So today I had the opportunity to get a sneak preview of Nexus, South Florida's newest gun store and shooting range and before I tell shooting enthusiasts what I think, let me tell other gun ranges what I think. You had better start worrying. Nexus is raising the bar so high that unless you are willing to go back to the drawing board completely, the best you can hope for is to pick up the overflow when Nexus is booked solid...and they will be booked solid. As for shooters, I will tell you a
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I want to make one thing clear. I am pro background check. Yes. I am all for a system that ensures that only trustworthy capable people can purchase a firearm. So then why would I vote against it or ask someone to vote against it? Because the people who push hardest for the background checks would prefer that no one had a gun in the first place. This leaves me with a reasonable concern that the background check system I believe in will be abused to keep law abiding citizens from owning guns. Let
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Alright, so Jayson's been on the fence about a rifle. Let me clairfy - Jayson's been on the fence about a modern rifle. He already has a safe full of older rifles but he's been back and forth about getting something modern.

Jayson made his decision this week and he started looking for a PS-90. Let's all agree early on that it's still a sellers market - albeit not by much. Rifles are hitting the shelves and prices have come down to the real world almost everywhere. This, of course, does not apply to ammo
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Recently, a friend of ours who we'll call "Jake" had a situation. First, a little background:

Jake owns a restaurant and a bar on the beach. As anyone can tell you South Florida is an unpredictable place to live much less own a bar. Jake has had his share of drunks and scuffles break out but nothing truly serious.

Recently, Jake had a string of break-ins (I think he's lost 10+ televisions in the last 6 months) at the restaurant and realized that his camera's weren't cutting it after one of the
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We all know the words to the Second Amendment as ratified in the Bill of Rights, right?

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Does your state have a Constitutional right to bear arms? I sure had no idea so I did a little digging. I came across a great paper by Eugene Volokh. It's quite detailed so I'll hit the high points and if you're interested, you can <a href="htt
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EasyBakeGunClub.com welcomes Shoot Straight gun store and shooting range to Ft. Lauderdale. This is an exciting addition to the Ft. Lauderdale / Hollywood area. Without a doubt, our favorite location to shoot is Pembroke Gun Range in Hallandale (I know right?) We enjoy that range, its employees and the regular customers we have befriended over years of shooting there, but Pembroke has always had what we consider to be a major drawback: You can't shoot high powered rifles there...at least no
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Well, today I got my newest toy in the mail - a Mosin Nagant M38 Carbine. Yup, the loudest damned gun on the range according to My Gun Diary.

I've been slammed with work for the past 45 days or so and haven't had a chance to get much writing done. I have to give BSG a big shout out for all the news he has covered for us in that time. Work is finally calming down a little so I'll be getting back into the swing of things.

But first I wanted to write about this because I've been waiting for it for days
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<img src="http://www.easybakegunclub.com/data/users/2012/07/16/1/user_albums/89/bleeding-heart_0t2nre.jpg" style="float:right;margin:2px;margin-left:12px;width:180px;">Liberals are the more compassionate party. I don't think anyone would argue against this. The fact that the word seems to follow 'bleeding heart' so well should be enough of a reason to agree. This is why they are so anti-gun. How can a group of people with so much compassion sit around and do nothing when children are being shot. Somethi
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A little while ago I receiver a custom molded, inside-the-waistband (IWB), Kydex Wraith holster from <a href="http://www.zornholsters.com/">Zorn Holsters</a> in Mesa, Arizona for my <a href="http://easybakegunclub.com/guns/287/M%26P9-Shield.html">S&W 9mm Shield</a>.





All the details from Zorn first:
SKU: 154
Carry Style: Inside the Waistband (IWB)
Usage: Concealment
Material: Kydex T Holstex
Thickness: 0.093"
Sweat Guard:
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January was an interesting month for Defensive Gun Uses. We started the new year with a collection of stories that just made you wonder what's going on with people these days. More importantly, thanks to our readers and improvements in our methods for searching, we found 99 stories of Defensive Gun Uses this month. Let's cover the ground rules real quick:

We can only cover stories the stories we find
Despite the fact that they happen every day, Defensive Gun Use stories are often hard to f
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The quest is finally over. The search for a new carry started about five months ago here on easybake; <a href="http://easybakegunclub.com/blog/659/New-Gun-Search-Problems.html">New Gun Search Problems</a> and <a href="http://easybakegunclub.com/blog/681/New-carry-search-solved%2C-but-not-what-I-expected..html">New Carry Search Solved</a>.

I settled on the <a href=" http://easybakegunclub.com/guns/287/M%26P9-Shield.html ">Smith and Wesson M&P Shield 9mm</a>. I should have had one when they firs
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In the last few days there's been more and more talk about the violence in movies and video games as a source of evil in our society. There has even been talk about this being the cause of our supposed rash of mass shootings. Ignoring for the fact that mass shootings aren't happening at an increasing rate and that crime as a whole is at it's lowest rate in over 50 years, let's talk specificall
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Our thoughts coming shortly but here is the White House's summary for the 23 executive order President Obama is signing in addition to the laws he is asking Congress to pass:


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1. "Issue a presidential memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system."

2. "Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating
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The data listed below is from the FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2011; the 2012 data has not been made available in its final form yet. This particular analysis of the data is not new news, and has been pretty widely discussed on more than a few sites online. I decided to post it here on easybakegunclub to give my take on what the data means to me. I don't think my conclusions are news to any gun owners, but it is something that has been lost in the argument (I think argument is more appropriat
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Every day we cover stories of every day people defending themselves, their families, and their communities from harm with a firearm. The current conversation about mass shootings is really a conversation about Newtown and how to protect our children.

The NRA put forth the idea of putting officers in schools - an idea that <a href="http://easybakegunclub.com/news/2053/Its-bad%3F-But-you-liked-it-when-President-Clinton-p.html">President Clinton proposed as a response to Columbine</a>. People from all sides
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January 5, 2013 | By: Gun Think

310 million of almost anything will lead to thousands deaths in a year. That's approximately how many firearms there are in the US. 310 million flights of stairs will lead to tens of thousands of deaths from accidental falls in 2013. Over 60 thousand children will be treated in US emergency rooms in the in 2013 as a result of ingesting poisonous household chemicals. Accidents in homes and communities all around America will total approximately 245 deaths every day this
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It's that time again!

As always with the Defensive Gun Use Report, we go past gun statistics to show real word examples of everyday citizens using guns in self defense.

Some quick ground rules and limitations regarding what we do and do not cover in the report for those of you reading for the first time:

We can only cover stories the stories we find
Despite the fact that they happen every day, Defensive Gun Use stories are often hard to find. They typically get only l
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Apparently China now believes that the American public should be disarmed. No kidding. The primary military threat to the United States want our citizens to be disarmed. Now not only are our own politicians using a tragic event to push an agenda, but now China's political party is getting in on the act. Well, if there is one thing the Chinese government has, it's some experience in suppressing and murdering its people in order to make them fall in line.

Yeah, that's these guys in cas
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The news is a funny thing sometimes. When something shocking comes out, everyone rushes to get more and more information as quickly as possible. When it comes to active shooter or active gunman situations, that rush for information often runs into the chaos of the situation. We saw that with the Newton, Connecticut shooting where media outlets worldwide put the picture and information of the wrong person up as the gunman only to have egg on their face later.

In Portland, Oregon, that same r
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Today is a tragic day on opposite ends of the world and a time to step back and look at where out political rhetoric has gotten us or perhaps more accurately, where it has left us.

As everyone by now knows 20 year old Adam Lanza went into Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut and opened fire with two 9mm handguns and a .223 rifle. As of this writing the physical toll of this tragedy is 26 dead - including 18 children from the elementary school.

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