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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief For the sixth year in a row, the now-infamous gun violence tax on firearms and ammunition in Seattle, Wash., has failed—in more ways than one—to live up to the hype surrounding its hasty adoption in the summer of 2015. At that time, as reported in August 2015 by The Stranger, the office […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    Quite a few folks have a tactical type firearm designated as an emergency gun.    It should be a long gun and a firearm that makes the most of the shooters abilities. The firearm should be proofed for reliability and the shooter must practice with the firearm. A […]

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by Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this. In a letter sent Monday to YouTube’s Chief Executive Officer Susan Wojcicki, five U.S. Senators expressed their “serious concern that YouTube continues to […]

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Legislation that would ban so-called “high capacity magazines” in Washington State—scheduled for a public hearing Wednesday morning before the state House Civil Rights & Judiciary committee—had garnered almost 15,000 “con” notifications prior to the hearing, while less than 1,000 “pro” notifications had been logged. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5078 would prohibit ammunition magazines for rifles […]

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The man now charged in what appears to have been an attempted murder of Louisville, Kentucky mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg has reportedly been a gun control and civil rights activist who also previously worked as an intern and editorial columnist for the Louisville Courier-Journal, according to Fox News. Quintez Brown, 21, allegedly entered the Greenberg […]

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by Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this. The most anti-gun president in the history of the United States is growing desperate. His polls are tanking – the worst in recent […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— Alabama: HB272, a constitutional carry bill, awaiting House floor action; California: SB906, Requiring parents to tell schools whether there is a gun in the home, has been introduced; San Jose: ordinance to tax gun owners and require liability insurance was been voted in;   Colorado: HB22-1033, constitutional carry, postponed indefinitely; Hawaii: […]

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The Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms have publicly thanked several groups that submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of their challenge of the Maryland ban on semi-auto rifles. The case is known as Bianchi, et al. v. Frosh, et al. The […]

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Joe Biden’s “Valentine” to American gun owners is something of a wilted dandelion; another call for Congress to act on his gun control agenda including so-called “universal background checks,” a ban on so-called “assault weapons and high-capacity magazines” and repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act protecting firearms manufacturers from junk lawsuits. According […]

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Federal Ammunition has announced new additions to the HST ammunition family with the arrival of Personal Defense HST 357 Magnum and 327 Federal Magnum. Continuing to build off an already extensive line of personal defense ammunition options, the addition of these magnum loads gives users a reliable and effective personal defense option for revolvers. “When […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Editor While some collectors decry any touching of the original finish of antique guns the fact remains that a gun in poor condition has a much less chance of being preserved. The general public’s attitude has changed on this and the emphasis is on guns in good condition. If you […]

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by Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this. In late June, Joe Biden announced a new zero-tolerance policy for “rogue gun dealers,” who he claimed were responsible for skyrocketing violent crime […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Her injured sled dogs are healing, her spirits are high and for Alaska’s Bridgett Watkins, the musher who made national news this week because of a wild confrontation with a bull moose—the kind of incident from which legends are sometimes born—the experience seems only to have reinforced her plans to run […]

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Federal Ammunition is proud to announce three new loads in the industry’s only ammunition product line truly designed for optimal cycling and overall performance from the time-tested, lever-action rifle platform. Federal successfully launched Its HammerDown line in 2020, and now the company is expanding that product line’s options to include the 45 Colt, 35 Remington […]

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The Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute,® Inc., (SAAMI®) has announced the acceptance of three new rifle cartridges for SAAMI standardization. SAAMI is the organization at the forefront of promoting firearm safety by creating standards that ensure the safety, reliability and interchangeability of firearms, ammunition, and components. The new rounds are: 6mm GT – The […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief UPDATED, 2/4/22 @ 12 Noon: Once again, while appearing in New York City to talk about the problem of violent crime, Joe Biden went off script and repeated a couple of canards for which he has already been skewered by the Washington Post Fact Checker. About midway through his remarks, Biden—a […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief UPDATED, 2-4 @ 7:25 a.m. PST–When Joe Biden went to New York City Thursday to, as explained by UPI, “promote a new suite of federal efforts to reduce gun violence in the United States,” a remark from an unidentified “senior administration official” seemed curiously familiar. According to Fox News, the unidentified […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A “Shots Fired” annual report from the King County (WA) Prosecutor’s Office showing a spike in gun-related murders and injuries last year provides positive proof that Evergreen State gun control laws have failed, and that anti-gunners “lied” to voters when they pushed through various schemes including a pair of gun control […]

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The number of background checks conducted by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in January was down 40.9 percent from the unadjusted number conducted in January 2021, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. NSSF routinely publishes an “adjusted” number reflecting the organization’s estimate about the NICS checks that actually resulted in […]

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By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project (Editor’s Note: The Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project wouldn’t be possible without you. Click here to make a tax-deductible donation to support pro-gun stories like this.) For more than 70 years, the American Civil Liberties Union’s official position on the Second Amendment has been rather silly and […]

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