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LA: North Shore Man Kills 81-Year-Old Father in Apparent Self- Defense
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An 81-year-old Washington Parish man was shot to death by his son Saturday (July 8) in a case authorities said appears to be self-defense. Hoyt "Chick" Boyd, a resident of Angie, was shot outside his son's residence and died at the scene, the Washington Parish Sheriff's Office reported. Patrol deputies and detectives responded to a call about the shooting in the small community in the northeast corner of Washington Parish on Saturday and discovered that Boyd had been shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the sheriff's office.

Skills Check: Testing Your Gun's Mechanical Offset Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
What�s mechanical offset and how do you deal with it? If you have an optic on a firearm, particularly a rifle, the line-of-sight through the scope is higher than the center of the bore, and that difference is what we call offset. In other words, when you take a shot the bullet is going to exit the barrel as much as several inches lower than the line of sight.

My Short-Term Trade In American Outdoors Brands
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American Outdoor Brands (AOBC), formally known as Smith & Wesson, is a $1.3 billion company that sells firearms, firearm accessories, and other outdoor products. Smith & Wesson is the company's most popular brand and has been around since 1852. American Outdoor Brands changed its name from Smith & Wesson to help the company diversify away from strictly firearm sales toward a wide range of outdoor activities.

IL: Video Shows Child Walking Around with Gun on Chicago's South Side
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Facebook video showing a young child brandishing what appears to be a handgun on Chicago�s South Side is raising new concerns about kids and guns. The video shows three young boys walking at a shopping center at 63rd and Halsted. A driver is heard taunting the boys, telling one of them to show him his gun. The youngster eventually does so. The video has surfaced at the same time Chicago police say a boy as young as 6 years old is a suspect in an armed robbery in another Chicago neighborhood.

MI: Men Who Entered Dearborn Police Station With Gun Convicted Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A number of Dearborn cases have some new developments, according to the city's police chief. Two men who brought guns into the Dearborn police station have been convicted for the incident. Back in February, the men were unhappy about being pulled over and went to the police station heavily armed and wearing bullet proof vests to confront the officers.

NV: Hendersonville Police Officers Using New Bulletproof Vests
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Growing concerns about attacks on law enforcement officers across the country are prompting changes at a Midstate police department. The Hendersonville Police Department just bought 125 new bulletproof vests designed to protect against rifle rounds. Police in Hendersonville say they've seen an uptick in attacks on police and crimes involving higher-caliber guns and feel these stronger vests are needed.

MI: Gun Owners Group Makes Donation Submitted by: Corey Salo	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Delta County Gun Owners members Jim Groos, Doug Rasmussen, Bill Hawley and Bob Petersen present a $1,000 donation to Michigan Open Carry President Tom Lambert, second from right, as DCGOA teams together with MOC in their in their lawsuit to stop local units of government from writing more onerous gun legislation than allowed by state law.

FL: 74 Guns Stolen From Polk Gunsmith
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A break-in at a Polk County home put dozens of guns in the hands of criminals, deputies said Monday. One or more people broke a back window of a home in the Babson Park community and stole a suitcase full of handguns and a safe containing 14 rifles. "It's very concerning that all these guns are out on the street," said Carrie Horstman, a spokesperson for the sheriff's office. "The good news is the victim had a very good record-keeping system. He had serial numbers for every one of those guns."

DC: Self Defense or Murder? Fairfax Co. Jury Hears Stabbing Case Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Audio from a cellphone video has become a key piece of evidence in the trial of a teenaged parks department employee accused of stabbing a wedding caterer to death Aug. 6, 2016. "Oh, you stabbed me!" is heard, loudly, on the video. But the defense says the same video shows that Kempton Bonds was defending himself during a violent confrontation.

IN: From Broom-Winging to Bullets: How a Fight Over a Fence Escalated to Gunfire Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Stark and shockingly violent home-security video released earlier this month showed two Johnson County neighbors firing handguns at each other across a fence. Jeffrey Weigle, 59, was critically wounded in the June 27 showdown after he pulled out a handgun while riding a lawn mower.

Creeps and Criminals, Beware! Hand-Held 'Defender 24/7' Device Takes Pepper Spray to The Next Level Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A little security is a good thing when you're out and about in this dangerous world, but a traditional pepper spray gadget can feel old-fashioned and ineffective these days. Now there's a new self-defense product that puts more bang into your pepper spray.

Will Republicans Move Gun Legislation Now That It�s �Personal?�
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Monday�s New York Times is reporting that GOP members of Congress are showing more interest in gun legislation in the wake of last month�s shooting of their colleague, Steve Scalise, by a far-left registered Democrat who volunteered last year for Sen. Bernie Sanders� campaign and may have been acting out of pure partisan hatred.

According to the newspaper, �Conservative lawmakers, some of whom were nearly the victims of gun violence, have pressed to loosen gun controls�Most of the legislation has been in development for months, and in some cases, years.

TN: Man Deemed Justified in Fatal Shooting Now Charged in Drug Case
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David Paul Beets may be charged with felony drug possession now, but authorities can only assume he was a law-abiding citizen when he fatally shot a woman during an attempted heroin buy five months ago. Witness statements to police confirm the woman, 38-year-old Stacie Marie Mundy, was among several people who came to Beets' Northwest Knoxville home to score drugs in the early morning hours of Feb. 10.

Gun News: SHUSH Act Reclassifies Suppressors as Accessories
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A bill proposed by Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) in the Senate, and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) in the House, would regulate suppressors as over-the-counter firearms accessories rather than require that they be transferred through federal firearms licensees after a background check. The Silencers Helping Us Save Hearing (SHUSH) Act�S.1505 in the Senate and HR 3139 in the House�would remove suppressors from National Firearms Act requirements.

Rep. Demings Wrong on Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill
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Rep. Val Demings� (D-Fla.) recent op-ed (� �Concealed Carry Reciprocity� measure would gut public safety laws,� June 29) demonstrates she either hasn�t bothered to read the bills she criticizes or is willingly misrepresenting them for political reasons. Law-abiding Americans are increasingly purchasing firearms but only after undergoing an industry-supported FBI background check. She asserts, falsely or ignorantly, that criminals with domestic violence and violent criminals could carry a gun.

Challenge to Open-Carry Law Goes to US Supreme Court
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Attorneys for a man arrested in 2012 in St. Lucie County asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to take up a challenge to the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms in public. The petition to the U.S. Supreme Court came slightly more than four months after the Florida Supreme Court, in a 4-2 decision, upheld the longstanding law. Monday's 35-page petition contends the law violates the Second Amendment and conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court rulings about gun rights.

Starnes: Atheists: God and Guns Don't Mix Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There is 1 comment on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
A bunch of Wisconsin atheists are angling to stop the state of New Hampshire from holding hunter safety classes inside church buildings. The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent a terse note to the state's Fish and Game Dept. the other day -- upset over a hunting safety class that was held at the Heritage Free Will Baptist Church.

MI: Roseville PD- Man Fatally Shoots Dog That Attacked His
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Roseville police are investigating after a dustup between two dogs on Saturday morning ended in gunfire that left one of the dogs dead.
A 52-year-old man had been walking his dog, �a mastiff-type breed,� on a leash. As the two were walking, a �pit bull-type dog� and �some form of lab mix� in a backyard on the street escaped the backyard. Once free, the pit bull, �apparently without provocation,� attacked the mastiff.

The owner of the mastiff tried to physically separate the dogs, but was unable.

Then, �fearing for his dog�s life, the man pulled a handgun and shot the offending pit bull twice, killing the dog.

The dog owner is a licensed CPL holder and the gun used was registered to him.

What Gun Regulations Should be �Repealed or Replaced�? The ATF Wants to Know.
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is polling outside interest groups about what gun regulations to eliminate following an edict from the Trump administration to cut government red tape. In three closed-door meetings held in May and June, top ATF officials separately asked firearms-industry leaders, law enforcement officials, and representatives from gun-violence prevention groups what current regulations could be eliminated without risking public safety, according to attendees who went to one or more of the meetings.

Becoming Irrationally Self-Reliant. If Men are Trying to Keep us out, They have a Funny way of Going About it.
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Growing up, most of my friends were boys. Until I started working as a ski instructor, I had very few female friends. The girls and women with whom I was most aligned were always, like me, tomboys. Because I shared so many of the same interests, I have almost never felt uncomfortable around males. I was rarely excluded from any activity I wanted to pursue. Except for baseball. VeeGee Wynn, my only female cohort from age 8 through 11, agreed it was totally unfair that we were not going to be able to grow up and play in the major leagues.

NBC�s Fake News On Millennials And Guns
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It seems easier and easier to find fake news these days, what with CNN and The New York Times being prime providers of such drivel on a nearly daily basis. Yet I was somewhat surprised to find completely bogus information right in the big, bold headline of a recent Nbcnews.com business feature. The story, headlined �Millennials Aren�t That Into Guns�Except in Video Games,� caught my eye because I frequently shoot with people in that 18- to 29-year-old age group. Since those acquaintances of mine are really �into guns��as are my own children in that age group�I threw caution to the wind and decided to dig deeper to find out NBC�s take on the topic.

CO: Thieves Steal 7 guns From Colorado Springs Pawn Shop
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A couple of criminals were caught on camera stealing more than half a dozen guns from a local pawn shop Monday morning. Employees at Top Dollar Pawn along N. Academy Boulevard just south of Dublin Boulevard are asking the public to take a close look at the images their security cameras caught (the video is at this top of this article). Two men can be seen breaking into a building and running to a nearby truck with the stolen weapons. Employees say the thieves took seven guns by breaking through glass, making a hole in a wall inside the shop and then used some type of long item to grab the guns.

Rural and Urban Gun Owners have Different Experiences, Views on Gun Policy Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Gun ownership spans all types of American communities, but it is particularly common in rural parts of the country. Among adults who live in rural areas, 46% say they own a gun, compared with 28% of adults who live in the suburbs and even fewer � 19% � in urban areas, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

OH: Firearms Fair Set for July 25 in Ravenna
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The Kent-based group REALIZE Firearms Awareness Coalition is hosting a free firearms appraisal fair at the Ravenna VFW post 1055, located at 5998 New Milford Road in Ravenna from 5:30-7:30 p.m. July 25. Multiple area gun shops will participate in the 6th annual event. Those attending can bring their collectables, family heirlooms, gun show finds and firearms that they have general questions about. No firearms will be bought or sold there.

First Look: Steyr M9-A1 Pistol in OD Green
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Responding to overwhelming demand from the U.S. market, Steyr Arms announced the launch of a brand-new model of its M9-A1 pistol, featuring a polymer frame with an OD-green finish. Steyr has incorporated an OD-green finish on many of its guns over the last 50 years, including the SSG 69 rifle and the AUG. However, the finish hadn't been present in the company's lineup of handguns until the commercial market in the US demanded something different than Steyr's usual offerings.

Firearms Instructor Ben Branam� This Week on Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Here is the news the mainstream media says never happens. Responsible gun owners defended themselves and the people they care about. Self-defense instructor Ben Branam joined the Self Defense Gun Stories Podcast to look at three new examples. Were these gun owners lucky, or were they trained and prepared? What can we learn from their experience? Listen and find out.

Self-Defense Skills That Will Keep You Alive Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Be it a terrorist attack, home invasion, active shooting or other undesired event, violent physical attacks on individuals who are unaware and unprepared for them are, sadly, becoming the new normal. Those who are aware and prepared are concerned about self-defense and protecting their family. What separates the prepared from the unprepared? Mindset, skills and confidence.

AK: Changes Proposed for Subsistence Hunting Policies Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Subsistence hunters may soon be able to hunt deer anywhere on federal public lands in Southeast Alaska. The Ketchikan Daily News reported Saturday the Federal Subsistence Board is now asking for comments through Aug. 4 on proposed changes to policies for the 2018-20 regulatory years. One of the proposals would change where subsistence hunters can harvest deer.

PA: Antlerless Deer Hunting Licenses Available Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Antlerless deer hunting licenses will be accepted starting Monday, July 10th. For now, only state residents can apply for the licenses. Non-residents can start on July 17th. All licenses that aren't sold will be available starting August 7th, and a second round of unsold licenses will be available August 24th.

WI: Bill Would Allow Gun Education Curricula in High Schools Submitted by: David Williamson Website: http://libertyparkpress.com	There are no comments on this story Post Comments \| Read Comments
Wisconsin high school students would learn how to handle a range of guns � from handguns to rifles � as an elective class under a state Assembly bill introduced last week. Rep. Ken Skowronski (R-Franklin) is the lead sponsor of the bill, which would allow schools to offer on-site gun education classes. Its purpose is to promote gun safety and to boost participation in trap shooting, he said.