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We hate to ruin your weekend with news of fecklessness (and probably too many naps) at the White House, but America’s newspaper of record is deeply concerned about what’s happening there. Or, more accurately, what’s not happening. From The New York Times . . . “Six years ago, it was guns. Five years ago, it […]

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Last week, we ran a story reporting on NRA Board member Anthony Colandro posing with some “gun safety literature” that’s produced by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. Since that story ran, we’ve received a lot of communications of high praise for Mr. Colandro’s 2A bonafides. The consensus is that the brochures were just an […]

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The law, which some advocates call “constitutional carry,” will take effect July 1. “Today I signed legislation that protects the 2nd Amendment rights of Iowa’s law-abiding citizens while still preventing the sale of firearms to criminals and other dangerous individuals,” [Governor Kim] Reynolds, a Republican, said in a statement after signing the measure Friday afternoon. […]

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I’m a lazy carrier. I have big guns, big knives and big lights, but when it comes time to gear up, I almost invariably choose the smallest gun, the lightest knife and the slimmest light. I just don’t like to be weighed down. I want to carry the least intrusive gear possible. That’s why when […]

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By Michael Balsamo and Colleen Long, AP A man rammed a car into two Capitol Police officers at a barricade outside the U.S. Capitol on Friday afternoon before being shot to death by authorities when he got out of the vehicle while holding what appeared to be a knife, two law enforcement officials told The […]

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The National Guard troops that provided a cordon around the US Capitol for a couple of months until recently didn’t appear to have any magazines in their rifles. Now comes news that a single individual managed to hold 11 Guard members at gunpoint yesterday. Why he did that isn’t exactly clear yet. Are Guardsmen ever […]

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By John Velleco The Ninth Circuit’s contempt for the Second Amendment is no secret. As one of Gun Owners of America’s other recent briefs explained: “[p]ractically speaking, the Ninth Circuit has never found a Second Amendment violation it won’t countenance.” Just this week, the Ninth Circuit once again lived up to its reputation, handing down […]

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As the Daily Mail is reporting, “Virginia Beach Police Chief Paul Neudigate said that the incidents unfolded at least three separate crime scenes, and police were working to determine whether and how the events were connected. ‘What you can see is we have a very chaotic incident. A very chaotic night in the beach. Many […]

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Public opinion polls show that as mass shootings and other gun violence has increased in America, Republicans actually oppose gun safety efforts even more. Predictably — and far more logically — Democrats and liberals respond to mass shootings and other gun-violence tragedies with greater support for gun safety laws. Death anxiety has a profound influence on American politics in other […]

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Several Monroe County, Iowa officials thought it was a good idea to sue a gun rights group and one individual over their righteous challenge to some illegal gun-free zones that have been established on county property. Now the litigious officials are facing a counterclaim for violating the civil rights of members of the Iowa Firearms […]

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Remember all of the almost immediate cries of shock and horror that followed news of the shooting in a Boulder, Colorado supermarket on Monday? It wasn’t because of the bloodshed. It was because the city’s illegal “assault weapons” ban law had been struck down only days before Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa walked into a Boulder […]

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From the Second Amendment Organization . . . Second Amendment Organization is proud to announce that gun rights advocate, civil rights history educator and firearms instructor Kevin Dixie has joined our Board of Directors. Kevin Dixie, born in Saint Louis, Missouri, is the owner-operator of No Other Choice Firearms Training (NOC) and the Founder of […]

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By Andy Massimilian The gun industry needs to acknowledge and act on a simple fact of life: if you are involved with guns, you are unavoidably involved in politics…whether you like it or not. Turning new gun owners into new gun voters starts with educating and engaging them regularly. Range owners and FFLs need to […]

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Over and over again, Joe Biden and his party insist that we need to add more bureaucracy into the gun-buying process. Indeed, were “universal background checks” to be imposed upon the 37 states that have thus far declined to add them, Form 4473 would be a part of every single gun transaction — including, in many cases, […]

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From the NSSF . . . The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearm industry trade association, rejects the legal gymnastics the 7-4 en banc panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit employed to rule the Second Amendment does not guarantee the right to bear arms outside the home. The court’s ruling […]

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From Gun Owners of America . . . Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit reversed a district court decision which had denied Gun Owners of America’s motion for a preliminary injunction preventing the ATF from implementing a final rule classifying bump stocks as machine guns under federal law. This case was brought […]

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By Jim Hammond May 7, 2020 was Independence Day in Massachusetts. The governor declared that golf courses in the state could open under a series of restrictions to prevent the spread of Covid-19. My golfing buddy and I were enjoying a post-round drink in the clubhouse. “Well you are now officially retired,” I said, “and […]

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By Larry Keane Chris Cheng outperformed competitors to win History Channel’s Top Shot championship, but his best performance yet may have been on Capitol Hill defending gun rights this week. The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled, “Constitutional and Common Sense Steps to Reduce Gun Violence.” In the wake of the tragic murders in […]

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After two high profile mass shootings in a week, the BidenHarris White House is under intense pressure from their backers in the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex as well as their cheerleaders in the media to do something…anything…to further impinge on Americans’ right to keep and bear arms. Not wanting to let the current “crisis” pass […]

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According to Politico’s reporting, Hunter Biden lied on his ATF Form 4473, the firearm transaction record and background check form, on October 12, 2018 when he swore under penalty of $250k fine and 10 years imprisonment that he was not a drug user. Then, only 11 days later, Hunter’s then-girlfriend (the widow of his not-long-deceased […]

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