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GOA OPPOSES NEW CATEGORIES FOR CREDIT CARD SALES AT GUN RETAILERS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2022 Washington, D.C. – Today, Gun Owners of America (GOA) announced their complete opposition to plans by major credit card companies to re-categorize transactions made at firearms retailers into their own specialized business code. Anti-gun activists claim that this effort will help enforce existing laws against gun …
The Armed Citizen® Sept. 12 , 2022
Armed Citizen® Today A Chicago, Ill., man defended himself when another allegedly tried to attack him with a knife on June 1, 2022. The 36-year-old man was inside his garage around 2 p.m. that Wednesday afternoon, when another individual approached from the street. the stranger approached the man, with a …
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson Gives His Analysis of This Critical Midterm Election
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R-N. Car.) burst onto the scene when he made an impromptu speech to his local city council—the Greensboro City Council—in 2018. The Greensboro City Council was considering going after the peoples’ right to keep and bear arms. “All day,” Robinson said, “I was thinking about this …
NRA National Firearms Museum’s New Doc Thurston Gallery
This year, your NRA National Firearms Museum is marking 87 years in operation, preserving and chronicling nearly seven centuries’ worth of firearms history during that time. With the opening of the new Doc Thurston Gallery to the public at NRA headquarters in Fairfax, Va., this past May, I want to …
First Look: New Holster Options from Blackhawk
Blackhawk is a subsidiary of Vista Outdoor LLC, manufacturing numerous holsters among its products. The company has just announced new handgun compatibility options for two of its popular product lines, the Stache IWB concealment holster and the T-Series L3D duty holster. The Stache IWB is an inside the waistband (IWB) concealment …
First Look: Standard Manufacturing SP-12 Compact Pro Firearm
Standard Manufacturing is now shipping their new SP-12 Compact Pro 12-gauge tactical pump action firearm. The new SP-12 Compact Pro features a 14½-inch barrel and is threaded to for screw-in chokes. Since this firearm has a 14½-inch barrel and an overall length of 26½ inches, the birdshead’s pistol-grip only configuration, the …
The Most Important Shot
On July 21, 1865, in Springfield, MO, James B. Hickok and Davis Tutt were about to have what, at the time, was generally called a difficulty. Some claim it was over a woman; others claim it concerned a gambling debt, whatever. As was the custom of the day, the two …
First Look: Rock River Arms ATH Rifle
Rock River Arms is introducing a new AR-15 pattern varmint hunting rifle called the Rock River Arms All-Terrain Hunter (ATH). This new AR-15 is built around a heavy cryogenically treated 18-inch stainless steel barrel with a 1:8-inch twist. It has a .223 Wylde match chamber that is guaranteed by Rock River …
Finding The Correct Barrel Twist Rate
Because gun builders have allowed the .223 Rem. to evolve with the times, there are now faster twist rates that can handle more aerodynamic, flatter-shooting projectiles. The rate of the rifling twist inside a rifle barrel would seem to be mostly a gun thing as opposed to an ammunition thing. …
A Century of Excellence: Easton Archery Turns 100
For 100 years Easton Archery has been producing what many archers consider to be the finest arrow shafts on earth. It all started with young Doug Easton, who was born in 1907 with an inquiring mind and the instincts of a born engineer. In his mid-teens and while convalescing from a terrible …