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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Under a new “directive” called “Arming and the Use of Force,” the Department of Defense (DoD) is going to allow soldiers to carry guns…on military bases and office facilities. The Washington Free Beacon has reported that the DoD released its 26-page directive that minutely details how and when service […]

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Inland Liberator .45 ACP 2-shot Derringer From Inland Manufacturing, the maker of truly “real” M1 Carbines comes the modern Liberator .45 ACP Derringer pistol. The Inland Derringer celebrates the original OSS single-shot Liberator pistol of WWII fame manufactured by the Inland Division of General Motors in Dayton, Oh, for resistance forces in Europe. In an […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA   Rendezvousing, muzzleloading target shooting, and living history events all have one thing in common for me: “Friendship.” Where muzzleloaders gather and do these various events all over the country is where I have made some of my best friendships, and this last year was no different. […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor When some shooters lose a close match, they frequently push for a change in the rules. They are a lot like the Hillary Clinton supporters, politicians and media that are once again suggesting we amend the Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and elect presidents by a popular […]

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By Colleen Conley SAF Investigative Reporter From Colorado to Florida, campuses, school districts and legislatures have been increasingly willing to toss out the vulnerabilities that come hand-in-hand with “gun-free zones” in favor of concealed carry for adequately trained individuals. School officials in rural Hanover, CO voted 3-2 on Dec. 14 in favor of a measure […]

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Lawful gun owners are ‘new witches’ of Bay State   Dear Editor: Re: Lawful gun owners, the “new” witches to fear. In the 1690s, the good people of Massachusetts Bay were all incensed over the “witches” they found in their community. They jailed, hung and pressed them to death. Justice Stoughton sat in judgment of many […]

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Compiled by Rhett Workman Lawmakers in at least five states will likely face a slew of new gun legislation, some of it aimed at gun control and some aimed at reforming current laws and expanding Second Amendment rights. In Nebraska, according to the Columbus Telegram, Second Amendment activists are looking at a proposal for state […]

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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 to […]

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   This Will Make a Man of You – One Man’s Search for Hemingway and Manhood in a Changing World, by Frank Miniter. Hardcover, 175 pages. Skyhorse Publishing, New York, NY. Written with the style and attention to detail reminiscent of the late Ernest Hemingway, best-selling author and accomplished outdoorsman Frank Miniter’s “This Will Make […]

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Book Review by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor GREATEST GUNS OF GUN DIGEST, edited by Dan Shideler. Published by Gun Digest Books, 700 East State Street, Dept. TGM, Iola, WI 54990-0001. Price: $24.99, plus shipping. Also vailable through most bookstores and online book sellers. One of the last books edited by the late Dan […]

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Review by Tanya K. Metaksa SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED: The New Assaults on Your Second Amendment, by David A. Keene and Thomas L. Mason. ©2016. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018. Hardcover and e-book formats. Price: $22.99 at storefront and online booksellers.     An October 2016 column in Townhall.com […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor An estimated 15 million Americans are now licensed to carry, according to a story in the Washington Examiner, quoting John R. Lott, Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center. TGM spoke with Lott briefly and confirmed the estimate. In a report released earlier this year, Lott had put the number […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Sturm, Ruger was the big winner in recognition by the National Association of Sporting Goods Wholesalers (NASGW) The company won as Firearms Innovator of the Year for the second year in a row and as Firearms Manufacturer of the Year for the tenth year in a row, In […]

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Attorney and Second Amendment scholar Don B. Kates, author of several books and papers on the right to keep and bear arms, has passed away. He was 75. His books included Restricting Handguns: The Liberal Skeptics Speak Out, The Great American Gun Debate: Essays on Firearms and Violence, which he wrote with Gary Kleck, and […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor It was the year that pushed presidential politics into the gutter and made gun rights v. gun control a centerpiece argument not only in the White House campaign, but in every race for Congress, state legislatures and, in a few states, the initiative process. Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump supporters […]

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By Alan Gottlieb & Dave Workman Pledging to protect the Second Amendment is what brought millions of beleaguered American firearms owners to the polls Nov. 8 to elect Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States, and one thing Trump can do to assure them that he deserves their trust would be […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor When gun prohibitionists moved swiftly to exploit the mayhem at Ohio State University, they blew it because their knee-jerk laments about “gun violence” were proven to be without foundation, and the only use of a gun was by a campus police officer who stopped the bloody car and knife attack […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Under a new “directive” called “Arming and the Use of Force,”  the Department of Defense is going to allow soldiers to carry guns…on military bases and office facilities.    The Washington Free Beacon has reported that the DOD released its 26-page directive that minutely details how and when service personnel might be able to be […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor An editorial in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise ripped the New York SAFE Act, suggesting that backers of the gun control measure “didn’t realize the length to which those who want to do harm will go to do so, or maybe the SAFE Act was always more symbolic than pragmatic.” The […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Two of the nation’s leading gun rights organizations are encouraging President-elect Donald Trump to have his attorney general appoint an assistant whose only job will be to go after state and local Second Amendment abuses including “laws designed specifically to infringe on the rights of honest firearms owners.” Their goal […]

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