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The Federal Bureau of Investigation hasn’t exactly showered itself in glory over the years as subsequent investigations revealed that a wide range of mass shooters had been previously known to the federal law enforcement agency. Some of the shooters even had significant criminal records, but were given a pass anyway when the FBI performed NICS […]

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Joe Manchin owns the U.S. Senate now…everyone else just works there. Sen. Joe Manchin, a centrist Democrat from West Virginia, said Tuesday that he does not support the two gun safety bills the House passed earlier this month and instead is still pushing to pass the more narrow Manchin-Toomey compromise bill that he developed with Republican Sen. […]

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If you’ve seen the episode of the Black Mirror (the linked video is pretty grisly) that featured murderous robot dogs that roamed a post-apocalyptic countryside, this GIF might give you chills . . . The creators of that episode modeled their killer curs after Boston Dynamics’ Spot (photo at top). Now, given the rapid advancement […]

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Given what happened in Boulder, Colorado yesterday, most folks probably missed a very similar case that took place in Chicago over the weekend. Tracey Thomas, 29, reportedly told police investigators that he wanted to lure CPD officers into an ambush and kill as many cops as possible. Fortunately the suspect, his junky little Lorcin .380, […]

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The alleged Boulder murderer, Ahmad Al Issa (his name is being reported a variety of ways) purchased an AR-15 platform firearm six days before he walked into a King Sooper grocery store yesterday and opened fire. He was also reportedly armed with a semi-automatic handgun. CNN is reporting that the shooter used “an AR-15-style pistol […]

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FRAC, the Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, with support from its members like SB Tactical and congressional representatives Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) and Henry Cuellar (D-TX), are pushing forward the ATF Accountability Act of 2021. This legislation would create a transparent appeals and review process to protect against the arbitrary and capricious rulings and determinations by ATF […]

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Xavier Becerra, then-California’s Attorney General but now (as of yesterday) the U.S. Secretary of Health & Human Services, admitted that CA’s gun registration website was so poorly designed that it was widely nonfunctional. From today’s Sacramento Bee: California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s office quietly signed a settlement agreement in federal court admitting his agency’s gun-registration […]

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By Phil Reboli Last week, a painfully unthoughtful op-ed was published in The Truth About Guns (TTAG), stirring up controversy within the gun community. Its author, Ms. Jennifer Sensiba, joined in the cacophony of hysterical commentary on Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene with her piece: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is Hurting the Gun Rights Movement. Ms. […]

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“The time is always right to do what’s right,” the great civil rights leader (and gun owner) Martin Luther King once said. He was right in so many ways. Earlier this week, some do-gooders in Decatur, Illinois announced an upcoming gun “buyback” scheduled for Friday afternoon, April 2nd from 2:00p to 6:00p. Sponsors have dubbed […]

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A couple weeks ago I visited a manufacturer in Texas and spied this pallet of four, 14,000-round drums of Winchester M193. Apparently there’s a whole lot more where this came from, too, stored above their test firing range. They aren’t a huge manufacturer as the firearm industry goes, but in the course of test firing […]

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This Week in Gun Rights is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal, legislative and other news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights.  Background Check Bills Through to Senate The House has passed, mostly along party lines, two gun control bills. One would require background checks for virtually all firearm transactions, and another would […]

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What [the Fair Access to Banking Act] would do is it would prohibit banks from creating categorical exclusions, industries, entire industries; the firearms industry, fossil fuel, carbon industries, private prisons. Industries that the banks — many banks, large banks — have categorically stated they’re not going to support in the future.  And these are legal […]

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By Larry Keane U.S. Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) took to the floor of the House of Representatives with a reminder to the politicians pushing gun control. Those proposals have their roots in a racist past and it only serves to further victimize disaffected communities. In 2020, African Americans led the historic gun-buying surge, taking self-protection […]

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The Retrograde series from Mossberg proves that you can blend modern tactical function with old-school appeal. As the reigning king of tactical pump-action shotguns, the 590A1 couldn’t be left out in the rain. In fact, for some reason I cannot fathom, the 590A1 Retrograde has become absurdly expensive across online auction sites. I know what […]

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Don’t pity the bigots in Boulder, Colorado who like to portray themselves as open to diversity. To the contrary, just like the bigots and racists who passed Army-Navy Laws after the Civil War to disarm recently freed African-American slaves, Boulder’s present-day bigots hate black guns and the people who own them. However, their make-believe utopian […]

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Today’s Ask Josh comes to us from Dave R., a regular at my local Cabela’s, where I run into him a lot. I somehow always run into him at Five Guys, the range, and more. The other day, Dave came at me with this . . . ”I don’t understand why they even make the […]

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Pennsylvania’s Attorney General Josh Shapiro made a hasty bee-line for the nearest TV cameras on Monday to anxiously announce that he’d managed to pressure the state’s largest gun show promoter to end the sale of so-called ghost gun kits at their shows. Eagle Arms Productions confirmed the agreement at the time, but had no more […]

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A day after Ruger’s announcement of their brand-new MAX-9 pistol (details on TTAG HERE), Viridian Weapon Technologies has announced their E-Series red and green laser sight modules for the little gat. FYI, “welcome21” is a whopping 30-percent-off coupon code for, as far as I can tell, nearly everything on Viridian’s website (my browser plugin alerted […]

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From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education . . . During the COVID-19 pandemic, over 750 registered student groups at the University of Pennsylvania have been able to host virtual events. But Penn students interested in hunting, archery, and shooting are being denied permission for even virtual activities. Yesterday, the Foundation for Individual Rights […]

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“The total economic impact of the firearm and ammunition industry in the United States increased from $19.1 billion in 2008 to $63.5 billion in 2019, a 232 percent increase, while the total number of full-time equivalent jobs rose from approximately 166,000 to over 342,330, a 106 percent increase in that period.” That’s a heck of […]

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