The Gun Mag

By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    I purchased my first 1911 just about 52 years ago.    It was my choice of all the handguns I could afford and after all this time I am still excited to test, fire, and evaluate new 1911 handguns. I don’t own quite as many 1911 handguns as […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The Biden Justice Department is reportedly “expected” to announce some type of proposed action on so-called “ghost guns” on Friday. According to Fox News, the announcement will be in keeping with Joe Biden’s executive action last month on gun control issues. During the 2020 campaign, while Donald Trump was prone to […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A former Washington State Democratic lawmaker is now running for the office of Seattle Mayor, and she has quickly jumped into the spotlight with a gun control plan that is already getting some attention. Jessyn Farrell, who served in the Washington Legislature from 2013 to 2017 is running to succeed Mayor […]

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by Larry McMurtry.  Published by Simon and Schuster Inc., Dept. TGM,                                1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.  Price:  $20.00 at most bookstores.    This oversize 190-page softbound volume, by the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Lonesome Dove, provides some additional insight on one of the most controversial figures in American history—George Armstrong Custer.  […]

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Winchester celebrates its commitment to American freedom with the USA VALOR™ ammunition series. This limited-edition collection of military-inspired ammunition is now available in 9mm, 5.56mm and 12-gauge buck shot. Every purchase of Winchester USA VALOR ammunition helps support Folds of Honor, a U.S. veteran’s cause dedicated to honoring the sacrifice of America’s heroes while giving […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused of “throwing the police under the bus” by Alderman Raymond Lopez of the city’s 15th Ward in the aftermath of another shooting, this one taking the life of a 7-year-old girl who was sitting in in a drive-thru with her father at a McDonald’s. In […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Editor Back in pioneer days the .44 caliber was a popular choice for Kentucky rifles.  In 1860 the Henry repeater modernized this with a lever action repeating rifle firing a .44 rimfire 200-grain bullet at 1150 FPS. The Winchester M1866 further popularized the caliber. In 1873 the improved M1873 Winchester […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Biden-Harris Administration: On April 8 the B-H Administration published its executive actions on guns; Federal: HR8 and HR1446 pass in the House of Representatives and may be viable in the Senate: H.R. 1207, Stop the Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021. Two more states adjourn bringing the total to nine while […]

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by Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, but the real birth of the nation occurred 15 months before, on April 19, 1775, when—as poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in ‘Concord Hymn’—the first shots of the American revolution were fired. “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their […]

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By Scott Smith Contributing Editor    Over the fifty years I have been shooting, the area that has brought shooters more options is optics.    In my youth if you wanted high end precision optics, you purchased a Unertl. In my youth these scopes sold for $50-200 which would be $1,700 today. For affordable scopes […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A strong majority of American voters (58.1%) are more likely to “support a candidate for Congress who supports the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms” than would vote (21.9%) against such a candidate, according to a new national survey by McLaughlin & Associates, done for the Second Amendment Foundation. […]

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A national poll on gun ownership by Politico and Morning Consult that was reported in The Hill included an interesting note: Just over two-thirds of the participants say nobody in their household owns a gun of any kind. TGM discovered this by simply perusing the survey. The data is on Page 11, Question 13. The […]

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By Jim Dickson Contributing Editor For many years the .22 rimfire was a penny a shot and that price enabled many young shooters to become expert shots. Back in those days I always fired 500 to 1,000 rounds of .22’s through my pistol every time I shot it. The main use of the .22 rimfire […]

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Nevada news agencies are reporting that former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks, a Democrat, was arrested on Easter Sunday following a reported shooting in front of his home in northwest Las Vegas. Brooks was expelled from the Nevada Legislature in March 2013. According to KLAS News, the Las Vegas CBS affiliate, he was dismissed for threatening […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief MSN.com is reporting that Democrat strategists are worried Joe Biden’s current gun control push could make the party “vulnerable” during the 2022 mid-term elections. It would not be the first time an administration’s gun control policies resulted in voter backlash. Twenty-seven years ago, Democrats lost dozens of seats largely on the […]

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by Laura Trevelyan. Published by Yale University Press, Dept. TGM.  Price: $28.00.   Available at many bookstores, or Amazon.    Written by the great-great-great-granddaughter of Oliver Winchester, the author is well fitted to write this history of one of the best-known firearms lines in history.  Married to an Englishman, she has held the position of BBC […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Joe Biden made “false” and “misleading” statements about gun laws and gun shows during his recent introduction of his “initial” gun control package, which suggests there is more to come and it will be bad news for gun owners. According to the CNN fact checker, when Biden “claimed that ‘the only […]

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With the nomination of Chipman our prediction that the BATFE would be "an overactive and aggressive BATFE agency that is adversarial in both tone and substance" is hardly an exaggeration.

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By Paul Lathrop Contributing Editor Thursday during a speech at the White House, President Biden announced several actions that he plans to take to curb “gun violence.” At the same time, across America, legislatures pushed to expand Second Amendment rights and block future gun control. We wrote Thursday that Arizona became a Second Amendment sanctuary. […]

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By Paul Lathrop Contributing Editor Arizona Governor Doug Ducey signed House Bill 2111 into law, bringing Arizona into the family of states that are popularly called Second Amendment Sanctuaries. House Bill 2111, titled the 2nd Amendment Firearm Freedom Act, is very brief, filling all of one-half of a page, and like the 2nd Amendment to […]

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