The Truth About Guns
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P320 Entry: A Gun-Lover’s Intro to Anime and Manga
By bigred2989 For a country with some of the strictest gun laws in the world, Japan’s people don’t seem to have a problem with its media showing gratuitous violence (and scantily clad high school girls) on a regular basis. Over ... Read More
Wild-Ass Rumor of the Day: ATK to Buy STI
Far be it from us to spread every stray bit of hearsay that’s thrown over the transom, but someone in the retail gun business for whom we have high regard — someone who is not only trustworthy but cheerful, thrifty, ... Read More
Assembling a Gun in Occupied Poland
This story is purely anecdotal. It was told to me by the principle participant about his actions during WWII when he was a teenager/young man in Nazi occupied Poland. I believed him when he told it to me; I still ... Read More
P320 Entry: Teach Your Children Well
By Jacob Stevens It is a warm summer afternoon in the back woods of North Carolina. A row of tin cans sit in front of a huge pecan tree, and an eight year old boy bombards the cans from 15 ... Read More
It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use: Wossamotta U? Edition
“An angry moose attacked and injured two women as they walked their dogs near a Gilpin County [Colorado] subdivision Sunday,” grandviewoutdoors.com reports. “The Gilpin County Sheriff’s Office says the women were walking on a trail when they were kicked by ... Read More
P320 Entry: .410 Handgun Ammo Showdown
By Kurt Shipman Shopping for ammo isn’t like anything else, as in you don’t get to try it on or try it out to see if you like it. So testing and evaluation is critical before committing to spending lots ... Read More
Harvard Shrink: Don’t Look at Us. Arm Yourself Against Crazies
“More money for mental health won’t stop these mass murderers,” former Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Dr. Arthur Berg and pro-gun academic John Lott declare in a New York Post editorial, Why psychiatrists can’t stop mass killings. Their logic is ... Read More
Question of the Day: Do You Carry a Back-up Gun? Why Not?
“With its relatively low ammunition capacity and not-a-revolver-not-an-auto-loader design, this lightweight, three-inch double-barreled handgun really has only one purpose in mind: punish your hand like a psychotic school marm wielding an aircraft grade aluminum ruler.” Just kidding. The stated singular purpose: ... Read More
Gun Review: Heckler & Koch HK416
The venerable M16 rifle is a design so old that it qualifies for AARP membership. But nothing is perfect. In its fifty-plus years of U.S. military service, a few suggestions have been made as to how to improve on the ... Read More
P320 Entry: So You Want to Buy a Gun Safe…
By Don Leavitt Firearm ownership and firearm safety go hand in hand. Lots of attention is given the safe handling of firearms, but safe storage is often only given lip service. “Get a safe” is about as much as is ... Read More
PWS Releases their “Modern Musket” DI Rifle
PWS makes some amazing stuff. Their piston powered rifles are one of the only firearms to ever get a five star rating from me. I liked mine so much that I laid down cold hard cash to keep it in ... Read More
Quote of the Day: The Second Amendment Sucks Edition
“The Second Amendment is a miserably bad piece of writing. It is so vague that it could mean anything. Gun nuts assign it a meaning that they like and proclaim themselves infallible. Our forefathers mostly just ignored it and passed ... Read More
Daily Digest: Bookends Edition
Primary Weapons Systems is launching their Modern Musket series rifles with this high-production-value video, with the tagline “DI Done Right.” The Modern Musket ideal is not necessarily just theirs, it’s the general idea that the modern rifle platform, most popularly ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Gary Eugene Drake
There are few moments in a child’s life more memorable than learning to ride a bike with his father. It’s supposed to be a time of bonding and the first taste of freedom as he pedals down the street all ... Read More
Armourlite Watch Torture Test
Before my first divorce, I owned a collection of fine watches. After the divorce, two. Taking a Patek Phillipe or Blancpain to a gun range makes as much sense as taking a Ferrari F335B (also gone) off-roading. So I looked for something ... Read More
Rahm Emanuel Hates The Truth About Guns!
That’s a badge of honor we’d wear with particular pride. Well, we would, but The Godfather probably hasn’t read many of our gun reviews, let alone some of the fan mail we’ve written for his feckless police commissioner. Anyway, that’s the ... Read More
P320 Entry: Civilian Rules of Engagement
By Nathan Reed I will be turning 21 in a month and have decided to begin carrying concealed in my daily life. I know this is no small undertaking, and as such have been trying to nail down when I ... Read More
Winner of TTAG EDC T-Fit Ankle Holster Contest: 79Slider
Aside from the Batman camera angle, this picture is more than slightly queasy-making. The ankle rig in question – which belongs to TTAG reader 79Slider – takes a tough extraction issue and makes it tougher. You’ve got to get a grip on ... Read More
Rats from a Sinking Ship: AAC Exodus Begins
The official word came a few weeks back: AAC as we know it is closing shop. Remington fired just about all of the employees, and is moving production to their new factory in Alabama. Now we’re starting to see the ... Read More
Let’s Hope It’s a Defensive Gun Use: Anti-Terrorism Edition
“The suspected perpetrator of the May 24 on the Jewish Museum of Belgium [was] a young French Muslim, a veteran of a jihadi group fighting to topple the Assad regime in Syria,” haaretz.com reports. “Western intelligence services believe that more ... Read More