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When He Made the Decision to Stab Her, He Had No Idea What She Was Carrying in Her Purse.

A Dallas woman might have been killed if she wasn’t carrying her firearm last week. Police say Angela Martin, 44, shot and killed a man who began stabbing her during an altercation on Friday. Martin, who is the assistant manager at the Dallas apartment complex where the incident occurred, was arguing with an unidentified female […]

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ATF Confirms Firing an AR-15 Pistol From the Shoulder Using SIG’s Brace is A-OK.

SIG SAUER are the guys who make the now infamous pistol arm brace for AR-15 pistols that looks remarkably like a stock. And works kinda like a stock. A really, really crappy stock. Anyway, there has been much chatter on the internet about whether the ATF will get their knickers in a twist about people […]

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She Got a Gun and Concealed Carry Permit Last Year and Never Needed to Use Them… Until She Did!

A 50-year-old Detroit woman shot an intruder early Tuesday morning after he tried to break into her home with a crowbar. Now she’s very thankful she decided to take advantage of her Second Amendment rights last year. The woman reportedly bought a handgun and received her concealed carry permit last year on the advice of […]

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The Anti-Gun, Anti-Violence Approach Isn’t Working.

Evil abounds in this world. It always has and always will. The great question for those who oppose evil has ever been the method of that opposition. On Friday April 25, 2014 the rampant evil of out-of-control gang violence took the life of Leonore Draper in the West Pullman area of Chicago, Illinois In a […]

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Two Suspects Who Dragged Mom Across a Parking Lot Get a Swift Lesson in Texas’ Concealed Carry Law.

A 30-year-old mother is lucky today after the quick-thinking of a stranger helped save her from a mugging. The mother of two who was dragged across a Texas shopping center parking lot this week, clinging to her purse while two suspects in a sedan tried to snatch it. That’s when the stranger, who was armed, […]

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Amazing Photos: See What Bullets Do to Water Droplets, Light Bulbs.

What happens when a 56-year-old engineer becomes a high-speed photographer? This. Photographer captures the moment a bullet rips through a droplet of water. (Image courtesy of Lex Augusteijn) Dutch photographer Lex Augusteijn told TheBlaze he loves to make art and engineering meet. “That reveals scenes which cannot be captured by the naked eye and require […]

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Firearms applications surge, swamp registration system.

A record surge in recent firearms production and transactions have swamped the federal government’s automated registration system for select weapons, including machine guns. In a notice earlier this month to the firearms industry, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said it was temporarily suspending parts of its computerized system to shore up capacity […]

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NRA calls for universal conceal carry gun law for crossing state lines.

With concealed weapons now legal in all 50 states, the National Rifle Association’s focus at this week’s annual meeting is less about enacting additional state protections than on making sure the permits already issued still apply when the gun owners travel across the country. The nation’s largest gun-rights group, which officially opens its meeting of […]

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Georgia governor signs ‘unprecedented’ bill expanding gun rights.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on Wednesday signed legislation significantly expanding gun rights in the state. The bill, described by the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm as “the most comprehensive pro-gun reform legislation introduced in recent state history,” expands the scope of public places where licensed owners are allowed to carry firearms. The bill makes several […]

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High-Profile Gun Advocates Announce Cool Way You Can Support the Second Amendment and Possibly Have a Hand in Brad Thor’s Next Book.

Author, economist and researcher John Lott announced on Wednesday that he is creating a new research center to “advance the scientific understanding of the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime and public safety.” John Lott (YouTube) The Crime Prevention Research Center will seek to educate the “public, journalists and policy makers” […]

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