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  • University Medical Center nurses, who didn't want to be identified, visit a makeshift memorial for U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of the Jan. 8 mass shooting.  President Barack Obama attended, the "Together We Thrive: Tucson and America" later the same day.  Many struggle to understand the lenient attitudes toward guns in the Grand Canyon State, after the shooting Jan. 8 that killed six people and wounded 13, including Giffords.  Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old man accused of committing the crimes with a Glock 9 mm with an extended magazine, has been deemed mentally unfit to stand trial.
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  • Arizona has long been known as one of the most gun-friendly states in the union, with a reputation as a place where the right to keep and bear arms is not only respected but celebrated. And where guns are concerned, it has been getting even friendlier over the past few years as conservative legislators pursue an agenda that pushes new boundaries for gun-owner rights. Marshal Hartford, a.k.a. Warren Waite on the range at the Tombstone Livery Stable during the 4th Annual High Noon shooting event.  Single Action Shooting Society members adopt a shooting alias appropriate to a character or profession of the late 19th century and are required to compete with firearms typical of the Old West.  The competition is timed.  Shooters test their skills against steel targets set-up within a course of 12 stages.
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  • A .22 caliber bullet traveling at 1167 feet per second slices through a Arizona state flag card.  A 30,000 volt flash unit and chronometer custom built by Jasper Nance measures the speed of the bullet and calculates how long it will take to reach the target at a preset distance, the high speed flash then fires freezing the bullet. Cameras are setup on tripods, the shutters are opened for 13-seconds and the photographers quickly move to safety behind the firing line.  The weapon is fired and Nance’s equipment does the rest. The photos were taken at night.
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  • Rangemaster Ron Fielder works with Randy Rosencrans in the live Firebox simulator during the 5-day 260 Shotgun course at Gunsite Academy.  From the Gunsite course description: Effective out to and beyond 100 yards, the defensive shotgun’s flexibility and versatility demands a special set of manipulation skills, making it a “thinking person’s” weapons system.  When it comes to constitutional guarantees, Second Amendment champions see firearm ownership as “the first right” because it empowers citizens to defend all other rights.  And, in Arizona, that sense of self-reliance is particularly strong.
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  • Employees pick up shotgun shells on the Shotquad.  Gunsite Academy is the world’s oldest and largest firearms training facility.
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  • Gary Kohler takes aim at a target 200 yards out during the Long Range Rifle course at Gunsite Academy.  “There's different view of guns out here than there is back East,” said Bob Corbin, a former Arizona attorney general and Maricopa County attorney who served as National Rifle Association president in the early 1990s. “People who are here or come from the East are a different breed. Many are coming out to start a new life. It takes courage to do that, and a lot of people don't have it. They'd rather stay home and live with mother. Arizonans, I think, are different. We're more for freedom.”
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  • Show attendees shop for handguns at the Western Collectibles & Firearms Gun Show held in Tim's Toyota Center. Guns are big business in Arizona, which has more than 1,200 federally licensed firearm dealers that sell more than 200,000 guns a year and is on track to set a gun-sales record this year. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives licenses more than 100 Arizona-based makers of guns and gun parts that employ more than 1,000 people.
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  • C.J. Siegfried, 10, went hunting for his first time at the Marvin Robbins Memorial Juniors Turkey Hunting Camp held at Camp Raymond Boy Scout Camp.  The camp was sponsored by the Mingus Mountain Longbeards.
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  • Tate Heinzerling, a Black and Associates Auctioneers Inc. ringman, spots a bid during the Western Americana High Noon's 21th Anniversary Auction.  The 45 Eley Colt Single Action Army sold for $3,000.00.  When the Colt Single Action Army revolver officially became Arizona's state gun on April 28, it was more than just a symbolic nod to the past.  State lawmakers who promoted and passed the measure made it clear that firearms are a part of the contemporary Arizona lifestyle, not to mention the state's politics and economy, as well as its legends and lore.
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  • Juliana Rodriguez fires her phaser at a base station during a match at Stratum Laser Tag.  Over 150 kids from the Boys & Girls Clubs of the East Valley's Compadre Branch played with the lasers on a recent field trip.
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  • Tiffany Webb has makeup applied by artist Caityn Vaughn at Canyon Lake.  Webb was photographed holding an FN M240B machine gun for the 2012 Coleman Tyler LLC calendar.
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