The Gun Mag

By Dave Workman Senior Editor In a small but significant smackdown of a California gun control law gone too far, a federal court judge this week struck down a section of the state penal code that prohibits handgun advertising at gun stores that would be visible from outside the store. It was a victory for […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The online store Shopify recently surprised customers that it had updated its rules and would no longer allow the sale of many firearms, ammunition and accessories. As reported by CBS News and others, Shopify listed the restricted items, and it is a long list. TGM checked the Shopify website […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor The publicly traded Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. reported in early August that for the second quarter of 2018 the Company had net sales of $128.4 million and diluted earnings of 86¢ per share, compared with net sales of $131.9 million and diluted earnings of 57¢ per share […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Out West we have a tradition that drives upland wingshooting purists up the proverbial wall. We occasionally shoot grouse with pistols. I’ve been doing it for years in Washington state, and it’s legal in Alaska, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and elsewhere, but be sure to consult your state’s regulations. Bonking […]

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By TGM Staff A three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 24 that the Second Amendment guarantees Americans’ right to carry a gun for self-defense in public, overturning a Hawaii licensing rule that limited gun possession to the home. The ruling, which comes one year after the Supreme […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor An insightful article by Sandra Tan in the Aug. 5 Buffalo News painted a revealing, fact-filled picture of concealed carry license numbers in Erie County, NY, which has a population of about 910,000, and those numbers are trending upward. Some 90,000 pistol licenses may not seem like a […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor For the second time in less than a year, the number of active Washington State concealed pistol licenses has exceeded 590,000, with the state Department of Licensing reporting that there were 594,812 citizens licensed to carry as September arrived, and that number may have climbed even more by now. This […]

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Aimpoint launches new ACRO™ Series red-dot sight The Swedish firm Aimpoint, originator and a world leader in red dot sighting technology, is now introducing their new line of red dot sights, the Aimpoint® ACRO™ (Advanced Compact Reflex Optic) Series. The unique small sight design of the ACRO series electronic red-dot sight was developed for use […]

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By Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor Arms manufactured in Israel have been available to American shooters for a few decades, with the best known being the UZI carbine, Galil rifle, and the Jericho 941 pistol imported by Action Arms. More recently IWI (Israel Weapons Industry) introduced the Tavor line of bullpup rifles and now […]

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By James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA       “The North can make a steam engine, locomotive or railway car, hardly a yard of cloth or a pair of shoes can you make… You are bound to fail….At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out […]

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The USA Shooting Team opened the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup at the Tucson, AZ, Trap and Skeet Club on July 12 by claiming gold and silver in the Women’s Skeet event. Six-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode of El Monte, CA, claimed the 18th World Cup gold medal of her career – 30th […]

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By R, K Campbell | Contributing Editor The Remington 870 DM is a detachable magazine pump-action shotgun that is garnering a great deal of interest, and both positive and negative comments. It isn’t the first detachable magazine shotgun as the AK types have been in use for some time and there are detachable aftermarket kits […]

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By Scott Smith | Contributing Editor In the shooting industry it is rare that firearms get a second chance. Generally when they are “reissued” it is because the first version had issues and shooters remember the initial failure. This is not the case with the Ruger PC9 (Phone: 336-949-5200; Online: ruger.com). In the early ’90s […]

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By Art Merrill | Contributing Editor What’s the size of a breadbox and can anneal brass cases safely on your benchtop without heat? The Annealing Made Perfect annealing machine, and no, that isn’t a typo – the AMP annealer uses no high temperature flame or electric element, and annealing a case takes less time than […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor (Images courtesy Scot Linden, City of Redfield, SD) Call them “ringnecks” or “Chinabirds,” or whatever you darned well please, there may be no other game bird that matches—for the upland shotgunner, that is—the fascination of the pheasant. Depending upon which history one chooses to believe, pheasants were brought to […]

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By Tanya Metaksa Latest developments— Federal legislation H.R. 5087, Political: Alabama, Oregon, Judicial US Supreme Court; Young v. State of Hawaii; Thyng, et. al v. City of Seattle; Defense Distributed; Duncan v. Becerra; Politics: Alabama; State Legislation: Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey; Virgin Islands 115th Congress (2nd session) H.R. 2, The Farm Bill, passed the House […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Woodrow Glazer from New Prague High School in Minnesota took home the National Championship title at the USA High School Clay Target League’s inaugural National Championship when the guns went silent on July 15 in Mason, MI. Glazer shot a perfect 200×200 over the course of the individual […]

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Are gun owners actively contacting lawmakers? Dear Editor: Hope I’m wrong but it appears that the anti-gun types are becoming more energized, while what’s with the pro-gun/gun rights side seems uncertain. Might I be missing salient points regarding the above? The question, it seems, is as follows: To what extent are readers of GunMag in […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor No sooner had the Department of Justice cleared the way for Texas entrepreneur Cody Wilson at Defense Distributed to publish its 3-D technology online, via a settlement of Wilson’s longstanding lawsuit over prior restraint than did the legal landscape erupt with challenges. While Wilson and the Second Amendment Foundation filed […]

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By Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor There are two items in this issue of TheGunMag that are meaningfully connected. They are the report by Dave Workman on Page 17 about the Good Samaritans whose intercession terminated an armed attack at a Walmart store in Tumwater, WA: Jesse Zamora and David George. Both armed men […]

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