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A Salem County man was arrested on charges he opened fire with a rifle in Pennsville Township on New Year’s Day, damaging three homes and a parked vehicle, police reported. Jesus Morales, 33, of Pennsville, told police he was involved in a physical altercation on Harvard Road early Tuesday morning and that he fired an AR-15 rifle at a vehicle as it fled the area. No injuries were reported.

Looking at the pics coming in from the Boston bomber manhunt I see all these LEOs bristling with high-capacity-mag, “assault weapon” looking rifles (wonder how many are full-auto?), bad-ass shotguns, scary black pistols. For two guys … well, one now. (None now. Good show LEOs.) Thing is, I don’t begrudge the city of Boston a single round. The LEOs, God bless ‘em, aren’t taking any chances. But then why should you? Why should you be held to 7 rounds? Or 10. Or any arbitrary number. Who needs 30-round mags? “…legions of heavily armed police” felt like they needed them …...

Senator Dianne Feinstein's latest divide-and-conquer attack on the Second Amendment has made even Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) a sucker for the argument that private citizens do not need high-capacity magazines. These include not only 30-round rifle magazines, but 17-round magazines for handguns like the Glock. Why does anybody need a high capacity magazine? If Senator Manchin were to educate himself by, for example, attending Front Sight's four-day defensive handgun class, he would learn the two primary answers: (1) Failure to stop the aggressor, and (2) Multiple aggressors Failure to Stop The classic .38 caliber revolver, with a capacity of six...