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A county sheriff in southwest Ohio is reportedly encouraging his non-commissioned staffers who have carry licenses to pack their sidearms at the office, according to WLWT and the Associated Press. The Hamilton Journal-News also noted that Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones encourages those same employees “to carry their weapon while operating any department vehicle away […]

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Boston’s Roman Catholic archbishop, Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, has called for a total ban on military-lookalike semi-auto rifles and full capacity magazines as well as universal background checks for all prospective gun buyers, according to The Pilot, a diocesan newspaper. In a statement made in response to the violence at the gay nightclub in Orlando […]

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Notoriously anti-gun Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) said in a new interview with Politico’s Glenn Thrush that it’s important for top Democrats to have the right opinions on gun control. “This has become a litmus test issue for leadership in the Democratic Party,” he told Thrush, according to The Hill. “I mean, if you want to […]

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In July Democrat presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat down with Fox News’ Chris Wallace for her first official interview since accepting her Party’s nomination at the DNC convention in Philadelphia. During the interview, Clinton was asked about the storing and transfer of top secret, classified information on her private email […]

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Days after three Washington State teens enjoying a summer gathering at a private home north of Seattle were murdered; a columnist for the Seattle Times penned an article that essentially blamed the gun and the company that made it. Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat talked plenty about the firearm, a Ruger SR556, and about the […]

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A new partnership between the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), the nation’s largest suicide prevention organization, and the National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), the trade association for the firearms industry, will allow for both organizations to embark on a first-of-its-kind national plan to build and implement public education resources for firearms retailers, shooting ranges […]

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New Browning: BXR big game ammunition In time for this fall’s deer hunt comes Browning’s new BXR ammunition, created specifically for deer and other big game, including elk, moose and bear. It features a bonded bullet with what Browning calls the BXC Controlled Expansion Terminal Tip, made from aluminum. This projectile is designed for deep […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The bloody Crossroads Center Mall rampage in St. Cloud, Minnesota proved two things that have so far left the gun prohibition lobby speechless. For starters, the fact that the Crossroads Center was considered a so-called “gun-free zone” by its own rules of conduct that prohibit “firearms or illegal weapons” did […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor After two weeks of wall-to-wall media-frenzied coverage of the Republican and Democratic Party presidential nominating conventions in Cleveland and Philadelphia, the average American should now be focusing on the broader aspects of election 2016. There’s a lot more to it than the presidential aspirations of Hillary Rodham Clinton and […]

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2016 election most critical in the history of the US Dear Editor: Re: TGM Aug. 2016 article: “Democrats no longer represent free society ideals.” The 9th US Circuit Court majority recently ruled that there is no constitutional right to carry firearms for self-defense in California and upheld a “good cause” requirement by authorities for CCW […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor A couple of years back Mossberg (Phone: 203-230-5300; Online: mossberg.com) introduced the MVP Patrol. This rifle was initially available chambered in .223 Remington and, about a year later, a .308 Winchester version was offered. These rifles are both lightweight rifles; the .223 version weighs seven pounds, while the .308 […]

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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor OK, we were kidding here last month about that electric primer seater, which probably isn’t a viable idea for the home handloader. Yet! But it did raise the question of the need for speed in handloading. Of course we want to accelerate the handloading process because we are Americans […]

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by Dan Gifford In 1963, I saw Malcolm X speak in Harlem. Any who recall those times can appreciate how scary a figure he was claimed to be by our government and the news media. Much later, I played a prison guard in Spike Lee’s Malcolm X film. Through those and other experiences, I can […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has sued the City of Seattle in King County (WA) Superior Court, alleging a violation of the state Public Records Act for refusing to disclose revenue data related to the city’s controversial “gun violence tax” that was adopted last year. The complaint stems from a PRA request earlier this year by TGM […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior editor While many hunters across the landscape are looking ahead to upland bird and big game seasons, the nation’s waterfowlers have received some good news from the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS). The framework for the upcoming season from USFWS calls proposes “duck hunting season lengths of 60 days in […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has announced that he will propose legislation in December that would ban so-called “assault weapons.” In a press release posted by Ferguson’s office, the Democrat attorney general used the shooting of three teens at a July party in Mukilteo as an excuse. “The recent […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Squeezing off a shot at some nice buck at 150 yards is the wrong time to be finding out your hunting rifle isn’t properly zeroed. Right now, when deer and elk seasons are still weeks away is the time to be visiting the range to make sure your rifle […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor My first live game was kind of a scrawny grouse, but at the time I was a scrawny kid maybe 11 or 12 years old, so it was something of an even match. The fool hen evaporated in a cloud of feathers created by a load of No. 6 […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Patriot movement activist and self-identified “citizen journalist” Mike Vanderboegh, who helped uncover the Obama administration’s Operation Fast and Furious scandal, passed away Aug. 10 following a long battle with cancer. Vanderboegh, who worked with blogger and investigative journalist David Codrea to first expose the scandal, was 64. The founder […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor There was some bad news recently for gun prohibitionists. Nationally, the number of carry licenses has increased 215% since 2007, according to a recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). The number of women with carry permits has increased twice as fast as the number of men with […]

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