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The training course for ATF’s Special Response Team is only two weeks long. By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project UPDATED April 29, 5:50 a.m. — Selection, training and leadership are vital to any special operations team, regardless of their size or mission parameters. The more rigorous the selection process, the more comprehensive the training, […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Contrary to the suspicions of some folks, I was not around when the .45 Colt cartridge was first introduced way back in 1873, and the fact it has remained to this date more than 150 years later popular as a more-than-adequate fight-stopper is a testament to its reliability and devastating downrange […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Tennessee gun control proponents have reacted with fury over passage of a bill which, if signed by Gov. Bill Lee, will allow teachers and administrators in the state to be armed on campus, provided they volunteer and meet all of the requirements. The Tennessee House passed the bill by a vote […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—SCOTUS: Garland v. VanDerStok: Case No. 23-10718: On April 22, SCOTUS granted certiorari; California: Judge Cormac J. Carney who ruled in favor of the Second Amendment in Boland v. California and May v. Bonta announced he will retire on May 31, 2024: Ken Paxton v. Dettelbach Case No. 23-20802: A hearing […]

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By Lee Williams   SAF Investigative Journalism Project  Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin is the top law enforcement officer in the state, and he is ultimately responsible for safeguarding the lives and civil rights of the more than 3.5 million Arkansans who call The Natural State home.   After the ATF shot and killed 53-year-old airport executive […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Recent headlines have duly noted the Biden Justice Department recently announced a new rule to require everyone defined as being “engaged in the business” of firearms sales must have a license and conduct background checks, ostensibly to close the so-called “gun show loophole.” However, according to various research by the DOJ’s […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer A pistol is an indispensable tool for a woodsman and as long as you are in the woods you won’t find too many shots that are long range enough to cause you trouble. Sometimes carried in a pancake holster that can be concealed under a shirt, most of the […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted certiorari in the case of the “Finale Rule” on frames, receivers and parts kits announced by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in April 2022, and subsequently challenged by several entities including the Second Amendment Foundation. The case is known as Garland […]

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The cleanest sear break, the shortest assisted reset, and split times counted in micro-seconds — those are just some of the advantages of the Gen-2 3MR AR trigger now available from Delta V Solutions. Speed counts in competition and in defense, as does accuracy. The Gen-2 3MR delivers both courtesy of its three-mode selector system […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—The Ongoing War on Second Amendment Rights; Alabama: HB289/SB281 are awaiting votes in their respective Houses;Colorado: HB24-1292, the “assault weapons” ban, passed in the House, and HB24-1270, mandates the purchase of liability insurance before purchasing and carrying a firearm in the state, has passed second reading; Iowa: HF2586, HF2556, and HF2464 […]

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By Lee Williams  SAF Investigative Journalism Project  Arkansas Republican Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman are pushing for answers about ATF’s March 19 SWAT raid, during which Little Rock Airport executive Bryan Malinowski was shot and killed in his own home.   “The Department of Justice confirmed to us last night that the ATF agents involved […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    I like moving off the beaten path and finding the road less traveled.    While peace is the object not being blind to possibilities I like to take along some type of firearm. Often enough the firearm is a .22, either a light handy rifle or an even […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief    Hundreds of Illinois gun owners turned out for the annual Illinois Gun Owner Lobby Day (IGOLD) rally in Springfield, and Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, was the keynote speaker at a […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Call it the greatest political and military blunder in the history of the British Empire. At about 5 a.m. on the morning of April 19, 1775, troops under the command of Lt. Col. Francis Smith began arriving in the tiny village of Lexington where about 80 members of the local militia […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Maine lawmakers have approved what ABC News is calling “sweeping gun safety legislation” including a 72-hour waiting period on gun purchases, largely in response to last October’s mass shooting in Lewiston involving two different locations. The Legislature also passed a ban on “bump stocks,” which ABC News incorrectly claims in its […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A newly-released Rasmussen poll has revealed that 70 percent of likely voters think the U.S. is more divided now than it was before the 2020 election brought Joe Biden to the White House. According to Rasmussen, “only 28% rate Biden as having done a good or excellent job of uniting the […]

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Ruger has announced a new model of the PC Carbine, featuring the reversible folding stock with adjustable length of pull found on the popular Ruger LC Carbine™. According to Ruger, this model features a CNC-milled, hard-coat anodized, aluminum handguard with Magpul M-LOK accessory attachment slots on all four sides, a 1/2″-28 threaded, fluted barrel and […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Opposition is lining up against President Joe Biden’s latest gun control gambit, announced this week, which will expand background check requirements to apply to private sales. The Second Amendment Foundation came out swinging with a statement accusing Biden of making “another attempt to get around Congress to make new laws without […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief President Joe Biden’s new rule expanding background checks for gun purchases—ostensibly adopted to close the so-called “gun show loophole” and make it tougher to conduct online sales—is being met with criticism on Capitol Hill and in the firearms community. According to Axios.com, Republican Senators John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis […]

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The Washington state-based Second Amendment Foundation has smacked state Attorney General Bob Ferguson for repeatedly claiming every court across the country has “either rejected or overturned” legal challenges to bans on so-called “large-capacity magazines.” Ferguson’s most recent remarks came after a Cowlitz County Superior Court judge declared the Evergreen State’s magazine ban unconstitutional under both […]

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