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Housekeeping: Last Chance for the TTAG Survey
Today is the last day to fill out the TTAG reader survey. We already have enough responses to be statistically significant, but just like any good statistician more responses can only mean good things. Go ahead and click that link ... Read More
Why Massachusetts Cops Oppose New Civilian Disarmament Bill
The Massachusetts Coalition of Police may not know how to Photoshop their logo onto a squad car, but there’s no question that they oppose Massachusetts Bill 4121, An Act relative to the reduction of gun violence. The NRA claims the bill would “empower ... Read More
Question of the Day: Is the Ruger 10/22 Takedown the World’s Best Survival Gun?
Survival knives I get. You want the biggest knife you can comfortably and perhaps discreetly carry that can do just about anything that won’t lose its edge. Survival guns are a trickier proposition. There are way too many survival scenarios ... Read More
Random Thoughts About Nighttime Home Defense
I didn’t want to go into the maze. The last time I’d entered Patriot Protection’s simulated house a simulated homeowner shot me with simulated ammunition that really, really hurt. By that point, I knew the training ground’s layout well enough. I also knew the chances ... Read More
New Planet of the Apes Movie Promotes Gun Control
“The ‘Apes’ franchise has always been a politically loaded one,” variety.com‘s review opines, “and this latest entry states its left-wing credo in ways both allegorically implicit and bluntly direct. (You’d have to be pretty obtuse to miss the pro-gun-control subtext ... Read More
Everything You Know About Firearms Training is Wrong
By John Perkins and Ari Kandel In the main, firearms training is little more than target shooting. More “advanced” courses teach students to “get off the X” and “find cover and concealment.” They offer courses on “firearms retention” and “close quarters ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Ya Think? Edition
“When a teacher combines a paranoid belief system, demonstrated mental instability, strong suicidal tendencies, repeated expeditions to purchase weapons, and expressions of homicidal desires, and when he refuses to give an honest account of why he wanted to purchase weapons, ... Read More
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: Ice-T’s Grandson Edition
The philly.com headline sure ain’t passive: Ice-T’s grandson arrested, accused of killing roommate. But the text soon lives up to our expectations of passivity when it ...
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: Pro Forma Edition
“Sharon Duvernay, who now wants to move, said she plans to buy guard dogs and update her security system as well as install cameras on all sides of her home. ‘We’re putting better lighting everywhere and we’re thinking about barb-wired ... Read More
Mass Killings, New Orleans, and the Mind of a Gun Grabber
TTAG reader CM writes: I’ve got a friend that believes in the 2nd amendment…but….she thinks people only “need” revolvers and bolt action rifles. To make matters worse, she spent a semester abroad in Australia and thinks that we should do ... Read More
Taurus Patents Body Contoured Handgun
TTAG reader GM admits, “I am a nerd and like to look at the USPO website. I came across this patent for a Body Contoured Handgun [Click here to read]. It looks like the future from Taurus may be a ... Read More
Chris Rock: Death Threats Made Me Shut Up About Gun Control
Comedian Chris Rock has gotten a lot of mileage out of his support for gun control. His routine on bullet control [click here to view] is more than somewhat legendary. In fact, both Chicago and Providence politicians took the idea and ... Read More
Listen Live: TTAG’s Nick Leghorn On the Radio with Kate Kruger
In about 30 minutes, I’ll be chatting with Kate Kruger on her radio show about guns and such. If you want to listen live click here, and I’m pretty sure we’ll be taking calls. I’ll pop the audio on the ... Read More
BREAKING: Gunman Shoots 9 on Bourbon Street, New Orleans
“A man opened fire on the popular Bourbon Street tourist area early Sunday morning striking nine people and critically injuring one woman,” nydailynews.com reports. “New Orleans police are investigating the incident that occurred at 2:45 a.m. A witness told the station ... Read More
Ohio Open Carriers Screw the Pooch
TTAG reader JME writes: “Growing up, this was one of the neighborhoods that I lived in. Apparently, an aspiring white hip-hop performer and three friends went for an OC rifle walk through a neighborhood while saying less than acceptable words. ... Read More
Google AdWords To Ban Ammo Ads. Maybe.
“Beginning in September, Google plans to block firearm, ammunition, and gun accessory ads,” breitbart.com reports, forgetting to mention the policy only affects Google AdWords. And that they’re proposed plans. Anyway, “According to Google Support’s Dangerous Products or Services page, the ... Read More
Quote of the Day: The Road to Damascus Edition
“This is when and where my pro-Second Amendment evolution began – about a year into my time on the street, seeing victim upon victim. All unarmed. All defenseless. I began to realize things would have been different had they been ... Read More
NRA Commentator Dom Raso Hearts Police Militarization. Again. Still.
TTAG reader JF writes: It seems NRA commentator Dom Raso just doesn’t get the pitfalls of up-arming every cop in America to the point where they could fight the Decepticons. He’s made a new video [above] where he acknowledges the ... Read More
Spree Killer’s Father’s Open Letter
It has been one month and three days since my son [Elliot Rodger, above] did the unthinkable. There has not been one conscious second that I haven’t been thinking about the pain and suffering he caused for so many. The ... Read More
ShootingTheBull410 .380 Ammo Quest, The Saga Continues! CorBon DPX 80gr
Never say never, right? Or is it, “never say die?” Or should it be, “never say that any particular ammo test is your final ammo test for any given caliber”… because even though ShootingTheBull410 wrapped up the .380 Ammo Quest several ... Read More