The Gun Mag

by Dave Workman | Senior Editor The victims of the terrorist attack in Paris hadn’t even been buried before American gun prohibitionists were attempting to exploit the tragedy to promote their anti-gun agenda, and the attack in San Bernardino, CA, just fueled their campaign. Posting on their Facebook page, the Violence Policy Center asserted hours […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Gun control advocates liked it, Second Amendment groups raised red flags and President Barack Obama dropped big hints on how people should vote in the next election as he presented his new proposals that expand background checks and the definition of a gun dealer as part of his new gun […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Heading into his final year in office, anti-gun President Barack Obama recently told GQ magazine that he hopes gun control remains “the dominant issue” of the next 12 months. Even the Washington Times picked up on this, publishing comments from the interview. The president told GQ that he “will […]

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Attorneys for the Second Amendment Foundation, National Rifle Association and National Shooting Sports Foundation have filed a notice of appeal in their challenge of a so-called “gun violence tax” adopted last year by the City of Seattle. In a ruling Dec. 22, King County Superior Court Judge Palmer Robinson said the city’s gun tax is […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor On the one-year anniversary of the effective date of Washington State’s onerous Initiative 594, the so-called “universal background check” measure passed by voters in 2014, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) ripped the measure for not keeping guns out of the wrong hands, […]

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The US Supreme Court on Dec. 7 refused to hear a Second Amendment challenge to a Chicago suburb’s ordinance that banned semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. The case, Friedman v. City of Highland Park, No. 15-133, concerned an ordinance in Highland Park, IL. It was, enacted in 2013. “Sandy Hook had just happened,” Nancy […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When it comes to trade shows, there is nothing quite like the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, probably the largest firearms industry trade show in the world, and certainly one of the biggest of any kind in North America. According to the official SHOT Show website, […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Some legislative proposals are zombies; they keep coming back. And a lot of them are related to gun control schemes. Adding the names of people on the government’s post 9-11 no-fly list, created by Homeland Security during the George W. Bush Administration, to the National Instant Check System […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Hardly had the ink dried on a King County Superior Court judge’s ruling in Seattle upholding that city’s controversial “gun violence tax” than did one gun prohibition lobbying group send out an email gloating about it – and soliciting donations in the process – and one gun shop announced that it […]

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   The owner and CEO of Stag Arms LLC in Connecticut has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations and agreed to pay a $100,000 fine and give up involvement in the firearms business, according to the Hartford Courant. Mark Malkowski founded Stag Arms LLC and now has to get out of the business. Under a […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The Democrat Attorney General of Virginia has announced that starting Feb. 1, the commonwealth will stop honoring the concealed carry permits and licenses from 25 states on the grounds that those other states’ issuing guidelines do not meet the “requirements and qualifications” for recognition. The announcement by Attorney General Mark […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor An Oklahoma sheriff’s note to his constituents about exercising their right to bear arms as a precaution against terrorist attack has fired up lots of support on Facebook, and offered a stark contrast to officials pushing for more gun control. Sheriff Milton Anthony of Carter County told TGM that with […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Arizona gunowners may be looking at what could be a battle royal over gun rights in the Grand Canyon State, and for Dave Kopp, president of the Arizona Citizens Defense League (AzCDL), the forecast seems to have Michael Bloomberg written all over it. Kopp, a transplant and computer programmer […]

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A Georgia woman who admitted she bought a gun for her boyfriend, a convicted felon who later used the pistol to fatally shoot a police officer in Omaha, NE, was sentenced to one year of probation, plus six months of home detention and 40 hours of community service, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Jalita Jenera […]

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by Tanya Metaksa In my opening report for 2015 I hoped that several pro-gun legislative measures would be considered in the 114th Congress. I mentioned the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act and the Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act that had passed the House of Representatives in 2014, but had been stymied by former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Gun sales are spiking, a new Rasmussen survey shows a majority of Americans think the gun policies of the National Rifle Association make the country safer, and an official with the National Shooting Sports Foundation says gun control will be front and center during the 2016 campaign season. ABC […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A recent Rasmussen poll found that a majority of American adults “remain unconcerned about their safety around those who have legal permits to carry concealed weapons, with 37% who are Not At All Concerned.” A second survey revealed that a majority of Americans believe that media coverage of mass shootings “inspires […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When a powerhouse like Mark Walters, host of Armed American Radio, tells a room-stretching GRPC crowd that he hates the media because it is “the single most dangerous entity we face in this country today,” it gets their attention, and they want to hear more. And they did during […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor Since you will be reading this shortly before the Christmas holidays, this might be a good time to consider some useful last minute gifts, or maybe suggest practical ways to use any gift cards you receive. Most of winter is still ahead of us. Instead of purchasing another t-shirt […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Cities are rethinking their gun buy-up programs after at least 30 years, finding them to be ineffective in reducing violent crime. Several cities are revisiting—and in some cases, revamping—those campaigns in the wake of recent mass shootings, Governing.com and its DC-based magazine, have reported. The events became so […]

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