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“After every shooting, we talk about motive, mental illness and every other distraction from the real problem — guns. New Jersey has some of the strongest gun safety legislation in the country. That should make it very clear that this is a problem we can only solve at the national level, with Congress leading the […]

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World Cup fans can buy machine guns ‘no question asked’ in Russian shops if over 18 That’s almost enough to turn us into soccer fans . . . Pop into this Moscow shopping centre and you can leave with a machine gun in your carrier bag. If you are over 18, you can snap up […]

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TechSmith MFG. is really on a roll. They’re releasing new brace adapters for pistols faster than some obscure and amusing analogy I can’t come up with right now. Our resident analogist, Foghorn, is as missing as .308 is from Jeremy’s ammo stash, so click here if you still love .308. Anyway, TechSmith’s newest creation is […]

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“Perhaps the most pernicious aspect of the “liberal gun reform doesn’t work” ideology that comes after a shooting in a state like California is the idea that a singular method of preventing gun violence exists. In reality, there is no panacea to prevent gun violence in America: Its prevention requires a massive commitment to various […]

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Jim Carrey’s New Blood-Dripping Portrait Takes Aim At ‘National Disgrace’ NRA We’re so old, we remember when he used to be funny . . . “Someday they’ll say we turned a blind eye to the suffering and slaughter of our own children and gave ourselves over to scoundrels and sadists,” Carrey captioned the artwork. Carrey […]

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The New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist for the old Gray Lady, has noticed that the nation’s oldest gun maker is about to emerge from bankruptcy. Remington executed a pre-packaged filing in March and is about to emerge from the process, free of both hundreds of millions of dollars of debt and […]

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Do we really need to say it? “A man was clobbered by a stranger during a robbery on a Bronx sidewalk — as at least six passersby watched but did nothing to help, surveillance video released by police Tuesday shows.” The surveillance footage, released by authorities Tuesday morning, shows the individual boisterously yelling at his […]

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Last week, we ran a post by Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownerhip’s Victor Chen, MD, on why the right to keep and bear arms is important to the bay area psychiatrist. Here is part two of Dr. Chen’s essay on why the RKBA is important for all Americans.  By Victor Chen, MD What we should […]

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Why do gun control advocates care so little about the welfare of women? That’s a fair question given the fact that women are most often the victims of domestic violence and abusive current and ex-boyfriends and husbands. Combine that with the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex’s perpetual efforts make it as difficult as possible for Americans, […]

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Lots of us go easy on the weekends as far as our EDC gear goes. Even though we’re free to dress as we want, which may mean carrying a bigger gat, with all the errands, chores, soccer games and whatnot, plenty of carriers choose to keep things as light and non-restrictive as they can. That […]

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The outlaw John Wesley Hardin used this revolver to kill Brown County Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb in a gunfight outside of Jack Wright’s saloon in Comanche, Texas, on May 26, 1874. Webb was attempting to arrest Hardin, whom he had wounded, but Hardin got off a fatal shot. Sheriff John Carnes arrested Hardin and took […]

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Illinois voters probably consider themselves ahead of the game whenever a governor manages to make it through an entire term without being indicted. That said, current Republican Governor Bruce Rauner isn’t terribly popular in the Land o’ Lincoln. While the election is still six months away, he trails the Democrat nominee by double digits. He’s […]

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With no prior military service and an affinity for wing shooting, it took a while for USGI builds to reach the top of my list. In fact, I was planning to build a new snow goose shotgun when the opportunity to start on an A2 build landed in my lap. Of course, I couldn’t pass it […]

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“Perhaps a total ban on guns would reduce America’s homicide rate, in the same way that a total ban on cars would reduce traffic accidents. But, in the real world, it is far from clear that Britain has any lessons to offer either side of the American gun debate. The two countries are starting from […]

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How The Congressional Baseball Shooting Didn’t Become The Deadliest Political Assassination In American History A lot of luck and a couple of Capitol police officers . . . There’s been a lot of discussion the past year about where this broader moment fits in American history, which past era it might resemble. Are we living […]

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Based on the Lorenzoni system from the 18th century, this miniature pistol was made by Peter Dyson. In an era of single-shot muzzleloaders, which required a great deal of time and effort to reload, the Lorenzoni system performed all of the reloading actions by manipulating a crank on the left side of the gun. By moving […]

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After a psycho — there’s really no more accurate way to describe him — shot 40 people, killing 21 of them in San Ysidro, California McDonald’s in 1984, Assemblyman Art Agnos had this to say: “The only use for assault weapons is to shoot people,” Agnos told the Assembly Public Safety Committee in June 1985. […]

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Dick’s Sporting Goods and their subsidiary Field & Stream stores look like ghost towns these days in America’s heartland. After reading stories about gun companies ending sales to Dick’s, and the company’s hiring of gun control lobbyists in Washington, I decided to visit the Champaign, Illinois Dick’s and Field & Stream locations. Yes, it’s anecdotal, […]

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In a recent post I detailed some elements of the 9x19mm cartridge and why it’s a good choice for beginners. I received a great deal of positive feedback on this and requests to do the other side of the ‘caliber war.’ So today, it’s  .45 ACP. I was surprised with the comments in my 9mm […]

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You can’t get around to everyone at NRA, no matter how hard you try. One of the exhibitors we managed to miss was Krytos Industries who there showing off their new titanium slides for GLOCKs. Why a titanium slide? How about because it gives you a 40+% reduction in weight? Hold on, though. Doesn’t that […]

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