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by Peggy Tartaro | Managing Editor   An August Washington Post online feature detailed a campaign by anti-gunners to remove a realistic looking gun emoji from the cyberworld. Emojis are pictorial images, often cartoonish, which depict “emotions” or thoughts and are used in texts or emails in place of a word or words for emphasis. Perhaps […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Hundreds—maybe thousands—of gun rights activists lined Boston’s Beacon Street in front of the State House on the morning of July 30 to denounce Attorney General Maura Healey’s recent restriction on “copycat” assault rifles. The number of gunowners who turned out to protest the non-legislative change in what they […]

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By TGM Staff On Aug. 6, in her first Olympic competition, Ginny Thrasher won the first gold medal awarded to anyone or any country in the 2016 Rio Olympics, in the 10m air rifle competition. Thrasher, a 19-year-old college student at West Virginia University, won a huge upset victory over the heavily-favored defending Olympic champion […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie conditionally vetoed two new Garden State gun control bills in late August, and then called the state’s current gun laws “among the most unreasonable and onerous in the country.” According to NJ1015 News, Christie didn’t stop there. He chastised lawmakers for trying to make things […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The long-awaited appeals court challenge to the City of Seattle’s so-called “gun violence tax” on the sale of firearms and ammunition will be heard by a three-judge panel of the Washington State Court of Appeals, Division One, on Wednesday, Sept. 28, TGM has learned. The lawsuit was filed in 2015 […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor People who hunt mourning doves ought to buy stock in ammunition companies, and with the season firing up soon, now is the time to be stocking up on shotgun shells for dove and quail. Doves are one of the most challenging species around, and anyone who can hit them consistently […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor While two gun prohibition lobbying groups in the Pacific Northwest have launched a joint effort in Oregon and Washington to ban so-called “assault weapons,” an analysis of long-term crime data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report suggests they are offering a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. In the […]

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60-vote rule originated with Reid’s Democrats Dear Editor: Funny how things work out, or so it seems. Back a couple of years or so ago, when the Democrats controlled the US Senate, Harry Reid and Company pushed through this 60 vote “cloture vote” rule change. Recently, it seemed to have taken a large bite out of […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor    Two different Rasmussen surveys, taken within days of one another in August, show a higher degree of importance for the Second Amendment among likely U.S. voters than support for either Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton or Republican nominee Donald Trump.    One of those surveys also shows more support (54%) […]

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The National Rifle Association’s Eddie the Eagle gun safety program that has taught important gun safety rules to some 28 million school children since it was launched in 1988 may be the target of a kidnapping by the Michael Bloomberg anti-gun crowd. The NRA recently reported that “if there’s any truth to a recent blog […]

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Shock jock media star Howard Stern once again put his pro-gun views on display recently as Democrats on Capitol Hill were pushing anti-gun proposals in the Senate and the House. Stern said in essence that disarming America only creates more defenseless people thus making it easier for terrorists to commit their evil deeds. “I’m so […]

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A vintage pistol that was once owned by legendary performer, gun enthusiast and quick-draw artist Sammy Davis Jr. was among 791 guns that the Los Angeles Police Department collected during a weekend gun buy-up program in early May, according to city officials quoted by the Los Angeles Times. The Rat Pack member’s 1911 .45-caliber pistol […]

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Hawaii has become the first state in the nation to turn over all of its gun owners to a federal database, but it hopes to be a model for other states to do the same. The database, called “Rap Back,” is run by the FBI and informs police when a gunowner is arrested anywhere in […]

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By Mark Walters The old saying claims you should stay away from politics and religion during family gatherings, right? Yeah, well that doesn’t always fly around my house—particularly when the political end of that equation involves my livelihood. (It has damaged relationships within my own family: not because of me, but because the liberal family […]

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Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, who served as secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, criticized Democrats for trying to pass gun control measures after the mass shooting in Orlando, The Hill reported. “You kind of wonder what kind of glasses some of the Democrats are wearing as they look at that horrible […]

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For the first time since 2013, the member groups that comprise the National Coalition to Stop the Gun Ban have reunited against federal gun control measures being pushed in the wake of recent mass homicides, and sent a joint Open Letter to Congress on July 6. In particular, coalition members vowed to fight any “compromise” […]

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By Alan Gottlieb   The current flap over the appearance of a handgun in a Matt Damon movie poster seems like political correctness run amok, even considering recent violent acts in Dallas, Baton Rouge and elsewhere. It’s a movie poster, after all, not a declaration of war. And frankly, it strains credulity that somebody’s sensitivities […]

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

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Days after three Washington State teens enjoying a summer gathering at a private home north of Seattle were murdered in a shooting, 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 […]

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