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District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier vented her frustrations in a media interview before leaving office in August with high popularity and crime down over her tenure but frustrated by a system that she said allows repeat violent offenders back on the street time after time. In a far-ranging interview, the chief of […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When Chicago police arrested two career criminal brothers for the slaying of NBA star Dwayne Wade’s cousin, Nykea Aldridge, the head of a national gun rights organization said the problem is not with gun rights, but with Chicago. The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms […]

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When New York Post writer Michael Goodwin devoted the first half of his Aug. 21 column to media bias, his gloves came off and he pulled no punches. He accused his colleagues at the New York Times and Washington Post of having “jettisoned all pretense of fair play” in their coverage of presidential politics, taking […]

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A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled unanimously Aug. 31 that a federal ban on the sale of firearms to medical marijuana card holders does not violate the Second Amendment. The case involved a Nevada resident named S. Rowan Wilson. She attempted to purchase a gun in 2011, […]

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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo linked the bombing that rocked New York City’s Chelsea District Saturday, Sept. 18 to terrorism, despite earlier reports that authorities were assuming it is apparently not linked to international terrorism. New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo talked with area residents while touring the site of the […]

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Jericho 941 FS ‘Pistol of the week’ IWI US, Inc., a subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) Ltd., is proud to have the Jericho 941 FS pistol named as the National Rifle Association (NRA) “Gun of the Week” on Sept. 10, 2016, on the American Rifleman online site. Based on the highly regarded CZ-75 short […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor You may think the balloting for president in the 2016 election is still some six weeks away, but you’d be wrong. The early balloting has already started in some states and will soon start in many others. This takes the shape of various early voting systems, as well as […]

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More on AG Healey’s ‘copycat’ guns ban   RE: Recent Alan Gottlieb’s comments on Massachusetts Att. General gun bans. “Attorney General Healey has declared war on guns,” Gottlieb said. “Her goal is to eliminate gun ownership. What we need is a ban on assault politicians who do not respect constitutional rights.” Yikes! AG Healey imagines […]

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Review by  John Markwell Lyman 50th Edition Reloading Manual; Thomas J. Griffon, Editor. 2016.Lyman Products Corp., 475 Smith St., Dept. TGM, Middletown, CT 06457. 81/2×11” illustrated soft cover, 528 pages $ 29.98 (hardcover available for $39.98) Debuted at the 2016 NRA convention, this is #50 in a long line of Lyman Reloading Handbooks. Lyman has […]

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By John Markwell | Contributing Editor If you’ve been lucky enough to live at your rural retreat, spend time there on weekends, or are contemplating the big move, there are a myriad of things to think about and occupy your time. We have been fortunate to have lived in truly rural America since 1969.During the […]

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by Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor Cimarron Firearms Company is recognized as a leader in quality and authenticity for replica firearms. Since 1984 they have worked hard to bring replicas into this country that represent the best in authentic detail, fit, and finish in addition to the function and performance of the frontier-style firearms. We […]

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by Jim Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA When I was asked to do a review of one of Davide Pedersoli’s latest firearms, I jumped at the opportunity. The firearm company Davide Pedersoli started building modern double-barrel and over-under shotguns in 1958. It was in 1960 that the company began to build muzzleloaders. The company is […]

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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor As you’ve doubtless experienced, shooters can be an obstinate, opinionated bunch of individuals who like to speak in flat statements. But we start running up against reality when we speak in absolutes like, “They’re exactly the same,” or “You’ll blow up your gun.” Sometimes those absolutes are the result […]

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By Scott Smith | Contributing Editor Today manufacturers are offering handguns to meet shooters needs for competition and practice. We find old school pistols such as 1911s being offered in 9mm for personal protection and competition and numerous “air guns” that look and feel like their centerfire counterparts for practice. It is good to see […]

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by Alan Gottlieb When Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton openly declared war on the so-called “gun lobby” in 2015 as a cornerstone of her White House campaign, she was essentially telling tens of millions of honest American citizens that she considered their fundamental right to keep and bear arms to be a government-regulated privilege. At a […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Almost immediately after the Wall Street Journal revealed that federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement “persuaded” local police officers in Southern California in 2010 to scan the license plates of gun show customers, the Second Amendment Foundation called for a Congressional investigation.    SAF founder and executive Vice […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    When an Oregon Circuit Court judge went off on guns from the bench during the sentencing of a convicted killer, admitting that he would prefer to dump all the guns in America in the ocean, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms publicly called on […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Murders were up sharply in 2015, jumping to 13,455 reported slayings, according to the 2015 FBI Uniform Crime Report, which was released the final week of September. Homicides involving firearms were up, too, from the 8,124 posted in 2014 to 9,616 last year. However, even with these upward spikes, […]

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An Oregon clergyman who spent $3,000 of his church’s “discretionary funds” on tickets to win an AR-15 rifle that was being raffled by a girls’ softball team may soon understand the downside of extremist gun control laws. According to the Lake Oswego Review, the Rev. Jeremy Lucas of the Christ Church Episcopal Parish in Lake […]

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The display of the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, or the Gadsden flag with its timber rattlesnake often seen at pro-gun rallies, is under investigation by the federal government as constituting race-based harassment, according to the Houston Chronicle. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received a complaint in early 2014 from an African-American man who […]

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