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iRayUSA, a Texas-based designer, manufacturer, and distributor of premium thermal night vision devices, announced today the release of a new thermal rifle scope, the InfiRay Outdoor BOLT Digital TD50L. The InfiRay Outdoor BOLT Digital TD50L is a high-performance digital night vision optic with classic aesthetics and excellent low-light sensitivity. The TD50L is built around an […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Writing at the Washington Monthly, Gregory Koger, a professor of political science at the University of Miami, suggests it may be time for a “national gun buyback program.” He offers a strategy, but leaves unanswered one very important question: How can the government “buy back” firearms it never owned in the […]

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For the first time since 2019, the annual Gun Rights Policy Conference will be a live event, scheduled the weekend of Sept. 30-Oct. 2 at the Westin – Dallas Fort Worth Airport in Irving, Tex. Sponsored jointly by the Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, the conference […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The now-famous shooting last month at the Greenwood Mall in Indiana, during which 22-year-old legally-armed Elisjsha Dicken fatally shot a gunman who had opened fire on shoppers in a food court, gained immediate notoriety, it is just one recent example of Americans fighting back and being their own first responders. Increasingly, […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The ATF has beclowned itself yet again. Last month, when the agency sent Special Agents Larry, Moe and Shemp to the home of a law-abiding Delaware gun owner, without a search warrant, with orders to inspect his guns without letting constitutional rights get in their way, they should […]

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Breaking a flying clay target, hitting the bullseye or knocking over a steel plate and then sharing the fun of that experience awaits all who participate in National Shooting Sports Month,® according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, established this celebration to encourage you to spend time at your […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Over the weekend, CNN reported on gun control laws passed so far in 2022, adding this reference, “There is a direct correlation in states with weaker gun laws and higher rates of gun deaths, including homicides, suicides and accidental killings, according to a January study published by Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project broke four national stories last month and we’re pretty proud of that. On July 1 we revealed that UPS was cancelling gun dealers’ accounts and destroying packages in transit. The story prompted two follow-up stories. On July 5 we named the five anti-gun Senators who were behind UPS’ […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— The House of Representatives has passed HR1808; California: The legislature is back in session in August; California—Burbank: moratorium on gun stored passed; Colorado: Boulder County: Commissioners propose five anti-Second Amendment ordinances with a vote scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 2; Maryland—Montgomery County: sign petition against new county proposed ordinance; New Jersey: […]

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By Mike Nesbitt | Contributing Editor    This is my third installment about reloading black powder cartridges, and now we get to talk about some of the bigger stuff.     I’ve put bottleneck cases in a separate class simply because reloading for them can be slightly different from reloading with the straight wall cases.  Actually, […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Los Angeles Police Department has stopped enforcing California’s state law banning “high-capacity” magazines, according to an internal LAPD email obtained by the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. The email was sent Wednesday morning to all LAPD personnel by Commander Ernest Eskridge, assistant commanding officer of the […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief David Hogg, once the darling of the gun prohibition movement and anti-gun media, who is now described as a “prominent gun safety advocate,” was thrown out of a House Judiciary hearing Wednesday following an outburst criticizing members of the panel for “perpetuating violence” because they oppose banning so-called “assault weapons.” The […]

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By Lee WilliamsSAF Investigative Journalism Project ATF’s severely underworked public information officers are flustered. A story we first published Monday about a surprise firearm inspection at a Delaware man’s home has gone viral, exposing their agents’ misdeeds and questionable tactics.Now, ATF’s PIOs are answering questions from the national media and an irate Montana Congressman. Before, […]

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A gun control initiative considered “extremist” by Second Amendment activists has qualified for the November ballot in Oregon, and if passed, it will require a permit to purchase a firearm and ban magazines holding more than 10 cartridges. Predictably, one of the chief proponents of Initiative Petition 17, Rev. Mark Knutson, fell back on a […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    When the subject of the Ruger 10/22 comes up it seems everyone in the shop or deacon’s meeting has one.    All shotgunners don’t have an AR and all pistol shooters don’t have a shotgun but it seems everyone has a Ruger 10/22. The humble 10/22 is used […]

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Although they were silent in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s quick action by a legally-armed private citizen who fatally shot a gunman inside the Greenwood Park Mall in Indiana, anti-gunners evidently got their wind back well enough to objecte on social media when the good guy was identified as a “Good Samaritan.” And it didn’t […]

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The National Shooting Sports Foundation—the firearm industry trade association, defended the First Amendment rights of firearm manufacturers in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Samuel Levine. The letter was in response to several complaints by special-interest gun control groups falsely accusing NSSF members of violating the Federal Trade […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The homeowner was alerted there were trespassers on his property by motion detectors outside his front door. A live video feed from his doorbell camera showed three armed men wearing tactical vests, t-shirts and jeans. Two appeared to be ATF agents. The third was a Delaware State Police […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Anti-gun House Democrats have scheduled a markup Wednesday on H.R. 1808, a bill that would ban so-called “assault weapons,” and “any semi-automatic rifle ‘that has a fixed magazine with the capacity to accept more than 10 rounds, except for an attached tubular device designed to accept, and capable of operating only […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— U.S. Senate: Steve Dettelbach became BATFE Director June 12; The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has scheduled HR1808, for markup July 20; California:  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed three more anti-gun laws on June 12, but five more bills have landed on his desk;  Colorado: Boulder County: Commissioners propose five anti-Second […]

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