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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    It’s rather nice when the manufacturers of replica arms include some of the very rare versions of the guns they are making.     It gives us the chance to try shooting some of those guns, which were made in often very limited numbers.  The example I’m leading up […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project More than half the country now allows the concealed carry of firearms without the need for a permission slip from the government. Florida became the 26th state – the majority state – Monday morning when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed CS/HB 543 at 8:15 a.m. The new law takes […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Constitutional Carry bills introduced and moving through legislature: Florida: The constitutional carry bill, HB543, passed the Senate on a 27-13 vote on March 30 and now goes to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has been supportive; Nebraska: LB77 passed the legislature on March 30; California: The Assembly and Senate Public Safety Committees […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a gun control advocacy group, has issued its new scorecard on gun laws—the more restrictive, the better—and most states get failing grades, except for all three states on the West Coast, Illinois and a handful of states in the northeast. According to CNN, […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project Joe Biden, his weaponized ATF and their sycophants in the legacy media launched an elaborate campaign this week to change the public’s perception of the thousands of federally licensed gun dealers in the country, whom Biden desperately wants to put out of business.   It is classic gaslighting, […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A federal judge in Minnesota on Friday declared a state restriction on limiting handgun carry permits to those over age 21 to be unconstitutional, handing gun rights groups including the Second Amendment Foundation a major victory. The case is known as Worth v. Harrington. U.S. District Judge Katherine Menendez issued the […]

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John A. Baum 5678 State Rt. 45 Lisbon, Ohio 44432 U.S.A. www.GermanManuals.com (Translated by John Baum from the original German script.) The use of the heavy machinegun in the fashion of an artillery piece to engage targets on the opposite side of a hill was perfected by the German army and used with great effectiveness […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project By a party-line vote of 27 to 13, the Florida Senate passed a bill Thursday authorizing the unlicensed concealed-carry of handguns.  The state House passed a similar bill last week, also along party lines. The bill is now headed to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has already promised to […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Capitol Hill Democrats have resurrected legislation aimed at spending millions of dollars on “gun violence prevention research” in response to the Nashville school shooting, but a leading gun rights organization is calling it a “boondoggle” and suggest the money would be better spent in efforts to make schools “hard targets.” Massachusetts […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief North Carolina gun rights advocates are cheering after majority Republicans in both the state House and Senate voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that repealed a decades-old requirement that handgun buyers first get a permit from their local sheriff to complete the transaction. Senate Bill 41 was […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms recently called on Congress to block funding for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives until “Democrats and federal bureaucrats publicly recognize Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens, and stop their attacks on legal gun ownership.” […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief President Joe Biden botched it again on guns and the Second Amendment, during a scheduled stop in Durham, N.C., where he wrongly referred to modern semiautomatic rifles as “weapons of war,” and mistakenly also declared citizens are not allowed to own fully-automatic firearms. As reported by Fox News, the National Firearms […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—After Judge Cormack J. Carney issued a Preliminary Injunction Order determining that the California Unsafe Handgun Act’s provisions…are unconstitutional in the Boland v. Bonta case, it took almost a week for Attorney General Raoul to announce that California will appeal to the Ninth Circuit. United States v. Missouri: A new briefing […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) has called for the same kind of gun prohibition experienced in Australia and New Zealand following mass shootings in those countries, what Second Amendment activists call “compensated confiscation.” Randi Weingarten reportedly “addressed” the AFT Tuesday, declaring, “Today, we renew our call for […]

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Bear OPS has announced a new pocketknife, the Bold Action XV AC-1500-AIBK-B. This new automatic knife is one of literary dozens of premium autos from Bear OPS but looks nothing previously seen from the manufacturer. It offers a sleek design featuring a reverse Tanto blade, and is made from premium materials. It has a super […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Dramatic bodycam footage from two different officers shows a fast, determined response to Monday’s rampage shooting at Nashville’s Covenant Presbyterian school, with less than four minutes between the time heavily-armed police entered the building to the time the killer was down on the second floor. Nashville Officers Rex Engelbert and Michael […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Constitutional Carry bills introduced and moving through legislature: Florida: The constitutional carry bill, HB543, passed the House 76-32 on March 24; Nebraska: LB77 is up for a vote on March 28; no change since last week for South Carolina; Alaska: HB61 passed the Community and Regional Affairs Committees 4-1 and SB63 […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Gun-related Congressional hearings are normally the soundstage for remarks that tend to raise a few eyebrows, but an exchange between Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Amy Swearer, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, raised the issue of elitist Capitol Hill condescension and liberal sexist hypocrisy. It came during Thursday’s […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Writer (Photos by author and Dave Workman) Tracking is an essential skill for the hunter but for many folks it seems to be a lost art shrouded in myth and mystery. While anyone should be able to follow tracks in muddy ground or a blood trail that looks like an […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Kerry Spurgin, speaking on behalf of the Oregon State Shooting Association during Thursday’s public hearing on a package of gun control bills in Salem, explained in 25 words why all three of these measures will not accomplish what proponents insist they will. “There is no evidence and there is no logic […]

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