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Tom writes . . . I’m retired in my mid 70s and living in a semi-rural part of the state. My EDC hasn’t changed with the current madness and I always carry when I leave home. My EDC varies depending on where I’m going, what I’ll be doing when I get there and what I’ll […]

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I make a habit of counting the number of reloads I make by keeping a tally of primer and bullet boxes. I’m not a hoarder and I don’t keep them, but I am detailed in my process. I reached an interesting number the other day. I realized that I had hit a very special count […]

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I’ve owned a lot of knives over the years. One of the first ones I bought was the small, light, handy and pocketable SOG Flash. I carried it for a couple of years before, sadly, I lost it somewhere along the way. That was long ago and I haven’t owned anther SOG since. Until now. […]

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By LKB As you may recall, what seems like an eternity ago — two years — a panel of the Ninth Circuit handed down a decision in Young v. Hawaii. In that case, the petitioner was denied a Hawaii concealed carry permit. Hawaii is technically a “may issue” state that requires an “exceptional case” for […]

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation has just released their tally of adjusted NICS background checks for April. It’s the best indicator of retail gun sales activity. The number show that during the COVID-19 emergency, with prisons and jails continuing to release criminals and police forces reduced by infections, Americans are buying more guns than ever […]

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A new study of the effect of red flag laws on suicides was published this month. The study title and a first glance at the Methods section, got my hopes up. The impact of gun violence restraining order laws in the U.S. and firearm suicide among older adults: a longitudinal state-level analysis, 2012–2016 “This is […]

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[This post is part of our series, What I’m Carrying Now. If you’d like to submit a photo and description of the gun, holster and gear you’re carrying in the new world in which we live, send it to us at thetruthaboutguns@gmail.com with WICN in the subject field.] Raul D. writes . . . I’m carrying a GLOCK 22 with […]

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You can’t find the 5.56 ammunition you really need. All you’ve seen for weeks are empty shelves. No one has any in stock. No one except Midway USA. Midway got their hands on a huge shipment of top quality full metal jacket Federal M855 5.56 NATO green tip ammunition and they’re selling it in ammo cans […]

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[This post is part of our series, What I’m Carrying Now. If you’d like to submit a photo and description of the gun, holster and gear you’re carrying in the new world in which we live, send it to us at thetruthaboutguns@gmail.com with WICN in the subject field.] Wilburn Roberts writes . . . Someone wrote in the […]

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I was introduced to Joe Marler (Law Enforcement Sales Manager at Daniel Defense), the host for my visit to the Daniel Defense manufacturing facility, when we both participated in the Government Training Institute Legion‘s Precision Rifle With Elevated Shooting Course. During the course, Joe and I were paired as we shot from an elevated railing. […]

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Fromt the NSSF . . . NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi joined USCCA President and Founder Tim Schmidt for a YouTube webcast talking about the phenomenon of the spike in firearm purchases during the coronavirus pandemic. NSSF released the adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check figures and March 2020 topped the record for the […]

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[This post is part of our series, What I’m Carrying Now. If you’d like to submit a photo and description of the gun, holster and gear you’re carrying in the new world in which we live, send it to us at thetruthaboutguns@gmail.com with WICN in the subject field.] A reader somewhere in Iowa writes . . . […]

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The good news recently is that some states that initially closed gun stores have reversed those decisions. Delaware‘s John Carney, Jr. and Pennsylvania’s Tom Wolf — no friends of guns, they — have been persuaded that closing their state’s gun stores during a national emergency, when police departments are struggling to keep cops on the […]

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[This is the second post in a series on 3D printing for producing your own homemade firearms and accessories. See our first post here. Despite the best efforts of federal and state level politicians, making your own guns at home for your own use is still legal in almost every state (some require registration…check your […]

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Bullet Load GIF from Bullet GIFs You’re home. It’s Sunday. You’ve already seen every movie on cable and streamed everything worth watching. Please don’t tell us there are empty magazines in your house.

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Democrat Nikki Fried, Florida’s Commissioner of Agriculture & Consumer Services, is in charge of processing the state’s concealed carry permit applications. She has announced through a press release that her office is halting the processing of all conceal carry permit applications through at least April 19 due to the Chinese coronavirus pandemic. Acceptance of New […]

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By Samara McPhedran, Griffith University Immediately after the Christchurch massacre in 2019, the New Zealand government pledged dramatic gun law changes. A year later, amid an ongoing elevated terror level, the government has quietly dropped its promises the laws will prevent future mass shootings. It has shifted instead to platitudes about never wanting to see […]

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Back in 2017, not long after SIG SAUER won the Army’s modular handgun system competition, Steyr Arms sued SIG over their P250 and P320 modular designs. The lawsuit claimed that SIG infringed on Steyr’s 2001 “plastic housing and multifunction metal part removably mounted” design patent. Basically, the Austrian gun maker claimed that an internal metal […]

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What follows is commentary I submitted in response to a column in the Minnesota StarTribune, penned by a police officer advocating a “red flag” confiscation law. I didn’t really expect them to publish it, and they didn’t. My goal in sending it to the Strib was to plant some seeds in the mind of whoever […]

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Lansky Sharpeners and their new D-Sharp Diamond Multi-Angle Sharpener brings reliability to an essential job. There’s no time like the present to remind yourself of the Golden Rule when it comes to owning a knife: Keeping it sharp is of utmost importance. You already know that, but are you following through with the notion? Lansky Sharpeners is […]

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