Test report: Savage Model 16/116 ‘Bear Hunter’ 300 Win. Mag. Rifle
By TheGunMag - August 31 2012 07:12 PM - 1 Comments - Gun Mag Reports
by Buck Pope
Contributing Editor
Awhile back Savage Arms introduced a new model for the serious big game hunter called the Model 16/116 “Bear Hunter” Rifle. I first saw this rifle at ...
Canada’s NFA to UN: ‘Self-Defense is a natural right’
By TheGunMag - August 30 2012 02:33 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Canada’s National Firearms Association was the only Canadian pro-firearms group represented during the non-governmental organization presentations at the Second Review Conference of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and ...
BLOOMBERG TALKS BIG ON SELF-DEFENSE IN HIS DISARMAMENT ZONE
By TheGunMag - August 29 2012 05:02 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Anti-gun New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is the wrong man to speak about self-defense in a city that is a virtual victim disarmament zone because of his policies, the Citizens ...
SAF DEFENDS WOMEN’S RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE AT UNITED NATIONS
By TheGunMag - August 29 2012 04:22 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The Second Amendment Foundation today reminded the United Nations that “if women have the right to be protected against violence, then they have the right to protect themselves against violence.”
...
Strong Second Amendment Plank in Republican Party Platform
By Dave Workman - August 29 2012 03:43 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Delegates to the Republican National Convention have adopted what one leading national gun rights leader called “the strongest pro-gun rights platform I’ve ever seen.”
The observation came from ...
CCRKBA ENCOURAGED BY SECOND AMENDMENT REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
By TheGunMag - August 28 2012 06:34 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is “encouraged by the strong pro-gun rights platform” put forth at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.
“This is the ...
Anti-gunners wearing egg-on-face over NY street shooting
By Dave Workman - August 27 2012 03:27 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
Michael Bloomberg
By Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Gun prohibitionists who jumped almost immediately to exploit the “mass shooting” near New York City’s Empire State Building were left suddenly in search of a ...
Rep. Issa warns IG against delaying Fast & Furious report
By Dave Workman - August 27 2012 02:10 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
by Dave Workman
Congressman Darrell Issa (Photo courtesy House Oversight Committee)
Senior Editor
Congressman Darrell Issa has warned the Justice Department’s Inspector General against delaying release of his report on Operation Fast ...
ATF originally sought long-gun reporting from FFLs in 12 states
By TheGunMag - August 24 2012 07:25 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
by Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) originally wanted to institute a multiple long gun sales reporting requirement in 12 states from whence guns recovered ...
Global gun control treaty may return in the fall at UN
By TheGunMag - August 24 2012 02:24 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
by Dave Workman
Senior Editor
Following a stunning last-minute derailment of the United Nations’ highly-touted international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) negotiations, global gun control proponents are expected to bring the issue back ...
Proud to protect the Olympics
By TheGunMag - August 24 2012 02:09 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
There was international concern about the possibility of terrorist attacks on the London Olympics and the city itself as the July 27 opening ceremonies approached, with some worries concerning the ...
The Stoeger Arms Condor: Youth Model .410 over-under
By TheGunMag - August 23 2012 07:55 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
by John Markwell
With all the other paraphernalia carried on a rabbit hunt with beagles, the light weight of the Stoeger Youth Model 410 Boreis a big plus.
Contributing Editor
My son ...
September GQ issue scores a bullseye
By TheGunMag - August 22 2012 05:51 PM - Comments Off - Media Watch
by Joseph P. Tartaro
While much of the mainstream media have targeted guns and gun owners in recent week and months, the news-politics section of GQ (once known as Gentleman’s Quarterly) ...
Industry News: USMC places $22.5 million contract for Colt .45 M1911s
By TheGunMag - August 21 2012 06:15 PM - Comments Off - Industry News
by Gun Mag Staff
It’s been called the greatest handgun ever made, and it has barely changed since 1911, when the legendary John Browning designed it especially for the US Military.
More ...
Legal Update: SAF awaits IL ruling, expects action soon on CCW issues
By TheGunMag - August 21 2012 06:06 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
by Dave Workman
Senior Editor
The right of citizens to carry firearms outside their homes is being considered simultaneously by federal courts in two separate circuits dealing with challenges by the Second ...
Docs vs. Glocks law protects patients
By TheGunMag - August 17 2012 01:43 PM - Comments Off - DRGO
From the August 17th edition of the Orlando Sentinel
By Timothy Wheeler
Guest columnist
Why would the Florida Legislature pass a law that prevents doctors from asking patients about guns in their homes?
Opponents ...
VIDEO: Gun sales rise amid fear of stricter gun control laws
By TheGunMag - August 17 2012 12:31 PM - Comments Off - Shooter Media
Second Amendment Foundation's founder Alan Gottlieb appeared on CBS Morning News to comment on the recent guns and ammo sales spike.
SAF's Gottlieb mid-interview via satellite
Italian-Russian joint venture to debut Strike One at SHOT 2013
By TheGunMag - August 14 2012 03:46 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
by Bob Lesmeister
Polymer-frame Strike One to make US debut at 2013 SHOT Show.
National Correspondent
It seems that capitalism really works and what it produces in terms of hard goods supersedes ...
Holder, Bloomberg decline invites to gun rights conference
By Dave Workman - August 10 2012 12:55 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
The 27th annual Gun Rights Policy Conference will unfold the final weekend in September and two high-profile faces will be noticeably absent, despite formal invitations from the Second Amendment Foundation ...
Federal Agent says Approvals are SOP for Operations that Break Laws
By TheGunMag - August 9 2012 06:25 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
by Bob Lesmeister
Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for failing to comply with the Congressional investigation of Operation Fast and Furious shortly after the White ...
VIDEO: How to stop a massacre
By TheGunMag - August 9 2012 03:01 PM - 1 Comments - Shooter Media
This video reveals an astonishingly easy way to stop massacres in mere seconds. It requires:
* No police or 911
* No taxpayer expense
* Can be deployed anywhere
* Begins working immediately
* Protects ...
Governments not people craft UN Arms Trade Treaty
By TheGunMag - August 8 2012 05:33 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
By Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor
Perhaps the United Nations should have a motto that reflects its focus on “government stability” and the balance of power between the people of the world ...
The Bullet: Gun Related News Stories and Beyond
By TheGunMag - August 8 2012 05:18 PM - Comments Off - News Briefs
Health and safety madness
When the chief starter at the London Olympics voluntarily agreed to fire his pistol to start the races at a school sports day near his residence, ...
BLOOMBERG BASHES ROMNEY, OBAMA ON GUNS BUT DECLINED INVITE TO GUN RIGHTS POLICY CONFERENCE
By Ray Carter - August 7 2012 01:59 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been challenging President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to speak out about gun control, but Bloomberg declined a chance to do it himself at ...
Gottlieb, TGM editor on N’west PBS program on guns
By Dave Workman - August 6 2012 01:42 PM - Comments Off - Breaking News
An hour-long Pacific Northwest public television program that explores gun rights and crime aired in August and featured Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president Alan Gottlieb, and TheGunMag.copm Senior ...
Grand Daddy’s Closet Gun: Can You Sell it?
By TheGunMag - August 3 2012 07:00 PM - Comments Off - Uncategorized
by David Petronis
President, NEACA, Inc.
Eric Schneiderman wants his resume to read, “I closed the gun show loophole!” But the attorney general of New York State would be grossly mistaken.
There never ...
VIDEO: Store owner with gun thwarts armed robbers
By TheGunMag - August 3 2012 04:14 PM - Comments Off - Shooter Media
A few days after the now infamous senior citizen thwarted an armed robbery of an internet cafe, a 65-year-old jewelry store owner defends herself and her store against some armed ...
US men’s double trap shooters “ambushed” in London Olympics
By TheGunMag - August 2 2012 04:41 PM - Comments Off - Gun Mag Reports
By Michael Molinaro
US Army Marksmanship Unit
LONDON (Army News Service, Aug. 2, 2012) – U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit shotgun shooters Staff Sgt. Josh Richmond and Sgt. Glenn Eller fell short of ...
11th Circuit upholds Georgia ban on guns in churches without consent
By TheGunMag - August 2 2012 02:14 PM - Comments Off - Legal Updates
by Bobbie K. Ross, Esq.
In its recent opinion in GeorgiaCarry.org v. Georgia (11th Cir. July 20, 2012), the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld Georgia’s ban ...
Ruger invests in crossbow firm, SAAMI launches working group
By TheGunMag - August 1 2012 08:09 PM - Comments Off - Industry News
by Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor
Sturm, Ruger has purchased a minority interest in Kodabow Inc., a crossbow manufacturer based in West Chester, PA. Ruger’s investment will help Kodabow accelerate its business ...
Aurora, CO, Shooting Commentary
By TheGunMag - August 1 2012 12:48 PM - Comments Off - Shooter Media
By Joseph P. Tartaro
Executive Editor
If one picture is worth a 1,000 words, a political cartoon such as this one by Lisa Benson, syndicated to newspapers around the nation by the ...
