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The NICS has been the subject of much discussion lately thanks to the FixNICS bill, and mostly because the system clearly doesn’t work as well as it should. Lots of gun owners worry that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System – or NICS – has records of gun buyers and the firearms they purchased. […]

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With 55 murders already this year, London’s homicide total has surpassed that of New York, a nearly 100% increase over 2017. But guns are nearly impossible to obtain, you say. How can this possibly happen? Criminals always find a way and much of this year’s jump has been due to knife and acid attacks (while some […]

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“So, Mr. Hogg, while you and your peers, because you are young, suburban, and mostly white, are indeed being used as props for the left’s long-standing campaign against the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, as long as you have consented to this arrangement and as long as you share the same end as […]

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Tennessee college student defends her gun-toting ‘graduation’ photo Why would ABC put scare quotes around “graduation”? Amid a youth-driven gun control debate that has swarmed social media, a college senior in Tennessee is defending the provocative photo she posted of her packing a handgun with the caption, “I don’t take normal graduation photos …” … […]

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VZ Grips, makers of grips for guns that don’t take GLOCK mags is finally making a GLOCK accessory. Well, not specifically for GLOCKs. But their new slide covers will work on GLOCKs, so that’s something. They’re only $12.99 and are available in three sizes, large, not large and even less large. They’re just the thing […]

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The Maryland Arms Collectors Association has hosted the Baltimore Antique Arms Show each spring since 1954. Regarded as one of the premier events in the country, it is on the “gun bucket list” of most collectors. There’s lots to see among the show’s 1,000 tables … but there’s also lots that you won’t see. Looking […]

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The SAF-affiliated Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is a tireless supporter of Second Amendment rights. In a strategic shift from their previous efforts in the courts, CCRKBA is now making a public appeal to Attorney General Jeff Sessions to put the squeeze on cities and states that limit their citizens’ right […]

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B&T has so many 9mm sub-guns on the market I’m starting to loose track of them. The newest member of the B&T family is the GHM9 Compact. I reviewed the full sized GHM9 earlier this year and really liked it…other than its inability to feed hollow points (an issue that has since been resolved). The compact […]

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Maryland Incident Deflates ‘No Guns in School’ Argument – Which is exactly why has disappeared from the news so quickly . . . Tuesday morning’s school shooting incident in Maryland that left the teen gunman dead after being confronted by an armed school resources officer (SRO) dramatically undermines the argument from anti-gunners that armed security […]

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So…6.5 Creedmoor or .260 Remington? Potato, potahto? Do you you reload or shoot factory ammo? Either way, DoubleStar has you covered. Their STARB10-BX rifle is now available in both the uber-popular 6.5 Creedmoor or .260 Remington if you’re so inclined. Here’s their press release . . . Winchester, Ky. (March 2018) – DoubleStar Corp, manufacturers […]

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[reviewadinsert] With instant access to the joys of social media via the handy-dandy smart phone that’s always in your hand, the impulse to fire back (verbally, of course) at a Facebook post or tweet that’s caught your eye is something most of us would do well to repress. Too many people spout unfiltered, ill-considered stupidity […]

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An email blast from the National Shooting Sports Foundation: You may see media coverage of the adoption by YouTube of a new firearms content policy that has the potential to affect our industry and your business.   YouTube’s announcement this week of a new firearms content policy is troubling.  We suspect it will be interpreted to […]

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TTAG writer Capt. John Raguso sends this sad news about his son: On March 15, 2018, MSGT Christopher J. Raguso of the USAF, who was also a Lieutenant with FDNY and Commack FD, was killed in action in the western desert of Iraq during a mission serving his county in Operation Inherent Resolve, the war […]

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reddit.com has been one of the most liberal of social media websites. Liberal in the classic sense: tolerant. Open-minded. Welcoming. The company’s now joined the post-Parkland culture War on Guns being waged by corporate America (e.g., YouTube). Check out the official notice below . . . Read the second half of the announcement listening to […]

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Mark’s everydaycarry.com pocket dump features one them sticky holster thingies. (Note: not an actual Sticky Holster. A Desantis Nemesis.)  I love ’em! In theory. In practice, on my hip, not so much. Like Winston Churchill . . . I can’t stand anything [non-human] touching my nether regions that isn’t silk. Well, in my case, Tommy John’s […]

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The apple apparently doesn’t fall far from the corner-cutting tree in this family. According to the Reno Gazette Journal, a father and son from Wisconsin are in a White Pine County, Nevada jail and their hunting guide has been suspended for illegally taking an elk. The three men were sentenced this week in District Court […]

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No one knows exactly how many gun owners there are in the United States (many maintain operational security). Bemoaning the lack of gun registration, cnn.com tackled the gun ownership question back in February, and came up with the following stats . . . High quality telephone polls from Gallup and the Pew Research Center in 2017 found that 42% […]

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“The court heard how, in September last year, [Chanze Nolan and Devonte Harris] were driven to Wellingborough in a rented white Golf to pick up a friend,” northamptonchron.co.uk reports, “and brought the loaded shotgun ‘for no specific purpose.’ But while driving in Burns Road, they spotted someone they thought was a rival gang member and ordered […]

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There are few things more frustrating than being set up on the firing line and discovering you forgot the one screwdriver or drive bit you need to complete the days’ primary objective. I’ve been there more than once; a bad habit of stuffing all my shop tools into my range bag is the scar I […]

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Never let it be said that Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel doesn’t take swift and decisive action when events or individuals under his command challenge the illusion of the “amazing leadership” he paints of the bumbling incompetence that characterizes his department. A long-troubled student who was well-known to your department shoots up the local high […]

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