judge on Oct. 14 finally ruled in the Sandy Hook lawsuit, dismissing a wrongful-death action brought by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, citing an embattled federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. State […]

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The Garland County, AR, Quorum Court has voted in favor of allowing county employees with concealed carry permits to bring firearms to work, Associated Press reported. The Quorum Court repeatedly deflected motions to give the plan more consideration before voting 9-3 in favor of it recently, according to the Sentinel-Record Justices of the Peace Denise […]

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Newsmax.com reported on Oct. 17 that John Podesta lamented that a Muslim, not a white man, was the shooter in San Bernardino, CA, crediting the latest batch of revelations by WikiLeaks. In what appears to be another instance of the Democratic Party trying in earnest to avoid linking terrorism to Islam, Hillary Clinton campaign chairman […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor America’s mainstream press ignores surveys that show gun ownership is up and only pays attention to surveys that suggest it is declining because “they want to make gun owners feel isolated, that they are somehow different.” So said veteran researcher John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center […]

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  by Tanya Metaksa Latest developments—H.R. 6176; 2016 election news; Anti-Second Amendment referenda: California, Maine, Nevada, Washington; S. 2012; Judicial: Sandy Hook victims v. Remington; Pullman Arms Inc., Guns and Gear, LLC, Paper City Firearms, LLC, GRRR! Gear, INC., and National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. Maura Healey, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; […]

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District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier vented her frustrations in a media interview before leaving office in August with high popularity and crime down over her tenure but frustrated by a system that she said allows repeat violent offenders back on the street time after time. In a far-ranging interview, the chief of […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When Chicago police arrested two career criminal brothers for the slaying of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s cousin, Nykea Aldridge, the head of a national gun rights organization said the problem is not with gun rights, but with Chicago. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms […]

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When New York Post writer Michael Goodwin devoted the first half of his Aug. 21 column to media bias, his gloves came off and he pulled no punches. He accused his colleagues at the New York Times and Washington Post of having “jettisoned all pretense of fair play” in their coverage of presidential politics, taking […]

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A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled unanimously Aug. 31 that a federal ban on the sale of firearms to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment. The case involved a Nevada resident named S. Rowan Wilson. She attempted to purchase a gun in 2011, […]

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo linked the bombing that rocked New York City’s Chelsea District Saturday, Sept. 18 to terrorism, despite earlier reports that authorities were assuming it is apparently not linked to international terrorism. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo talked with area residents while touring the site of the […]

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Jericho 941 FS ‘Pistol of the week’ IWI US, Inc., a subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) Ltd., is proud to have the Jericho 941 FS pistol named as the National Rifle Association (NRA) “Gun of the Week” on Sept. 10, 2016, on the American Rifleman online site. Based on the highly regarded CZ-75 short […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor You may think the balloting for president in the 2016 election is still some six weeks away, but you’d be wrong. The early balloting has already started in some states and will soon start in many others. This takes the shape of various early voting systems, as well as […]

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