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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A federal judge in Texas has issued a preliminary injunction against the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ enforcement of the “pistol brace rule,” writing that the rule “embodies salutary policy goals meant to protect vulnerable people in our society…But public safety concerns must be addressed in ways that […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project More than 500 people have been shot and killed in Chicago this year, and more than 2,220 have been shot and wounded. On any weekend, Chicago streets reverberate with the sound of fully automatic fire. It remains America’s deadliest domestic war zone. According to one violence tracker, a […]

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The Maryland Department of Natural Resources reported that hunters harvested 103 black bears during the state’s 20th annual black bear hunt held Oct. 23-28 in Allegany, Frederick, Garrett, and Washington counties. The harvest consisted of 40 male and 63 female bears. An additional nine bears (four male and five female) were harvested between September 1 and October […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Biden Administration: On a Friday afternoon the Biden Administration stops the Firearms Industry’s Commercial Export Business; BATFE failures: Senator Grassley (R-IA) wrote a letter to BATFE concerning employee misconduct; U.S. Congress: H.R. 4366 is still being amended in Senate, will go to a conference committee and your help is needed to […]

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  By Lee Williams   SAF Investigative Journalism Project  The Trace – former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun propaganda factory – has proven once again it is completely devoid of ethics and reliable only as a source of fake news.   The Trace wants the public to believe it’s an actual newsroom comprised of actual […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday it will hear a challenge to the Trump-era ban on “bump stocks” which was instituted following the mass shooting in Las Vegas in 2017. The case is not specifically linked to the Second Amendment, but is instead a challenge to whether Donald Trump’s administration had […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief OPINION – Appearing at a campaign reception last Friday, perennially anti-gun President Joe Biden asked, “Who the hell needs an assault weapon that can hold, in some cases, up to 100 rounds?” Maybe he should ask an Israeli living on the edge of Gaza. According to The Hill, Biden took the […]

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By Mike Harris Special to TGM On Wednesday, Oct. 18 the Massachusetts House of Representatives passed a bill that would do irreparable harm to the exercise of the Second Amendment in Massachusetts: H.4139, An Act Modernizing Firearm Laws. A 123-page monstrosity, the bill takes direct aim at responsible gun owners in the state and does […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives will set a record this year. ATF agents have already put more gun dealers out of business than ever before, and there are still two months left. The ATF does not make it easy to track its progress in Joe […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief As the murder count in Seattle, Washington creeps toward a new record, and the number of homicides statewide is also rising toward last year’s total, the state Department of Licensing’s monthly report on active concealed pistol licenses is also rising toward a new record. According two data maintained by two different […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    Recently Ruger introduced a ‘long slide’ version of the SR 22 rimfire handgun, and in my opinion, it is a winner.    With a one inch longer barrel and improved balance, this new handgun makes for an interesting combination. The ability to mount a combat light and good […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Shocking, but unsurprising new revelations in the case of the man who murdered 18 people one week ago in a mass shooting in Maine are reinforcing assertions by gun rights organizations that anti-gunners, including President Joe Biden, are exploiting the tragedy to advance a gun control agenda which has little or […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A provocative report in Reason about the Maine mass shooting offers a strong argument that it wasn’t the state’s alleged “weak gun laws” which allowed the now-deceased killer to commit mayhem at two separate locations one week ago, but what might be called a failure of the system to respond to […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—SCOTUS: USA v. Rahimi: the DOJ filed its reply brief on Oct. 25. The date for argument is Nov. 7; Cases Distributed remain pending; BATFE proposed rule deadline approaching; GOA v. BATFE: Another stabilizing braces case Judge issues a Preliminary injunction for plaintiffs and GOA members; California: Wiese v. Bonta: Judge […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Press releases from the office of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and a story in the Courthouse News regarding Monday’s decision by a federal judge to grant a preliminary injunction preventing the state from enforcing a ban on gun shows on state property and county fairgrounds give a strong indication about how […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer During the 1930’s, Germany was actively rearming its military, and the Luger pistol took too long to make and cost too much to be the sole sidearm. The beloved Luger remained in production and the serious pistol shooters could always get one issued to them. What was needed was […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Three California Democrats vying to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2024 have many things in common with the late senator, and prominent among those similarities, as revealed by an article in The Trace, is their adherence to extreme gun control. Feinstein died last month at her home in Washington, DC. A […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—BATFE proposed rule deadline approaching; FRAC v. Garland: An appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has been filed; California: Big Win in Miller v. Bonta, the assault weapons ban case; Duncan v. Bonta: Briefing schedule before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit;Colorado Tenth […]

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By John Markwell | Contributing Editor   I noticed a thread on one of the handgun forums a while back that got me to thinking about carry guns and how folks test them before they pronounce them good-to-go for self-defense and daily carry.    The procedures described by those responding to the question “how many […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project OPINION: The ATF wants to imprison a decorated American soldier for a series of victimless crimes, even though the federal regulations he’s accused of violating may not be constitutional, and questions about ATF’s potential involvement in the case remain unanswered. The same federal agency that ran guns across […]

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