The Truth About Guns

“Newtown happens every week in America. Every week we lose precious children to guns.” – Rev. Matthew Crebbin, US Passion for Guns Survives Newtown School Shooting [at voanews.com]

In the St. Louis Dispatch feature on TTAG’s managing editor Dan Zimmerman the writer went on a major tangent. He detailed the recent contretemps about an open carry demonstration outside a sparsely attended Moms Demand Action meeting at the Blue Mesa Grill in Arlington, Texas. That incident “inspired” Ms. Watts to use the term “gun bullies” to describe anyone whose communication isn’t to her liking. In other words, anyone who advocates gun rights, from the National Rifle Association to you. Yes you, gentle reader, are a gun bully because you want to stop gun control. To be fair, the

Your Lockdown of the Day™ for today is brought to you from Washington, D.C., where American University was locked down for about 85 minutes on Thursday evening. The security alert was prompted by a call from a student who saw a man wearing a holster on a university shuttle bus. No weapon was displayed, no threats were made, no crime was committed, and there were no arrests or injuries. In fact, it could not even be confirmed that the holster had a gun in it. Police have identified the man, and determined that he was an off-duty police officer. “See something, say something” is turning this country into a warren of panicky rabbits.

Matt writes: “Howdy, Just wanted to request a quick post directed at all your California readers who may or may not be aware that as of Jan. 1, 2014, the CA long gun registry comes into effect, making every single newly purchased lo

By Bill Frady

Saturday is the infamous first anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. MDA, MAIG, OFA, The Brady Campaign…all intend to reopen this scar on the American psyche, enflame emotions and once again demand “more ineffective” gun control. And they will fail. But that’s not the question we as gun owners and carriers are asking. What we need to do is very carefully deconstruct known facts and move forward. So, respectfully, I offer this for your consideration . . .

The Anomaly

Most school shootings are carried out by current students. Whether they were bullied, ignored or troubled, this is a historical fact. Adam Lanza, though, was, at least chronologically, an adult. All of his weapons were obtained legally by his mother in a state with highly res

After years of being told I’ve got a face made for radio, I’ll get a chance to prove it this Sunday. Kate Kreuger has kindly invited me to join her for a segment on her weekly pro-gun radio show, Talking Guns With Kate Krueger, and I can’t wait!

Kate is a firearms instructor and onetime Libertarian candidate for the United States Senate. She hosts a weekly radio talk show on 1100 KFNX, and Nick Leghorn also joined her on the air recently. She’s a huge supporter of self defense and liberty in all its forms, so we’ll be talking about knives as well as guns. She hosted

It’s not “gun reform.” It’s not even “gun control.” It’s civilian disarmament. The organizations lobbying to “strengthen gun regulations”—the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, the Campaign to Stop Gun Violence, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Americans for Responsible Solutions, etc.—want to strip Americans of their natural, civil and Constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms. Mother Jones provides more evidence (if evidence were needed) that these groups are gun grabbers with their summary of post-Newtown gun control laws: More Than Half of Americans Now Have Tougher Gun Laws. The article’s bullet point

Did you ever build a pinhole camera in grade school? That’s pretty much how I got my start in photography. Even a kid can make one because there’s no lens. Just a, er, pin-size hole in the front of a box that focuses a beam of light on a piece of photo paper in the back. And because the pinhole is so small, you get huge depth of field. Translation: virtually everything in front of the camera in focus. And that’s the principle behind the EyePal Peep Sight system. If you’re of a certain age and shoot with iron sights, chances are you have trouble keeping both your target and your sights in focus. And that’s the problem the EyePal is designed to remedy. For only $29.95. Press release after the jump . . .

ACTON, MA (December 2013) – The EyePal® Peep Sighting System, developed for the open-sight shooter, was designed and pat

Arapahoe County Sheriff says the shooter killed himself after shooting one student and wounding another. Fox 5 DC reports that one student is in critical condition after a shooter opened fire at the Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado.

The Arapahoe High School has a School Resource Officer: Deputy James Englert. More details and confirmation as it happens. Click here for real-time coverage from the local ABC affiliate.

News outlets have few details about a reported ‘active shooter’ situation developing at Arapahoe High School in Centennial, Colorado. Arapahoe HS is about five miles as the crow flies from Columbine High School, a detail which I’m sure will not be overlooked by some who will try to exploit this news for political gain. Two people are reported wounded at the 2,200-student high school, and no one was in custody as of 1:00 Mountain standard time. Check back for more details as they develop.

Tiger McKee [via tacticalwire.com] writes:

You would never leave home without your electronic “I-thing,” yet the majority of those who carry pistols never consider the need for a secondary or back-up pistol. Fights, especially defensive confrontations, never go as planned. You’re presented a unique problem. There’s a very short amount of time to come up with a solution and apply the skills necessary to solve the problem. Having a pistol is a good start. Having two pistols is even better . . .

A big reason for carrying a spare pistol -this applies to f

Grizzly Targets has encouraged me to be absolutely merciless to their line of laser-cut AR500 steel targets, and my secret inner vandal has been only too happy to oblige. Their newest product, the Trifecta triple gallery target, has proven to be just as indestructible as their other offerings. And much more challenging. Unless you’re shooting steel-core ammo or hypervelocity jacketed slugs, you’ll have an absolute blast connecting with not one but three reactive steel targets mounted to one easily-portable base.

Three Times The Target Plates!

The Trifecta uses three of the same 3/8″ AR500 hardened steel target plates that the AR-220 uses. The 14″ tall tar

“Some guys look at that and they start to get the heebie-jeebies,” Tom Gresham points out (1:49), pointing to his privates. Well, not really, but you get the point. So to speak. Personally, I have trouble with the idea of a gun aimed at the baby maker and family jewels. No matter how well covered the trigger. And while Rob assures us that the gun isn’t muzzling anything during presentation, I’m not sure that would be true at, say, a Victoria’s Secret after-party. Still I’ll give it a go (appendix carry) after your thoughts (about appendix carry)?

As the anniversary of the Newtown shooting approaches, the usual gun control advocacy organizations are gearing up their propaganda campaigns to try and convince us that guns make us less safe, and that the only “common sense” solution to the “gun violence epidemic” is gun control. But as we’ve proven time and again here on this website (and cataloged for you in our Gun Facts section), that’s just not the case. Every claim that gun control advocates make trying to link the existence of guns to violence falls flat on its face when you add a splash of context and some verified numbers. But in preparation for this weekend, I wanted to bring together some of those hard and fast facts, based on verified numbers from the U.S. government (rather than surveys or flawed studies), that illustrate the truth about guns and violence in the United States. This way you’ll have a single pos

The “background chatter” (as the NSA calls it) on gun control is ramping up ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Newtown massacre. Despite the inevitable bloody shirt waving, the antis’ exploitation of the tragedy isn’t moving the needle on the post-Newtown push for civilian disarmament. On Tuesday, Vice President Joe “Double Barrel” Biden met with families of Sandy Hook victims to announce that Uncle Sam will channel $100m into mental health services to commemorate the killing [paraphrasing]. While lamenting the lack of federal “gun reform,” the mainstream media is consoling itself with the reaction on the state level. Example gi

The headline above sits atop the dead tree version of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch profile of TTAG’s main man Dan Zimmerman. After a reader kvetched about the inherent anti-gun bias the Dispatch’s online editor dispatched it in favor of Olivette man the force behind TheTruthAboutGuns.com. I prefer the original. It’s more . . . Zimmermanesque. Either way, it’s clear that the Missouri newspaper—known for its anti-gun views

“It’s easier to get people to see that they don’t want something than that they don’t have a right to it. Focusing on the need rather than the right to own a gun, many may well conclude that for them a gun is more a danger than a protection. Those fewer guns will make for a safer country.” Gary Gutting, Who Needs a Gun? [at nytimes.com]

Received this recently from Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia: “Hi. I’m looking to buy knifes that would suit my Stoeger Shotgun please see attachments for details. Do you sell them and if so what price are they and do you ship to Newcastle area and I will pay all cost.” I (nicely) informed her we don’t sell knives, in fact don’t sell anything, and asked her permission to show you the photos, which she gave. Here ya go. Click for the full size glory, and make the jump for the other photo…

Gun buybacks are sad affairs for most people. They’re sad for the bored police officers who have to staff them, unless they get to cherry-pick the guns they want to keep for themselves, and they’re sad for deluded utopians who have convinced themselves that melting down replica 2-band muskets will prevent gang-bangers from killing each other on Oakland’s mean streets. Now a Bay Area anti-gun group is the latest to join the pity party, because their crowdfunding outreach hasn’t even raised half they money they need for a December 14th buyback in San Jose . . .

‘Gunbygun’ launched a gun buyback crowdfunding campaign with the goal of raising $10,000 by December 10th. But according to the