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by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor The big news at the August 2015 Grand American was Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announcement that the World Shooting & Recreational Complex north of Sparta, would be closed on Sept. 1, 2015, due to lack of funds. According to at least one report, the Complex costs approximately $3 […]

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You gave away your privacy. What can you do about it? by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Most email service is “free” because giants like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and others read private emails, track them and profit from selling the information to their customers – which include the government as well as advertisers. A […]

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Rensselaer County, NY, District Attorney Joel Abelove issued a press release on Sept. 30 encouraging his assistants who want to carry a handgun to apply for a pistol license, and he said his office will pick up the cost of the application and required safety instruction. “I’m not suggesting my staff has to arm themselves. […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor As I sit here, Labor Day weekend is a week off, it’s sunny, and near 85 outside, yet I am pondering what Santa might be bringing all the good hunters, shooters and outdoorsman/women. This year we found a mix of items that will make good gifts for friends and […]

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The US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) recently announced that an “unprecedented” conservation effort across the western US has “significantly reduced threats to the greater sage grouse across 90 percent of the species breeding habitat.” As a result of this effort, FWS has determined that the species does not warrant protection under the federal Endangered […]

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The Los Angeles City Council was looking at adopting a so-called “gun violence” tax that copies what the City of Seattle did in July, placing a $25 sales tax on firearms and a nickel on the sale of each round of centerfire ammunition, as this issue of TGM went to press – a gun and […]

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No sooner had the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) been awarded a two-year, $2.4 million grant by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide firearm safety education messaging and free gun locks to communities across the map than did a couple of gun prohibition groups try to get the grant rescinded. The grant project […]

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A recent CNN/ORC poll revealed that a majority of American adults doubt that expanded background checks – so-called “universal background checks” (UBCs) – would prevent criminals or people with mental health problems from obtaining firearms. That same survey by ORC International, of 1,012 adults in early September, showed that 59% of the respondents disapprove of […]

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A full-court press on the right to keep and bear arms was announced by Democrat presidential wannabe Martin O’Malley recently, and it brought immediate backlash from gunowners. O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland who pushed through gun restrictions in his state, would take his campaign against the Second Amendment nationwide if elected. His gun control […]

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Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan approved a number of measures to ease the requirements for firearm permits, as Israel copes with a wave of “lone wolf” terrorism, the Jerusalem Post reported. “In recent weeks many citizens have helped the Israel Police subdue terrorists who carried out attacks,” he said. “Citizens with firearms training are a […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor In the aftermath of the campus shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College (UCC), President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton wasted little time in politicizing the event, but at least this time the president admitted it. When it was announced that he would actually visit Roseburg, where the shooting […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor “It is critical that you communicate with your legislators.” That advice came from Joe Waldron, legislative director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, during the opening day of the 30th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Phoenix, Sept. 25-27. Addressing a packed […]

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Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich recently ignited a controversy when he wrote an op-ed piece in the Chicago Tribune, calling for more and tougher gun laws. Noting that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops “has consistently called for reasonable regulation and controls for guns, especially handguns,” Archbishop Cupich focused on the shooting at Umpqua Community College […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A federal appeals court in New York has ruled that tough gun laws in New York and Connecticut banning the possession of so-called semiautomatic  “assault rifles” do not violate the Second Amendment, while holding that Connecticut’s ban on the pump-action Remington Model 7615 is unconstitutional. The ruling, handed down by […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Lt. Col. Dave Grossman many years ago in his writings and lectures divided people into sheep, wolves and sheep dogs. That was his way of defining those who have chosen or been trained to be victims, those who prey on them, and those who try to intervene to […]

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Much ado about Hillary’s support for 25% gun tax Back in October 1993, then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton told Congress that she was “all for” a proposed 25% national sales tax on firearms, insisting that it would be a way to put a lid on violent crime at that time. She had been asked by […]

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Ruger adds new 22 Charger Pistol Models Sturm, Ruger has announced the addition of new polymer stock models to the recently re-engineered 22 Charger™ and 22 Charger Takedown pistol lines. First introduced in 2007, and re-engineered in 2014, the Charger pistol family is built on the Ruger® 10/22® platform. Weighing just 3.1 pounds, the polymer […]

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A good gun index, but not complete Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor AMERICAN GUN INDEX. ©2015. Published by the 2nd Amendment Media, Dept. TGM, Whitman Publishing, LLC, 3101 Clairmont Road, Suite G, Atlanta, GA 30329. Price: $24.95, plus postage. Available Online and at many bookstores. This 336-page softbound volume, printed on top quality paper, […]

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