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...woman with a loaded, cocked revolver in her hand walked into a Flor ida police station," reported the July issue of the American Rifleman. "To the officer behind the desk, she ex plained that she thought she had heard a prowler but was mistaken. 'Now I can't get it uncocked,' she said. The officer helpfully eased down the hammer without firing...
...reader is likely to conclude from this incident that the average house wife has no business monkeying around with a loaded revolver. But the American Rifleman came to a different conclusion. More women need to be trained in the use of firearms to protect them selves and their families against burglars and marauders, said the magazine. It then invited women in cities and suburbs to attend classes for regular shooting practice...
...Gooders & Psychotics. The arti cle was only one of many the Rifleman has been running lately, urging Americans to keep and bear arms and not let anyone take them away. Heretofore, the Rifleman, and some 14 other U.S. gun magazines such as Guns, Guns & Ammo, Muzzle Blasts and Precision Shooting, have published mostly technical articles on the proper care and handling of firearms and the most proficient ways to bring down everything from varmints to Viet Cong. But lately they have been devoting more space and fervor to a campaign against legal control of gun sales. No. 1 target...
...American Rifleman is the biggest and most important of the gun magazines. The official publication of the National Rifle Association, it is published in Washington and distributed to the N.R.A.'s 800,000 members, who pay $5 annual dues and, if they are organized into gun clubs, also receive free ammunition and cut-rate weapons from the Defense Department. Since it is put out by a nonprofit organization, the Rifleman is taxexempt; in 1966, it earned a tax-free $1,365,054 in advertising revenue, 13% of it from mailorder gun houses...
Viet Nam is no place for the traditional American rifleman, who prides himself on long-range sharpshooting and an unerringly steady hand. Though infantrymen do get some chances for this, most firefights occur at ranges of 50 ft. or less, in dense jungle that offers only a fleeting glimpse of the enemy. To hit so elusive a target requires "instinct shooting" of the highest order, and last week the U.S. Army was hard at work honing that instinct in its infantry trainees-using, of all things, Daisy BB guns...