Ben Langlotz is a patent and trademark attorney with 24 years of experience working with the firearms industry. He is an author and educator intent on helping firearms business owners to navigate the minefields of patent and trademark law. Who better to offer some first rate advice about firearms nomenclature? Read on for Langlotz’s advice and learn how to keep yourself from sounding like an idiot when you write about firearms.
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Mistaken Labels and Terms – The Journalists’ Guide to Guns – SHARE THIS!
Published: September 11, 2014 { 66 comments }
Open carry advocate, ‘cop watcher’ speaks out about arrest
Published: September 10, 2014 { 25 comments }This past Saturday, three “cop watchers” were arrested while video recording Arlington police who were conducing a traffic stop, local media reports.
Rally held for gun store embattled with NY SAFE Act
Published: September 10, 2014 { 2 comments }Folks are rallying around Joseph Palumbo, the owner of the Albion Gun Store, who earlier this month was forced to turn over to New York State Police purchasing records of patrons who bought an AR-15 with a bullet button from his shop.
NSSF: #GUNVOTE this November
Published: September 5, 2014 { 0 comments }The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade association for the firearms and ammunition industry, has a simple but important message for you: #GUNVOTE.
Gun store turns over records to New York state police
Published: September 3, 2014 { 40 comments }Under the threat of a possible SWAT team raid, a gun shop owner in Albion, New York, turned over sales records to the state police last Friday.
Pro-gun advocates boycotting ‘No Guns Allowed’ businesses
Published: September 3, 2014 { 14 comments }A group of Indiana gun owners who value their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self-defense are actively boycotting businesses that display signs prohibiting concealed carry on the premises, local media reports.
Bloomberg donates $1 million to Washington State background check effort
Published: September 2, 2014 { 0 comments }Following in the footsteps of Bill Gates, Paul Allen and other well-heeled businessmen, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $1 million to a universal background check initiative in Washington state on Aug. 29.
Federal Judge: ‘CA 10-day waiting period unconstitutional’
Published: August 27, 2014 { 13 comments }Gun owners in The Golden State will no longer have to wait 10 days before being allowed to pick up a purchased weapon from a licensed dealer should a federal judge’s ruling hold up.
Gates donates $1 million to background check effort in Washington
Published: August 26, 2014 { 5 comments }Bill Gates donated $1 million to a universal background check campaign underway in Washington state.
Prof. David Kopel defends article, rejects claims of sexism
Published: August 26, 2014 { 9 comments }Did law professor and Second Amendment luminary David Kopel depict Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America founder Shannon Watts in a sexist manner in his article, entitled “Not Watts She Seems,” published in the September edition of America’s First Freedom, a National Rifle Association magazine?