The Gun Mag

The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project broke four national stories last month and we’re pretty proud of that. On July 1 we revealed that UPS was cancelling gun dealers’ accounts and destroying packages in transit. The story prompted two follow-up stories. On July 5 we named the five anti-gun Senators who were behind UPS’ […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— The House of Representatives has passed HR1808; California: The legislature is back in session in August; California—Burbank: moratorium on gun stored passed; Colorado: Boulder County: Commissioners propose five anti-Second Amendment ordinances with a vote scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 2; Maryland—Montgomery County: sign petition against new county proposed ordinance; New Jersey: […]

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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    This is my third installment about reloading black powder cartridges, and now we get to talk about some of the bigger stuff.     I’ve put bottleneck cases in a separate class simply because reloading for them can be slightly different from reloading with the straight wall cases.  Actually, […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high-capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. The email was sent Wednesday morning to all LAPD personnel by Commander Ernest Eskridge, assistant commanding officer of the […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief David Hogg, once the darling of the gun prohibition movement and anti-gun media, who is now described as a “prominent gun safety advocate,” was thrown out of a House Judiciary hearing Wednesday following an outburst criticizing members of the panel for “perpetuating violence” because they oppose banning so-called “assault weapons.” The […]

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By Lee WilliamsSAF Investigative Journalism Project ATF’s severely underworked public information officers are flustered. A story we first published Monday about a surprise firearm inspection at a Delaware man’s home has gone viral, exposing their agents’ misdeeds and questionable tactics.Now, ATF’s PIOs are answering questions from the national media and an irate Montana Congressman. Before, […]

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A gun control initiative considered “extremist” by Second Amendment activists has qualified for the November ballot in Oregon, and if passed, it will require a permit to purchase a firearm and ban magazines holding more than 10 cartridges. Predictably, one of the chief proponents of Initiative Petition 17, Rev. Mark Knutson, fell back on a […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    When the subject of the Ruger 10/22 comes up it seems everyone in the shop or deacon’s meeting has one.    All shotgunners don’t have an AR and all pistol shooters don’t have a shotgun but it seems everyone has a Ruger 10/22. The humble 10/22 is used […]

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Although they were silent in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s quick action by a legally-armed private citizen who fatally shot a gunman inside the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana, anti-gunners evidently got their wind back well enough to objecte on social media when the good guy was identified as a “Good Samaritan.” And it didn’t […]

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation—the firearm industry trade association, defended the First Amendment rights of firearm manufacturers in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Samuel Levine. The letter was in response to several complaints by special-interest gun control groups falsely accusing NSSF members of violating the Federal Trade […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The homeowner was alerted there were trespassers on his property by motion detectors outside his front door. A live video feed from his doorbell camera showed three armed men wearing tactical vests, t-shirts and jeans. Two appeared to be ATF agents. The third was a Delaware State Police […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Anti-gun House Democrats have scheduled a markup Wednesday on H.R. 1808, a bill that would ban so-called “assault weapons,” and “any semi-automatic rifle ‘that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— U.S. Senate: Steve Dettelbach became BATFE Director June 12; The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has scheduled HR1808, for markup July 20; California:  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three more anti-gun laws on June 12, but five more bills have landed on his desk;  Colorado: Boulder County: Commissioners propose five anti-Second […]

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After years of incorporating the terms “assault rifle” and “assault weapons” into news reports involving firearms, especially when used in crimes, journalists are now advised by the Associated Press to avoid the “highly politicized terms,” and the Second Amendment Foundation says it’s a “smart gun change.” The notification began appearing earlier this week, and it […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer The debate of which is best, single action or double action, has continued for as long as revolvers have existed. Sam Colt made his first revolvers as single actions despite the fact that double action pepperbox pistols were around before his first guns. The reason he went with single […]

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A new Rasmussen survey released this week included the startling revelation that 53 percent of Democrats favor legislation “that would abolish the current Supreme Court of the United States and establish a new, democratically elected Supreme Court with justices chosen by the American people directly.” Overall, however, 53 percent of all likely voters would oppose […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Projec By all accounts, Yunis Isaac Mejia was a good guy – certainly not the type who should be spending his next two birthdays behind bars in a federal prison. Mejia, a former police dispatcher, had never been arrested in his life, until he unknowingly invited an FBI informant […]

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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    As we continue with recommendations on reloading with black powder in cartridges, I find that my intentions of going from revolver cartridges to rifle cartridges might be too big of a jump.     The reason is because little details, which really should be mentioned, seem to pop up […]

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CrossBreed® Holsters has announcee the launch of the Modular Belly Band 2.0, which represents a refinement of the original multi-configurable, highly ergonomic Modular Belly Band. Designed for maximum comfort and function for EDC practitioners who live an active lifestyle, the Modular Belly Band 2.0 takes the belly band concept to the next level with several […]

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As if Joe Biden didn’t have enough trouble selling his administration’s agenda failures, a Monday event on the White House South Lawn to celebrate recent passage of a new bipartisan gun control package comes one week after the July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park underscored the failure of long-existing laws that promised to reduce […]

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