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The hottest trend in firearms over the past four years is the sub-compact semi-auto, and Kimber’s R7 Mako has jumped squarely into the frenzy.

This trend really got started when Sig Sauer’s P365 launched, with its sub-4-inch barrel, 4-inch height, 6-inch length and double-stack 9mm capacities. Several companies have followed with their own micro 9s.

Mako Shark

To understand the significance of Kimber naming this new 9mm the “Mako,” a closer look at the finned killer’s stats.

Continue reading Gun Review: Kimber’s “Fin-Less” R7 Mako at The Truth About Guns.

The U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government asked pointed questions to several Biden administration officials to get answers to why the federal government is working against the American people instead of for them.

The Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government delved into questions of why the federal government spied, and lied, about the lawful purchases by Americans by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).

Continue reading House Committee Investigates Government’s Spying on Those Who Exercise Second Amendment Rights at The Truth About Guns.

One of the most enduring scenes in movie history to anyone over 40 at least is the one of young Texas frontier boy Travis Coates tearfully having to put his dog, Old Yeller, down due to rabies. As the dog, who got rabies after saving the family from being attacked by a rabid wolf and being bitten in the process, sits growling and foaming at the mouth in a shed. Young Travis takes the rifle from his mother saying, “He was my dog.

Continue reading Controversy Surrounds Phoenix Park Dog Shooting at The Truth About Guns.

In a significant move for gun rights advocacy, Gun Owners of America (GOA), a group representing over 2 million members and activists, has formally petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review Illinois’ controversial rifle ban, as reported by FoxNews. The law in question, the Protect Illinois Communities Act (PICA), has been a point of contention, drawing criticism for its sweeping prohibitions on a wide array of rifles and magazines owned and used lawfully by tens of thousands of citizens in the state.

Continue reading GOA Asks Supreme Court To Weigh In on Illinois Rifle Ban at The Truth About Guns.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against five state businesses that don’t allow off-duty police officers their right to carry a firearm on their premises.

In a press release from the AG’s office, Paxton said the lawsuit alleges that The Factory in Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas Trust CU Theatre in Grand Prairie, Meow Wolf in Grapevine, The Lucky Duck in San Antonio and the State Fair of Texas have violated state law by restricting peace officers, including off-duty officers, from entering the premises with their authorized firearms.

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Firearms and affordability are tricky things. Some do it well, and others, well, who else bought a USFA ZIP 22LR? More than a few times, I’ve talked about pistol caliber carbines and large-format pistols, and people have asked about Extar. I never had any experience, so I never had an opinion. I reached out to Extar, and they were very polite but simply had no loaners to ship. It took a couple of years, and they released a rifle version that I was lucky enough to snag and review, the new EP9 Carbine.

Continue reading Gun Review – Extar EP9 Carbine at The Truth About Guns.

I had a chance to shoot a suppressed Gen II Ruger American Rifle in Winchester’s .400 Legend at Industry Day at the Range during the SHOT Show and was impressed. It’s a big .40 caliber round getting tossed down range with 20% more energy and greater penetration than a .30-30, putting it on par with a .450 Bushmaster. It still has 20% less recoil than the .450 though, and 55% less recoil than a 12-gauge slug.

Continue reading First Look: DuraMag Releases .400 Legend AR Magazines at The Truth About Guns.

A few days ago, Governor Kathy Hochul sent the state’s National Guard in to address subway crime. TTAG touched on one aspect of this flawed approach yesterday, but let’s take another angle on why this is plain wrong. So, first, here let’s take a quick look at mainstream media reporting on this, explore the truth of what they’re actually doing, and then I’ll explain why it’s never going to work.

Before explaining to us what they actually are doing, they talk about violent crime and then give the governor some airtime to scare us with the idea of being “slashed in the throat”.

Continue reading New York Takes Exactly The Wrong Approach On Subway Crime at The Truth About Guns.

Finally, southpaw rimfire shooters don’t have to endure hot brass in their faces as Ruger presents a competition-level 10/22.

I’ve wanted to love Ruger’s 10/22 as much as anybody. It shoots fast and accurate, despite its heavy trigger. It’s endlessly modular. And it is reliable as a roofing nail.

But I’m an unrepentant left-handed shooter, and the right-hand port of the 10/22 often puts ejection gases and shells in my face.

Continue reading Gun Review: Ruger’s New Lefty 10/22, Tested at The Truth About Guns.

Before beginning this piece on wound potential of various calibers, I opened a few notebooks and studied the subject again. I ignored reams of paper put out by gun writers but rather concentrated on the works by gentlemen with titles such as doctor, colonel or general. Vincent DiMaio,  Dr Martin  Fackler, John T. Thompson and Colonel Louis LaGarde are among some of the most authoritative experts through the years, so I looked at their work cataloged at the federal level not the newsstand.

Continue reading Go Big or Go Home: A Look at the Science Behind Firearm Wound Potential at The Truth About Guns.

California has seen yet another of its restrictive anti-gun laws declared unconstitutional.

On Monday, in the case Nguyen v. Bonta, the District Court for the Southern District of California struck down the state’s ban on purchasing more than one handgun or semi-automatic, centerfire rifle in a 30-day period.

The court made the ruling after the state failed to prove that the law meets the second requirement of the Bruen standard—to prove a historical precedent.

Continue reading Court Strikes Down Cali One-Gun-A-Month Law at The Truth About Guns.

Apparently New Yorkers want to feel safe from the surge in subway crime in Metropolis, but the sight of big, scary rifles in the hands of those sent to protect them is just a little too much. As a result, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the National Guard to cease carrying long guns while conducting bag checks in the NYC subway system. Perhaps rather than worrying about what firearm they are carrying; straphangers should be more worried about the 4th Amendment violations taking place with the searches of their bags.

Continue reading NY Gov Bans the Long Gun for National Guardsman Patrolling Subways at The Truth About Guns.

It turns out Joe Biden’s second choice to lead the ATF, Steve Dettelbach, wasn’t lying when he told his Senate confirmation committee that he wasn’t a firearms expert.

Dettelbach appeared Sunday on CBS’ Face the Nation, accompanied by Agent Chris Bort, acting chief of ATF’s Firearms Ammunition Technology Division, whom the ATF Director described as one of his “leading experts.” From a public relations perspective, neither man did their agency any good. From a civil rights perspective, the interview was extremely worrisome.

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The 1911 pistol may be 113 years old, but that doesn’t mean that new versions aren’t still dropping. The latest is the 1911-XSERIES from SIG SAUER. So far the X series consists of three full-sized, steel-framed 1911s chambered in .45 ACP, as God and John Browning intended.

The XSERIES (Or XFULL as SIG also lists them as on their website) are 5-inch barrel guns with direct-mount optic capability. They come with XRAY3 Day/Night sights and the 1911-XFULL ROMEO-X comes with a SIG ROMEO-X compact red-dot installed.

Continue reading Sneak Peak: SIG Drops the New 1911-XSERIES at The Truth About Guns.

A jury in New Mexico has found the armorer on the set of Rust guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the incident in which Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun in October 2021.

Hanna Gutierrez-Reed, the 25-year-old armorer on the set, was convicted of the charge after the jury deemed her to have been reckless in her duties. She allegedly loaded a functional .45 revolver with dummy rounds and at least one live round, which Baldwin used to shoot and kill Hutchins.

Continue reading Rust Armorer Found Guilty Of Involuntary Manslaughter at The Truth About Guns.

Self-defense isn’t just for human threats…it can also be for threats from black bears, too, or at least that is what a bill under consideration in Florida would help clarify.

The Florida House is set to revisit a contentious bill aimed at strengthening self-defense claims for individuals shooting bears on their property, following a Senate amendment. The bill, initially passed by the House, received a 24-12 vote in the Republican-majority Senate. The amendment specifies that self-defense protections do not apply to those attracting bears deliberately, such as for dog training.

Continue reading Florida Stand Your Ground…Against Bears at The Truth About Guns.

In a notable turn of events, South Carolina is inching closer to implementing a law that would enable residents to carry guns openly without a permit, a discussion that seemed to have hit a standstill but is now actively progressing in the state legislature. This movement comes after a decisive vote in the state House, marking a pivotal step forward for the permitless carry bill.

The proposed legislation is designed to allow any individual who is legally eligible to possess a firearm the right to carry it openly.

Continue reading South Carolina Permitless Carry Closer to Reality at The Truth About Guns.

In a tragic turn of events that has both shocked and united the community of Las Cruces, New Mexico, an armed citizen took decisive action to stop a deadly assault on a local police officer, according to reports from KOB 4 News and Las Cruces Sun News.

The incident unfolded on February 11, when Las Cruces Police Officer Jonah Hernandez, a dedicated husband, father and two-year veteran of the force, responded to a trespassing call at a business on the 300 block of South Valley Drive.

Continue reading Armed Citizen Halts Rampage of Cop Killer in New Mexico at The Truth About Guns.

Founders want to create similar special operations units across a coalition of states, which would not be subject to federal oversight or presidential authority. This scares the Feds and the legacy media.

When Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced he was “reactivating” the Florida State Guard nearly two years ago, veteran special operators and business partners Brandon Graves and Tom Morton knew they could contribute, so they locked themselves in their office and began writing an unsolicited proposal that they planned to send to the governor’s team.

Continue reading SAF Investigates: The Truth About Florida State Guard’s Special Operations Unit at The Truth About Guns.

In a recent news story, we mentioned Maine Gov. Janet Mills and her support for gun control, then mentioned a few bills that weren’t her proposals. We corrected that report for accuracy’s sake, but that doesn’t detract from the fact that Gov. Mills has indeed made several anti-gun proposals of her own this year. Given that fact, it is unclear of those currently proposed in Maine, which she may sign into law or veto if passed by the state House and Senate.

Continue reading Setting the Record Straight: Maine Governor Promoting Anti-Gun Proposals at The Truth About Guns.