May-June 2013 1 2 Women&Guns Women&Guns May-June 2013 Volume 24, Number 3 On theCover A SIG P290 is part of a discussion of carry pistols. And, yes, the evaluator on the cover is wearing hearing protection! Story by Bob Campbell, beginning on Page 14. Contents NEWS PAGE 6 New York’s SAFE Act has some rough going; a new video campaign promotes equal rights for gunowners. DEFENSIVE STRATEGIES PAGE 10 A road rage incident sparks a conversation on displaying a carry gun. By Lyn Bates. LEARNING to COMPETE PAGE 12 A new column series follows a writer on the road to the Bianchi Cup. By Cherie Jones. RIMFIRE RESURGENCE PAGE 18 The venerable .22 LR makes a comeback across the country, fueled by economics and fun. By Carolee Anita Boyles. NEW SHOOTERS PAGE 22 A college-aged woman helps Taurus reach out to young shooters via new media. By Diane Walls. PROJECT APPLESEED PAGE 26 With roots in the Revolutionary War, Project Appleseed aims to train marksmen and women. By Oleg Volk. LIGHTS PAGE 30 A new company is offering some flashlights that quickly become the author’s favorites. By Roger Lanny. LEGALLY SPEAKING PAGE 32 Looking back on decades of gun control. By Karen MacNutt. MAKING a DIFFERENCE PAGE 36 There are two sides to almost everything—including activism. By Genie Jennings. RESOURCE DIRECTORY PAGE 42 FROM the EDITOR PAGE 44 A serendipitous confluence of features. By Peggy Tartaro. OUTREACH PAGE 47 The Mule Dear Foundation reaches out to youth. May-June 2013 3 Women&Guns www.womenandguns.com PO Box 35 Buffalo, NY 14205-0035 Letters Ph. (716) 885-6408 Fax (716) 884-4471 Email [email protected] Quick Study JULIANNE VERSNEL GOTTLIEB My wife and daughter are very interested in Publisher keeping safe. PEGGY TARTARO I have studied your magazine and feel it has a lot Executive Editor of merit. It is a good read and I believe both will Contributing Editors enjoy and study your work. 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Lanny and W&G apologize for Opinions expressed by authors herein are not necessarily those the oversight. of Women & Guns or the Second Amendment Foundation. 4 Women&Guns May-June 2013 5 Women&Guns News New Federal Lawsuit, VA Latest Challenges to New York SAFE Act By Women & Guns staff capacity to seven rounds, This latest suit was filed even as requires background checks for it appeared that Cuomo and the The New York State Rifle and ammunition sales and reporting to state legislature were backing down Pistol Association (NYSRPA) and authorities about large purchases slightly on the 10-round magazine the National Rifle Association of ammunition, and requires ban as part of a new state budget (NRA) have filed a lawsuit in mental health professionals package. Acknowledging that federal court, adding another dimension to the legal challenges to the state’s hastily enacted Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement (SAFE) Act. The lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Western District of New York in Buffalo, names as defendants, New York Gov. Mario Cuomo, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, State Police Commissioner Joseph A. D’Amico, Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita and Lancaster Police Chief Gerald J. Gill. NYSRPA and NRA are joined in the action by the Westchester County Firearms Owners Association, Sportsmen’s Association for Firearms Education, New York State Amateur Trapshooting Association, Bedell Custom, Beikirch Ammunition Almost half of the counties’ legislatures in New York state have passed non-binding resolutions calling for repeal or revision of Corporation, Blueline Tactical & the SAF Act, and resolutions are pending in many more. Counties Police Supply, and three individual shown in white have not proposed action yet. Details and updates citizens. are available online at nysaferesolutions.com. The complaint seeks to permanently enjoin New York to report to the state patients manufacturers do not make the officials from enforcing the law. they may consider dangerous seven-round magazines imposed Cuomo pushed the package to themselves or others. It also by the SAFE Act, and are unlikely through the legislature in Albany bans so-called assault weapons, to do so only for New York, in mid-January as an emergency including rifles, handguns and Cuomo and Senate and Assembly measure without hearings or shotguns that, according to the public comment, the lawsuit NRA, are in common use all over SAFE Act notes. The law limits magazine the country. Continued on Page 40 6 Women&Guns Background Check Surge Continues For 4th Straight Month By Dave Workman, The NSSF reported that the days and weeks for background Contributing Editor “NSSF-adjusted” background checks have all occurred during The surge in background check figure for February Obama’s presidency. checks, suggesting continued was 1,634,309, an increase of Since November 1998, strong sales of firearms at retail 29.1% over the February 2012 according to FBI figures more gun shops, continued in February checks. Yet NSSF noted that the than 165,279,535 background as more than 2 million check “unadjusted” February number checks have been completed. requests were submitted to the was 2,298,561, a discrepancy of While the NICS figures do National Instant Check System 832 checks between its numbers not represent the total number (NICS). and the NICS figures. of firearms transactions, the data According to CNS News, It began in November 2012 does suggest that gun control December set a record with when 2,006,919 NICS checks groups face an uphill battle in 2,783,765 background checks. were conducted and the “Black their attempt to push so-called January came in second with Friday” gun sales broke a record. “common-sense solutions to 2,495,440 checks and February— Since the NICS system went on reduce gun violence.” with three fewer days—saw line, only four months have seen NSSF issues monthly reports 2,309,393 background checks, more than 2 million checks, and on background checks using making it the third busiest month they all happened after Barack “adjusted” data, and the numbers on record since checks began in Obama was re-elected last fall. News November 1998. CNS News noted that the ten top Continued on Page 37 May-June 2013 7 Senate Judiciary Panel Approves Feinstein ‘Assault Weapon’ Ban Bill By Dave Workman, abiding citizens, politicians like asked, “for Congress to engage Contributing Editor Sen. Feinstein are perpetuating a in the same endeavor that we myth that firearms cause crime. are contemplating doing to the Anti-gun California Sen. That’s as foolish as believing that Second Amendment, in the Dianne Feinstein’s measure to cars cause drunk driving.” context of the First or Fourth permanently ban so-called assault Gottlieb, who is attending Amendment?” weapons was passed by the Senate the Conservative Political “It’s fine you want to lecture me Judiciary Committee on a strict Action Conference (CPAC) in on the Constitution, I appreciate party-line vote, rekindling public Washington, DC, added, “Public it,” Feinstein bristled. “Just know debate over the ownership of policy and constitutional rights that I’ve been here a long time, semi-auto sporting rifles and the should not be subject to the I’ve passed a number of bills, magazines designed for them.