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Article first appeared at American Rifleman. One way or another, those of us who are devoted to shooting will eventually end up with at least one ugly handgun. Whether inherited, purchased or received as gifts, these ugly pistols lurk around the edges of gun collections, ruining the view. But, before …
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Article first appeared at DRGO. It is a common sense belief that the pervasiveness of violence in media can desensitize us to violence in society and surely must influence impressionable youth.  Perhaps because of that, our entertainment-industrial complex regularly reports studies telling us that “the evidence just isn’t there”—to “move …
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Article first appeared at Shooting Illustrated. The Springfield Armory XD(M) with threaded barrel seen here mounts a SilencerCo Ospreysuppressor. If you’ve attended a trade show in the firearm industry or just a local gun show in your home state, you’ve witnessed the classic scene of two elderly gentlemen standing only …
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Article first appeared at NRA-ILA. On Monday, Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona of the United States District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands struck down the last handgun ban in the United States in the case of Radich v. Guerrero.  Judge Manglona’s opinion held that the Islands’ bans on handgun …
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Article first appeared at American Rifleman. One of the most popular subcategories of collecting pre-’64 Winchester lever-actions is the “trapper,” or “baby carbine” as it was originally called, a model with a barrel shorter than the standard length of 20″. Trappers encompass Model 1873s, 1892s and 1894s, with verified extra-cost …
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Whenever pro-second amendment advocates try to argue that gun control will lead to disaster, the city of Chicago has always provided the perfect fodder for their arguments. Despite having some of the most draconian gun laws in country, the city of Chicago has long been notorious for its mind-boggling murder …
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Article first appeared at NRA. Why is it that cities with the most restrictive gun-control laws seem to now have the fastest-growing murder rates? And why, when those murder rates begin to skyrocket out of control, do city officials seem to believe that the only possible way to curtail the …
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Article first appeared at NRA. There is a building, found within a lovely panorama of farm fields and apple orchards just across the Maryland line into West Virginia, where gun stores go after death. The building is the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) National Tracing Center, located …
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Article first appeared at AmericanRifleman. On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, scattered groups of men of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army, as well as women of the nationalist auxiliary organization, the Cumann na mBan, assembled at their mustering points throughout Dublin. Most of them were unaware that, instead …
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The failure of the judicial system is more and more apparent in its dereliction of duty to bring justice against those who violate the law. Furthermore, the hypocrisy of a government that is hell bent on infringing on the rights of law-abiding citizens to keep in bear arms is clearly …
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