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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor President Obama has unintentionally set off another gun buying spree among Americans, according to a CNN report. This time the favored guns flying off the gun shop shelves are AK-47s and variants, including both imports and American-made models. Fox News also followed the same story line on the […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor The federal judge who declared the District of Columbia’s ban on carrying guns outside the home for personal protection was unconstitutional has issued a 90-day stay, giving the city until late October to either file an appeal or come up with a workable carry ordinance. The stay came less […]

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BELLEVUE, WA – Since billionaire Bill Gates has not accepted a one-on-one debate challenge from Alan Gottlieb to reveal the myriad problems with Initiative 594, Gottlieb announced today that he will allow Gates to bring former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and make it a two-on-one discussion. Both Gates and Bloomberg have each contributed […]

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by Dave Workman |Senior Editor Salem, OR, resident Rachel Lucas, a Beaver State native who grew up in a liberal, anti-gun household seems well on her way to become the worst nightmare that Pacific Northwest gun prohibitionists could ever experience. A survivor of a brutal attack several years ago—the kind of incident which she acknowledged […]

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by Tanya K. Metaksa The headline in the July 29, 2014 Washington Times article announced, “Gun retailers, payday lenders out of Choke Points crosshairs.” The article goes on to say that “Gun retailers are no longer on a hit list deemed ‘high risk’ by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC).” “What?” you say? “I didn’t […]

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by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor The media, pollsters and political insiders suggest, if not openly claim, that New York’s Gov. Andrew Cuomo is invincible in his bid for reelection this year. They focus on his enormous campaign war chest but they seem to be discounting big gun rights opposition, especially away from New […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor The Seattle Times is reporting that anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s “Everytown for Gun Safety” gun control lobby is donating another million dollars to the burgeoning Initiative 594 war chest in in Washington state, in what amounts to an effort, says gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb, of a few wealthy elitists […]

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Book Review by J. B. Wood | Contributing Editor H & R ARMS CO. 1871-1986, by W. E. “Bill” Goforth. ©20l4. Published by Gun Show Books, P0 Box 1189, Dept. TGM, Hudson, WI 54016. Phone: 715-425-2338. Online: info@gunshowbooks.com. Hardbound, 8.5 X 11 inches, 628 pages, hundreds of photos. Price: $89.95 plus $5.00 shipping. This big, […]

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Review by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor Thank God I had a Gun: 2ND EDITION, by Chris Bird. ©2014. Published by Privateer Publications, PO Box 29427, Dept. TGM, San Antonio, TX 78229; phone: 210- 308-8191. 369 pages with black and white photos, soft cover. Price $19.95. Available at some book outlets, as well as […]

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BELLEVUE, WA – Gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and a leading opponent of Initiative 594, today is publicly challenging billionaire gun control supporter Bill Gates to debate the measure, to which he just donated $1 million.“It’s time for Gates to put his […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor When the Michael Bloomberg-funded Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (MDA) recently criticized the National Rifle Association over alleged “sexism” in its critique of MDA founder Shannon Watts, former NRA President Marion Hammer was quick with a rebuttal. Hammer, known as the “precedent president” for being the organization’s […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Forty-eight hours after the Seattle Times announced that Bill and Melinda Gates have donated $1 million to the Initiative 594 campaign in Washington State, veteran gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb, who opposes the 18-page gun control measure, publicly challenged the billionaire Microsoft founder to a public debate. Gottlieb, who is […]

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Review by Joseph P. Tartaro | Executive Editor THIS NONVIOLENT STUFF’LL GET YOU KILLED, How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible, by Charles E. Cobb Jr. ©2014. Published by Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 250 W. 57th St., Dept. TGM, New York, NY 10107; phone: 212-340-8100; online: basicbooks.com. 294 pages […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The Second Amendment Foundation scored again with its effort to eliminate local laws and regulations that go against a state preemption statute, this time in Utah, the seventh state where the gun rights organization has launched a campaign to erase outdated local regulations. SAF recently contacted several cities and towns […]

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by Chris Cerino Much of what I write about comes from experience, both good and bad. What my students learn from me, among other things, is that I yell because I care and that I have walked miles in the shoes they are in so I am trying to save them the blisters. You may […]

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by Tanya Metaksa Congress The Congress is in recess for the month of August. It is expected to return after Labor Day and then either recess or adjourn by the beginning of October for the mid-term elections. As a result of the Obama administration’s proposal to ban the domestic sale of ivory and the importation […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Recent data in Chicago suggests that the crime rate has declined since Illinois adopted a concealed carry licensing system, according to a report published by the Washington Times. Illinois lawmakers were forced by the courts to adopt a concealed carry law thanks a pair of lawsuits that included the Second […]

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by Scott Smith | Contributing Editor In the firearms industry, the AR series of rifle is arguably the most popular rifle on the market today. There are many factors that contribute to this; from the number of Veterans who learned to shoot this rifle in the military, the rifle is available in many calibers making […]

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by John Malloy | Contributing Editor The Ruger Model 10/22 semi- automatic carbine turns 50 this year! Introduced back in 1964, the handy, well-made .22-caliber carbine gained immediate approval in the shooting world. Minor variations came and went during the next half-century, but the basic design remained virtually unchanged. To celebrate this anniversary, 10/22 rifles […]

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by Dave Workman | Senior Editor For more than three decades, the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has gotten a reputation as something of a cowboy operation or even a rogue agency over such incidents as Waco and Ruby Ridge, and operations Fast and Furious and “Fearless.” Now, veteran Wisconsin Rep. […]

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