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MS: Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday Wraps Up Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Another tax free weekend wraps up for the year, and school supplies weren�t the hot item for this shopping weekend. �Mississippians, we love to hunt, so everybody looks forward to getting a tax break off a big purchase like a gun,� says Sports Center manager, Bobby Craig.

PA: Toomey Crosses Gun-Rights Divide In Senate Race
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Freshman U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey is the rare conservative Republican who is running for re-election with the support of leading gun-control groups, but it may not be enough to save him in Democratic-leaning Pennsylvania in this unusual election year. Toomey, who also has separated himself from most of his GOP Senate colleagues by refusing to endorse Donald Trump, is facing questions from skeptical Republicans over his votes to expand background checks and prevent gun purchases by suspected terrorists as he campaigns in a state where Hillary Clinton leads Trump in polls by 10 points in the presidential race.

Spike In Gun Ownership? Poll Shows 44 Percent Of All Homes Have A Gun Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Washington Examiner�s Paul Bedard crunched some the new numbers on gun politics from Pew Research and found that almost half the country has a gun in the home. Pew found that 44 percent of all homes have guns, while 51 percent do not. It bucks the trend of other polls, namely CBS News, which found that the percentage of gun ownership hovered in the mid-30s.

DC: Gays Against Guns Leads Protest Outside NRA Office
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A hundred members of Gays Against Guns marched Saturday in the National Action Network's Unity Rally in D.C. to commemorate the 53rd anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. The march took the gun control group from the Martin Luther King memorial to the National Mall and then onto the Lincoln memorial. Gays Against Guns also launched a protest outside of the National Rifle Association's D.C. office.

As Older Americans Own the Most Guns, Should They Face More Gun Controls? Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Richard Swift grew up in the era of John Wayne and Gene Autry, cinematic cowboys whose armed antics drove his daydreams. He had a BB gun years before the first whiskers sprouted on his chin. At 12, he got a .22-caliber rifle that he�d lug around the hills and fields of his rural southeastern Pennsylvania burg, shooting targets and learning to hunt.

Professors Aim To Educate Journalists On Gun History, Terminology
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Two college professors recently gave journalists from around the state a crash course in gun history, terminology and use at a firing range. The state�s Society of Professional Journalists chapter organized the seminar to better educate reporters on a controversial and technically complex topic. In the course of reporting on gun issues and recent control measures, journalists have been criticized for making errors regarding the operation of guns, confusing automatic with semiautomatic firearms and using incorrect terminology. Mike Savino, a reporter with the Record-Journal and society board president, said he hoped to offer journalists a chance to learn about guns in a politically-neutral environment.

VA: Hearing For McAuliffe's Proposed Ban On Concealed Weapons In State Buildings This Week
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The Department of General Services will hold a public hearing Wednesday regarding Gov. Terry McAuliffe�s executive order to permanently ban all concealed weapons from executive branch offices. McCauliffe signed an executive order to prevent gun violence last year. Some of the measures included creating a new task force, a tip line for state police so people can report gun violations and a ban on all weapons in executive branch offices.

Lawyer's At Center Of Race, Gun Debate On 2 Charleston Cases
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Andy Savage keeps in his law office a sealed plastic bag with the blood-splattered clothes that Felicia Sanders wore sheltering her granddaughter from a fusillade of bullets that killed nine black parishioners at Charleston's Emanuel AME Church. Down the hall, his colleagues met recently with another client, Michael Slager, the white former North Charleston police officer charged in the death of a black motorist in a shooting captured on an explosive cellphone video.

Some Are Saying �No� To UT Over Campus Carry Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are 3 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A University of Texas English professor says a law enabling Texans with state permits to carry concealed guns into classrooms has already caused prospective faculty, students and even speakers not to come to the Austin campus.

Ewing To Host The Concert Across America To End Gun Violence Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are 2 comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
From the Beacon Theatre in Manhattan to the Top of the Standard in Los Angeles to Lola�s Trailer Park in Fort Worth, TX, musicians are banding together for The Concert Across America to End Gun Violence on Sunday, September 25th. At Trinity UMC in Ewing, NJ, there will be a full day of music, food, speakers, art, peace, remembrance and much more as part of this national effort.

Hardware: Savage Arms A22 Magnum Rifle
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The .17 HMR came out in 2002 and was a huge hit with everybody except the gun manufacturers who tried to make it work in a semi-automatic rifle. They pretty much hated it. The cartridge just didn�t play well with the current rimfire semi-auto rifle designs. Then last year Savage cracked the code and introduced the A17 semi-auto in .17 HMR. I reviewed it and it went on to win the prestigious Golden Bullseye Award from American Hunter for Rifle of the Year.

SD: Rapid City Teen Shooters Have Sights Set On Olympic Training
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The 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil are over, but far from Rio, hidden in a shop in Elk Creek Valley east of Piedmont, three potential future Olympians are training under the sharp-shooter eye of coach Scott Johnson. Their sport is rifle shooting, and an Olympic berth may be in the sights of three area teens, two from Douglas High School in Box elder and one from Sturgis Brown High School, the Rapid City Journal reported.

World War II Airmen Fire Machine Guns To Celebrate Annual Reunion Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
World War II veteran Stuart B. Eynon still remembers how the twin .50-caliber machine guns shook the whole bomber when they were fired from turrets as they flew over the Pacific Ocean. On Saturday, the 94-year-old donned a pair of earmuffs, hunkered down behind the same model M2 Browning gun and pulled the trigger, firing an earsplitting stream of bullets into a berm in Marriottsville.

IA: Saturday Stabbing At Southview Apartments Was Self-Defense Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The person who injured a man with a knife Saturday evening at a Sioux City apartment complex was acting in self-defense, police said. Sioux City Police officers responded to a report of a disturbance at Southview Apartments, 2728 S. Helen St., Apt. 14., around 6:15 p.m. Saturday.

MT: Legislative Coordinator For Montana Shooting Sports Association Visits With Residents Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
The Montana Shooting Sports Association has been active for more than 30 years in the state, but the organization is doing something for the first time this year. Elisa Delaurenti, legislative coordinator for the group, is touring the state providing updates. This week, she spent two days in Sidney as part of her state-wide, nearly three-month long tour.

Gang Members Told to Steal $5000 and a Gun Per Day
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Southern California gang members were given orders to break into homes daily and return to their leaders with �at least $5,000 and a weapon every single day,� according to law enforcement. The daily burglary quota was discovered after officials made 15 arrests in �a gang-related burglary ring that they say hit thousands of SoCal homes.� The homes were in �upscale neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.�

California, Nevada Cops Survive Separate Shootings When Bullets Hit Their Badges Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Two police officers in separate shootings narrowly dodged death Friday when their badges took the bullets. Both gunmen � one in California and another in Nevada � both died in harrowing highway chases. But neither shooter seriously injured any perusing cop: Instead, they just mangled some metal.

CO: Burglar Steals Dozens Of Guns From Pawn Shop Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://keepandbeararms.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Police are searching for a burglar who stole 35 guns from a pawn shop in Thornton. A surveillance camera captured video of a man burglarizing Jumping Jack Cash on Washington Street near 88th Avenue around 3:20 a.m. Tuesday.

'Free-thinking' Philosophy professor's aim is off on guns
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Philosopher loses touch on guns

The headline intrigued me: "Let the free market control sale of guns."

The author, a professor of ethics and philosophy of religion, Justin McBrayer, put on a different hat in Wednesday's Sentinel (National Viewpoint). In this thought-provoking commentary, he sought to solve the gun-violence problem, something normally left to constitutionalists and criminal specialists.