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That’s right. Every gun maker or gun owner should leave Illinois now! I know, the economy sucks and now is not the time to make a big move, but a recently introduced piece of legislation in the Illinois state house should prompt an exodus of Biblical proportions! This bill, HB4715, proposes that EVERY SINGLE firearm […]

Although Democrats and progressives have claimed politicians who oppose gun control will lose their offices at the hands of angry, pro-gun control Americans in coming elections, a pro-gun Republican just won in Connecticut. It is the first time a Republican has held the seat in 40 years. Samuel Belsito won the Connecticut State Legislature’s 53rd […]

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The recent open carry march in Andrews, Texas follows a similar even a month ago. Thanks to two arrests linked to legal open carry, the demonstration doubled in size. No charges have yet been filed against the OC’ers; they remain in legal limbo. James Franklin of the Midlands/Odessa CATI has told me that they’re applying […]

ames Cvengaros breathed a deep sigh of relief after learning that the man he shot early Saturday morning was still alive.     Cvengaros shot the man after he kicked down the door of his west-side apartment and entered wielding a large machete at about 7:15 a.m.     “I was defending my home and my family,” […]

By Massad Ayoob, Gun Digest Sterile lab testing in ballistic gelatin is great, but the ultimate laboratory is the street, the author maintains. Here are the loads that seem to be doing best there, input written in blood from gunfights police departments have experienced with defensive ammunition. The Dangers of Overpenetrating Bullets One critical rule of […]

A 15-year-old is being credited for saving a woman from being abducted last week.  Officials are saying that the teenager shot and killed 48-year old Sammy Michael Fears when Fears tried to abduct a woman from her Wright, Wyoming home. There are still a lot of details missing from this story, as not much has […]

As semi-auto pistols gradually fall off the Golden State’s yes-you-may-buy-one list, Smith & Wesson announced today that they’re now shipping Cali-compiant SD9 VE and SD40 VE handguns (see Tyler’s review of the SD9 VE here). In a circumstance that probably vexes The Nation’s Most Attractive Attorney General, Smith’s SDVEs were certified as A-OK prior to […]

Months after he blocked state senators from bringing forward a gun control bill that would place additional limits on magazine capacities, New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney, a Democrat, said he’s changed his mind. In April 2013, when the New Jersey Senate was moving at a breakneck pace to enact strict gun control laws, Sweeney […]

“Notice there were quite a few revolver introductions this year?” Mark Keefe [not shown] asks over at americanrifleman.com. “There’s a reason for that.” That would be the Golden State’s microstamping law, which affects semi-automatic pistols (which spit out shell casings) but not revolvers (which don’t). Non-microstamping firearms are dropping off the approved handgun list like […]