Tallying the Score: Gun Control Winners and Losers

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The legislative scorecard has now been completed, with all of the anti-Constitution measures failing and most of the pro-freedom measure joining them. Pretty much as expected. Now that it’s all over but the shouting,...

NRA-ILA Statement on Senate Defeat of Manchin-Toomey-Schumer Amendment

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  The latest from Chris Cox on the Manchin-Toomey amendment defeat in the Senate today: "Today, the misguided Manchin-Toomey-Schumer proposal failed in the U.S. Senate. This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between...

New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association to Gun Owners: Don’t Shoot Us

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Albany's police union are calling for the repeal of New York's SAFE Act, labeling the gun control legislation "substantively, procedurally and morally" wrong. The New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association (PBA) goes further. The...

BREAKING: Manchin-Toomey Amendment Defeated in Senate

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After Pat Toomey touted his gun ownership and NRA 'A' rating, followed by Joe Manchin stating that "if you want to remember those 20 babies and six brave adults in Newtown, you'll consider voting...

New From Redfield: USMC M40 Riflescope

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  If you knew what it was like to trudge through the jungles of southeast Asia lugging a big, heavy bolt action gun and want to relive that, Redfield is here to help. They've just...

MO Governor Jay Nixon: I Am Not A Crook

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After a fearsome farrago of fury over the state's complicity in providing information on Missouri CCW holders to feds at the Social Security Administration, DHS and your friendly neighborhood Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms...

SAF/CCRKBA Gottleib Withdraws Support for Manchin-Toomey

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examiner.com reports that Second Amendment Foundation founder and CCRKBA jefe Alan Gottleib has withdrawn support for the Manchin-Toomey bill at the eleventh hour. "Our support for this measure was contingent on several key provisions, the...

New Tricks: Learning The ‘Load Two’ Shotgun Reload

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkEwIWYSMHg With most guns used in 3-gun competition, the challenge lies in unloading them very quickly and very accurately into the indicated targets. Reloading isn’t really an issue thanks to detachable magazines and Surefire’s big-ass...

Cerberus To Sell Freedom Group to . . . Itself

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"Stephen Feinberg and other partners of the private-equity firm that put a gun manufacturer up for sale after the Newtown, Conn., school shootings last year are forming a bid for the gun company," wsj.com reports....

What Is Venture X?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QBcguOpxbY Remington's new product peeps have been busy as of late, what with the Model 783 and all. This despite the fact that the company's owner (Cerberus Capital Management) has been looking to offload the...

Gear Review: Cheap Reactive Targets

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Shooting paper targets is great when you're at an organized range such as Tri-County Gun Club in Sherwood, Oregon. The downside is that there are lots of Safety Sallies at these types of ranges,...

SAF’s Gottleib: Why You Should Support the Manchin-Toomey Bill

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"I agree: it's not a perfect bill." Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottleib admits, referring to the Manchin-Toomey "compromise" on firearms background checks moving towards a Senate vote. "But it gives us a chance to...