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Mar. 16, 2015 7:22pm Jason Howerton “Speaking before the Maryland Senate last week, a retired Maryland State Police officer and former commander of the Maryland State Police Licensing Division admitted that he once thought the prospect of many residents having concealed carry permits was “scary.” However, as he educated himself about gun owners, his opinion […]

By Paul Bedard “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday raised new concerns about surplus military ammo used in popular AR-15 rifles and pistols just days after pulling back on a proposal to ban the ammo because it could threaten police safety. In a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, ATF Director B. Todd […]

Published March 10, 2015 FoxNews.com “The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is shelving a proposal to ban a popular but highly lethal type of bullet, amid opposition from gun-rights advocates and hundreds of members of Congress. The agency said in a statement on Tuesday it would not seek to issue the final guidelines […]

by AWR Hawkins4 Mar Handgun sales in California broke a 21-year-old record in 2014, and at the same time, firearm-related murders fell to their lowest rate in over 20 years. Moreover, accidental gun deaths decreased as well. According to The Sacramento Bee, a record-breaking 510,000 handguns were sold in the state of California in 2014, […]

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by AWR Hawkins “On February 17 Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck responded to recent criticism of his past studies on defensive gun uses (DGUs) by showing why the criticism is wrong and why a minimum of 760,000 DGUs (defensive gun uses) each year is still a viable claim. For any uninitiated readers, Kleck’s […]

by AWR Hawkins23 Feb 2015 “A new poll shows that Gabby Giffords’ home state of Arizona is abandoning gun control, partly because fears of imported jihadism are growing. According to the Arizona Daily Star, the poll was conducted by the Behavior Research Center (BRC), which found that a large portion of the 48 percent of […]

We did it! We hit 50,000 followers in just one year! I’ve been watching the numbers and I knew we were getting close. This morning the number was 50,0154 individual gun owners following TheShootersHangout.com news site! The growth has been amazing! Most are subscribed to the news site’s email newsletter, and thousands more are following […]

by Bob Owens on February 22 “The Al Shabaab terror group has released a video calling for a terrorist attack on the Mall of America: A new video from Al Shabaab purportedly shows the terror group calling for an attack on Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn. According to Fox 9, the mall is one […]

by Bob Price21 Feb 2015Austin, TX “About two hundred gun rights activists gathered on the south steps of the Texas Capitol to show support for expanding gun rights in Texas on Saturday. While much of the talk was about gun rights, many of the speakers used the word that Governor Greg Abbott used in his […]