The main difference between socialism and communism is one has an AK47 in the back of your head and one is looking to get that AK47. – Quang Nguyen My recent book, Stalin, Mao, Communism and their 21st-Century Aftermath in Russia and China (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2024) is not a comprehensive or a chronological history of the
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“At VP debate a star is born and Trump is vindicated,” former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich gushed in a Fox News postmortem. “Vance Delivers a Master Class in How to Deal with Biased Moderators,” The Daily Signal echoed. I don’t see it that way, at least for when the conversation turned to the Second
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Shades of Katrina. Disarm the citizens. “Never let a crisis go to waste when an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.” (Attributed to Rahm Emanuel but first said by Winston Churchill) Before Hurricane Helene made landfall, several municipalities in Florida declared local states of emergency to ensure they would
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Thursday’s Vice Presidential debate sparked the most substantive back-and-forth on gun policy of the entire campaign. During a–perhaps surprisingly–civil exchange between Republican JD Vance and Democrat Tim Walz, the Vice Presidential candidates laid out their views on school shootings, city gun violence, and rural suicides. The pair detailed competing visions on gun policy but also
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The AR-15 platform, known for its reliability and versatility, is popular among shooters for various applications, from sport shooting to home defense. However, like any mechanical system, it is not immune to malfunctions. Whether at the range or in a critical situation, experiencing a malfunction can be frustrating and, at times, dangerous if not handled
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Happiness is in the title. ATF Loses at trial. ATF should be abolished. An Alaskan jury acquitted a man accused by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) of running a gun store without a federal firearms license (FFL). Aaron Horwat owned Gator Guns Inc. in Kenai, Alaska, since 1982. During a routine ATF compliance
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, wholeheartedly supports the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee’s subpoena of The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention to investigate allegations that the administration wrongfully colluded with gun control groups and the City of Chicago to bring an unfounded lawsuit against a firearm manufacturer. It is proper and fitting that
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In 2023, more than 12 million BB and pellet guns were bought in the United States. Many have roughly the same weight, markings and finishes as real guns. But these look-alike replica guns aren’t federally required to have any clear indicators that they don’t shoot bullets. In most states they are available for adults to
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“The law states that Secretary Haaland cannot do this. Since it boxes out recreational shooters, she did it anyway.” WASHINGTON, D.C. — NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, strongly opposes Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s proposed plan for the Department of the Interior to shutter access to recreational shooting on 1.3 million acres of the Bears Ears National Monument, in Utah.
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Trigger warning! No pun intended. The Trace is a “news” source founded and funded by Everytown for Gun Safety. (The anti-gunners and the Left in general are notoriously successful for co-opting words.)Informed pro-2A gun owners need to know what the anti-gunners are saying. This is the purpose of this post. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and
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