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In another youth oriented undertaking, the Scholastic Shooting Sports Foundation (SSSF) is kicking off a new membership campaign titled “Vision 20/20.” The emphasis of the campaign is to swell the ranks of youth membership in the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) and Scholastic Action Shooting Program (SASP) to over 20,000 children and young adults annually […]

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US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe announced on Oct. 4 that the agency will expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 13 refuges throughout the Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System. The final rule also modifies existing refuge-specific regulations on more than 70 other refuges and wetland management districts. This includes migratory bird, upland […]

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) stepped up for Ronald McDonald House by being a major sponsor at two recent sporting clays fundraiser shoots organized by Kids & Clays, the organization that harnesses the support of the firearms community to benefit Ronald McDonald House Charities. The 2016 Inaugural Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut Sporting Clays […]

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Passing thoughts on ‘assault weapons,’ AGs Dear Editor: I note that there is the usual push, in the usual places, add to that some places that might not be so usual, for a ban on “assault weapons,” items that are strangely or maybe not so strangely undefined. While one understands what an “assault rifle” is, […]

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Perspective by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor This being a presidential election year have you considered how many of our past-present holders of the oval office have been shooters. This might be a good time to examine the shooting habits of some of our past Chief Executives. We are well aware of the current […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    “It’s time to make the Second Amendment great again,” declared Alan Gottlieb, founder and Executive Vice President of the Second Amendment Foundation.    He also chairs the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.    Gottlieb was playing on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s campaign slogan in […]

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By Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor Although there was some doubt on its being held at Sparta, IL, at the World Shooting Complex grounds, the 2016 Grand went off on schedule August 3-13, 2016. Only the humid weather and a bit of precipitation were downsides. No major storms blowing down vendor tents, overturning shade […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor It’s almost over—the quadrennial selection of a president, often referred to as the most powerful man in the world. Although, when the ballots are finally counted, recounted and challenged in courtrooms, the voters may have selected the most powerful woman in the world. We’ll see! It seems strange […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor A recently-released study by the Associated Press and USA Today network that claimed there are annually more accidental firearms-related deaths among American youngsters and teens drew immediate skepticism from one of the nation’s largest firearms civil rights organizations. The report, according to CBS News, used information from the Gun […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) has announced that its current MegaLink Target Systems will be available for purchase as it upgrades to an optical target system by Kongsberg Target Systems in our air gun ranges. The CMP said it has finalized our installation schedule and is ready to […]

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By Jim Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA “Take your pills! Take your pills!” was a cry that rang through the 2016 Living History and Rendezvous Association’s 40th Anniversary Eastern Primitive Rendezvous each morning. I had to laugh at myself because I hadn’t taken mine. Actually about half the people in camp hadn’t taken theirs either […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor While the City of Seattle remains mum about the revenue it has, or has not, realized from a year-old “gun violence tax” on firearms and ammunition sold in the city, the largest firearms retailer in Seattle is not being so quiet. He thinks the city has lost a lot of […]

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By John Markwell | Contributing Editor Like most outdoors folks, we have a weakness for knives. And, like many folks we seemingly have more than we need or can use. However, like most who are reading this, we do have a couple of truly favorite knives that are much like old friends. We keep them […]

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No matter the outcome of the 2016 US Senate and House races, Hillary Clinton, if victorious, intends to attack everyone’s gun rights. Recently leaked emails of Clinton campaign staffers published by WikiLeaks show that the candidate plans to bypass Congress to enact gun control by executive order. Moreover, undercover video of US Senate candidate Russ […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor Criminal cases unfolding against an alleged cop killer in Palm Springs, CA, the accused mall gunman in Burlington, WA, and a suspected “straw purchaser” in Seattle have once again underscored the failure of gun control laws in both states. The Seattle Times reported that detectives investigating the Cascade Mall […]

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A Connecticut judge on Oct. 14 finally ruled in the Sandy Hook lawsuit, dismissing a wrongful-death action brought by Newtown families against the maker of the rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, citing an embattled federal law that shields gun manufacturers from most lawsuits over criminal use of their products. State […]

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The Garland County, AR, Quorum Court has voted in favor of allowing county employees with concealed carry permits to bring firearms to work, Associated Press reported. The Quorum Court repeatedly deflected motions to give the plan more consideration before voting 9-3 in favor of it recently, according to the Sentinel-Record Justices of the Peace Denise […]

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Newsmax.com reported on Oct. 17 that John Podesta lamented that a Muslim, not a white man, was the shooter in San Bernardino, CA, crediting the latest batch of revelations by WikiLeaks. In what appears to be another instance of the Democratic Party trying in earnest to avoid linking terrorism to Islam, Hillary Clinton campaign chairman […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor America’s mainstream press ignores surveys that show gun ownership is up and only pays attention to surveys that suggest it is declining because “they want to make gun owners feel isolated, that they are somehow different.” So said veteran researcher John Lott, founder of the Crime Prevention Research Center […]

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  by Tanya Metaksa Latest developments—H.R. 6176; 2016 election news; Anti-Second Amendment referenda: California, Maine, Nevada, Washington; S. 2012; Judicial: Sandy Hook victims v. Remington; Pullman Arms Inc., Guns and Gear, LLC, Paper City Firearms, LLC, GRRR! Gear, INC., and National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc. v. Maura Healey, Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; […]

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