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by TGM staff It wouldn’t be a SHOT Show without some new knives, and this year will see several companies trotting out brand new models. There’s a new survival knife model from White River Knife & Tool (whiteriverknives.com) for 2017, made in the USA. This knife has a 5-inch full-tang Micarta canvas green handle with […]

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by TGM staff Serious hunters and shooters have come to rely on the best optics they can find, and those scopes, binoculars and spotters have become a big part of the SHOT Show. New from Swarovski Optik (swarovskioptik.com) is the Z8i rifle scope, featuring an 8mm zoom and a switchable reticle called the FLEXCHANGE 4A-IF. […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor American shotgunners are in for some treats this year, with new models from the top smoothbore manufacturers that cover lots of ground. We may not have advance information on all of them, but you’ll find quite a few interesting new scatterguns below. Browning (browning.com) is entering the fifth year […]

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New bullets, tools and accessories invariably get the juices flowing for devoted reloaders, and for 2017, there are several new products that have been announced. Sierra (sierrabullets.com) has announced additions to the MatchKing line of bullets. One is a 197-grain 7mm projectile. It has an elongated ogive and is designed for use in barrels with […]

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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor NAS3 A small company with a big departure in cartridge case technology earned my coveted 2017 plaque recognizing The Most Innovative New Product That Could Possibly Have The Single Biggest Impact On Ammunition Technology Since Invention Of The Self-Contained Brass Cartridge. Obviously, it’s a large plaque. We told you […]

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by TGM staff This may not go down as the “year of the rifle,” but there are some brand new long guns worth attention for American shooters as 2017 unfolds. This is the 100th anniversary of the Browning Automatic Rifle, and for 2017, Browning (browning.com) is commemorating the centennial event with a special semi-auto sporting […]

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   Roy Innis, who became a giant in the civil rights arena, and served on the National Rifle Association Board of Directors for many years, passed away Jan. 7 after a long illness. He was 82.    Innis served as chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality for many years, and was described by the Washington […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show is the world’s largest exhibition of firearms, ammunition and accessories that unfolds every January in Las Vegas, attracting tens of thousands of industry professionals including manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers. This is a monstrous show, held on two levels of the […]

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by R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor The .38 ACP Super is easily our least popular handgun chambering that is still in production. Just the same, many thousands are in use with a small but dedicated group of fans. The history of the .38 Super is a thrice-told tale. (Fans refer to the cartridge as the […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA   With the month of January comes a new 2017 calendar. This calendar is where the year-long schedule of shooting, rendezvous, re-enactments, gun shows, hunting, fishing, and everything else will be marked down. You can still only be at one place at a time and many of […]

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 The New York Times’ perennially anti-Second Amendment editorial page recently came out swinging against the notion of nationwide concealed carry reciprocity just one day after the CEO of Levi Strauss essentially told millions of legally-licensed Americans that he doesn’t want them carrying firearms into the company’s retail outlets. One day later, the United States Concealed […]

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New Jersey’s attorney general wants to settle a lawsuit that would end the state’s ban on civilians buying stun guns, according to ABC News.. The settlement talks involve a federal lawsuit filed in August by Mark Cheeseman and the New Jersey Second Amendment Society and stem from a US Supreme Court ruling that suggests stun […]

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   A dozen men died and more than 30 other people were wounded over the Christmas holidays in Chicago, adding a grim noted to a weekend that should have celebrated peace on earth.    The city was on track to rack up 800 homicides by the end of the year.    According to the Chicago […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Washington Congresswoman Suzan DelBene has introduced legislation that would prohibit the government from “creating religious registries” in response to an alleged proposal from President-elect Donald Trump about “the noxious concept of a registry.” The Seattle Times supported DelBene’s plan in an editorial, observing, “Today it’s Muslims but tomorrow it […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Almost immediately after taking office, Donald Trump will have an opportunity to make a difference because, according to the Washington Post, more than 100 federal court vacancies need to be filled, including an empty seat on the U.S. Supreme Court.    If Trump lives up to his campaign rhetoric, […]

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A unique fund raising effort is at the heart of a new television project by California producer Alan Pezzuto at Reel Magic Productions that aims to “track the life and times of specific firearms,” and he is launching an INDIEGOGO.COM campaign on inauguration day, Jan. 20. His goal is to raise $360,000. “That is the […]

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“Drug overdose deaths are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, ahead of motor vehicle deaths and firearms (deaths),” the Drug Enforcement Agency announced on Dec. 7, according to reports in the Washington Post and CNSNews.com. In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, 46,471 people in the United […]

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A new lawsuit that challenges New York State laws prohibiting possession of electronic weapons including stun guns and Tasers has been filed by the Firearms Policy Foundation and Matthew Avitabile, who happens to be mayor of Middleburgh, NY. They are suing New York state over a regulation that outlaws the possession of electronic weapons including […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) was rightfully pleased after scoring two small but significant victories in California in December, settling one case and getting another remanded back to a lower court for hearing of arguments. It amounted to a couple on the chin for Golden State anti-gunners. The […]

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The coverage of the 2016 general election was marked with overwhelming negativity, according to a new report from The Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center, released on Dec. 7. The study, which analyzed news reports on the main newscasts from the major cable and broadcast networks along with major daily newspapers like The New York Times […]

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