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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The bloody Crossroads Center Mall rampage in St. Cloud, Minnesota proved two things that have so far left the gun prohibition lobby speechless. For starters, the fact that the Crossroads Center was considered a so-called “gun-free zone” by its own rules of conduct that prohibit “firearms or illegal weapons” did […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor After two weeks of wall-to-wall media-frenzied coverage of the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominating conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, the average American should now be focusing on the broader aspects of election 2016. There’s a lot more to it than the presidential aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton and […]

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2016 election most critical in the history of the US Dear Editor: Re: TGM Aug. 2016 article: “Democrats no longer represent free society ideals.” The 9th US Circuit Court majority recently ruled that there is no constitutional right to carry firearms for self-defense in California and upheld a “good cause” requirement by authorities for CCW […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor A couple of years back Mossberg (Phone: 203-230-5300; Online: mossberg.com) introduced the MVP Patrol. This rifle was initially available chambered in .223 Remington and, about a year later, a .308 Winchester version was offered. These rifles are both lightweight rifles; the .223 version weighs seven pounds, while the .308 […]

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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor OK, we were kidding here last month about that electric primer seater, which probably isn’t a viable idea for the home handloader. Yet! But it did raise the question of the need for speed in handloading. Of course we want to accelerate the handloading process because we are Americans […]

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by Dan Gifford In 1963, I saw Malcolm X speak in Harlem. Any who recall those times can appreciate how scary a figure he was claimed to be by our government and the news media. Much later, I played a prison guard in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film. Through those and other experiences, I can […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has sued the City of Seattle in King County (WA) Superior Court, alleging a violation of the state Public Records Act for refusing to disclose revenue data related to the city’s controversial “gun violence tax” that was adopted last year. The complaint stems from a PRA request earlier this year by TGM […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior editor While many hunters across the landscape are looking ahead to upland bird and big game seasons, the nation’s waterfowlers have received some good news from the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). The framework for the upcoming season from USFWS calls proposes “duck hunting season lengths of 60 days in […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has announced that he will propose legislation in December that would ban so-called “assault weapons.” In a press release posted by Ferguson’s office, the Democrat attorney general used the shooting of three teens at a July party in Mukilteo as an excuse. “The recent […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Squeezing off a shot at some nice buck at 150 yards is the wrong time to be finding out your hunting rifle isn’t properly zeroed. Right now, when deer and elk seasons are still weeks away is the time to be visiting the range to make sure your rifle […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor My first live game was kind of a scrawny grouse, but at the time I was a scrawny kid maybe 11 or 12 years old, so it was something of an even match. The fool hen evaporated in a cloud of feathers created by a load of No. 6 […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Patriot movement activist and self-identified “citizen journalist” Mike Vanderboegh, who helped uncover the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious scandal, passed away Aug. 10 following a long battle with cancer. Vanderboegh, who worked with blogger and investigative journalist David Codrea to first expose the scandal, was 64. The founder […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor There was some bad news recently for gun prohibitionists. Nationally, the number of carry licenses has increased 215% since 2007, according to a recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The number of women with carry permits has increased twice as fast as the number of men with […]

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by Peggy Tartaro | Managing Editor   An August Washington Post online feature detailed a campaign by anti-gunners to remove a realistic looking gun emoji from the cyberworld. Emojis are pictorial images, often cartoonish, which depict “emotions” or thoughts and are used in texts or emails in place of a word or words for emphasis. Perhaps […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Hundreds—maybe thousands—of gun rights activists lined Boston’s Beacon Street in front of the State House on the morning of July 30 to denounce Attorney General Maura Healey’s recent restriction on “copycat” assault rifles. The number of gunowners who turned out to protest the non-legislative change in what they […]

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By TGM Staff On Aug. 6, in her first Olympic competition, Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal awarded to anyone or any country in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in the 10m air rifle competition. Thrasher, a 19-year-old college student at West Virginia University, won a huge upset victory over the heavily-favored defending Olympic champion […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie conditionally vetoed two new Garden State gun control bills in late August, and then called the state’s current gun laws “among the most unreasonable and onerous in the country.” According to NJ1015 News, Christie didn’t stop there. He chastised lawmakers for trying to make things […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The long-awaited appeals court challenge to the City of Seattle’s so-called “gun violence tax” on the sale of firearms and ammunition will be heard by a three-judge panel of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, TGM has learned. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor People who hunt mourning doves ought to buy stock in ammunition companies, and with the season firing up soon, now is the time to be stocking up on shotgun shells for dove and quail. Doves are one of the most challenging species around, and anyone who can hit them consistently […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor While two gun prohibition lobbying groups in the Pacific Northwest have launched a joint effort in Oregon and Washington to ban so-called “assault weapons,” an analysis of long-term crime data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report suggests they are offering a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. In the […]

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