The Truth About Guns

By Chris Rabby What does “legal” and medical marijuana law do to your gun rights, you and many gun owners ask? The short answer is that the feds won’t allow a dealer to sell a pot-card holder a gun, and they shouldn’t possess one. Florida and some other states have decided to legalize low-dose marijuana/THC for […]

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Monday that the state Senate does not currently have the votes to pass permitless carry of handguns but that he will try to see if there is a “path” to change that. The news from the Republican presiding officer of the Senate came days after the House approved a permitless carry bill, commonly […]

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What happens when you point a gun at a Walmart security guard? In Indiana — or lots of other gun-friendly states, for that matter — you run the risk of one of the store’s customers coming to the guard’s rescue. That’s what happened over the weekend in a Beach Grove Walmart when the security guard […]

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The GLOCK Model 17L and Model 24 are two of my favorites from that plucky little Austrian company you may be familiar with. Yet they happen to be among their lowest sellers. I think GLOCK has sold more .45 GAPs over the past decade than these two models. The G17L and the G24 never got […]

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The United States Supreme Court announced today that it will not review three cases challenging lifetime bans on gun ownership by people who have committed nonviolent offenses, some as long as four decades ago. From USA Today: In one of the cases before the court, a Pennsylvania man who pleaded guilty to driving under the […]

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It was hard to write this review. Even harder to write it honestly. Still, this is ‘The Truth About Guns,’ and I guess that’s what I’ll have to stick to. The Ruger M77 Hawkeye African model is the best bolt action hunting rifle Ruger makes. And that’s saying a lot. The African model is supremely […]

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You can’t say that the defunded and depleted New York Police Department isn’t still vigilant and keeping Manhattanites safe from imminent threats. Some eagle-eyed boys in blue spotted a New Jersey man cruising down Ninth Avenue Saturday in a Hummer with what appeared to be a cannon mounted on its roof. Almost as alarming, some […]

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Myself as a public health person, I think you can’t run away from [gun violence]. I mean when you see people getting killed, I mean, in this last month it’s just been horrifying what’s happened. How can you say that’s not a public health issue?  — Dr. Anthony Fauci 

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We are constantly told that it is only big money that counts in politics. Perhaps this is so. But what if that’s merely an intimidation tactic? By convincing your enemy that you have the invincible weapon, your enemy will shrink from the fight. The gun controllers have long complained that the big money of the […]

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While the notion of eye dominance is important in shooting, it’s generally overrated. Especially for new shooters, it’s much more important to learn the proper way to align and see your sights and not worry about seeing them with the “proper” eye. At least at first. Seeing properly is the key Everyone has an eye […]

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Democrats and President BidenHarris have been pushing hard for the expansion of gun control laws in America as part of their “cure” for what they claim is an epidemic of “gun violence” in this country. Among other restrictions, they want to outlaw private gun sales, extend the number of days the FBI has to complete […]

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Another problem for any gun control measure is that it is simply unclear how many guns are out there. A mandatory buy-back, such as the ones that Australia instituted, has been suggested, but it likely wouldn’t successfully disarm the nation. Australian authorities had to deal with less than five million guns. In the first year of […]

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From Kimber . . . Kimber Mfg. is donating nearly $43,000 to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) in an effort to provide support to the organization during one of its most trying times in recent history, including the cancellation of the 2021 SHOT Show. The donation will help NSSF continue carrying out the organization’s […]

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That was the question asked back in 1989. The Era of the Wondernine was upon us. Higher capacity 9mm semi-autos that held 15 or  17 rounds was becoming the new standard. Technological wonders from Smith & Wesson, Ruger, GLOCK, SIG SAUER, HK, Beretta, and others were hitting store shelves and could been seen in police […]

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A witness who was outside the FedEx facility in Indianapolis when Brandon Scott Hole, a former FedEx employee, opened fire in the parking lot late Thursday night said one of the victims retrieved a gun from his vehicle and tried to stop the Hole before being shot and killed. As the New York Post reports […]

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From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . The proposal by four anti-gun Capitol Hill Democrats to pack the U.S. Supreme Court by adding four positions is “an outrage” and an attempt to prevent the high court from accepting cases and handing down rulings favorable to the right to keep and bear arms, the Second […]

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[Hannah] Arendt offers two points that are salient to our thinking about guns: for one, they insert a hierarchy of some kind, but fundamental nonetheless, and thereby undermine equality. But furthermore, guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name — that […]

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The two main reasons I bought a Steyr AUG are that it’s not an AR-15, and, well, I like weird guns. Seriously, aren’t we all just a bit bored with the AR-15? I know, I know, the AR-15 platform is hands down the best auto-loading rifle ever designed. I get that, but I am still […]

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It’s getting hard to keep track of the number of high profile killers that, it’s later revealed, law enforcement authorities were aware of before they committed their crimes. Indianapolis FedEx shooter Brandon Scott Hole was yet another of these. Hole murdered eight people last night and wounded at least another nine (reports are still sketchy […]

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From the Firearms Policy Coalition . . . Yesterday, Senate Democrats introduced yet another unconstitutional and outrageous bill attacking the right to keep and bear arms and personal property rights, this one aimed at banning standard capacity firearm ammunition magazines that are commonly possessed and used for lawful purposes by the millions. S. 1108, introduced […]

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