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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    Hawken rifles have fascinated me for years. Those, mostly percussion, rifles simply have “the look” of guns that can be depended on.     They were built to be the toughest and most rugged guns available at the time of the mountain men, during the fur trade and through […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Gun owners and Second Amendment activists descended on the Rhode Island Capitol Wednesday for a marathon public hearing which covered several pieces of legislation but primarily focused on one very unpopular measure, S 0359, the proposed Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025. This nine-page bill drew scores of yellow […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Beaver State lawmakers have backed off a bit on gun control, stripping out a provision for a three-day waiting period and eliminating another tenet which would have raised the minimum age for gun possession. OregonLive/Portland Oregonian is reporting the Senate Rules Committee voted Wednesday “along party lines” to move a scaled-back Senate […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief I never fancied myself fast on the draw, although from my early days of carrying a sidearm, through the years of some local competitions and being in the back country where things often happen suddenly, with experience came speed, and no small degree of accuracy. The combination of factors helped capture a […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Tuesday should have been a big day for the Fort Devens Rifle & Pistol Club, Inc. After a legal battle that lasted three years, the civilian gun club members were about to return to the ranges of Fort Devens for a day of shooting and camaraderie. The small […]

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By Gary Marbut, President Montana Shooting Sports Association (Special to TheGunMag.com) Editor’s Note: Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Assn. has just issued his report on this year’s legislative session, and graciously provided a copy to TGM. Here’s the rundown for the session.SuccessesSenate Joint Resolution 7, urging the Board of Regents to get […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Capitol Hill and the establishment press can’t get a break from a public which dislikes or is at least disappointed with them all, according to the results of two recent Rasmussen surveys conducted earlier this month. Both reports might underscore why the nation’s gun owners are particularly perturbed, and why they […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Alleging a pattern of “gross and substantial waste, fraud and abuse, as well as potentially criminal false certification of government records and whistleblower retaliation” involving two senior officials at the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst want Attorney General Pamela Bondi to […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Snope v. Brown and Ocean State Tactical v. Rhode Island scheduled for conference of May 15; Smith & Wesson v. Mexico: Case 22-1823: To be decided within the next two months; Wolford v. Lopez: scheduled for conference on June 4; Wehr-Darroca v. D.C: large capacity magazine ban; Pennsylvania: Young v. Ott: […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Former media darling David Hogg, who rose to prominence as a “survivor” of the 2018 Parkland high school shooting in Florida, may have outlived his usefulness to Democrats, as the Democratic National Convention has voided his election earlier this year as vice chair of the Democratic Party. According to Fox News […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief One month after a fatal shooting which ironically occurred outside of a gun violence prevention meeting in Memphis, Tenn., CrimeStoppers announced a $50,000 reward offer “to anyone who helps identify one or more people involved,” according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal. The shooting left one man dead and five others wounded. […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer Upon receiving the Smith & Wesson Mode17 .22 Masterpiece revolver for review at Reeves Ace Hardware in Clayton, Georgia I was excited to get to shoot one again. It had been many years since I had the chance to shoot this model and it had always shot perfectly for […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief New York state lawmakers in Albany have adopted a new state budget which includes $2.5 million for the creation of a state Office of Gun Violene Prevention (OGVP), an offshoot of the now-defunct Biden administration  program which was scrapped almost immediately after President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January. […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor     A good carry gun has many qualities that are easily defined. Reliability is foremost. Speed into action, good practical accuracy, and a weight that isn’t too heavy on the hip are important.    The pistol should chamber a fight stopping cartridge. My expectations of life are rosy and […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project COMMENTARY: The ATF admitted it issues $1,300 rifle suppressors for the “health and safety” of its law enforcement agents, “due to the extensive training and quarterly firearms qualifications they must complete,” according to our story published Wednesday. But those three words chosen by the ATF – health and […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief In a 7-2 ruling, the Washington State Supreme Court has upheld the state’s ban on so-called “large-capacity magazines,” declaring in a 19-page decision that such magazines are not “arms” protected by the Second Amendment. Writing for the majority, Associate Justice Charles W. Johnson stated, “LCMs also fall outside either protection of […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The philosophical chasm between Democrats and Republicans on guns and the Second Amendment is no more evident than in Maine, where one side is looking at more regulations while the other side is proposing restoration of rights for people convicted of non-violent felonies. News Center Maine is reporting on the situation […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief An unidentified armed citizen intervened in a violent assault in Spokane, Wash., causing the suspect to flee, but he was subsequently captured by County Sheriff’s deputies and Liberty Lake police officers, according to the Sheriff’s Spokane County Office. The suspect, identified as William C. Morris, 36, is in a great deal […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Almost two years after being struck down by an Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel as unconstitutional, an updated version of Missouri’s Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) is making its way through the State Legislature in Jefferson City. Sponsors of House Bill 1175 say it is supposed to be less […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The suspect in an April 29 multiple murder in Minneapolis, Minn. is a convicted felon who legally could not possess a firearm, but he now faces four counts of second-degree murder and two counts of attempted second-degree murder, along with a single count of illegal gun possession. Despite the clear facts […]

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