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We’re having a HOEDOWN at the Carson Mall this Saturday, November 14.
Try your shooting skill in our shooting gallery. Our Nerf guns will knock over a tin can or plastic bottle. Barrel racing for the young uns using a stick horse. Calf and steer roping. We have rope for the little ones, the pros will have to bring your own rope.
There's also:

Columbine. Blacksburg. Carson City. Sandy Hook. Aurora. Fort Hood. Nashville. Marysville. Charleston. Roseburg.
The list goes on a lot longer than this.

Whether a school, a mall or shopping center, military base, movie theater or a church, mass shootings seem to have become commonplace across America. Their occurrences are always shocking. The frequency alarming.
Instead of looking deeper into the reasons behind these killers’ actions, though, our society finds it easier to examine only skin deep and blame the weapons used to carry out their crimes.

The second suspect in a Sept. 19 armed robbery of Harbor Freight in Carson City has been arrested, according to the Carson City Sheriff's Office.
Kristafer Robinson, 37, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon after detectives met with him at the Carson City Sheriff's Office, said Lt. Brian Humphrey. On Saturday, detectives arrested Chase Henderson, 25, of Carson City on armed robbery charges, plus charges of being an ex-felon with a gun and three drug charges. Go here for the story on Henderson's arrest.

Carson City Sheriff’s Office detectives and the Special Enforcement Team arrested a 25-year-old man Saturday in connection with the Sept. 19 armed robbery of Harbor Freight in North Carson City.

Chase Henderson was taken into custody Saturday in the 100 block of Riley Circle. He faces charges of armed robbery and being a felon in possession of a gun, plus three felony drug-related charges, said Carson City Sheriff's Lt. Brian Humphrey.

A lot of people are asking themselves and the society in which we live this question hours after a fatal mass killing at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon.

I’m a native Oregonian, born and raised just an hour or two north of Roseburg. My parents called this mill city, situated between the North and South branches of the Umpqua River, home for a few years a decade back. I know the area fairly well. One of my favorite places to visit was Wildlife Safari just a few miles down the road in Winston.

Two were booked into jail Thursday on felony charges after officers responded to a vehicle reported stolen from a motel in the 2700 block of South Carson Street, a Carson City sheriff's deputy said.

Carson City sheriff’s deputies were called to a Mayflower Way home late Thursday after a domestic disturbance call involving an intoxicated man who allegedly threw a bread maker at his girlfriend and kicked a roommate’s cat.
What made matters tense was the reporting witnesses told dispatch and officers that the man had guns in the home and they were concerned he would use them.

A Carson City woman was arrested Thursday on felony drug charges after deputies found guns and 77 grams of marijuana inside a North Edmonds residence, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said. Another 25 grams were recovered from an earlier traffic stop.

In the wake of the shootings in Tennessee, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has requested military commanders be authorized to let service members carry personal firearms on base.He said he made the request in light of sever...

The Nevada Department of Public Safety honored its recipients of the 2014 employee awards Wednesday in Carson City. Here are the winners:

Happy Friday, Carson City. We made it through another week and are now rewarded with another beautiful summer weekend. There are some great musicians in town tonight. The first anniversary celebration at Living the Good Life features Toree McGee in her first Nevada appearance. Sassafras is proud to host Wake Eastman and his special brand of outlaw honky-tonk. Grab some laughs at the Carson Nugget: Comedy night welcomes Justin Berkman. Dancers will enjoy World Dance Open Floor at Comma Coffee or swing dance at Yaple’s ballroom.

FRIDAY:

• Industrial Art at the CCAI Gallery in the Courthouse: 885 E. Musser (8am-5pm)
• CCAI Exhibit: BRIC Art 5 at the BRIC: 108 E. Proctor St. (8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm)
• NAA Exhibit by artist Nancy Clarke at the Carson Visitor Center (8am-5pm)

Competitors from all around the country compete in western wear with single action revolvers for the title “The Fastest Gun Alive.”at the Churchill County Fairgrounds: 325 Sheckler Road Fallon, NV.

There will be Civil War Re-enactments, Cowboy Mounted Shooting, Nevada Gunslingers gun fight re-enactment, and over 40 food, clothing and craft vendors with live music on Saturday and Sunday.

Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. – 3 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Admission is $5, $4 for seniors and military, $3 kids ages 13-17. Under 13 are admitted free.

Nevada Assembly members have again approved a hot-button bill allowing concealed weapon permit holders to bring firearms onto college campuses. Assembly members voted 26-16 to approve AB487 on Friday. The measure now ...

Nevada lawmakers on Friday approved two separate gun bills that would allow concealed weapon permit holders to have firearms on college campuses and possess guns if they are foster parents....

The Nevada Senate gave final legislative approval Tuesday to a measure designed to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill....

A controversial bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Nevada college campuses was given a brief hearing in the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and could soon move to the full Assembly for a vote....

A bill to shield grade-school students from discipline for bringing tiny toy guns to school or nibbling their breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun received final legislative approval Friday....

A last ditch attempt to force Nevada college campuses to let people to carry guns to class was rejected by the Assembly on Thursday.Assemblyman Ira Hansen, R-sparks, tried to attach the “campus carry” language to SB17...

There is no school on Monday, May 11 for Carson High School freshmen, sophomores and juniors as the seniors will be presenting their senior project boards to community members.

CHS Speech and Debate will be holding several fundraisers to help cover the cost of the National Tournament this June in Dallas.

Blaine Shrader, 14, from the Mother Lode Gun Club of Sonora, Calif. lines up a shot during the California Youth Shotgun Shooting Association’s championship shootout at the Capitol City Gun Club in Carson City, Nev. on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Photo by Kevin Clifford/Nevada Photo Source

Major League Baseball scouts coming out to see highly touted right-handed pitcher Phil Bickford on Thursday saw a couple of other arms to focus their radar guns on in Henderson.

Western Nevada College sophomore right-hander Max Karnos allowed just one hit through the first six innings and sophomore reliever Connor Zwetsch threw 1 2/3 innings of hitless relief as the Wildcats nearly handed Bickford his second defeat of the season.

Laura Pradere, 13, will go into this weekend’s U.S Bird Dog Western States National Championships with the confidence of one championship already under her belt.
“I’m still kind of nervous,” she said, “but I think having one national title is an advantage.”

She won the youth division of the North American Gun Dog Association championship in Wiggins, Colo., last month. This competition will be in Mound House, just up the road from the Pradere Ranch in Dayton, where her family has lived for five generations.

A controversial bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry their guns on Nevada college campuses won approval in the Assembly on Monday and now goes to the Senate....

Elaine and I just returned from a mini vacation in Lone Pine, California, where we spent three days and two nights, having fun goofing off. The original purpose of our trip was to fish for trout in its nearby Diaz Lake, however those plans were reluctantly cancelled due to high winds.

Nevada college students are rallying against a proposal that would allow concealed guns on university campuses. Students at UNLV and UNR gathered on campus Wednesday to voice their opposition to AB 148. Students and professors ......

The Nevada Senate on Monday passed legislation prohibiting domestic violence abusers from possessing guns and making it easier for gun owners in other states to carry a concealed weapon in Nevada....

Despite opposition from Democrats, the Assembly Judiciary Committee today passed three gun bills, including one allowing people with ......

Nevada lawmakers heard hours of testimony on a deeply divisive bill that would allow concealed weapons at college campuses, K-12 schools, daycare centers and airports. The Assembly Committee on Judiciary heard testimo...

It’s the other Second Amendment debate dividing the Legislature. ​And it has nothing to do with guns. Two bills aiming to relax current knife laws are raising new questions about ......

A wide-ranging Nevada bill discussed Wednesday would bar people from owning a gun after a domestic violence conviction. But it also drew strident criticism for broadening the definition of justifiable homicide and exp...