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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of UT-Austin’s Campus Carry Recommendations
Austin TX -(AmmoLand.com)- The final report of the campus carry policy working group at the University of Texas at Austin will go down in history as simultaneously featuring some of the finest research on the subject of licensed concealed carry on college campuses and offering two of the most poorly conceived recommendations concerning the same.
Although the report’s factual research demonstrates the wisdom of placing professional academics in...
Early Impressions from 2015 Firearm Season Show Deer Harvest up in Lower Peninsula
Lansing, MI -(AmmoLand.com)- Each year, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources generates preliminary estimates of the firearm deer harvest shortly after the season closes.
The 2015 firearm deer season wrapped up Nov. 30, with indications of mixed results throughout the state. The harvest appears to have decreased in the Upper Peninsula and increased in the Lower Peninsula.
“We anticipated a poor harvest in the U.P. due to the drastically low deer population throughout much of the U.P. over the past couple of years,” said Ashley Autenrieth, DNR deer program biologist. “However, we’ve seen uncharacteristically high temperatures and low snowfall levels so far this fall, and if this continues, we hope the herd will begin rebounding.”
Although reports differ widely across and within regions, DNR biologists estimate the...
Service Proposes 2016-17 Migratory Bird Hunting Season Frameworks
Engages New Process for Setting Game Bird Hunting Seasons
Green-winged Teal Male – USFWS U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceWashington, DC -(AmmoLand.com)- As a result of steady or improving population numbers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today announced it is proposing continued liberal game bird season lengths and bag limits for the 2016-17 hunting seasons.
Each year, the Service works in partnership with states from four Flyway Councils (Pacific, Central, Mississippi and Atlantic) to establish regulatory frameworks for hunting season lengths, dates and bag limits. States select...
Is This a Turning Point in the Gun Fight?
By Robert B. Young
Is This a Turning Point in the Gun Fight? Doctors for Responsible Gun OwnershipUSA – -(Ammoland.com)- In less than three weeks, we’ve seen two of the more horrible radical jihadist attacks yet, of different sorts. In Paris on November 13 2015, we saw an ISIS-directed and organized mass assault on innocent citizens of a European country that has been as welcoming of Muslim immigration as any in the West.
On December 2 2015 in San Bernardino, just two...
Barack Obama Greatest Gun Salesman In American History
Art by A.F. Branco
Barack Obama Greatest Gun Salesman In American History AmmoLand Gun NewsUSA –-(Ammoland.com)- Barack Obama Greatest Gun Salesman In American History.
“Since Obama took office in January of 2009, stock prices for publicly traded American gun manufacturers are booming. There are two publicly traded gun manufacturers based in the U.S., and their stock prices have gone through the roof since Obama became president.
&...
Sheriffs Endorse Concealed Carry after Terrorist Attack
By Rob Morse
Slow FactsLouisiana- (Ammoland.com)-
(Credit Image: © Ed Crisostomo/The Orange County Register via ZUMA Wire)Sheriffs across the country spoke up after the mass public murder in San Bernardino, California. They went public with their support of concealed carry and citizen self-defense. This makes sense for at least two reasons.
The first is practical. Most of these law enforcement officers have rolled in on a scene when it was too late. Like the police...
Weatherby Introduces the Vanguard Dangerous Game Rifle
Paso Robles, Calif. -(Ammoland.com)- —Weatherby Inc., legendary firearms manufacturer, is honored to introduce the DGR, one of the latest iterations of the Vanguard series that debuted in the late 1960s.
Since that time, Vanguard rifles have redefined the level of performance that’s attainable from a production hunting rifle —especially budget-friendly models. Continuing that convention, the economical Vanguard DGR is replete with features that’ll endear it to those individuals...
Washington DFW, Partners Reintroduce Fishers Into South Cascades
Washington -(Ammoland.com)- Biologists today released seven fishers into Washington’s south Cascades mountains, where the reclusive, cat-sized mammal hasn’t been seen for more than 70 years.
The fisher is one of the larger members of the weasel family, which includes otters, badgers and wolverines. Fishers were eliminated from...
Michigan U.P. Focus: Firearm deer hunting season a mixed bag in the Upper Peninsula
Michigan -(Ammoland.com)- Michigan Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologists said preliminary check station data shows mixed results for the firearm deer hunting season in the Upper Peninsula.
So far, indications are there was a drop in the overall harvest. However, with hunters across the region registering a higher proportion of mature bucks, many of those deer were beautiful bucks.
After three consecutive severe winters in the region, DNR biologists predicted hunters this...
USDA Announces $40 Million Available to Help Ranchers Restore Sage Grouse Habitat
Funding Also Available for Six Other Habitats on Privately-Owned Land
Sage Grouse Initiative 2.0 USDAWashington, DC -(AmmoLand.com)- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the availability of $40 million to help ranchers and other partners in 11 western states restore and protect sagebrush habitat for greater sage-grouse on privately-owned land.
This investment is part of USDA’s four-year, $211 million Sage Grouse Initiative 2.0 through the Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) partnership. The WLFW...
Stephenson’s Issues a Call to Arms Rolling out a 400-Lot Auction of Quality Militaria
Uniforms, medals and 70 lots of weapons span Civil War through 20th century conflicts
Renette Paris France inlaid silver and gold black powder ½-inch-bore shotgun; image courtesy of Stephenson’s Auctioneers Stephenson’s AuctioneersSouthampton, PA -(AmmoLand.com)- Two advanced private collections have merged in perfect formation as the core of Stephenson’s Friday, December 11 Militaria & Firearms Auction.
The 400-lot sale includes uniforms, a wealth of US and Nazi Germany World War II medals, insignias and memorabilia; and...
VOORMI Unveils PHASE-Sc Textile Technology
New Spatially Constructed Wool Technology Changes the Game in Concealment Apparel
Voormi Hunting Apparel VoormiPagosa Springs, CO -(AmmoLand.com)- VOORMI, an innovator of domestically sourced Precision Blended Wool, is getting really precise… this time with color.
The Colorado-based performance wool maker is proud to unveil PHASE-Sc Technology, a new textile technology with the ability to precisely place colored yarns in a biomimicry pattern for application in performance concealment apparel.
VOORMI’s wool based...
Police Chief: ‘Revolution’ Coming if Obama Tries to Disarm American People
By AWR Hawkins
Police Chief: ‘Revolution’ Coming if Obama Tries to Disarm American People AmmoLand Gun NewsWashington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- Hughes Springs Police Chief Randy Kennedy is warning President Obama that any attempt to disarm the American people will result in “revolution.”
Hughes Springs is roughly 120 miles east of Dallas, Texas.
An Establishment Unhinged & Laid Waste By Trump
By Pat Buchanan
Donald Trump surrounded by a sea of supporters shocks the main stream media by saying what we are all thinking on Muslim immigration. Patrick J .BuchananUSA – -(Ammoland.com)- Calling for a moratorium on Muslim immigration “until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on,” Donald Trump this week ignited a firestorm of historic proportions.
As all the old hate words — xenophobe, racist, bigot — have lost...
Immigration and Our Founding Fathers’ Values
By Michelle Malkin
Michelle MalkinUSA – -(Ammoland.com)- President Obama claims that restricting immigration in order to protect national security is “offensive and contrary to American values.” No-limits liberals, have attacked common-sense proposals for heightened visa scrutiny, profiling or immigration slowdowns as “un-American.”
America’s Founding Fathers, I submit, would vehemently disagree.
Our founders, as I’ve reminded readers repeatedly over the years, asserted their concerns publicly and routinely about the effects of indiscriminate mass immigration. They made it clear that the purpose of allowing foreigners into our fledgling nation was not to recruit millions of new voters or to secure permanent ruling majorities for their political parties. It was to preserve, protect and enhance the republic they put their...
NASP School Spotlight: Louisiana School NASP World Champions, Again!
By Brittany J Jones
NASP School Spotlight: Louisiana School NASP World Champions, Again! National Archery in the Schools ProgramNashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- Every spring, forty-two states determine their state champion National Archery in the Schools Programs (NASP) archery teams to identify who may advance to NASP Nationals and then, if they are good enough, on to the NASP Worlds.
However, it is not every year that two teams from the same school district, win the world championship. Not to mention, one of those teams becoming back-to-back world title-holders.
Such was the case for Benton...
Connecticut’s Unconstitutional End Run Around Legislature Will Not Go Unchallenged
Hartford CT – -(Ammoland.com)- Today Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy made an announcement that he would declare an executive order that would prevent anyone that is on yet-to-be-named, secret ‘watch lists’ from exercising their right to armed self-defense by purchasing or carrying a firearm.
The very idea that...
SCC Statement on the Recommendations of the Campus Carry Working Group at UT-Austin
Austin TX -(AmmoLand.com)- Although the campus carry working group’s recommendations regarding WHERE licensed concealed carry should be allowed on the UT-Austin campus are generally in keeping with the intent of Texas Senate Bill 11, the group oversteps both is members’ area of expertise and the university’s statutory authority to create “reasonable” rules, by recommending that concealed handgun license holders carry their firearms in a manner that...
More Than 73,000 Deer Checked During Ohio’s Weeklong Gun Hunting Season
Ohio -(Ammoland.com)- Hunters checked 73,399 white-tailed deer during Ohio’s 2015 deer-gun hunting season, Nov. 30-Dec. 6, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR).
This represents a significant increase over last year’s harvest of 65,484 deer. During the 2013 deer-gun season, 75,408 deer were checked.
To date, for the 2015 deer hunting seasons, hunters have checked 152,554...
New This Week – Paving the Way for Juniors in the Shooting Sports
Nashville, TN -(AmmoLand.com)- Shooting USA – Generation Three-Gun Match
It’s a multi-gun match for the juniors that is also a fund-raiser to help pave the way for new shooters to enter the sport. Generation Three Gun is the organization working to expand participation for the next generation. Plus, the English Eight Bore, the black powder solution in the 1800s for Professional Hunters and Gentlemen on Safari. And, the appeal of traditional archery; when you begin...