The Truth About Guns

By Have Dash

My teenage son’s entry into shooting sports began two years ago when my grandfather approached a cousin and asked him to pass down a vintage shotgun. This was noteworthy because my grandfather died in 1977.

Like many ghost stories, this one involves a dark and stormy night. I was driving home in the rain, thinking about a new 20-gauge I’d eyed a few days prior. It would be a great entry-level piece for my son who had been mentioning that his experience at Boy Scout camp got him interested in shooting.

Continue reading An Actual Dream Gun…My Grandfather’s Hand-Me-Down Shotgun at The Truth About Guns.

Professor David Yamane teaches a Sociology of Guns course at Wake Forest University. Part of the curriculum includes a trip to a shooting range for the class’s students. After the range trip, students are assigned to write an essay reflecting on the experience and Professor Yamane posts some of those at his blog. Here are the thoughts of a “self-identified ‘flaming liberal’” . . .

As I am reflecting and rereading this summary of my thoughts, it strikes me that I have never been socialized with guns in a context of non-violence.

Continue reading College Students Learn About American Society Through a Trip to a Gun Range at The Truth About Guns.

The transition from going to shooting a traditional weapon to a suppressed weapons was kinda like finding Christ, I guess. 

That’s the proclamation of farmer Chase in SilencerCo’s latest video profile of American gun owners. You may not have a born-again experience the first time you shoot a suppressed rifle, but there’s no question that you’ll never want to go back once you do.

SilencerCo’s American Gun series of videos are beautifully produced and worth your time whether you’re in the market for a can or not.

Continue reading American Gun: Shooting a Suppressed Firearm is Like Finding Religion at The Truth About Guns.

From Walker’s . . .

Walker’s, the leader in hearing protection and enhancement, announces the release of the company’s most ergonomic electronic sound management system yet for shooters and hunters. ATACS Sport Earbuds delivers the state-of-the-art performance serious shooters demand in a platform designed to excel in all-day comfort and operational convenience.

Increasingly, professional shooters, recreational shooters, and hunters are favoring the comfort and digital control of earbud-style sound management systems to protect their hearing and to amplify and discern ambient sound.

Continue reading Walker’s New ATACS Sport Earbuds for Shooters and Hunters at The Truth About Guns.

By James Anderson, AP

A judge on Friday sentenced a former student to life in prison without parole for a 2019 shooting inside a suburban Denver high school that killed one teenager and injured eight others, telling the defendant he had shown no remorse and had failed to help a devastated community understand his actions.

Devon Erickson, now 20, was convicted in June of 46 charges, including first-degree murder in the death of Kendrick Castillo, an 18-year-old senior hailed as a hero for trying to stop the attack on a classroom at STEM School Highlands Ranch, south of Denver.

Continue reading Denver STEM School Shooter Sentenced to Life Without Parole at The Truth About Guns.

To be fair, he only survived because he was busy getting arrested while visiting Nelson Mandela on his way back from almost moving to Idaho after he visited the Tree of Life synagogue to inform them of how he finished top of his class in law school before he lost a son who served in the military.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: It Fits The Pattern Edition at The Truth About Guns.

Facts presented simply and clearly probably won’t make an impression on shrill hoplophobic harridans or pesky gun prohibitionists. But who knows? Maybe you’ll find this presentation useful for your fence-sitting neighbor or ignorant brother-in-law.

It could happen!

On this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Bob, Seamus, and Rob civilly discuss gun control as they fend off a savage horde of mutant boars: Are guns useful for self-defense? Is gun violence declining?

Continue reading VIDEO: A Few Facts About Guns For the Firearm Averse at The Truth About Guns.

From the CCRKBA

A report in the Wall Street Journal showing that nearly half of all new gun buyers since January 2019 are women is not surprising, considering efforts to defund police agencies, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

The WSJ report on the 2021 National Firearms Survey notes approximately 3.5 million women and 4 million men bought guns for the first time between 2019 and April of this year.

Continue reading Gun Prohibition Nightmare: Half of Gun Buyers Since 2019 Are Women at The Truth About Guns.

Dan and I are currently leaving Gunsite Academy after two days (and one night) shooting and training with Crimson Trace’s new RAD — Rapid Aiming Dot — line of reflex style red dot sights, which will be hitting shelves soon. With basic and Pro models in three sizes, the RAD line has you covered from micro-compact pistols up to rifles and shotguns.

This is not a review.

Continue reading Sneak Peek: Crimson Trace RAD Rapid Aiming Dots Launch at The Truth About Guns.

By Lee Williams

Ashbel C. “Ash” Williams Jr., has the financial wellbeing of Florida’s public employees in his hands.

Williams serves as executive director and chief investment officer of the Florida State Board of Administration in Tallahassee, which oversees more than $250 billion in assets, including the nearly $2 billion Florida Retirement System – the state’s public employee pension fund.

On Nov. 14, 2018, for reasons known only to him, Williams signed an agreement known as the Principles for a Responsible Civilian Firearms Industry, on behalf of the State of Florida.

Continue reading Florida’s Pension Fund Adopted Anti-Gun Policies With Rick Scott’s Blessing at The Truth About Guns.

I do not think that ad means what you think it means. Bonus Princess Bride-themed meme: I made this one just ahead of the 2020 election:

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Classic Blunder Edition at The Truth About Guns.

Shield Sights’ SMS and RMS lines are the most compact reflex sights on the market, which makes them perfect for sub-compact and micro-compact pistols. In fact, the mounting pattern — the “footprint” — of these sights has become an industry standard that is used by many other optic manufacturers for their smallest reflex style pistol-focused red dot optics, but there has been come market confusion as to what this footprint should be called and where it comes from.

Continue reading Statement About Shield Sights Footprint By CEO James White at The Truth About Guns.

By Larry Keane

There’s an interesting shift concerning Americans’ attitudes toward guns and gun control. Pew Research Center, a Washington, D.C. think tank that tracks attitudes on social issues, public opinion and demographic trends updated their research on guns.

Gun ownership is rising and the appetite for gun control is waning at the same time. Background checks for gun sales topped 21 million in 2020, shattering previous records. So far, 2021 has seen over 12.4 million background checks, on pace for what could be the second strongest year on record.

Continue reading Gun Grabbers’ Lament: More Americans Than Ever Are Deciding That Owning a Gun is a Very Good Idea at The Truth About Guns.

While COVID hasn’t exactly brought a lot of positive developments for many of us personally or to the nation or globe as a whole, one thing that’s absolutely fantastic for the 2A community is the massive influx of first-time gun owners. Better, still, is the fact that so many of these new firearm owners are women, minorities, and other folks of a not OFWG background.

The new ARMME app is intended to create a community geared heavily toward these new gun owners and, hopefully, future Second Amendment supporters and defenders.

Continue reading New ARMME App Provides A Community For Gun Owners Without The Social Media Censorship at The Truth About Guns.

My home defense strategy? Shock and awe.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Shock And Awe Edition at The Truth About Guns.

A former Everytown for Gun Safety employee took to Glassdoor — a website where current and former employees can anonymously rate and review employers — to warn people to stay away from the gun control organization.

According to the review, left on July 30, 2021, working for Everytown was “similar to being in an abusive relationship.” What’s worse is the review comes from someone who worked in a domestic violence and sexual assault crisis center.

Continue reading Ex Everytown Employee: Working There Was ‘Like Being In an Abusive Relationship’ at The Truth About Guns.

From Beretta USA . . .

Beretta USA is excited to announce the launch of the new M9A4, the newest model in the venerable M9 series of pistols. Built to exceed the standards of even the most demanding tactical shooters, the M9A4 blends the proven design of the M9 with modern features such as a red-dot optic compatible slide and dovetailed tritium night sights for optimal sight options, an enhanced short reset Xtreme Trigger System, an 18-round magazine, and a Beretta Vertec frame with included aggressively textured Vertec-style thin grips that ensure a more natural fit for all shooters.

Continue reading Beretta Launches the New M9A4 9mm Pistol at The Truth About Guns.

Good dry fire gadgets are well worth their initial cost. Things like the Mantis X10 aren’t cheap, but they provide a ton of training capabilities, even when the upfront cost seems rather high.

Revolutionizing dry fire isn’t easy to do, but occasionally someone finds a way. Today we are talking about the DryFireMag from a company called, well, DryFireMag.

Those of us who are part of the DA/SA master life know not the troubles striker fire pistol owners face when it comes to dry fire.

Continue reading Things That Don’t Suck: The DryFireMag at The Truth About Guns.

By Lee Williams

For American gun owners, one of the major problems with the legacy media controlling the national narrative is that their fellow leftists are never held accountable for what they say, regardless of how libelous, insulting and flat-out wrong their comments are.

If a falsehood — even a whopper of a lie — fits their personal political views, the media will never question what is said. They’ll even promulgate the lie by repeating it in news stories and social media, which results in the statement being regurgitated so often it becomes accepted as fact by the uninformed.

Continue reading Gabby Giffords: America’s Gun Owners Are Insurrectionists and a Threat to Democracy at The Truth About Guns.

My head would snap clean off if I flip-flopped as hard as the ATF does when they approve, rescind, pass, refine, rescind, clarify…then change their mind all over again on their extra-judicial determinations of gun product legality.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow Edition at The Truth About Guns.