The Gun Mag

By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The fatal shooting of a hatchet-wielding man in the unincorporated Boulevard Park area of King County, WA, made headlines all the way to the United Kingdom because an armed private citizen took action and saved lives, and the only people who weren’t talking were those in the gun prohibition […]

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By Dave Workman | Senior Editor The nation’s leading gun rights advocates are urging the US Senate to reject President Barack Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court. Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), immediately reacted to the Garland announcement stating, “This is not […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor When the US Supreme Court reversed and remanded a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that upheld the state ban on “stun guns,” it opened the door to considerable speculation that such bans might violate the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. While the high court did not […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor President Barack Obama is making yet another stab at pushing so-called “smart gun” technology, announcing a plan to “expedite” development of these new firearms and the requirements they would have to meet for law enforcement agencies to adopt their use. The White House released a 16-page report to the president […]

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Call it nothing short of a social miracle, but there appears to be a noticeable shift in attention away from “gun control” and toward suicide prevention, and it is a delight for Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. Gottlieb has been on the ground floor of […]

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New skinner from Bear & Son Cutlery Bear & Son Cutlery has introduced a handy new fixed-blade skinning knife called the SD82 Invincible Skinner. It features a Stag Delrin handle on the full-length tang and a 2¾-inch hollow-ground blade made from 440 high carbon stainless steel. The knife features a nickel silver bolster and measures […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor After the Chicago Tribune and other news agencies reported that the Windy City had racked up 1,000 shooting by mid-April, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms called on Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. Blaming Emanuel’s anti-gun policies and philosophy for keeping honest citizens essentially disarmed […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Love him or hate him, Donald Trump has been teaching a lesson in marketing during his current bid for the White House in the November elections. He is the modern day P.T. Barnum. Trump is not just holding daily—and even hourly— instruction for professional politicians and election experts, […]

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Campaigning for Hillary, Bill offends Bernie camp Almost any issue gains stature during a hot political campaign. If you listen to furious Bernie Sanders die-hards, former President Bill Clinton is running around the country waging a one-man war on our democracy. Clinton was out on the trail for his wife, Hillary, on Super Tuesday and […]

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by Robert B. Young, MD Longer version online Jan. 14, 2016 on DRGO.us President Obama loves using executive actions to “take action when Congress won’t”. Now he’s doing that to pursue gun control when Congress (and the country) has made it clear that its not interested. Does he like being distrusted, in this case by […]

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by Tanya Metaksa Latest developments—2016 election primaries continue, Judicial, and new legislative action Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, Nevada, South Carolina 114th Congress On April 13, Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced a Senate companion bill to H.R. 766, the bill to stop the Obama administration from implementing Operation Choke Point, which […]

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Review by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor THE SPORTS AFIELD BOOK OF HUNTING AND SHOOTING RECORDS AND FACTS 2015, by Jens Erik Perto with Jens Hogh. ©2015. Published by Safari Press, Dept. TGM, 15621 Chemical Lane, Bldg. B, Huntington Beach, CA 92649 (Safaripress.com) Price: $39.95, plus postage. This 350-page hardbound book is a wonder […]

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Review by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor THE RIGHT TO HUNT, Revised Edition, by James B. Whisker. Published by Merrill Press, Dept. TGM, P . Box 1682, Bellevue, WA 98009. Price: $16.95, plus postage. This 220-page softbound volume was first published more than a decade ago, but this revised edition is up to date […]

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In response to the successful recovery of one of the nation’s most iconic animals, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposed on Mar. 3 removing the grizzly bear in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem from the federal Endangered and Threatened species lists. The Yellowstone grizzly bear population has rebounded from as few as 136 bears […]

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by Ashley Brugnone | CMP Writer “This is the planning time right now—planning for projects and making sure that the projects we are executing can either be complete by the time the National Matches start, or we wait until after the National Matches end,” said CPT Michael Yates, Base Operations Supervisor of Camp Perry. Yates […]

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by Tanya Metaksa Latest developments—Obama nominates Judge Merrick Garland, 2016 election primaries continue, Judicial, and new legislative action Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, 114th Congress H.R.766, Financial Institution Customer Protection Act, […]

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by John Markwell | Contributing Editor Good ideas are a dime a dozen in the world of firearms. Those that perform as advertised sometimes seem few and far between and walking the isles of the SHOT Show leads one to wonder who thinks some of the stuff up. We have been testing what we feel […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Sports Authority filed for bankruptcy on March 2, saying it will close 140 of its 450 stores nationwide, but did not disclose any of the locations which it will be closing over the next few months. The bankruptcy has been looming since January, when the company disclosed that […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Updated: Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law an ambitious suicide prevention and education bill that involved input from both the Second Amendment Foundation and National Rifle Association and will rely heavily on these groups to make it work. There was, however, a partial veto on Engrossed Second Substitute House […]

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A federal judge ruled in early March that the District of Columbia can continue to enforce its gun-permitting system, while she considers a closely watched constitutional challenge to the city’s requirement that applicants show “good reason” before obtaining permits to carry a concealed handgun in public. The decision by US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly marked […]

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