Spuler’s September List o’ Free Stuff

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Thanks, as always, to Aaron Spuler of the Weapon Blog. Now go do us proud and win something. Handguns Springfield XD-S 9MM Deadline: September 9, 2013 http://www.gunbroker.com/springfield-equipped-to-the-9s/Sweepstakes.aspx Kahr Arms PM9 Deadline: September 30, 2013 http://www.americancopmagazine.com/giveaway/ Durning Defense Customs 1911 Deadline: September 30, 2013 http://www.americanhandgunner.com/giveaway/ Babe...

If Armed Self-Defense is Good Enough for Gang Bangers . . .

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http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&station=kgo&section=&mediaId=9237440&parentId=9236976&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site= The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program has been collecting data on all manner of criminal activity since 1930. The result: a comprehensive annual database based on reports from police departments across the length...

Daily Digest: Quick Hits

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Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. announced Tuesday that it has finalized the purchase of a 220,000 square foot facility in Mayodan, North Carolina. This is the Company's first major expansion in over 25 years, and...

Bloomsburg Fair Reverses Anti-Gun Stance

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Reader Eric L. writes: On August 29th, Robert Farago reported on a gun ban at the Bloomsburg Fair in Pennsylvania. When I got home, and for the remainder of the weekend, I spent my time...

Note to TSA: Stop Arresting People for Carrying Guns to Security

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"Another arrest has put Orlando International in the lead for the number of guns seized at Florida airports, perhaps boosting police hopes for signs warning OIA travelers against bringing loaded weapons into the terminal,"...

FPS MIA

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TTAG's in it to win it. Every single damn day of the year we're here, blogging our brains out on your behalf. Truth be told, we're obsessives obsessed with firearms. And make no mistake:...

Question of the Day: What Are You Shooting This Labor Day?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bezcQFlpaGk I'd love to go out and shoot today---only it's eleventy-billion degrees outside, my fun guns are still in RI and I've got no babysitter coverage. Sigh. I'm sure that TTAG's army of cubicle dwellers...

Gun Hero of the Day: Wilson County School Board

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http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/static/flash/embeddedPlayer/swf/otvEmLoader.swf?version=fw1000&station=wtvd&section=&mediaId=9224145&parentId=9224089&cdnRoot=http://cdn.abclocal.go.com&webRoot=http://abclocal.go.com&configPath=/util/&site= "Lucama Elementary is raffling off a rifle at Fun Fest, their school fundraiser set for September," the delightfully named Heather Waliga reports at abc.go.local.com. "The school's parent teacher organization brought the idea to the school principal after...

Question of the Day: Is Obama’s Foreign Policy Anti-Gun?

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  Air war. No-fly zone. Surgical strike. No combat troops. As the President caves on sending missiles into Syria without Congressional authorization, I just want to ask: what is it with all this crap...

Gun Tweet of the Day: NFL Fines Jets QB for “Finger Gun” Celebration

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"The NFL launched a preemptive strike against playful celebration gestures and fined the New York Jets' Matt Simms for pretending his hands were guns," bleacherreport.com reports. The website got the heads-up from Newsday sports writer Kimberly...

NSSF: One in Five New Target Shooters Started in the Last Five Years

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Ever since the first "Obama surge," the civilian disarmament industry's been telling the world that the gun industry's soaring sales are down to racist, right-wing paranoid OFWG's stocking-up for armed insurrection . The People...