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While some on the right are having second thoughts about their support for Donald Trump (assuming they were ever behind him at all), the NRA isn’t amongst ’em. Chris Cox is out with an essay at cnn.com explaining why the … Read More

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John Browning’s 1911 is arguably the most iconic handgun of all time. Everyone knows what you’re talking about and can picture one in their head. A total of 2.7 million 1911s were made during its unprecedented 75-year-run as the standard … Read More

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As you may be aware, there’s an election going on. And as even Donald Trump recognizes, the outcome is of particular interest to the People of the Gun. Toward that end, our friends at the Nations Shooting Sports Foundation are … Read More

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TTAG commentator William Brown left this underneath our post Charles C. W. Cooke: The AR-15 Is The “Musket of Our Time”:

I am a retired career US Army infantry officer who saw service with the 82nd Airborne Division (The … Read More

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Ray Donovan is an awesome series (not the least reason being that he drives a Mercedes CLS). In the excerpt above, the Hollywood fixer is none-too-happy about his son’s firearms possession. He worries that a kid could find it. I … Read More

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I’ll tell you what could go wrong with a PIN-number-locked handgun: you wouldn’t be able to unlock it. What’s that you say? How could you fail to punch in a simple, say three-digit code when push came to ballistic shove? … Read More

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In the video above we learn that keeping one in the pipe (i.e., a cartridge in the chamber) is crucial to a gunfight when you’re out and about. What if you don’t have a gun? Well, that’s a problem. And … Read More

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Something remarkable happened at the beginning of the 20th Century. Semi-automatic magazine-fed handguns were still a fairly novel concept, but new designs were popping up constantly. This was the era that gave us such novel designs as the iconic American … Read More

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It’s a bit odd that this video fails to include [what I consider to be] the number one firearms-related Hollywood myth: when you shoot someone, they die virtually instantaneously. Unless, of course, it’s the good guy or the really bad … Read More

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If you believe American anti-gun agitprop, U.K. gun control laws are so effective the police don’t need to carry guns! Anyone who’s seen MP5-toting cops cruising Heathrow, The City or Buckingham Palace (to name a few) knows the reality doesn’t … Read More

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Revolt TV interviewed former U.S. Attorney, former Massachusetts governor and current Libertarian vice presidential candidate William Weld. Chief Political Correspondent Amrit Singh asked Weld about his views on guns. Specifically, whether or not people on the government’s secret, unaccountable Terrorist … Read More

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If someone told you the Springfield M1903, the gun carried by the thousands in World War I, wasn’t a bolt-action rifle but was instead an automatic pistol, you’d probably be confused.

Except that whole automatic pistol statement is 100% true. … Read More

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US Olympic shooters caught in political crossfire on guns [via bellinghamherald.com] would have you believe that our Olympic shooters face derision from their friends and society in general. While I don’t dispute the evidence presented, these athletes are hardly … Read More

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Basking in the cool relief provided by a newly installed central AC system, I found myself in a room pulling double duty as a combination office and gun room. I peered out the window of the newly constructed house at … Read More

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Last week’s winner was jwm. He’ll be picking out a brand new Black Arch holster for his carry gun. If you’d like one too, enter the best caption for this photo in the comments by Sunday at midnight. You’re welcome.… Read More

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TTAG commentator Dyspeptic Gunsmith writes:

The Ithaca 37 is one of the last pump guns made with an all-steel receiver and nice wood stock. They’re very well built. Some people don’t care for the loading/ejection out of the same port, … Read More

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Anti-gunners believe that all gun owners are, at the very least, potentially stupid. They believe a gun is an accident waiting to happen (save guns in the hands of the police but don’t get me started). Because people are stupid. … Read More

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Once a Gun Runner . . . The Real Story is former international arms dealer Efraim Diveroli’s memoir. Unlike War Dogs — the movie based on the twenty-something’s life — there’s nothing funny about Diveroli’s book. Not to put too … Read More

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By T. Logan Metesh

Patent infringement is an age-old problem, and the firearms industry is not immune to its troubles.

One of the most important design breakthroughs in terms of handgun development was the bored-through cylinder. In 1849, while working … Read More

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Rather than a pocket dump, bubba chose to submit the gear he keeps in his car. As he writes, “This is a small get home bag for you vehicle. It also has instant coffee, energy bars, and meds.” Not really … Read More

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