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Article & Photos | by Scott Smith with Lisa Palermo As I sit here pondering Dads and Grads, I am having a hard time. The calendar tells me it is mid-April, the thermometer reads 25, it’s snowing and blowing. This is not exactly the weather one thinks of for spring and surely not for graduation season or […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor President Barack Obama is making yet another stab at pushing so-called smart gun technology, announcing a plan to “expedite” development of these new firearms and the requirements they would have to meet for law enforcement agencies to adopt their use. The White House released a 16-page report to the president […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor For the second time in two years, a federal judge has ruled against the District of Columbia’s “good reason” requirement to obtain a carry permit, saying that it  “likely places an unconstitutional burden” on the right to carry firearms for self-defense outside the home. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The Second Amendment Foundation is cheering what many in the gun rights community consider a surprising ruling by a three-judge panel in the Ninth U.S. Court of Appeals that said “the right to purchase and sell firearms is part and parcel of the historically recognized right to keep and bear […]

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  Review by Peggy Tartaro Managing Editor SNIPERCRAFT, by John Simpson, 112 Pages, paperback with B&W diagrams and photos. Paladin Press (paladin-press.com), $16.   Snipers have existed since man first started using firearms for warfare. Someone was always the best with a rifle, and that someone was the sniper—charged with making the impossible shots. During […]

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An attempt by George Zimmerman to auction the Kel-Tec 9mm semiautomatic pistol he was carrying the night in 2011 when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin was very short-lived. The advertisement vanished from GunBroker.com almost the instant that the 24-hour auction was to have commenced. There was no immediate explanation from the popular firearms website, and […]

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   A California NBC affiliate recently reported that eight police agencies have lost more than 500 firearms since 2010, revealing that guns were stolen from the homes or vehicles belonging to Bay Area police, and some guns were “simply unaccounted for.” This happened while lawmakers in Sacramento were looking at more new gun control laws […]

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The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA), the state’s largest law enforcement union, has announced its opposition to Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ammunition proposal. The organization joins eight other law enforcement groups opposing Newsom’s latest gun control effort. Newsom, who hopes to be the next Golden State governor, has a history of support for gun […]

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By Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Maybe you’ve already experienced the puzzlement that dissolves into frustration when a cartridge won’t chamber and you suddenly discover you’ve brought the wrong ammo to your plinking spot—the big match—your African safari. Aggravating, sure, but on the positive side, it can be much worse when the ammo fits but […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor America’s high school age youth are still attracted to the shooting sports. Whereas their parents and old siblings used to participate in indoors smallbore and air rifle school shooting programs, today’s youngsters have moved outdoors. Given the opportunity, they are doing so in ever greater numbers. This year, […]

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by R. K. Campbell | Contributing Editor The polymer frame 9mm field may be crowded but the author believes there is room for innovation. The stakes are high in this market. With a military contract on the horizon, Ruger has set the bar high with their new entry. The Ruger American is the product of […]

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By Tanya Metaksa Latest developments—2016 election primaries continue, new legislative action: Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee 114th Congress S.659, the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act, otherwise known as the SHARE ACT, passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Jan. 20, 2016, and then was added as an […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor When the Kitsap Sun, a newspaper in Bremerton, WA recently did an analysis of more than three years’ worth of data from the state Department of Licensing (DOL) on concealed carry, the Sun discovered that “the number of women licensed to carry handguns is growing fast across the state and […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The fatal shooting of a hatchet-wielding man in the unincorporated Boulevard Park area of King County, WA, made headlines all the way to the United Kingdom because an armed private citizen took action and saved lives, and the only people who weren’t talking were those in the gun prohibition […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The nation’s leading gun rights advocates are urging the US Senate to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court. Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), immediately reacted to the Garland announcement stating, “This is not […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When the US Supreme Court reversed and remanded a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that upheld the state ban on “stun guns,” it opened the door to considerable speculation that such bans might violate the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. While the high court did not […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor President Barack Obama is making yet another stab at pushing so-called “smart gun” technology, announcing a plan to “expedite” development of these new firearms and the requirements they would have to meet for law enforcement agencies to adopt their use. The White House released a 16-page report to the president […]

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Call it nothing short of a social miracle, but there appears to be a noticeable shift in attention away from “gun control” and toward suicide prevention, and it is a delight for Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Gottlieb has been on the ground floor of […]

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New skinner from Bear & Son Cutlery Bear & Son Cutlery has introduced a handy new fixed-blade skinning knife called the SD82 Invincible Skinner. It features a Stag Delrin handle on the full-length tang and a 2¾-inch hollow-ground blade made from 440 high carbon stainless steel. The knife features a nickel silver bolster and measures […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor After the Chicago Tribune and other news agencies reported that the Windy City had racked up 1,000 shooting by mid-April, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms called on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. Blaming Emanuel’s anti-gun policies and philosophy for keeping honest citizens essentially disarmed […]

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