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WA: Man Killed in Randle Allegedly Fired First Shots
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A man shot and killed Tuesday evening in Randle allegedly fired the first shots in the confrontation, witnesses told the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office. An autopsy was completed Friday on the man, tentatively identified based on information found at the scene as a 51-year-old transient, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The man’s next of kin has been notified, but has not yet made a positive identification of the body.
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Public Schools Hold Civic Duty to Boost Firearm Training
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Most Americans, regardless of which side of the political aisle they are on, agree that one of the primary roles of a government is to ensure public safety. From national defense to protection of our civil rights, there lies a proper role for the government. What then, is the government’s role in protecting children in the school system? Schools in 33 states are bound by state laws to produce and file school safety plans. Many schools that can afford them have School Resource Officers (SROs) who are members of local law enforcement.
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FL: Challenge To Open-Carry Law Goes To U.S. Supreme Court
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Attorneys for a man arrested in 2012 in St. Lucie County asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to take up a challenge to the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms in public. The petition to the U.S. Supreme Court came slightly more than four months after the Florida Supreme Court, in a 4-2 decision, upheld the longstanding law. Monday's 35-page petition contends the law violates the Second Amendment and conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court rulings about gun rights.
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Florida Case Challenging Open Carry Ban Highlights 2A Dilemma
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Attorneys representing a Florida man challenging that state’s ban on open carry have, unintentionally or otherwise, raised an interesting problem for the U.S. Supreme Court, which they have petitioned for review. The case of Dale Lee Norman v. State of Florida may not wind up being heard by the high court but it does point to a dilemma. The Florida Supreme Court ruled against Norman, who was convicted for openly carrying a sidearm in violation of state law. The Florida court held that “the Second Amendment does not guarantee a right openly to carry a firearm in public,” according to the appeal brief. |
KS: Concealed Carry Applications Fall After State Stops Requiring Them
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Applications for concealed carry licenses through the state attorney general’s office dropped to a all-time low last year now that the state allows those 21 and older to carry concealed guns without a license. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office announced Tuesday that it received 5,119 new applications for concealed carry licenses in the fiscal year that ended June 30. According to a press release issued Tuesday, that’s the fewest applications received since the program began in 2006. The state passed a law in 2015 eliminating the license requirement for Kansas gun owners, but those who apply for a license can carry in other states that recognize Kansas licenses. |
Gunslinging Kentucky Family Shares Passion for Shooting, Competitions
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For most people, the style and gun tricks of the Old West are synonymous with classic television shows and westerns that air on weekends. But when Jim Montgomery, his wife Deborah and his son Jake leave their family business, the south-central Kentucky family straps on their holsters and becomes The Vaqueros. In the sport of Cowboy Action Shooting, Jim Montgomery said shooters use unique, registered aliases. |
MI: Open-Carry Advocates Convicted on 'Silliest' Technicality, Attorney Says
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Two men walked into the Dearborn Police Dept. on Feb 5, one of them openly carrying a rifle slung over his shoulder, the other with a video camera and tripod. Chaos ensued.
Both men, 41-year-old Brandon Vreeland of Jackson and 24-year-old James Baker of Leonard, were immediately ordered to the ground, handcuffed and arrested, even though their attorneys say it's completely legal to open carry firearms in a Mich. police station.
Baker was "tripped up on the silliest of technicalities," said Makowski, who's "very confident" both carrying a concealed weapon convictions will be dismissed on appeal.
In addition to the firearms convictions, the jury ruled Baker wasn't guilty on charges of brandishing a firearm or disturbing the peace. |
Hartford Buyback Program To Turn Guns Into Gardening Tools
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There's a certain poetic justice to the idea of turning a gun into a gardening tool, of returning "what came from soil back to soil," according to police Sgt. Steve Austin. And Hartford police, along with partnering community groups, are hoping to do just that Saturday with their latest gun buyback program. |
As Background Gun Checks Tumble, Gun Stocks Plunge 10%
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According to the latest report from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), FBI background checks for potential new gun owners are down nearly 9% year over year for the first six months of 2017, from 13.83 million in the first six months of 2016 to 12.6 million. The FBI completed 27.54 million background checks last year, the most since record-keeping began in 1998 and at least triple the number of background checks completed in every year between 1999 and 2005. |
Top Guns: 4,000 Firearms and 38,000 Square Feet
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While it’s doors have been open for two months, the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce Monday marked the opening of Top Guns at its new facility near the intersection of 7th Street and U.S. 41. “While we understand the firearms retail business, what we were not completely familiar with was the training and the range portion of the business,” said owner Steve Ellis. “So we wanted to make sure that our range officers were as trained as possible and that they really understood how to run the range and be safe” before holding an event with the chamber. |
The Poor Implications of Shockwave Legalization
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If you were to pick up a copy of the “Tactical Weapons“ magazine this month, you would find the image of a man in police gear holding two massive guns. This is the Mossberg 590 Shockwave – a gun with a 14-inch barrel and a pistol grip – and I was surprised to find out these guns were recently legalized in Texas. Anyone from age 18 and up will soon be able to buy them over the counter without the months of wait time and tax stamps you would encounter purchasing a normal shotgun. |
New on Shooting USA – 20 Years at the Indoor Nationals
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It’s the twentieth year of defensive pistol competition at the Smith & Wesson Ranges in Massachusetts. And, it’s the 20th year anniversary of the founding of International Defensive Pistol Association. In two decades, the sport has grown to be worldwide, but IDPA still equips competitors with the shooting skills and confidence needed to carry a firearm. This year, the IDPA Indoor Nationals challenges competitors in the dark while practicing self-defense in real life scenarios. |
OH: Bedford Hosts Town Hall on Responsible Gun Ownership
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When it comes to owning a gun and using it properly, safety is the most important aspect to keep in mind. That was the message Tuesday night at Bedford Township's town hall meeting discussing responsible gun ownership. Wayne Blank, a member of the National Rifle Association and Southern Michigan Sports Club, led the gathering. "When you're shooting in the township, a lot of times people don't think about where the bullet is going to end up," he said. "You need to have a backstop to catch the projectile. It needs to be dirt and free of debris to stop ricochets." |
Are Judges Really to Blame for Baltimore Violence?
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Does it really come down to the judges? Should blame for repeat felons with access to guns and the temperament to use them be laid at the feet of the men and women in robes? Gov. Larry Hogan thinks that is “a huge part of the problem.” He cites the same statistics the police commissioner does about Baltimore’s repeat shooters. “They don’t even fear a guilty verdict because guilty verdicts in this city are suspended all or most of the time. Sixty percent of the time,” Commissioner Kevin Davis has said.
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Legends- The Perfect Gun For A Parlor Trick
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Looking at this Girandoni air rifle doesn’t reveal anything remarkable. But in fact, it’s one of the most historically significant guns in the NRA National Firearms Museum collection. You could almost go as far to say that it changed the entire history of our nation. This gun was carried by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark from 1803 to 1806 during their Corps of Discovery expedition that took them from St. Louis to the Cascades in Oregon, to the Pacific Ocean and all the way back. How did they make this trek and back again without any major loss of life? There were only three dozen men or so in the expedition, so they could have been easily overwhelmed at any time.
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Gun Digest, “The World’s Greatest Gun Book”, is Back for Its 72nd Year
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Now in its 72nd edition, Gun Digest, “The World’s Greatest Gun Book,” is back with more of everything that firearms fanatics crave. Jammed with informative, entertaining features from the industry’s top writers, Gun Digest 2018 covers firearms and accessories from every angle: hunting, personal defense, shooting sports, collecting, reloading and more. Look for it now at www.gundigeststore.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other major and specialty retailers.
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Sheriff's Tips: The Golden Rule
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The Modern Technique of the Pistol gave us four simple rules of gun safety that make it so much easier for us to prevent injury to ourselves or others. Rule No. 3 is, “Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.” This is such an important safety rule that many of us call it the Golden Rule. In teaching the draw stroke, most of us teach the students to not only keep their finger off the trigger but to keep it out of the trigger guard area, too. |
Artist Joshua Smith Is Coming for Your Guns
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“Conservative pundits are quick to cite what I think of as a straw man—that there’s some kind of leftist boogeyman coming to take away the Second Amendment, and to my knowledge, there never has actually been one,” the artist Joshua Smith said in a phone interview yesterday afternoon. “So I like the idea of inhabiting that space.” |
Abolish The ATF
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Although Donald Trump portrayed himself as an anti-gun control candidate on the campaign trail, the president apparently has no problem with sending federal agents into Chicago to more fiercely enforce gun laws. |
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