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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor Everybody knows you can’t reload fired rimfire cases, right? Well, the guys at Sharpshooter 22 Long Rifle Reloader, LLC just changed everybody’s knowledge. You indeed CAN reload your fired .22 Long Rifle cases using their simple kit containing two tools, a powder dipper and funnel, and eyedropper bottle. A […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor Over the past years I have seen many firearms come and go. The reasons vary: from not being marketed well; or there were too many cool must haves out there; or they were too pricey, or they were just overlooked. Today and for the last five or six years […]

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by Jim Dickson When we think of the Sioux Indians we think of buffalo and that leads to the question: “How did they fix it and how good was it?” Wonder no longer because the Sioux are using their ancient buffalo pemmican recipes to make commercial pemmican bars called Tanka Bars. The only concession to […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor The cold-blooded slaying of a Roanoke, VA, television news crew doing a live report at a popular resort sent a shock wave across the country and ignited a new debate about gun control that seemed to carefully avoid much mention that the gunman was African-American, gay and had been […]

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by Tanya Metaksa 114th Congress On the last day of the current fiscal year, September 30, 2015, the House and Senate passed continuing resolutions to fund the government until December 11, 2015. Thus none of the Authorization Acts have been enacted as of Oct. 1, 2015. Pro-gun bills awaiting votes: On May 15, the US […]

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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 wasted little time in politicizing the event, but at least this time he admitted it. During a press conference, the president set the stage for a confrontation with Second Amendment advocates, and it was […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Walmart is set to stop selling so-called assault rifles, semi-automatic shotguns and other modern-capacity firearms of the sort anti-gun media and politicians blame for mass murders, Forbes and other business news publications reported in late August. That may be bad news for Walmart customers, but good news for […]

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After staying away from the gun issue for 15 years, the New Jersey Supreme Court is about to take up a gun law case, according to a report from The Record written by Salvador Rizzo of the newspaper’s State House Bureau. The issue involved probably won’t improve the state of gun rights in the Garden […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes has confirmed that the City of Seattle is getting free legal assistance from a high-powered international law firm to fight a lawsuit filed by three major Second Amendment groups against the city’s so-called “gun violence tax.” The lawsuit, filed by the Second Amendment Foundation, […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor No sooner had Virginia Democrat Sen. Tim Kaine proposed a new gun control measure that would require gun sellers to take “reasonable steps” to assure they were not selling firearms to disqualified people—without defining those steps—than did the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms come […]

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Gun enthusiasts and historians are likely to be thrill by a new Smithsonian Channel™ series “The Weapon Hunter” hosted by history buff and restoration expert Paul Shull that will premiere on Oct. 5 and run for six weeks at 8 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time. Shull goes on a quest to get his hands on […]

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The Polite Society Podcast streamed the 2015 Gun Rights Policy Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.  Here are the links to the video along with the scheduled program for each segment. Segment 1- GRPC 2015 Saturday 8:00 a.m. CALL TO ORDER- Julianne Versnel 8:15 a.m. State of the Gun Rights Battle- Joseph Tartaro, Alan M. Gottlieb 8:45 […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia struck down some of the District of Columbia’s handgun registration laws as unconstitutional including a regulation that limited District gun owners to one handgun registration per month. The 46-page ruling may be read here. There was […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A full-court press on the right to keep and bear arms was announced by Democrat president wannabe Martin O’Malley recently, and it brought immediate backlash from gun owners and the head of one of the largest gun rights groups in the country. O’Malley, the former governor of Maryland who pushed […]

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Rhode wins more gold at Pan Am Games Five-time Olympic medalist Kim Rhode successfully defended her Pan American Games gold medal from 2011 in record-setting fashion in Toronto in July. Rhode, of El Monte, CA, set a Pan American Games record and tied the world record of 74/75 targets during Qualification. In the Semifinal, Rhode […]

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by John Markwell | Contributing Editor Rambling around the SHOT show we normally give the many knife displays just a casual glance, and then move along, as we need more knives like another hole in our head. 2015 was different in that two knives in particular caught our eye. One was from an Italian maker, […]

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Waterfowl hunters should be in for a good season this year. In July, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) released its report on 2015 Trends in Duck Breeding Populations, based on surveys conducted in May and early June by FWS and the Canadian Wildlife Service. Overall duck numbers in the survey area are statistically […]

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by Art Merrill | Contributing Editor On a strictly practical level, to successfully handload your own ammunition you could simply use the smokeless powders in the amounts called for in your reloading manual and never need to know anything more about them. But the same impulse that makes us DIY in the first place also […]

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by TGM staff In at least one noteworthy law enforcement response to the July 16 Chattanooga, TN, shooting, neighboring DeKalb County, AL, Sheriff Jimmy Harris has changed the off-duty gun policy at his office and urged all citizens to get firearms training and be prepared to protect themselves, according to WAAYTV in Huntsville and other […]

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Novel anti-gun suit based on ‘civil rights’ A group of Chicagoans is suing nearby local governments, claiming Chicago residents have a “civil right” to force the city’s strict gun control laws on other locales, the Associated Press reported last month: The Rev. Michael Pfleger, a long-time anti-gun activist, announced the lawsuits against Lincolnwood, Lyons and […]

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