The Truth About Guns
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Updated: 5 days 18 hours ago
Thank You For Not Carrying?
First, here’s the official version of the story via ksl.com: “A woman was arrested Wednesday after hitting a vehicle with a tire iron and attempting to rob two men, police said. The incident occurred around 9:45 a.m. at Yankee Meadows ... Read More
Quote of the Day: They’re Laughing With You Edition
“We are not going to be marching through 5th Ward, we’re going to hopefully be marching with 5th Ward.” – Open Carry Texas Founder CJ Grisham quoted in Open Carry Texas Schedules New Date For Armed March Through Black Neighborhood [via politicususa.com]
BREAKING: CA Gov. Brown Bans More Handguns By Signing AB 1964
Press release from CAL_FFL: Gov. Jerry Brown Signs New Handgun Ban AB 1964 Democrat-authored Assembly Bill 1964 will further criminalize the sale of handguns to law-abiding, background-checked Californians. ROSEVILLE, CA (July 18, 2014) — In a Legislative Update issued earlier today, California Governor ... Read More
Personal Defense Tip: Don’t Shoot Blanks
Sadie Bell isn’t really someone you want to disappoint. The 58-year-old from Southfield, Michigan was just convicted of assault with intent to do great bodily harm for shooting her long-time lover over a case of insufficient semen production. That’s right, Bell ... Read More
Illinois Police Announce Rule Changes for Concealed Carry
The Illinois State Police have come under a lot of pressure as the magnitude of the lawsuits they are facing under the concealed carry license procedures has become known. Even the old media in Illinois have been complaining that the ... Read More
Women Gun Owners Are the New OWFGs
God bless John Lott. We on the pro-gun side of the fence need to arm ourselves with facts with which to defend our natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. And by God, John Lott’s got ... Read More
TTAG Reaches New Page View Milestone
In days gone by, TTAG’s biggest readership days always happened during the SHOT Show. It was like clockwork. Members of the Armed Intelligentsia huddled around their screens, wearing out their F5 keys for the skinny on the latest and greatest ... Read More
Bloomberg Group Releases “Report” on Mass Shootings
Michael Bloomberg’s personally-funded gun control group, Everytown for Gun Safety (hereafter referred to as EGS for carpel tunnel avoidance purposes) released a “report” yesterday that sought to prove, once and for all, that guns are bad and the “reasonable” restrictions push ... Read More
Man With Shotgun Stops Attack, Attackers Call Police
Florida recently passed a law making it harder to prosecute people who defend themselves with firearms. The law builds on a trend started with an Arizona law that codified the defensive display of a firearm as legal. The Arizona law had been ... Read More
Austin Food Trucks at Texas International Firearms Festival [Sponsored Content]
Hey Sharp Shots! Kirsten Joy Weiss here with an update on the Texas International Firearms Festival at Best of the West Shooting Sports in Austin, Texas on November 8 and 9. After you get done shooting guns from FN, GLOCK, Taurus, ... Read More
Question of the Day: Could You Shoot This Target From 1 Mile Away?
The above Target is Moving target – which isn’t moving (unless you’re reading this at sea) – stands 16″ tall from the exposed bottom of the tip. The round bit at the top has a six inch diameter. TIM owner ... Read More
IL Dem Proposes Ban on Guns for Kids, Cartoon Mascots
As we learned with TTAG’s reader survey, the vast majority of gun owners take their first shots before the age of 11. Passing down the wonders of shooting sports from one generation to the next is a cherished American tradition, and ... Read More
Incendiary Image of the Day: New York Post Cache as Catch Can Edition
Cops find cache of guns and heroin in storage locker nypost.com proclaims. “They were prepping for a different kind of storage war,” the lead asserts, making a pun while unintentionally drawing attention to the pathetic nature of the gun “cache.” “Police ... Read More
Random Thoughts About Booger Hooks and Bang Switches
Gun Guys author and TTAGonist Dan Baum is setting-up a new gun safety organization. No really. Gun safety. Not gun control. His group will urge Americans to lock-up their guns (when not on body) and teach all family members the four ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Episode About Something Editon
“I was a gunnery officer in the United States Navy. Guns aren’t funny.” ‘Seinfeld’ producer Tom Cherones quoted in There’s a lost ‘Seinfeld’ episode, and it’s about guns [at azcentral.com]
.45 vs 9-foot Brown Bear
Many people claim that handguns are useless for protection against bears. Numerous examples have shown that this is a false notion. Handguns may not be ideal as defensive weapons for bears, but they can be effective. In a defensive situation, ... Read More
Incendiary Video of the Day: Hip-Hop Against Gun & Gang Violence Edition
“Violent hip-hop generally falls into three distinct categories,” Robbie Etelson writes at complex.com, under the headline The 25 Most Violent Rap Songs of All Time. Those categories are: “gun clapping, physical beating, or slasher flick-style horrorcore songs. M.O.P., Grand Daddy I.U. and Big L prefer ... Read More
Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson Takes Texas CHL Class
[NOTE: There will be a comprehension test after this post] On Sunday I took a field trip to Red’s South in West Austin to sit in a concealed carry instruction class with seven fellow citizens. After wandering to a clapboard ... Read More
Mexico’s Citizen Militias Continue Fight for Self-Defense
I call them “citizen militias. Members and supporters call them “autodefensas.” America’s mainstream media calls them “vigilantes.” Wikipedia calls them “paramilitaries.” The Mexican government calls them “the enemy.” Not because the citizens who’ve taken-up arms against cartel rape, torture, murder, extortion ... Read More