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Washington Staters Deserve Real Solutions, Not Bans Offering False Promises

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By Duane Liptak Lawmakers in Olympia are convinced they’ve found the solution to solving the crime problem. Reducing crime, they seem to agree, is just a matter of reducing the capacity of how many rounds of...

MWAG Lockdown at my Daughter’s Grade School. I Was Inside. Unarmed. And Angry.

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I was picking up my daughter from her elementary school on a day like any other. We decided, as we often do, to hang out there instead of going straight home so she and...
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Gun Controllers Don’t Really Want That ‘Conversation’

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By Larry Keane Time and again, we hear from those advocating for more gun control laws who intone with a sense of moral superiority that we need to have a “conversation” on guns. The goal,...
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5.11 Launches 5.11 ABR (Always Be Ready) Academy at Company-Owned Stores

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5.11 Tactical is expanding beyond selling clothing and gear. They've just announced that they'll be offering free training classes they're calling ABR (Always Be Ready) Academy in their company-owned stores around the country. The classes...
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Dick’s Sporting Goods Taking Guns, Hunting Gear Out Of 125 Stores

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After eliminating guns from 10 of their stores last year, Dick's Sporting Goods is pulling all firearms and hunting gear from 125 of their 850 Dick's and 35 Field & Stream stores. According to Fox...
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NRA Board Member Marion Hammer: I Question the Value of NRATV

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Marion Hammer, the the first female NRA president (1995-1998) and now a board member, had some rather harsh comments about NRATV for the New York Times. The Times, hardly a fan of the nation's...

After Nationwide Power Cuts and Looting, Venezuelans Regret Giving Up Their Guns Even More

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Before Hugo Chavez took a dirt nap, he enacted the Control of Arms, Munitions and Disarmament Law.  It banned everyday Venezuelans from owning guns or ammunition, and confiscated those that were privately owned. More recently,...

California Gun Ownership More Than Doubles Over the Past Decade

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"Experts" confounded by an increase in gun ownership in California. It's almost as if telling people they can't have an item designed for self-defense makes them want it more. The California data measured against the...
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Are Hunting Regulations a Form of Gun Control?

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A few weeks ago I wrote an article that ran here on TTAG where I explained my thoughts on long range hunting. In that article, which you can read here, I detailed my belief...
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The M400 Tread Is Firearm Freedom Without Compromise

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The SIG SAUER M400 Tread brings back the freedom of firearms. Here's a close-up look at the new SIG SAUER M400 Tread AR-style rifle, thanks to Green Beret Tom Beckstrand. https://youtu.be/TObS8OKz6kw What you believe and respect, and...
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Chicago Celebrates Four Years of Daily Shootings and/or Homicides

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The Windy City likes to tout themselves to tourists as "Chicago: Second to None." The more cynical among us might say, "Chicago: Come for the food, stay because you got shot." Why? The indispensable HeyJackass.com, via...
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Concealed Carry Ballistics: Challenging the Stopping Power Conventional Wisdom

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Reader Anner writes: Fair warning: what follows is many paragraphs of pure ballistic nerdism. It also follows some assumptions and processes that would probably give my college statistics professor a stroke. I recently had some time...