At this week’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show in Las Vegas, there is considerable discussion about the recently introduced National Hearing Protection Act, a piece of legislation that would remove suppressors (aka “silencers”) from regulation under the National Firearms Act. Naturally, anti-gunners are having fits over this. Steve Chapman, writing last weekend in […]
Turnabout: GOP Senator Seeks Ban That Will Anger Liberals
In politics, turnabout is fair play and there is a big issue popular among some liberals that has just been targeted by a Republican state senator sure to cause as much angst for “progressives” as a proposed ban on so-called “assault weapons” has alarmed Second Amendment advocates. State Sen. Mark Miloscia (R-Federal Way) has just […]
As SHOT Show Opens, Gun Rights Activists Busy in the States
Tuesday’s opening of the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show comes as gun rights issues are warming up in the states, and Second Amendment activists are all looking ahead to Friday’s inauguration of Donald Trump as president. At Monday’s annual “Range Day” for firearms journalists, several people talked not so much about Trump […]
Industry Upbeat as SHOT Show, Trump Inauguration Looms
The 2017 Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show (SHOT) unfolds this week in Las Vegas, and a quick stroll through the Sands Convention Center Sunday, where vendors are trying to set up their booth spaces, found people upbeat. Why not, after all? The four-day show, which runs Tuesday through Friday, ends on the same day […]
WA Gun Activists Gather, Set Sights On Pistol ‘Database,’ I-594 Repeal
Washington State Second Amendment activists bundled up against bone-chilling cold to gather on the state capitol steps in Olympia Friday morning, where they cheered efforts to eliminate the decades-old state pistol database, and a promised attempt to repeal provisions of Initiative 594. The latter measure is the 2014 citizen initiative that requires so-called “universal background […]
Killer Gets Life Sentence, Washington AG Wants To Punish Gun Owners
While confessed 20-year-old killer Allen Ivanov pulled a life sentence without possibility of parole for murdering three former classmates last summer in Mukilteo, Washington, Evergreen State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and three state lawmakers owe an explanation to gun owners about why they should all be penalized for the crime. Earlier this week, legislation Ferguson […]
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