The Gun Mag

by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Advertising for the world’s very first commercially successful metallic cartridge, Smith & Wesson’s .22 Short rim fire introduced in 1857, promoted the humble round as eminently practical for indoor shooting. And Horace & Daniel didn’t mean indoor shooting ranges, they meant inside your own living room. Perhaps you recall […]

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Air rifle marksmen of all ages are invited to participate in one of the Civilian Marksmanship Program’s (CMP) most popular events of the year. The 2015 Gary Anderson Invitational for airguns that will be held Dec. 4-5 at the CMP South Range in Anniston, AL, and Dec. 5 at the newly expanded Gary Anderson CMP […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Heading into his final year in office, anti-gun President Barack Obama recently said in an interview with GQ that he hopes gun control remains “the dominant issue” of the next 12 months. Even the Washington Times picked up on this, publishing comments from the interview. The president told GQ that he “will […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA Paul enjoyed life and if there was any sentence he uttered that described his life the best, they are those which were placed on his memorial at the chunk gun range in Friendship, IN. Paul loved to shoot and had fun shooting. Just because you have fun […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor In the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Paris, several news agencies have been looking hard at French gun laws, with some suggesting that the slaughter of 129 innocent citizens might be due to the fact that they were unarmed. Even Republican front runner Donald Trump, during remarks in Beaumont, […]

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In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down some of the District’s handgun registration laws as unconstitutional including a regulation that limited District gunowners to one handgun registration per month. There was no immediate indication about how this ruling might affect other litigation chaenging the District’s gun […]

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by John Markwell | Contributing Editor Your kidding, right? A precision long range rifle from Mossberg! We have now had four of the MVP series rifles from O.F. Mossberg & Sons for testing. The latest is the new MVP Light Chassis model in 5.56x45mm. This is Mossberg’s first foray into the precision/long range market and, […]

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by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor The big news at the August 2015 Grand American was Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner’s announcement that the World Shooting & Recreational Complex north of Sparta, would be closed on Sept. 1, 2015, due to lack of funds. According to at least one report, the Complex costs approximately $3 […]

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You gave away your privacy. What can you do about it? by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Most email service is “free” because giants like Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and others read private emails, track them and profit from selling the information to their customers – which include the government as well as advertisers. A […]

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Rensselaer County, NY, District Attorney Joel Abelove issued a press release on Sept. 30 encouraging his assistants who want to carry a handgun to apply for a pistol license, and he said his office will pick up the cost of the application and required safety instruction. “I’m not suggesting my staff has to arm themselves. […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor As I sit here, Labor Day weekend is a week off, it’s sunny, and near 85 outside, yet I am pondering what Santa might be bringing all the good hunters, shooters and outdoorsman/women. This year we found a mix of items that will make good gifts for friends and […]

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The US Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) recently announced that an “unprecedented” conservation effort across the western US has “significantly reduced threats to the greater sage grouse across 90 percent of the species breeding habitat.” As a result of this effort, FWS has determined that the species does not warrant protection under the federal Endangered […]

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The Los Angeles City Council was looking at adopting a so-called “gun violence” tax that copies what the City of Seattle did in July, placing a $25 sales tax on firearms and a nickel on the sale of each round of centerfire ammunition, as this issue of TGM went to press – a gun and […]

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No sooner had the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) been awarded a two-year, $2.4 million grant by the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide firearm safety education messaging and free gun locks to communities across the map than did a couple of gun prohibition groups try to get the grant rescinded. The grant project […]

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A recent CNN/ORC poll revealed that a majority of American adults doubt that expanded background checks – so-called “universal background checks” (UBCs) – would prevent criminals or people with mental health problems from obtaining firearms. That same survey by ORC International, of 1,012 adults in early September, showed that 59% of the respondents disapprove of […]

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A full-court press on the right to keep and bear arms was announced by Democrat presidential wannabe Martin O’Malley recently, and it brought immediate backlash from gunowners. O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland who pushed through gun restrictions in his state, would take his campaign against the Second Amendment nationwide if elected. His gun control […]

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Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan approved a number of measures to ease the requirements for firearm permits, as Israel copes with a wave of “lone wolf” terrorism, the Jerusalem Post reported. “In recent weeks many citizens have helped the Israel Police subdue terrorists who carried out attacks,” he said. “Citizens with firearms training are a […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor In the aftermath of the campus shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College (UCC), President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton wasted little time in politicizing the event, but at least this time the president admitted it. When it was announced that he would actually visit Roseburg, where the shooting […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor “It is critical that you communicate with your legislators.” That advice came from Joe Waldron, legislative director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, during the opening day of the 30th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC) in Phoenix, Sept. 25-27. Addressing a packed […]

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Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich recently ignited a controversy when he wrote an op-ed piece in the Chicago Tribune, calling for more and tougher gun laws. Noting that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops “has consistently called for reasonable regulation and controls for guns, especially handguns,” Archbishop Cupich focused on the shooting at Umpqua Community College […]

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