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Text and Photos By Kat Ainsworth Stevens Contributing Editor Since their inception well over a century ago 1911s have been understandably relegated to the realm of steel pistols. They’re heavier, tough, and single-stacks, right? Not exactly. Double-stack 1911s – often referred to as 2011s by manufacturers like Stacatto – are a thing now as are […]

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By Tanya Metaksa Tanya Metaksa Contributing Editor On February 23 and 24 Biden’s nominee for Interior Secretary, Representative Deb Haaland, faced the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, chaired by Senator Manchin. Most of the Republican Senators questioned her about the Keystone pipeline and fracking and her answer to their questions was to say she […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    One of the wonders of modern manufacture is that classics of the past are easily duplicated with precision CNC machinery.    Often the price is high, other times the firearms are surprisingly affordable. Resurrection of the Colt Python was big news. Close copies of the GI .45 are […]

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A grassroots gun rights organization is launching a national television advertising campaign warning American gun owners about a sweeping gun control bill—H.R. 127 sponsored by Democrat Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee of Houston, Texas—that they call “an alarming new threat to the Bill of Rights.” The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms […]

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By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor The Newton County Missouri Commission has passed a Second Amendment sanctuary resolution with some teeth. Calling the new measure the Newton County Missouri Second Amendment Preservation Act, it went into effect upon passage by the county commission. The law itself is relatively simple. It is only a page and […]

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By Dave Workman | Editor-in-Chief Remarking on a unanimous ruling by a state appeals court upholding Washington State’s 36-year-old model firearms preemption law, nationally-recognized gun rights advocate Alan Gottlieb offered what may be the perfect argument to counter efforts by the gun prohibition lobby to nullify such statutes. “State preemption is the most common sense approach to […]

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By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor During an exchange with Utah Senator Mike Lee, President Biden’s pick for Attorney General made comments that shed light on what to expect from the Biden Administration regarding Second Amendment rights. On Tuesday, Judge Merrick Garland answered questions in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on his appointment when this […]

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By Tanya Metaksa What’s New— Arizona: HB2827, HB2840 passed by Judiciary Committee; Colorado: Legislature has convened;   Connecticut: SB125: Gun rationing bill; AB5531: State tax on ammunition;  Florida: SB372: bans 3D printed firearms; Hawaii: Judiciary committees from both Houses pass anti-gun measures; Indiana: HB1369, constitutional carry bill, passes the House Public Safety Committee advance to House […]

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By R.K. Campbell | Contributing Editor    The revolver featured in this report is a handgun with considerable appeal, because I am never happier than when firing “cowboy” guns.    Recently a well-meaning media rep asked if I could not use the term cowboy gun as often, as the firearms her company offers are suitable […]

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By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor The Giffords Law Center has released its annual Gun Law Scorecard and predictably states with the maps draconian gun laws rated highest in the rankings. The Giffords Law Center was originally the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and was founded in 1993 in San Francisco, California. Since 2010 […]

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By Dave Workman | Editor-in-Chief Throughout his decades-long career as a radio talk host and conservative icon, Rush Limbaugh defended and promoted the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. Limbaugh died Wednesday, Feb. 17, following a long battle with lung cancer. He was 70. In the aftermath of the tragic school shooting in […]

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By Jim Dickson | Contributing editor My first glimpse of the semi-auto version of the Thompson submachinegun was a 1967 picture of Colonel Charles Askins holding one in a gun magazine. As a longtime lover of the Thompson I knew I had to have one. It turned out to be a long wait. Auto-Ordnance was […]

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By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor I have heard a phrase recently that I hadn’t heard in a long time: “The Overton Window.” That is the concept that there are things that the general public sees as unacceptable on both extremes of the issue and generally finds something somewhere in the middle acceptable. In the […]

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Seattle police officers fatally shot an armed man Tuesday night, ending parking lot shooting incident that left one woman dead and another seriously wounded, but in the aftermath, according to KCPQ News, the Seattle Fox affiliate, local activists are “planning to protest the officers’ use of force.” According to KIRO News, the CBS affiliate in […]

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The South Dakota House of Representatives is considering legislation that would effectively have the Mount Rushmore State attorney general invalidating Joe Biden’s executive orders, according to the Daily Wire. The measure is sponsored by State Rep. Aaron Aylward (R-Harrisburg). House Bill 1194 would allow the state Attorney General to review executive orders issued by the […]

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By Amy Dillon | Contributing Editor When it comes to choosing a handgun for defense, there are certain factors that should be considered. The factors to consider when choosing a handgun to purchase for personal defense are: 1.  Grip. The grip is the handle of the handgun. Since your hands are the part of the […]

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A member of the National Rifle Association’s Board of Directors has filed a motion to the federal judge presiding in the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Texas to appoint an independent examiner to investigate allegations of financial mismanagement at the heart of a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James. James filed her lawsuit […]

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By Paul Lathrop | Contributing Editor    New Mexico is facing several challenges to the Second Amendment this year, with a Democrat- controlled House and Senate pushing several measures that restrict the right to keep and bear arms.    Freshman State Rep. Stefanie Lord (R-District 22) said there are several pieces of anti-gun legislation up […]

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Boss Buck, manufacturer of the patented Non-Typical Wildlife Feeders and Feed & Seed Attractants, has introduced two new premium food plot blends – Fatal Funnel and Final Destination, as well as a new Cottonseed Deer Attractant. Fatal Funnel High-yield and diverse seed mix for do-it-yourself whitetail plots, the Fatal Funnel is made in the USA […]

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A city in Colorado has ordered its gun shops and other stores selling firearms to “secure their firearms” after closing in an effort to prevent, or at least curb, what a newspaper called “brazen smash-and-grab burglaries. According to the Denver Post, officials in Littleton, a Denver suburb, passed the ordinance last week. There has been […]

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