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Dixon, IL Renames Street ‘Mark Dallas Way’ To Honor School Cop Who Stopped a Would-Be School Shooter

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 10:00

This past week, the City of Dixon, Illinois renamed the street in front of Dixon High School the “Mark Dallas Way.” The name change is to honor a heroic school resource officer who stopped a would-be mass murderer from shooting up a high school graduation practice five years ago.

Mark Dallas was on duty that fateful day and he credits not only his training but the forethought of the local school district in working proactively to counter potential threats. 

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Video Shows Fully Automatic Gang-Related Gunfire on the Streets of Chicago

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 10:00

In Chicago, local political leaders have tried to rebrand gang violence as gun violence. In reality, guns don’t shoot up Windy City neighborhoods, but gang bangers certainly do. And here we are, almost five months after Governor Pritzker signed a gun and magazine ban, and gang members fearlessly unload on their rivals, killing one and wounding at least three others.

To add insult in injury, one of the 16-year-olds who were targeted by this attack raised a pistol and fired shots at police officers who were responding to the full-auto volley of gunfire.

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Busse: Gun Violence Has Spiked Because Firearm Makers Have Violated an Unspoken, Fragile Social Contract

Mon, 06/05/2023 - 08:00

Where are we, as a nation, on guns? And where do you think we need to go?

I think we might be on the precipice of things getting much worse. I think this Bruen decision, the Supreme Court ruling, quite possibly will unleash so many lawsuits against so many counted-upon regulations that citizens may wake up to the equivalent of, like, no stop signs in their town anymore, except for it’ll be on gun regulation.

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Of School Bus Drivers and a Confrontation Outside of My Kids’ School

Sun, 06/04/2023 - 13:00

A school bus driver is solely responsible for the safety and well-being of the kiddos on his or her bus. On 99.998% of school days, it’s just another day. Other times it requires thinking outside the box and sometimes even heroic actions.

Such is the case of a Milwaukee school bus driver named Imunek Williams. While 6-months pregnant, she pulled over upon smelling smoke. By the time she got the three-dozen plus kids off and ensured the bus was empty, the vehicle was engulfed by flames and smoke.

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Situational Awareness: Life in Condition White

Sun, 06/04/2023 - 10:00

 

The condition color codes — levels of situational awareness — were conceived by Jeff Cooper decades ago. He opined that much of society perpetually spends their time in Condition White – essentially oblivious to the potential for threat. Some folks (particularly those who have martial arts, firearms, and/or other weapons background) are more likely to operate in Condition Yellow – essentially relaxed, but always mindful of the possibility of a threat materializing.

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Mogulescu: Clarence Thomas is to Blame for America’s Escalating Violent Crime Problem

Sun, 06/04/2023 - 08:00

Hardly a day or a week goes by without another mass shooting. But the opinion authored by Thomas (and joined by the other five extreme right-wing justices) in New York Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen (2022) has made most commons (sic) sense gun control regulations illegal and will lead to more people being killed and maimed by weapons of war that have no business in the hands of civilians. It also imposed a cramped, extremist version of right-wing “originalism” on Supreme Court interpretation.

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Life in California: Judge Robbed in Broad Daylight Across the Street from Oakland Courthouse

Sat, 06/03/2023 - 16:00

California’s comprehensive regime of strict gun control laws have worked to ensure that mostly bad guys have guns in the Golden State. Gavin Newsom’s done his damnedest through radically restrictive limits on keeping and bearing arms to keep firearms out of the hands of most good men and women. That leaves the violent criminals to carry freely, especially in jurisdictions where Soros-funded (non)prosecutors rule the roost.

In Oakland, a trio of brazen armed robbers struck Thursday morning just outside the Alameda County Courthouse.

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Massive Noncompliance: ATF Says Only 250,000 Braced Pistol Owners Registered Their Guns

Sat, 06/03/2023 - 10:00

In news that comes as a shock to no one, only only a tiny handful of braced pistol owners jumped through the hoops of completing an eForm 1 for braced pistols they owned during the just-completed “amnesty” period. According to The Reload, ATF says it received just over a quarter-million applications before the “grace period” for registrations closed on May 31st.

A quarter million? Various sources put the number of pistol stabilizing braces owned by Americans at between 10 and 40 million.

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Smith: Leftists Who Run America’s Cities Have No Interest In Actually Reducing Violence

Sat, 06/03/2023 - 08:00

One of the most common strategies used by the political left to attack 2nd Amendment supporters is to ramp up the anti-gun hype every time a crime involving a gun is committed. They don’t care much about the tragedy itself, they only care about how they can use it for political gain. However, it’s very important to understand that this is not only about removing gun rights for leftists – It’s also about creating a false association in the public consciousness that guns = crime.

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Father’s Day Gift Guide: Five Affordable EDC Knives

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 16:00

 

Father’s day is coming up fast. You want to give dear old Dad something he’ll appreciate and use every day while not dipping too deeply into your ammo budget. Here’s an easy choice — everyone needs a good everyday carry knife. Or another one.

I never leave the house without a blade in my pocket and neither should you…or your pop. So here are five good, basic, very functional everyday carry knives that you can afford to give and your Dad will be happy to own.

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May Adjusted Background Checks – AKA Gun Sales – Up 3.2% Over 2022 at 1.2 Million

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 12:00

Ho hum. Another month, another million-plus guns sold to an increasing number of Americans who are deciding to exercise their right to keep and bear arms. At this new post-Covid surge level of gun sales, which looks to be stable, the guns that are sold every month aren’t going only to existing gun owners (as the gun control droogs used to tell themselves). More people are deciding to become gun owners for the first time.

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State of Play: Gun Industry Moved 2A Rights Forward, One State Bill at a Time

Fri, 06/02/2023 - 10:00

A new Axios report shows state lawmakers passed more pro-firearm industry bills over the past 12 months than gun control measures. That’s reflective of the efforts of NSSF’s Government Relations – State Affairs team working relentlessly to promote, protect and preserve the firearm industry from gun control efforts that seek to hobble and even destroy it.

According to the Axios report, more than 1,700 firearm-related bills have been introduced in state legislatures since last May, following the Uvalde, Texas, tragedy.

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Why All the Hate for Smart Guns?

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 16:00

We’ve been hearing about “smart guns” for well over a quarter century. The dream (of some) has been a gun that recognizes its owner and will only work for that person. The idea is to make sure that people who aren’t authorized — thieves, children — are locked out and can’t use the firearm. That ideal is obvious and laudable. The history and execution, so far, have been less than impressive.

Lots of people have advocated a wide array of designs and hyped allegedly market-ready models.

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Gun Review: Mauser M18 Savanna Rifle in .270 Winchester

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 14:00

I hate starting out a review with an apology, but it’s necessary. Jason Evans, CEO of the Blaser Group, spent his valuable time on an interview with me at the Dallas Safari Club in January of 2023, and I lost (well, deleted) the video. Obviously, it was an accident, but I feel terrible about it. Jason, sorry about that!

Fortunately, the rifle we discussed at DSC – the Mauser 18 Savanna – didn’t go missing.

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The Newest Supporter of Gun Rights for All in America Is…Hunter Biden?

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 11:49

As you may know, Hunter Biden isn’t someone many people would call a responsible gun owner. The President’s son is a well-known junkie and crackhead. As you probably also know, it’s illegal for someone with Biden-the-younger’s drug habits to buy and own a firearm. Not that legal niceties like that ever stopped him. Even the doddering President himself conceded last year that Hunter lied on a 4473 form when buying a handgun in 2018.

For those of you keeping score at home, that’s a federal felony.

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Dorstewitz: Gun Control Laws Endanger Americans Instead of Protecting Them

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 09:00

Every time Democrats unveil a new gun control proposal, their message is the same: their bill, if enacted, will save lives. Actually the exact opposite is true.

States have recently rushed to pass new laws in response to a decision the U.S. Supreme Court made last year in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association vs. Bruen.

It held that the Second Amendment prohibits government requiring applicants to prove a “special need” in order to be issued a concealed carry permit.

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Three Injunctions Now Block ATF’s Pistol Brace Ban, Protecting Members of Three Gun Rights Orgs

Thu, 06/01/2023 - 07:09

Last night, Fifth District Court Judge Drew Tipton issued an injunction blocking the ATF’s enforcement of its pistol brace rule that goes into effect today. As with an earlier Fifth Circuit ruling in Mock v. Garland blocking enforcement against Firearms Policy Coalition members, Judge Tipton’s order in Texas v. ATF applies to the named plaintiffs in the lawsuit. In this case, that includes all employees of the state of Texas and current members of Gun Owners of America.

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Things That Don’t Suck: Shadow Equipment Chest Rigs

Wed, 05/31/2023 - 12:00

By Lee Williams 

The first piece of tactical gear Shadow Equipment owner Sean Parker ever made was a set of sling silencers. Parker was hanging out with a buddy who complained that his QD mounts jingle-jangled on his AR. Parker saw that the solution was simple. 

“I bought some elastic, folded it in half and stitched it a few times,” he said. “My friends bought a bunch of them. I only spent $10 on materials, and this was fun.

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