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In a legal blow to the National Rifle Association, a federal bankruptcy judge in Texas on Tuesday dismissed the association’s bankruptcy case, saying in his ruling, “The Court finds that the NRA did not file the bankruptcy petition in good faith because this filing was not for a purpose intended or sanctioned by the Bankruptcy […]

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How to Prepare Any Animal or Bird for the Table or Freezer By Monte Burch.  c.2019  Published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.  Price: $16.99   Available at most bookstores.      This 288-page softbound volume may not prepare you for being a licensed butcher, but it will help […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Following a shooting in New York City’s Times Square, anti-gun Mayor Bill de Blasio predictably called for more gun control from Congress. The Big Apple has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country, but known that didn’t prevent de Blasio from playing the gun card. The shooting […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief There was no moratorium on mayhem in Chicago, even over the Mother’s Day weekend. Five days after Chicago resident Nortasha Stingley, whose daughter was murdered in 2013, pleaded for a Mother’s Day ceasefire, her plea was answered with six dead and more than 20 others wounded, according to various reports. The […]

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By Scott Smith Contributing Editor    While the calendar says it is May, the weather has been more like late fall over a good portion of the north.    Outside today the rain is falling and the local weather is reporting “windchill”, ugh. If you are like most of us, that’s jacket weather when heading […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—US Supreme Court to take up case dealing with carrying of firearms outside the home in the 2021-22 session: BATFE: publishes new definition of “firearm”; Arizona: SB1382, passed both Houses and was signed by Gov. Doug Ducey on May 7, 2021; Colorado: The Senate State, Veterans, and Military Affairs Committee has […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Boulder County, Colorado District Attorney Michael T. Dougherty has determined that Boulder Police Officer Richard Steidell was justified in using deadly force to stop mass shooting suspect Ahmed Al Aliwi Alissa in the March 22 attack at a King Soopers market that left 10 people dead. The detailed report was released […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    I purchased my first 1911 just about 52 years ago.    It was my choice of all the handguns I could afford and after all this time I am still excited to test, fire, and evaluate new 1911 handguns. I don’t own quite as many 1911 handguns as […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The Biden Justice Department is reportedly “expected” to announce some type of proposed action on so-called “ghost guns” on Friday. According to Fox News, the announcement will be in keeping with Joe Biden’s executive action last month on gun control issues. During the 2020 campaign, while Donald Trump was prone to […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A former Washington State Democratic lawmaker is now running for the office of Seattle Mayor, and she has quickly jumped into the spotlight with a gun control plan that is already getting some attention. Jessyn Farrell, who served in the Washington Legislature from 2013 to 2017 is running to succeed Mayor […]

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by Larry McMurtry.  Published by Simon and Schuster Inc., Dept. TGM,                                1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.  Price:  $20.00 at most bookstores.    This oversize 190-page softbound volume, by the Pulitzer-prize winning author of Lonesome Dove, provides some additional insight on one of the most controversial figures in American history—George Armstrong Custer.  […]

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Winchester celebrates its commitment to American freedom with the USA VALOR™ ammunition series. This limited-edition collection of military-inspired ammunition is now available in 9mm, 5.56mm and 12-gauge buck shot. Every purchase of Winchester USA VALOR ammunition helps support Folds of Honor, a U.S. veteran’s cause dedicated to honoring the sacrifice of America’s heroes while giving […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was accused of “throwing the police under the bus” by Alderman Raymond Lopez of the city’s 15th Ward in the aftermath of another shooting, this one taking the life of a 7-year-old girl who was sitting in in a drive-thru with her father at a McDonald’s. In […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing Editor Back in pioneer days the .44 caliber was a popular choice for Kentucky rifles.  In 1860 the Henry repeater modernized this with a lever action repeating rifle firing a .44 rimfire 200-grain bullet at 1150 FPS. The Winchester M1866 further popularized the caliber. In 1873 the improved M1873 Winchester […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New—Biden-Harris Administration: On April 8 the B-H Administration published its executive actions on guns; Federal: HR8 and HR1446 pass in the House of Representatives and may be viable in the Senate: H.R. 1207, Stop the Online Ammunition Sales Act of 2021. Two more states adjourn bringing the total to nine while […]

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by Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief The Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776, but the real birth of the nation occurred 15 months before, on April 19, 1775, when—as poet Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in ‘Concord Hymn’—the first shots of the American revolution were fired. “By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their […]

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By Scott Smith Contributing Editor    Over the fifty years I have been shooting, the area that has brought shooters more options is optics.    In my youth if you wanted high end precision optics, you purchased a Unertl. In my youth these scopes sold for $50-200 which would be $1,700 today. For affordable scopes […]

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By Dave Workman Editor-in-Chief A strong majority of American voters (58.1%) are more likely to “support a candidate for Congress who supports the 2nd Amendment and the right to bear arms” than would vote (21.9%) against such a candidate, according to a new national survey by McLaughlin & Associates, done for the Second Amendment Foundation. […]

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A national poll on gun ownership by Politico and Morning Consult that was reported in The Hill included an interesting note: Just over two-thirds of the participants say nobody in their household owns a gun of any kind. TGM discovered this by simply perusing the survey. The data is on Page 11, Question 13. The […]

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By Jim Dickson Contributing Editor For many years the .22 rimfire was a penny a shot and that price enabled many young shooters to become expert shots. Back in those days I always fired 500 to 1,000 rounds of .22’s through my pistol every time I shot it. The main use of the .22 rimfire […]

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