The Truth About Guns

The Taurus Judge has certainly been controversial, but it’s also been extremely popular — so popular, in fact, that ammo manufacturers have been making customized loads specifically for it (well, it and the Smith & Wesson Governor). In this video, ShootingTheBull410 tests one of these custom-tailored Judge loads, the Lehigh Defense Maximum Expansion in .45 Colt. It’s a weird-looking bullet that expands to massive dimensions, looking more like a ninja throwing star than a hollowpoint. If you like the idea of a bullet that expands to nearly two inches in diameter, check out the video.

Imagine that you’re on a nearly-empty rural bus at night, driving through the mountains. One of the passengers pulls out a knife and stabs another other in the chest. Now he’s coming for you. What’s your next move? If you’ve been disarmed because you live in Norway, your next move is “die.” DGU’s aren’t allowed in nanny-welfare-state Western Europe. Then again, neither is the knife in your killer’s hand. That should make you feel at least a little bit better, right?

Make the jump to The Truth About Knives for the full story.

By Alan Brooks

Back in April the NRA-sponsored National School Shield Task Force released its report on the best defenses against school shootings. Not surprisingly, their solutions centered on School Resource Officers and armed teachers. This also fits with the data collected by TTAG. And even the Obama administration has bought in. At least a little. Still, some school districts have balked at the idea of additional guns in their “gun free zones.” Even in the pro-gun utopia that is Texas there are

“I wouldn’t expect a teacher to be prepared to use a gun for the same reason I wouldn’t expect a police officer to teach advanced chemistry.” - Sam Chapman quoted in Rattled St. Helens residents criticize school board’s lifting of gun ban [via

After receiving millions of dollars in support from gun control groups, Terry McAuliffe has officially been elected to the governor’s chair in the state of Virginia. Despite his opponent Ken Cuccinelli leading in the early results tonight, the heavily Democratic counties in Fairfax and Alexandria have tipped the scales enough in his favor to win. The race tonight was extremely close, and there’s little doubt that recent events nearly put Cuccinelli over the top, but rest assured that the gun control advocates who invested in McAuliffe will parade their victory as if it were a unanimous vote.

The whole point for Bloomberg and Watts was to use the “sure thing” of McAuliffe’s election to boost

The latest salvo in the efforts of gun manufacturers to turn themselves into “lifestyle brands” comes from GASTON J. GLOCK style LP, who introduced their leather undershirt and long underwear recently. The (apparently) buttery soft goat leather is “tanned in the 6,000 year old traditional, natural German tanning technique used by hunters of the past,” and is indestructible, temperature regulating and extremely skin-friendly. $329 for the undershirt and $369 for the long underwear from GASTON J. GLOCK style LP.

Another example of government entities being forced into doing the right (read: legal) thing comes from Sea

The Virginia gubernatorial race is the most important for the people of the gun tonight. Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe has been heavily endorsed by Michael Bloomberg and Moms Demand Action, as well as other gun control advocacy groups, pumping millions of dollars into his campaign and running misleading and false advertising all over the state. And yet, here we are on election night, and with 76% of the districts reporting in, Republican candidate Ken Cucinelli has a three point lead. We will keep you guys updated as the results come in, but what was a 15 point lead for the Democrat appears to have disintegrated nearly overnight. Bloomberg and MDA expected this to be a huge win for them tonight, but it isn’t shaping up quite the way they hoped. Again.

I get that gunplay is playing around with guns. I also know there’s no such thing as The Four Rules of Comedy. But I’m sick to death of Hollywood doubling up on heros’ handguns. I’ve tried the fists full of firearms technique. It sucks. Not only do you have to worry about sympathetic fire (when you squeeze one trigger you want to squeeze the other) but your brain gets confused about which gun is recoiling when. Unless you’re shooting two people point blank, the two-hands-’o-gun method is the ballistic equivalent of a stupid pet trick. If that’s the way you want to go, Mr. Producer, how about a double-barreled .45? Come to think of it, why not two of them at the same time? D’oh!

The SIG SAUER 556R is one hell of a modern sporting rifle. Or, if you prefer, rifle. Calling the civilian model an “assault rifle” is both technically incorrect and against the interests of The People of the Gun; the term was bastardized and mainstreamed by gun control advocates bent on civilian disarmament. That said, Gun World’s decision to use the term on its cover could simply reflect editorial senility. The buff book [that never met a gun it didn't like] is “one of the oldest and most respected names in firearms journalism, now in its 51st year of publication, is part of the dynamic Beckett Media family of Outdoor publications.” The pa

“If you need to learn the rules of the Shooting Range, then go to that page,” gamewise.co advises readers. “You have the choice of three weapons to use in this challenge, either the Pump Shotgun, Sawed-Off

Foul-mouthed Wonkette wag-ette Rebecca Schoenkopf read RF’s earlier post in which he highlighted her standard, lefty playbook, by-the-numbers portrayal of all gun owners after a couple of open carriers waltzed through Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport fully strapped. During a hellacious hissy in which she all but played the hoary compensating-for-their-small-penises card, Schoenkopf reached down deep into her progressive thesaurus and pronounced “Mr. Big Brave Manly Macho” a total fncking a$$hole. Just the kind of enlightened conversation about guns the civilian disarmament side can be counted on to carry on. But there’s more! She then revealingly jumped into our comment section looking for juicy Tweet fodder a

I spent some time in Australia in the company of some extremely gregarious Sheilas. Perth was like the best bits of California without the Californians. But I wouldn’t live there on a bet. The country founded by English convicts—people with a profound grudge against tyrannical government—has regressed into a proto-police state. As always, civilian disarmament is the slippery slope down which the citizens’ natural and civil rights are sliding. Key to this de-evolution (are we not men?): demonizing guns. And the easiest way to do that is to point to the U.S. and say “You don’t want to become like that, do ya mate?” More specifically this from news.com.au: ”It’s designed as a military killing machine and instead it’s doing its job slaughtering the innocent in shopping ma

“Some total fucking a**hole armed his 12-year-old son with a semi-automatic pistol, and himself with what witnesses described as an assault rifle, for a fun and peaceful good will to men not at all threatening and sh*tbirdy trip to the Phoenix airport,” Rebecca Schoenkopf [above] writes at wonkette.com, sans asterisks, riffing on news of entirely lawful open carry at Phoenix Sky Harbo

I miss Bruce Krafft. TTAG’s once and future gun control argument destroyer (and former submariner) is slowly recovering from a car accident. Truth be told, we can’t handle the truth (alone). We want him on that wall. We need him on that wall. Especially when we come across stuff like this: The Ultimate Guide To The Gun Safety Debate. It’s thinkprogress.com’s compendium of arguments against the arguments against civilian disarmament. Like this: “The law’s ban on some so-called assault weapons is nonsensical. All such

“It is my duty and responsibility as the principal of this school to ensure the safety and security of all of our faculty, staff and students.” That’s McBean Elementary’s principal, Dr. Janina Dallas, explaining why she blackballed Tanya Mount from the Hephzibah, Georgia, school property. The exclusionary offense: Mount posted a photo (now apparently removed) of her Peach State concealed carry permit on her Facebat page. Something Dr. Dallas says she took as evidence of a threat. Now before you run out to the garage to dig out your pitchfork and spark up a torch, there may be more to this story than is laid out in the wjbf.com report . . .

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