It had to happen eventually. Letting no crisis go to waste, the Colorado State Legislature has been putting together an anti-gun set of bills in response to the shooting at the King Soopers in Boulder. According to the Colorado Sun, a bill that would temporarily prohibit people convicted of a violent misdemeanor from purchasing a…
Month: April 2021
One of Your Best Sources for Gun News
http://crimeresearch.org is Dr. John Lott’s summary of news and information about guns and gun control. Lott is a well-known expert and worth being at the front of your reading list. You can subscribe to his weekly summaries, each one filled with links to his interviews, columns, and other writings about gun control.
Jason Crown Helping to Gut Gun Industry
District 6 Representative Jason Crow (D-CO) is one of the leading House members trying to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, a law from 2005 that prevents businesses from being sued over the third-party actions of criminals who use guns. “I am home to some of the nation’s most horrific shootings, from…
Federal Releases Defense Ammo in .22
I know…..you can’t use .22 in any configuration for self defense. All the experts say it has to be 9mm. Or is it .45 ACP? Maybe .38 Special or .357 Magnum? Over time, there was always a newer, better, more efficient bullet, but let’s talk a bit of history before I tell you what’s on…
The “Kids” are Coming!
On the range and on the field, young people are taking up hunting and shooting sports in record numbers. Hunting licenses alone have shown a 29% jump in new hunters in 2020, over 3.2 million, compared to an estimated 2.3 million in 2019. “The onset of coronavirus and the historic firearm sales spurred by it…
Demings and Naguse Introduce “Law Enforcement Protection Act”
U.S. Rep. Val Demings (FL-10) introduced the Law Enforcement Protection Act with Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-2). From the bill’s announcement: “The Law Enforcement Protection Act would add armor-piercing, concealable weapons as a category under the National Firearms Act (NFA). The NFA, enacted in 1934 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 1939, was the first…
Anthony Fauci the Gun Expert?
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading (?) immunologist and expert on all things pandemic, has now ventured into a new field of endeavor, calling gun violence “a public health issue” on CNN over the weekend. Not much else is known right now, but more may be said later. Keep an eye on Conservative media, though,…
Who Am I?
I am a gun supporter. It’s not a popular thing to say these days, but there are more of us out there than the anti-gunners would have you believe. I started shooting as a youngster. Around the age of 8 or so, my dad and I climbed the barbed wire fence on the U.S. Air…
Welcome to ‘The Loaded Mag’ !
Welcome to the new web site of ‘The Loaded Mag‘ AKA TLM ! I hope you find the site useful and informative. As a news aggregator, it will present the best of Open Source firearms news from major contibutors, including Ammoland, National Rifle Association (NRA), and National Shooting Sports Federation (NSSF), among others. Look for…