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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Congressman seeks case histories for Operation Choke Point probe If you or your gun-related business have been affected by Operation Choke Point you may want to share that experience with Congress. Choke Point made a lot of headlines a short time back, including in TGM, but has been […]

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By Dave Workman’ Senior Editor American gun rights activists are infuriated by reports that police in Buffalo, N.Y. will apparently begin confiscating guns legally owned by people who have recently passed away. Angry gun owners contend that this is proof of what they have been saying for years – and being roundly criticized as paranoids […]

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While gun prohibitionists including billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg were trying to pass a gun control initiative in Washington State, some officials in the Toppenish School District are packing firearms under a new program According to KIRO-TV, the CBS affiliate in Seattle, the school district has adopted guidelines that require anyone authorized to […]

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by James C. Fulmer | Past President, NMLRA November is the time of the year when the hunting begins. Whether hunting for an honest politician at the voting booth or hunting for game animals, this is the time of the year these great events take place. Both need to have the same skill levels. You […]

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Nearly 1,350 competitors and enthusiasts attended the Glock Annual Shoot XXI and Gunny Challenge X hosted by Glock and the Glock Shooting Sports Foundation (GSSF), making it the most highly participated action pistol match in World history. The weekend-long match held outside Conyers, GA, at the South River Gun Club exceeded participation expectations. The level […]

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Fifty-one officers from 15 different state fish and wildlife agencies recently graduated from a 40-hour course on investigating hunting related incidents, according to the International Hunter Education Association (IHEA). This unique Hunting Incident Investigation Academy, according to IHEA, provides skills, knowledge and techniques to commissioned wildlife officers so they can conduct investigations in their home […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Four California gun dealers have filed an unusual federal lawsuit against State Attorney General Kamala Harris, alleging that enforcement of a law that prohibits them from displaying images of handguns or even the word “handguns” where they would be visible to passersby is an unconstitutional violation of their First Amendment […]

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by Larry S. Sterett | Contributing Editor Prior to the start of Preliminary Week of the Grand American Trapshooting Championships at the World Shooting & Recreation Complex (WSRC) north of Sparta, IL, on Aug. 6, the complex fields were filled with younger shooters. The 2014 Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) American National Championships were held […]

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Monday morning, Nov. 10 at 7:30 a.m. Eastern Time, the popular “Gun Wire” — a firearms news page that is the equivalent of the Drudge Report for gun-related stories — will re-launch after a six-week hiatus, TGM has learned. It comes as good news to gunfights activists across the country who have been worried they lost the […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Print, television and online media were having a field day in October with news that the Glock family was involved in a lawsuit filed in the US that might be worth half a billion dollars. TheDailyBeast.com opened their story thus: “King Lear, strippers, and show horses: Inside the […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Like the Wizard of Oz, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D) never wanted anyone to look behind the curtain of his January 2013 Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act. However, now some of the numbers seem to be moving into public view. Both opponents of the SAFE […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The Second Amendment Foundation has scored another victory as a federal judge in the District of Columbia has denied a motion by the city to reconsider his July ruling that the District ban on carry outside of the home is unconstitutional “under any level of scrutiny.” The decision came from […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor It’s a chilly 85 degrees here in southwest PA and QVC has been talking up the coming holiday season. Hot and sticky really does not make one think of the holidays, no matter how pretty the ribbons are or how tempting the “holiday desserts” look. However, it is time […]

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by Michael A. Black When Arthur Lansky LeVine developed the Controlled Angle Sharpening System in 1979, he had a specific goal: design high quality tools that would allow anyone, from the novice to the expert blade handler, to sharpen his knife with precision and ease. The company he founded 35 years ago, Lansky Sharpeners, is […]

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Despite the juggernaut passage of increasingly restrictive gun laws in Maryland, at least one Eastern-Shore county sheriff there has taken a stand that has been getting a fair amount of attention, thanks to a YouTube video in which this lawman makes it clear he will not allow his citizens to be stripped of their right […]

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The Durham County, NC, Sheriff’s Office has confirmed with evidence via its Facebook page that records kept as part of the county’s handgun registry have been destroyed after threats of litigation. The records had been maintained since 1935 as part of a Jim Crow-era law intended to discourage the exercise of Second Amendment rights by […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor In mid-October, District of Columbia Police Chief Cathy Lanier announced that the District would soon begin accepting applications from residents and visitors with licenses to carry in their home states for licenses to carry a concealed pistol on the basis of a temporary change in Washington’s law designed […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor “Courts are not necessarily our friends when it comes to the Second Amendment.” That was the observation from Stephen Aldstadt, president of New York’s Shooter’s Committee on Political Education (SCOPE). He was part of one of two state legislative affairs briefings at the 29TH Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Billionaires can support their public policy causes with infinite ease and grace. What’s more, they seldom are criticized for the policy positions they take, unless they do or say something incredibly flagrant or stupid like Donald Sterling or Ray Rice. It has always been thus as far as […]

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by Bob Lesmeister | National Correspondent Now that the US Army is content with an amended M4 rifle in lieu of ongoing tests of the next best infantry HK P2000 weapon, it is concentrating on fulfilling a “need” for 400,000 new military handguns. The military has dubbed their ideal pistol the Modular Handgun System (MHS). […]

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