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AR-15 rifle manufacturer opens in Alabaster
When Camp Branch resident Randall Booth was growing up in Montevallo, his father gave him a bit of advice Booth lives by to this day. “When I was growing up in Montevallo, my father told me ‘Son, you’re going to have to know how to grow …

AR-15 Widely Misidentified by Media as Weapon in Navy Yard Shooting
This week’s mass shooting at Washington’s Navy Yard has thrust the AR-15 assault rifle is back in the center of the gun control debate, even though authorities have debunked reports the weapon was used in the gunman Aaron Alexis. FBI Assistant Director …

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AR-15 Rifle Choices – Part 6
You’ll learn a bit more about why in my next post – hint, hint. To be clear, they all make perfectly fine AR-15 style rifles. COLT still makes M16s and M4s for military, which should tell you something, and let’s not forget it was an H&K416 in …

Navy Yard shooting: AR-15, back in the news — briefly
(CNN)– It has been called the most popular rifle in America, and it briefly returned to the spotlight after Monday’s shooting at the Navy Yard: the AR-15. A U.S. law enforcement official said Monday that gunman Aaron Alexis unleashed a barrage …

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They can be accessorized with extra scopes, larger clips and can fire as fast as a shooter can pull the trigger. AR-15 style weapons were used in the Sandy Hook and Aurora Theater … re-recommend it afterwards. Rescue this diary, and add …

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If you love the activity of hunting prey, it is important for you to understand how to purchase the best and most effective hunting rifle scopes. Also it is important to select the most effective mounts which would help in increasing the fun of hunting. Also at the time of purchasing scope mountsfor the military purpose there are many different aspects which are to be kept in mind in order to purchase the most effective AR 15 mounts. Some of these tips and points to be kept in mind at the time of purchasing the mounts are

Check the light transmission

One of the most important things to be kept in mind at the time of purchasing scope ringsor scope mounts is to check the transmission of light from it. Many people mistakenly believe that rifle scopes actually gather light, but this is a common misconception which should be avoided by them. The AR 15 mounts simply transmit the light that is available in the environment with the help of actual lenses that are a part of the scope one purchases. Unhappily, light that is transmitted is often lost to one degree or another. So it is important to check the transmission ability of the light for purchasing the effective scope mounts.

See the magnification of the mounts being purchased

At the time of selecting scope rings, it is important to consider the magnification associated with that particular product. In order to get the best and most effective magnification of the lens it is important to check it before hand in order to get the most effective results. There are many different factors that should be considered when determining the magnification associated with the scope rings that one selects. Firstly, one should consider the type of terrain in use of the AR 15 mounts. After this the magnification power of the entire lens is important to be checked so that one can purchase the most effective mount. This would also help in checking of the shooting range of the mount which would help in increasing the working power of AR. Accurate magnification of the mount is very important to be checked in order to get the most effective results out of it. There are different kinds of mounts available in the market but it is essential to purchase the most effective one.

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How the NRA Tried to Stop a Member From Doing Gun-Control Research
The National Rifle Association reportedly advised its members against participating in a study released this week that shows a majority of gun sellers want tougher background checks for gun buyers. The NRA apparently was unaware that the University of California professor behind the study – himself an NRA member – received the email discrediting his research. Garen Wintemute, director of the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program, conducted a survey of 1,601… [al Jazeera (America), via GunPolicy.org]

Gun Trafficking Charges Dropped Against Russians in Nigeria
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Tuesday heard that the alleged arms trafficking charge against the 15 Russian sailors had been dropped. The Russians, charged with unlawful importation of arms into Nigeria are: Zhelyazkov Andrey, Savchenko Sergel, Lopatin Alexey and Baranovskly Nikolay, Llia Shubov, Dimitry Bannyrh, Alexander Tsarikov and Kononov Sergel. Others are Chichkanov Vasily, Varlygin Igor, Komilov Alexander, Mishin Pavel, Korotchenko Andrey, Vorobev… [Leadership (Abuja), via GunPolicy.org]

Costa Rica Puts Gun Permit Applications Online
Starting Tuesday, aspiring gun owners in Costa Rica can now obtain their permits online, part of a larger trend by the government to include more services on the web. The head of the Public Security Ministry, Mario Zamora, made the announcement at a Tuesday press conference in the western San José neighborhood of La Sabana. Zamora noted that the system will make it easier for permit-holders and will be a law enforcement tool, tracking the country’s firearms. “The new… [Tico Times, via GunPolicy.org]

US Firearm Owners Push Their Right to Bear Arms Anywhere, Anytime
The weapon he was carrying, an AK-74 assault rifle, measures three feet long, with a barrel of about 16 inches, and is capable of firing several dozen rounds per minute. Brian McCauley says he never meant to scare anyone. The state of Texas disagrees, and his upcoming trial has become a focal point in a dangerous new battle in the national debate over gun laws. By the time McCauley walked into a San Antonio Starbucks in August, tensions had been building for years. The… [Newsweek (USA), via GunPolicy.org]

In Germany, Owning a Gun is a Privilege
Hardy Schober stops by the cemetery near his home in Winnenenden almost every day to visit the grave of his fifteen-year-old daughter. Jana was killed by a classmate four years ago in one of the most tragic school shootings in Germany’s history. “We don’t live very far from the cemetery, and I stop there and talk with her,” says Schober. He visits Jana’s grave to tell her about his day, or about what’s going on with the rest of their family. When he talks about her,… [NPR Berlin, Series, via GunPolicy.org]

Licensed Maltese Gun Dealer Charged with Illegal Gun, Ammo Sales
A 31-year-old Libyan citizen from Tripoli married to a Maltese woman and residing in Malta, was Monday morning arraigned in court along with a Maltese man after 40,000 bullets were found in the Libyan’s car on Saturday following weeks of surveillance by the Malta police. The Libyan, Feraj Issa Ali Yacoob, and Michael Azzopardi, a 55-year old Maltese, appeared in court on charges of illegally selling ammunition to Libyan organisations when they knew or could suspect… [Tripoli Post (Libya), via GunPolicy.org]

Tunisia, Algeria Work Together to Combat Gun Smuggling
Terrorist groups are looking to profit from porous borders to smuggle weapons into Tunisia, local law agencies and international police organisations warn. “Tunisia is living with the threat of the proliferation of weapons because it is a neighbour of Libya,” Theoneste Mutsindashyak, the head of the Regional Centre on Small Arms, said at a recent Interpol conference in Algeria. Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Ben Jeddou raised the same alarm to National Constituent… [Magharebia (USA), via GunPolicy.org]

Family Kills Itself Over Money – 4 Dead, 91yr-old Survives US Shootout
A long-running feud in a Pennsylvania family ended in violence after a woman and her husband broke into her parents’ home and killed her mother and brother – before the two were shot dead by the woman’s own father, police have revealed today. The horrific violence Friday night that left four dead and only one survivor in the house in rural Ashville, Pennsylvania, may have been sparked over lingering resentment over inheritance, a family member revealed exclusively to… [Daily Mail (UK), via GunPolicy.org]

Authorities Bust Operation in India Using Fake Gun Licences to Get Guns
In a major breakthrough, Lucknow police on Sunday recovered a dozen firearms and cartridges purchased on fake licences after the arrest of two key members of an illegal arms racket operational in several states of the country. One of the members is a terminated constable of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). The duo was arrested in Vibhuti Khand where they had come for a firearms deal. The recovered firearms included seven 12-bore double barrel guns, four… [Hindustan Times (Delhi), via GunPolicy.org]

Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll of Unintentional Shootings in the US
The .45-caliber pistol that killed Lucas Heagren, 3, on Memorial Day last year at his Ohio home had been temporarily hidden under the couch by his father. But Lucas found it and shot himself through the right eye. “It’s bad,” his mother told the 911 dispatcher. “It’s really bad.” A few days later in Georgia, Cassie Culpepper, 11, was riding in the back of a pickup with her 12-year-old brother and two other children. Her brother started playing with a pistol his father… [New York Times, via GunPolicy.org]

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New Firearms Offences Planned in South Australia Gun Crime Crackdown
The South Australian Government said it would take more steps to crack down on gun crime. Premier Jay Weatherill said new offences would be created and police given wide-ranging additional powers. Under planned changes to the Firearms Act, the trafficking of firearms will become an offence, with a maximum prison sentence of 20 years. People unlawfully in possession of a loaded firearm could face a fine of $75,000 or 15 years in jail. Mr Weatherill said police would… [ABC News (Australia), via GunPolicy.org]

Editorial: Containing the Conventional Arms Trade
Efforts to control the $70 billion a year global market in conventional weapons got a big boost when the United States signed the United Nations arms trade treaty, joining more than 100 other countries in affirming the need to keep these weapons out of the hands of unscrupulous regimes, militants and criminals. But the work is far from done. At least 50 member countries, including the United States, must still carry out the next step and ratify the treaty for it to… [New York Times, Editorial, via GunPolicy.org]

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NRA Claims Mass Shooting Shows Need for More Guns at Defence Base
The head of the National Rifle Association said on Sunday “there weren’t enough good guys with guns” to confront the gunman who killed 12 people at the Washington navy yard on Monday. Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president, called for more armed guards and better security at military bases. LaPierre’s comments, in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press, echoed his response nine months ago to the Newtown school shooting, in which Adam Lanza killed 20 young… [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]

Opinion: Rising Gun Ownership Rates in Tanzania a Real Issue
Never in the history of this country has there been a need to learn to say SORRY even when you are wrong, than these times where buying and owning a gun is as easy as buying a mobile phone, it brings cold chills sprinting down my spine. It is very common today to see very young people seated in a public place with two, three smart phones on the table and Glock on the side. Today owning a gun is as fashionable among Tanzanian youths as knowing Diamond’s latest song,… [Tanzania Daily News, Opinion, via GunPolicy.org]

High Gun Ownership Makes Countries Less Safe, US Study Finds
Guns do not make a nation safer, say US doctors who have compared the rate of firearms-related deaths in countries where many people own guns with the death rate in countries where gun ownership is rare. Their findings, published Wednesday in the prestigious American Journal of Medicine, debunk the historic belief among many people in the United States that guns make a country safer, they say. On the contrary, the US, with the most guns per head in the world, has the… [Guardian (UK), via GunPolicy.org]

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Michigan Gun Rights Groups Stage March At The State Capitol Building

On the morning of October 9th at 9:30 a.m., three of Michigan’s largest firearms rights organizations collaborated and jointly staged a march upon the state’s Capitol Building in Lansing, Michigan.

The Meaning of the Second Amendment – Study Hall

Long term readers of Daily Kos have been reading about gun law since at least the spring of 2008 when Heller was argued at the Supreme Court.

Pearl Jam Lead Singer Attacks Gun Owners: ‘I Almost Wish Bad Things Upon These People’

In an interview he did with surfer Mark Richards to promote the band’s new album being released next week, Vedder said, “I get so angry that I almost wish bad things upon these people” : EDDIE VEDDER, PEARL JAM: You know, this day and age, whether the world’s gone absolutely fucking crazy mad, I think in some ways you’re trying to provide even … (more)

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Disaster Preparedness For the Rest Of Us: Where is your flashlight?
As I write this, the first notable storm of the season is blowing in off the Pacific. A moderate amount of rain coupled with predicted wind gusts of 70 mph makes for that howling, drumming sound we have all learned to recognize as our regional storms.

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The Very Best Hidden iOS 7 Features
We think they’ll make you wonder aloud, “I didn’t know my iPhone could do that?!” 1. Make Your iPhone Vibrate However You Want Just like … From there, find “Switch Control” and turn it on. There you can add different “Switches,” or physical …

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Teen’s ‘hollow flashlight’ could bring light to Third World
It’s been a busy past few weeks for 15-year-old science whiz Ann Makosinski. The Victoria, British Columbia teen is garnering plenty of international attention for her hollow flashlight, which operates solely on the warmth of the hand. The invention made …

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Cops: 2 Pa. teens arrested with gun, marijuana after leading troopers on chase in stolen car
LEBANON — Two teens from Pennsylvania were arrested and charged with various counts after they led New Jersey state troopers on a chase in … the Hunterdon County Jail. The 17-year-old was taken to the Morris County Youth Detention Center, Grossman …

Train riders too consumed with phones to see gun before shooting
San Francisco (CNN)– If somebody pulled out a gun on a crowded train you were riding on, would you notice? These people didn’t. Why? They were too into their smartphones, a San Francisco prosecutor says. The September killing of 20-year-old …

Gun rights advocate: Newtown massacre could happen with handgun
Newtown shooter Adam Lanza would have killed just as many children at Sandy Hook Elementary using a handgun as he did using a Bushmaster rifle, gun rights advocate Emily Miller said Thursday on Morning Joe. Miller, a senior opinion editor at the …

Gun Safety: Tips on how to draw a handgun correctly (Joe’s Outdoor Office photos and video)
ASHVILLE, Alabama — As Alabama’s new gun law enters its third month, many Alabamians are carrying a handgun for the first time. I wanted to get with some expert firearms instructors to explain some of the basic gun safety rules and show us how to do …

Tactical vs. Strategic Enterprise Mobility
I get concerned when I meet with IT strategy teams in 2013 that tell me, “We are conducting POCs with a couple of simple mobile apps.” WHAT? What are they trying to prove with a POC? That is like saying, “I know a Tsunami is coming, but I am going to …

Pentagon strikes deal with charity to pay military death benefits
Washington (CNN)– The news was devastating for Shannon and Jeremiah Collins: Their 19-year-old son, Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremiah Collins Jr., died in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. Then it got worse. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin, couple learned the …

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Bullet Points – September 3
NSSF’s weekly e-newsletter

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