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by James C. Fulmer Past President, NMLRA The Pennsylvania Federation of Black Powder Shooters, Inc. (PFBPS) held their Annual Banquet and Trade Fair Saturday, March 22 in Milroy, PA. State muzzleloading associations are the grassroots of our sport and the National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association (NMLRA) counts on these associations for membership recruitment. The local […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The head of Washington State’s most vocal gun control organization admitted during a recent interview with Seattle’s KVI radio that the killing spree in Santa Barbara, Calif., couldn’t have been prevented by any gun control law. Ralph Fascitelli, president of Washington CeaseFire, admitted to KVI’s John Carlson that, “California has […]

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by Tanya Metaksa Federal   During markup of the FY 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill several anti-gun amendments were proposed and defeated. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) offered an amendment prohibiting the use of funds to maintain an ATF database of multiple rifle and shotgun sales that passed 29-18.   Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) has […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor A jury in Spokane, WA, has acquitted a local man of manslaughter charges in the March 2013 shooting death of an alleged car thief who was driving away in his SUV. The jury subsequently determined that the shooting was justified, so defendant Gail Gerlach could be reimbursed for his trial […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The anti-gun Brady Campaign was quick to exploit the Isla Vista killing spree allegedly committed by a 22-year-old who posted a final epitaph video in which he complained about rejection, touted his superiority and revealed his plans for a bloody massacre so people would see him as the supreme “alpha […]

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Phil Watson of TheGunMag.com and the Second Amendment Foundation will speak at the Tech Roanoke Conference on June 7th in Bellevue, WA.Tech Roanoke was founded in 2014 by a group of tech savvy individuals who wanted to connect entrepreneurs, as well as political and non-profit organizations to the tech community. Tech Roanoke was founded under […]

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Responding to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal that all firearm buyers in city-approved gun shops be videotaped, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said the mayor should instead start a photographic file of all crooked Illinois politicians instead. “The public might better be served by seeing images of Chicago […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Veteran gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, was cast as the new bogeyman in a fund-raising e-mail circulated by the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR), the group pushing for adoption of Initiative 594, an 18-page gun control […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor The owner of a Southern California shooting accessories and parts supply store is still in business, following a raid on his four sites by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Lycurgun, Inc., doing business as Ares Armor in Oceanside and National City, had sought an […]

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would not need to look at slashing state pensions, while Democrat lawmakers are talking tax hikes, to make up for a projected $2.75 billion revenue shortfall over the next two fiscal years if only the Garden State was more attractive to gun owning tourists and firearms manufacturers, the Second Amendment […]

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A lawsuit filed today by the Brady Campaign to force the New Jersey Attorney General to “formally report” the availability of so-called “smart guns” smacks of a back-door gun ban, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. The Brady Campaign is joined by the Mercer County chapter of […]

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  by Tanya Metaksa Federal   During markup of the FY 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill several anti-gun amendments were proposed and defeated. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) offered an amendment prohibiting the use of funds to maintain an ATF database of multiple rifle and shotgun sales that passed 29-18.   Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) […]

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by Art Merrill Anti-gun rights and anti-hunting groups from the US and abroad are very active in Central and South America, with the intent to outflank and overrun US gunowners from that direction. But a fledgling movement to fight the complete eradication of hunting and civilian gun ownership in the Southern Hemisphere has succeeded in […]

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BELLEVUE, WA – A lawsuit filed today by the Brady Campaign to force the New Jersey Attorney General to “formally report” the availability of so-called “smart guns” smacks of a back-door gun ban, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. The Brady Campaign is joined by the Mercer […]

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Days after the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) launched a fund-raising e-mail that attacked Alan Gottlieb, the veteran gun rights leader fired back with a blistering reaction that accused NAGR Executive Vice President Dudley Brown of engaging in rhetoric that “has done more to marginalize Second Amendment activism than all of the slanders from […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Gun registration and training requirements, and a limit on monthly handgun purchases, do not violate the Second Amendment, according to a District of Columbia federal judge, who dismissed a case challenging the District’s tough gun control laws. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the bench […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A bloody stabbing rampage that left 22 students and adults injured, but all alive, at a western Pennsylvania high school provided several examples of courage, but no pad from which gun prohibitionists could launch another attack on the Second Amendment. Sixteen-year-old Alex Hribal has been charged as an adult with […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Leaders of the nation’s top gun control organization and Washington state’s most vocal gun prohibition group engaged in what appears to have been high-grade hypocrisy when they appeared at a forum in Seattle, held in a so-called “gun free zone” while enjoying the protection of an armed security guard. The […]

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By Phil Watson | TGM Reporter As TheGunMag previously reported, the Nebraska Watchdog appears to have uncovered a large difference in opinion on Second Amendment rights among the two leading candidates for US Senate in Nebraska. Ben Sasse, a former DSHS bureaucrat, still has yet to clarify his “no comment” position regarding ‘gun free’ zones. […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation has won a significant victory on behalf of legal resident aliens in Arkansas, with a federal district court there declaring the state’s citizen-only concealed carry licensing law unconstitutional, and granting a permanent injunction against its enforcement on behalf of a man named Martin Pot (pronounced Pote), a citizen of the Netherlands. […]

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