The Truth About Guns
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Rock Hill, MD Home Invasion. What’s Wrong With This Picture?
I’m going on the bloggers’ equivalent of a two-week holiday. In other words, I’ll be blogging from a different location. While my kids sleep. Dan and the team will take up the slack – won’t you boys? And speaking of ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Thomas Mcguinness
Anyone [left] old enough to remember the National Lampoon magazine cover that warned “Buy this magazine or we’ll kill this dog?” To say it was polarizing would be like saying gun control is a slightly contentious issue. Personally? I thought it ... Read More
BREAKING: Remington to Replace All R51s
Were you as excited by the original announcement of the R51 as we were? Were you then equally as horrified that a company with the history and tradition of Remington would release a QC-free POS like that upon the gun-buying ... Read More
Media Spin Pennsylvania Doctor’s Defensive Gun Use
Don Natale writes: I was wondering how the press would spin the doctor DGU in Pennsylvania. Well today I found out, they’re reporting intentionally ambiguous headlines of the format, “Gunfight Erupts between Doctor and Patient, Why God, Why!”. From sfgate.com: ... Read More
Colorado Discovers the Truth About the “Gun Show Loophole”
Back in the day, TTAG fought a vigorous battle to debunk the “gun show loophole.” You may recall that everyone from the President of the United States on down bandied that term about, claiming that 40 percent of all firearms ... Read More
ZEISS Launches Smart Phone Ballistic Calculator App
Carl Zeiss Sports Optics apparently knows that I can’t balance a checkbook, never mind calculate all the variables that determine where my bullet will land when using a firearm equipped with one of their most excellent scopes. And while their web-based ... Read More
Philadelphia: $1.4 M Settlement on Licenses, Guns, and Procedures Revealed
The City of Philadelphia recently settled a class action lawsuit concerning people who had applied for a license to carry firearms (LTCF). While the city didn’t admit to any wrongdoing, they agreed to pay $1.4 million to plaintiffs and to ... Read More
Question of the Day: Moms Demand Action Denver Boot Camp…Suggestions?
Mom-entum. Cute. “10 more days Ladies!” Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America GA Chapter’s Facebook page proclaimed (on the 22nd). “We will be off to Denver for a weekend of serious training, and lots of fun. We will return ... Read More
Ammunition Review: RUAG 300 Winchester Magnum
RUAG is a new player to the ammunition game. Well, relatively speaking at least. Founded in 1998, the company has positioned itself as a high-quality ammunition manufacturer and a direct competitor to the likes of Hornady in the United States ... Read More
PRIME Club: Guaranteed Ammunition at a Fixed Price
Over the last few years, ammunition prices have been insane. Where 5.56 NATO used to be dirt cheap just a few short years back, ...
Obama Administration Loves Restrictions on Law Abiding Gun Owners. Criminals…Not So Much
“We have this irony. The Obama administration, which is asking for more in the way of gun regulations — in terms of increased background checks for private sales and at gun shows — is actually prosecuting less of the gun laws ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Yahoo Serious? Edition
“Gun company Beretta is tone deaf when it comes to calls for restrictions on powerful guns sold in the United States. It must be the chance to make money. Beretta’s website carried an announcement that the ARX100 is ‘shipping now.’ Beretta ... Read More
Obscure Object of Desire: World’s Longest Shotgun
TTAG reported on SilencerCo’s new shotgun silencer a couple of days ago. Pictures and videos of the Salvo 12 have hit the net today. The above demo by Top Shot competitor Chris Cheng doesn’t really tell us much about the noise ... Read More
Media Matters is a Holocaust Denier
“A new video commentary released by the NRA references the Holocaust and other instances of persecution to advance the baseless claim that ‘the government is collecting more and more gun registration data which could be used against gun owners in ... Read More
PA Hospital Shooting Update: On-Scene Cop Reports
A regular reader and PA police officer just sent us this email re: the shooting and defensive gun use at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pa: Just cleared the crime scene. I can not tell you the rage that myself and ... Read More
BREAKING: Armed Doctor Shoots and Stops PA Hospital Killer
“One female employee is dead and two are wounded in a shooting at the Wellness Center on the Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital campus,” myfoxphilly.com reports. “The shooting happened at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Wellness Center, which is across the street ... Read More
Lions and Guns in Nebraska
Animal attacks are not recorded as defensive gun uses in most surveys. They’re never recorded as justifiable homicides. Still, defensive uses of guns against animals occur frequently. I was surprised to learn of the number of mountain lions that have been ... Read More
Gear Review: Stealth Cam P12
When I was a much younger man, sixteen or so, my father invited a friend of his to go hunting at our ranch and assured him that I’d be his guide. I was very excited about the opportunity, but a ... Read More
This Is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: They Get Mauled by Bears
Bears kill less humans than bathtubs. Wikipedia’s List of fatal bear attacks in North America makes for unsettling reading (“Kammer was in his tent at Soda Butte Campground when a mother bear attacked and dragged him 25 feet (7.6 m) away”), but ... Read More