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How Old Are Americans When They Get Their First Gun?
By David Yamane
As the age at which American adults ought to be able to buy firearms is being discussed in the wake of Buffalo and Uvalde, I want to point to some data on the age at which Americans actually get their first guns.
TL:DR version . . .
(1) For respondents who say they currently or have ever owned a gun, the average age is 22.
(2) Men acquire their first gun at age 19 and women at age 27, on average.
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NY Governor: The New Gun Control Laws I Signed Are Just the Beginning
Seizing on the opportunity to ram new limits on Second Amendment rights into law — much the same as her predecessor did — New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed 10 new bills into law today. From Reuters . . .
The legislation, passed on Thursday by the state legislature, raises the age required to buy or possess a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21. New York already requires people to be 21 to possess a handgun.
The Reality of ‘Assault Weapons’ is Far Too Boring and Inconvenient for the Media
By Rob Morse
We’re hearing a lot of claims and counter-claims about modern sporting rifles right now. While these “modern” guns are more than half a century old, honest gun owners still buy and use them every day. Occasionally, criminals use them as well, but that’s rare. About one-out-of-eight gun owners have a modern sporting rifle today. And as we’d expect, rifles are used in armed defense situations about an eighth of the time.
Biden Uses Lies to Smear Anyone Who Opposes His Anti-Gun Agenda as Complicit in the Deaths of Children
[Biden] does not want to talk about the details of [the 1994 assault weapons ban], which would reveal that the category of firearms it targets is defined by functionally unimportant features such as folding stocks, pistol grips, and barrel shrouds. He does not want to address the basic problem with such laws: They leave untouched guns that fire the same ammunition at the same rate with the same muzzle velocity as the prohibited models.
Expanded Backgrund Checks Will Lead to Registration and Ultimately Confiscation
By Alan Gottlieb
In the wake of horrible shooting incidents in Buffalo, New York, Uvalde, Texas and Tulsa, Oklahoma, the gun prohibition lobby and their friends on Capitol Hill have resorted to the same rhetoric and brought out the same agenda they’ve been promoting for a long time.
Chief among items on the gun control wish list are “expanded background checks.” But the killers in Uvalde, Buffalo, and Tulsa all passed background checks for their guns.
There’s A Lot Biden Can Do Right Now About Gun Crimes, But He Doesn’t Want To
Right now, when the federal government finds out that a sale that should have been stopped has proceeded because of the time limit, it does — this part will not surprise you! — absolutely nothing. Somewhere in some subbasement somewhere in the bowels of Washington, some bureaucrat mutters to himself, “Well, that’s unfortunate.” And then nothing else happens.
These are sales for which people have filed the requisite paperwork at a licensed firearms dealer.
Good Guys With Guns: Defensive Gun Uses Soar in Chicago
Don’t look now, but Chicago is looking like it might be the defensive gun use DGU capital of the US. There have been at least forty-six Chicagoans who have used a gun since January 2021 to protect themselves. To put that number in perspective, HeyJackass pegs the number of officer-involved shootings as 30 in the same time period.
Keep in mind these are just the incidents I could find that made the news.
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Does Ukraine Value Gun Rights Enough to Remain Free if They Defeat the Russian Invasion?
By Cody Wisniewski
Nearly three months in, it’s tough to judge the overall state of Ukraine’s war with Russia. But there’s widespread agreement (and amazement), that Ukraine has defeated Russia’s initial effort to take Kyiv and topple the Ukrainian government. Much of Ukraine’s success in this regard has come from ordinary citizens bearing arms in defense of their country.
This is almost certainly the gun rights story of the year and possibly the decade—showing the world that the natural right of self-defense is an integral part of individual liberty and an essential check on tyranny.
Just Call 911: Escaped Convicted Contract Killer Murdered 5 Before Being Shot By Police
By Juan A. Lozano and Adrian Sainz, AP
Residents of Centerville had become more vigilant over the past three weeks as authorities searched for a murderer who had killed on behalf of Mexican drug cartels and who stabbed and injured the driver of a prison transport bus last month when he escaped custody not far from their small Texas town.
The search for Gonzalo Lopez, 46, ended late Thursday in a shootout about 220 miles (350 kilometers) away.
Gun Meme of the Day: Poor Ralphie Edition
The old man’s just trying to keep him safe.
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Gun Review: Lionheart Industries REGULUS Alpha Blackout 9mm
The REGULUS Alpha Blackout represents the latest generation of pistols from Lionheart Industries. The pistol’s design began life as the Daewoo DP-51 which, for a time, was imported to the US as the Lionheart LH9. Lionheart Industries made a series of improvements, modernizations, and enhancements and began producing guns entirely in the United States with the REGULUS Alpha and Beta models.
Those pistols, though, were absolutely beautiful. As an importer became a manufacturer, the cost was high and many found the price tag a bit steep to try a relatively unknown, boutique-grade pistol.
Common Use: Biden’s Bans Would Take Guns From 25 Million People, Magazines From 40 Million
By David Yamane
How many Americans own “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines”? The short answer is: no one really knows. And given increasing calls to ban them, including by President Joe Biden in his address to the nation last night, that’s probably for the best.
But knowing that ownership of AR-15 style rifles and magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition is widespread can also be an advantage to the cause of gun rights.
TTAG’s 2022 Father’s Day Gift Guide
Leupold Katmai Performance Eyewear Sunglasses with Polarized Lenses
Leupold performance eyewear is designed, machined, and assembled in the U.S.A. Whether you’re hitting the trail or sending rounds down range, our dedication to relentless performance won’t let you down.
Price = $121.57
SOG Terminus XR G10 Folding Pocket Knife
Whether you climb into treestands, climb mountains, or just carry your knife at work, this knife is for you.
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NY Legislature Votes to Raise Age to Buy Semi-Auto Rifles, More Gun Control Bills to Come
By Marina Villanueve, AP
New York’s legislature voted Thursday to ban anyone under age 21 from buying or possessing a semi-automatic rifle, a major change to state firearm laws pushed through less than three weeks after an 18-year-old used one of the guns to kill 10 people at a supermarket in Buffalo.
The bill raising the age limit is the most significant part of a package of gun control measures announced earlier this week by Democratic legislative leaders and Gov.
NRA: Biden’s Call to Ban Guns Isn’t Leadership and it Isn’t What America Needs
From the National Rifle Association . . .
The NRA is made up of millions of law-abiding men and women. We are parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, whose hearts break every time a crime is committed or tragedy occurs. We grieve with all of America, regardless of party or political affiliation because these are human tragedies, not political opportunities.
The National Rifle Association of America supports substantive policies and real solutions that will make a difference.
Hussain: AR-15 Rifles Are Meant to Decapitate and Dismember Targets
It cannot be emphasized enough, however, exactly what the AR-15 is: It is a weapon of war. It was made to blow humans apart. It is successful in doing just that. The requests for DNA tests in Uvalde stand as a testament to the gun’s success, but the conclusion that the weapon excelled at blowing people apart was well documented by the U.S. military itself during early field tests.
During the Vietnam War, the U.S.
Gun Review: BRG USA BRG9 Elite 9mm Pistol
Made by Burgu Metal of Turkey in the land of strong coffee and sketchy missile deals, Buffalo Cartridge Company of Ohio has released their BRG9 Elite to the American market. The BRG9 Elite follows the same theme as Buffalo Cartridge’s established ammunition line. It’s a reliable, solid, quality product at a very reasonable price.
For those of you currently shooting a popular European-made polymer-framed striker-fired 9mm pistol, the BRG9 Elite is going to look very familiar.
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How Many Deaths in Uvalde Were Caused By the Slowness and Slackness of Bureaucracy?
By Dan Sanchez
Why did they wait? That question must haunt the families of the nineteen children and two adults who were massacred in Uvalde, Texas last week in light of recent revelations about the police response.
Accounts of what happened have been shifting and inconsistent. But according to a timeline published by the Associated Press, while children were trapped with the killer in two adjoining classrooms, as many as nineteen armed officers waited in the hallway outside for over an hour before a rescue was finally executed.
CZ’s New 600 Trail: A Blend of Chassis Rifle Modularity With an AR
First announced last year, CZ showed off the new for 2022 CZ 600 Trail rifle last weekend in Houston. It’s a lightweight bolt action rifle that’s chambered in either .223 or 7.62×39.
The .223 model uses standard AR magazines while the 7.72 model takes CZ Bren 2 mags.
The 600 Trail Rifles have a suppressor-ready threaded cold hammer-forged barrel with ambidextrous magazine releases and Bren-style safeties.
Both versions of the CZ 600 trail rifle shrink to just over 27 inches with their 3-position stocks fully collapsed.