Firearm Newswire
Second Amendment
Panera Bread Revokes Customers 2nd Amendment Rights 0
CEO Ron Shaich recently announced the company’s decision to prohibit guns being brought into any of its 1,800 outlets across the country after weeks of consultation with anti-gun activist group Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. In an interview with CNBC, Shaich explained the decision, saying, Within our company, we strive to create Panera […]
Delaware Democrat Introduces Bill to Circumvent Provision of Background Check System 1
Politicians in Delaware are introducing legislation designed to close the so-called “Charleston Loophole.” Delaware’s Democrat House Majority Leader Valerie Longhurst, intends to file legislation targeting the provision of federal law that allows a firearm sale to go forward if the FBI hasn’t completed the background check in three days. Regardless of how many states “address” […]
Personal Protection
Texas Businesses That Prohibit Open Carry Comes at a Cost 0
BROWN COUNTY, TX – Some small business owners in Texas are saying the signage requirement in the state’s new open carry law forces them to pick a side in the gun debate. Businesses that do not permit open carry have to display a 30.07 sign at each entrance, but some owners are upset with the costs […]
Concealed Carrying Grandmother Shoots Would-be Robber 0
MANCHESTER, NH – Manchester Police officers received a call for a reported shooting around 11:30 p.m. The victim stated that last night around 11:30 p.m., she stopped at the Mobil on the Run on South Willow Street after work. When she headed back onto South Willow Street, a dark colored sedan was behind her vehicle and following […]
Armed Robber Killed By Customer at Detroit Gas Station 0
DETROIT, MI – Police report a customer shot and killed an armed robber during a hold-up at a Detroit gas station. Around 1 a.m. Tuesday a 23-year-old man approached a customer at a Mobil gas station while he was trying to buy cigarettes at the station’s outside service window. Police say the customer was approached from behind by the suspect who […]
Politics
Does Your Members of Congress Conceal Carry 0
Kathryn Watson They may never talk about it or they may shout it from the rooftops, but dozens of members of Congress pack heat back home in their districts and may be on Capitol Hill, too. Alabama Republican Mo Brooks, for example, minces no words when asked if he owns a firearm that he carries. […]
Virginia Delegate Les Adams Fights Attorney General Reciprocity Decision 0
CHATHAM, VA – Chatham Delegate Les Adams will introduce a bill next month restoring universal reciprocity between Virginia and thirty other states in the US that allow gun-owners to get conceal carry permits. Last week, Attorney General Mark Herring announced Virginia would no longer honor out-of-state concealed carry handgun permits from more than two dozen states. […]
Obama Refuses to Prosecute Federal Gun Crimes 0
Barack Obama talks tough to Press Corps cameras about “gun violence” when the mood strikes him (which it never seems to do when the perpetrators and victims are black) and cries crocodile tears about how “something needs to change.” But when push comes to shove and his administration actually has the opportunity to put […]
Shooting Sports
Dave Sevigny Wins USPSA Tennessee Section Championship
GASTON GLOCK style is pleased to announce Dave Sevigny’s latest win at the USPSA Tennessee Section Championship held September 25-27 in Lakeland, TN. A total of 153 pistol shooters competed in one of six pistol divisions recognized by USPSA. Sevigny won the Production division at by a dominating margin 200+ point margin over 2nd place. […]
Crosman All-American 2015 Field Target Championship
Air rifle field target is, quite simply, one of the toughest shooting challenges that any target shooter can face. At the Crosman All-American Field Target Championship (CAAFTC), held this past June, competitors had to drop four targets within four minutes on each of 15 lanes (for a total of 60 targets) on one day, and […]
NRA President Allan Cors Working to Develop New Competitive Shooting Games
We have begun preparations for the 2016 National Matches. Our goal is to get everything up online even earlier this time around. The final programs will be approved by December and will be online by February 1. Our first staff selection meeting is in October. I intend on increasing the level of staff for 2016. […]
Guns & Gear
Hornady Manufacturing Acquires SnapSafe 0
Hornady® Manufacturing is pleased to announce its acquisition of SnapSafe, a modular safe company. SnapSafe stands apart in the industry for its unique product model. SnapSafe modular gun vaults are delivered right to your door and can be assembled in minutes. This simple assembly makes the vaults ideal for any room or space, and keeps […]
Smith & Wesson Threatens Lawsuit Over “Show” Gun 0
This one-off “Dream Gun” is at the center of a “tempest in a teacup” of epic proportions. Image Via Apex Tactical. As long as there have been mass-market commercial firearms, there have been companies and gunsmiths that have build niche markets improving the factory guns to higher levels of performance. These aftermarket experts make otherwise […]
Stag Arms Owner Pleads Guilty Leaves Firearms Business 0
HARTFORD, CT – Stag Arms entered a guilty plea in a Boston federal court for violating federal firearms laws, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The plea by the Connecticut gun maker, known for AR rifles, was in response to charges of failing to serialize firearms, including machine gun lower receivers. The violation was discovered by […]
Police
FBI Arrest Former Soldier in Army Reserve Gun Burglary 0
WORCESTER, MA – James Walker Morales, 34, was arrested in Waterbury, New York on Wednesday by the FBI. According to court documents he was tied to the theft by a combination of DNA evidence gathered at the scene, surveillance footage of the suspect and his car, and the fact that Morales, currently on charges of child rape, […]
South Carolina Teen Shoots Armed Burglar During Attempted Break-In 0
LADSON, SC – Police say one burglary suspect is dead and another arrested after a 13-year-old boy shot the intruders. The Charleston County Coroner’s Office identified the deceased suspect as 31-year-old Lamar Brown of Summerville who died from gunshot wounds. Detectives from the Sheriff’s department arrested another suspect, 28-year-old Ira J. Bennett of North Charleston and charged him […]
Atlanta Refuses to Follow the Law to Return Stolen Guns to Owners 0
Atlanta Police Chief, George Turner is sitting on over 6,000 guns that have been recovered over the last three years. In years past, the city would have turned most of this hardware into scrap metal. But in 2012, Gov. Nathan Deal signed into law S.B. 350, which required local governments to make an effort to return […]
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Author Of Heller, Dies At 79 0
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died peacefully in his sleep last night after a day of quail hunting at a Texas ranch. An El Paso source close to Justice Antonin Scalia tells ABC-7 that the 79-year-old died in his sleep last night after a day of quail hunting at Cibolo Creek Ranch outside of Marfa, […]
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