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By Dave Workman Senior Editor The anti-gun Brady Campaign was quick to exploit the Isla Vista killing spree allegedly committed by a 22-year-old who posted a final epitaph video in which he complained about rejection, touted his superiority and revealed his plans for a bloody massacre so people would see him as the supreme “alpha […]

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Phil Watson of TheGunMag.com and the Second Amendment Foundation will speak at the Tech Roanoke Conference on June 7th in Bellevue, WA.Tech Roanoke was founded in 2014 by a group of tech savvy individuals who wanted to connect entrepreneurs, as well as political and non-profit organizations to the tech community. Tech Roanoke was founded under […]

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Responding to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s proposal that all firearm buyers in city-approved gun shops be videotaped, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today said the mayor should instead start a photographic file of all crooked Illinois politicians instead. “The public might better be served by seeing images of Chicago […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Veteran gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, was cast as the new bogeyman in a fund-raising e-mail circulated by the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility (WAGR), the group pushing for adoption of Initiative 594, an 18-page gun control […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor The owner of a Southern California shooting accessories and parts supply store is still in business, following a raid on his four sites by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Lycurgun, Inc., doing business as Ares Armor in Oceanside and National City, had sought an […]

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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would not need to look at slashing state pensions, while Democrat lawmakers are talking tax hikes, to make up for a projected $2.75 billion revenue shortfall over the next two fiscal years if only the Garden State was more attractive to gun owning tourists and firearms manufacturers, the Second Amendment […]

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A lawsuit filed today by the Brady Campaign to force the New Jersey Attorney General to “formally report” the availability of so-called “smart guns” smacks of a back-door gun ban, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. The Brady Campaign is joined by the Mercer County chapter of […]

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  by Tanya Metaksa Federal   During markup of the FY 2015 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill several anti-gun amendments were proposed and defeated. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) offered an amendment prohibiting the use of funds to maintain an ATF database of multiple rifle and shotgun sales that passed 29-18.   Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) […]

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by Art Merrill Anti-gun rights and anti-hunting groups from the US and abroad are very active in Central and South America, with the intent to outflank and overrun US gunowners from that direction. But a fledgling movement to fight the complete eradication of hunting and civilian gun ownership in the Southern Hemisphere has succeeded in […]

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BELLEVUE, WA – A lawsuit filed today by the Brady Campaign to force the New Jersey Attorney General to “formally report” the availability of so-called “smart guns” smacks of a back-door gun ban, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response. The Brady Campaign is joined by the Mercer […]

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Days after the National Association for Gun Rights (NAGR) launched a fund-raising e-mail that attacked Alan Gottlieb, the veteran gun rights leader fired back with a blistering reaction that accused NAGR Executive Vice President Dudley Brown of engaging in rhetoric that “has done more to marginalize Second Amendment activism than all of the slanders from […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Gun registration and training requirements, and a limit on monthly handgun purchases, do not violate the Second Amendment, according to a District of Columbia federal judge, who dismissed a case challenging the District’s tough gun control laws. U.S. District Court Judge James E. Boasberg, an Obama appointee to the bench […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A bloody stabbing rampage that left 22 students and adults injured, but all alive, at a western Pennsylvania high school provided several examples of courage, but no pad from which gun prohibitionists could launch another attack on the Second Amendment. Sixteen-year-old Alex Hribal has been charged as an adult with […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Leaders of the nation’s top gun control organization and Washington state’s most vocal gun prohibition group engaged in what appears to have been high-grade hypocrisy when they appeared at a forum in Seattle, held in a so-called “gun free zone” while enjoying the protection of an armed security guard. The […]

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By Phil Watson | TGM Reporter As TheGunMag previously reported, the Nebraska Watchdog appears to have uncovered a large difference in opinion on Second Amendment rights among the two leading candidates for US Senate in Nebraska. Ben Sasse, a former DSHS bureaucrat, still has yet to clarify his “no comment” position regarding ‘gun free’ zones. […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation has won a significant victory on behalf of legal resident aliens in Arkansas, with a federal district court there declaring the state’s citizen-only concealed carry licensing law unconstitutional, and granting a permanent injunction against its enforcement on behalf of a man named Martin Pot (pronounced Pote), a citizen of the Netherlands. […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor A trial that began Monday in Spokane has some serious implications, especially for residents of Washington and Colorado who may smoke marijuana recreationally or ingest it for medical reasons, and own or possess firearms for hunting and personal protection, because under federal law, that’s still illegal. Retired 70-year-old trucker Larry […]

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By Phil Watson | TGM Reporter Nebraskans have a difficult choice in front of them this Tuesday in the Republican primary for United States Senate. The winner could likely join one of 100 votes to affirm or deny Second Amendment Rights to Americans all over the country. According to a recent Nebraska Watchdog article and […]

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By Dave Workman Senior Editor Arizona gun rights advocate and author Alan Korwin scored a major court victory against the City of Phoenix when a state Appeals Court panel ruled unanimously that he has the right to purchase advertising on city bus shelters promoting his company TrainMeAZ. That company, supported by both the Second Amendment […]

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by Dave Workman Senior Editor Anti-gun California State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), who now stands accused of corruption and other crimes including gun trafficking, was once honored by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence for his work on gun control. That happened in August 2006 when Yee was serving in the California Assembly […]

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