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on December 14, 2016 in Gun Page World News

California Long Gun Sales Skyrocket with ‘Bullet Button’ Ban Approaching

by AWR Hawkins On January 1, 2017, the sale of modern sporting rifles with “bullet button” magazine release mechanisms will be prohibited and this has led to a run on AR-15 and AK-47-based firearms. For those not familiar with a “bullet button,” it is a magazine release that California lawmakers require as a means of reducing the speed at which a law-abiding citizen can remove an empty magazine to replace it with a loaded one. The mechanism releases the magazine once the citizen uses a tool or the point of a bullet–thus the name “bullet button”–to press in the button…. View Article

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on December 14, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Here We Go Again: Obama Sends Arms Trade Treaty to Senate for Ratification

by AWR Hawkins With just over a month left in office and no gun control achievements to speak of during his time in the White House, President Obama has sent the United Nation’s Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) to the Senate for one last shot at ratification. The ATT garnered a lot of attention as it moved through various bureaucratic channels in 2012 and 2013. Breitbart News reported that the treaty was supported by 46 Senators, two of whom were Independents–Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Angus King (I-Maine)–and the rest of whom were Democrats. It was signed by Secretary of State John Kerry… View Article

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on December 8, 2016 in Gun Page World News

Good Guy with Gun Stops Knife Attack at High School

by AWR Hawkins A campus police officer shot a Hug High School student who allegedly had a knife and “tried to attack others.” According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, the officer who intervened in the 11:25 a.m., December 7, incident was a Washoe County School District police officer. The school was locked down following the incident “as police went room to room accounting for all students and finding witnesses.” The student who was allegedly wielding the knife is listed in critical condition. Reno Police Chief Jason Soto said the incident began as “an altercation between two students.” One of the two students then pulled… View Article

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