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Timney Announces New Line of Calvin Elite Triggers for Remingtons

January 6, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

Phoenix, Arizona (January 6, 2014) – For the discriminating shooter, demanding the utmost performance from their trigger, Timney has created a new line of triggers designed to be robust and yet delicate enough to be set with a pull weight as low as 8 ounces. An engineering accomplishment, the Calvin Elite series of Timney Triggers feature wear components that are made from A2 tool steel, heat-treated to Rockwell 58 and Teflon-nickel coatings. Sears are wire EDM cut and triggers are CNC machine using state-of-the-art robotics. The lightweight 6061-T6 aluminum housings are CNC machined and anodized Timney Elite Gold. Read more

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Justice Department Takes Steps to Strengthen Background Check System

January 6, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

The Department of Justice is proposing a regulation that will clarify who, due to mental health reasons, is prohibited under federal law from receiving, possessing, shipping or transporting firearms. In addition to providing general guidance on the federal law, this clarification will help states determine what information may be appropriately shared with the federal background check system for firearms transfers – the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) – in order to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who may be a danger to themselves or others. Read more

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Gun re-registration begins in D.C

January 3, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C. resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted. Failure to do so can result in fines, jail time and felonious ownership of a firearm that can never be registered. Details of the Second Amendment nose thumbing are here…

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Ho Hum: Another Fast and Furious Gun at Crime Scene

January 2, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

“[The ATF] acknowledge[s] that, regrettably, firearms related to the Fast and Furious investigation will likely continue to be recovered at future crime scenes.”

How comforting. Oh, and I forget…just who was held accountable? Answer: The Untouchables. Details of the latest chapter are here…

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Anti-Gun Mayor Bloomberg Hires Bodyguards

January 2, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

After stepping down as New York’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg has hired NYPD bodyguards at taxpayers’ expense of $120,000 each. I wonder if the cops are using gun magazines of less than 8 rounds. More details of a rich man’s hypocrisy relative to the value of self-defense is here…

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Federal judge upholds majority of SAFE Act

January 1, 2014 Glen Wunderlich

Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny upholds two key elements of the law – the state’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines – but rejects a third component, the seven-round limit for magazines. Appeals are expected from both sides and there is more here…

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Man Files Suit after being Stopped for Open Carry

December 31, 2013 Glen Wunderlich

A man, who was carrying a pistol openly was stopped by police in Grand Rapids. The suspect, Johann Deffert has claimed that police violated his constitutional rights, assaulted him and falsely imprisoned him. You can hear both the concerned caller and dispatch before the encounter here…

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Women’s Concealed Holsters in Action

December 31, 2013 Glen Wunderlich

Unique and effective ways for women to carry concealed:

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Connecticut Citizens Form Line to Register Guns

December 28, 2013 Glen Wunderlich

Only the criminals have abstained from the theatrics in Connecticut. Would anyone suggest they’d stand in line? In any case, the subjects are cooperating even though not a person can define an assault weapon. Another attack on freedom coming right up here…

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California Gun Registry Boosts Sales

December 28, 2013 Glen Wunderlich

I guess the libs will never learn. Maybe just one more restriction on freedom. Well, here’s another example of their misdirected intentions from the lefties of California.

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