The Truth About Guns

You may recall the recent Bay Area fuster cluck wherein one BART cop shot another BART cop to death during a SWAT raid on an empty apartment. Experience may have led you to believe that the fallout from that particular screw-up would be somewhat less than cataclysmic for all concerned, given that it was a police matter, police being culturally, morally and legally allergic to the concept commonly known account

Michael Keoughan was exercising his right to bear arms in Texas last Wednesday. He’s part of a Texas group of Second Amendment supporters who demonstrate that the RKBA means something. They do that by legally carrying rifles slung across their back. When asked, they happily explain that they’re educating Texans about their rights under the state and federal constitutions . . .

A regular reader writes:

I occasionally get MDA ads on my FB feed, and this is a thread that popped up recently. Initially I was too busy eviscerating the psuedologic spewed by their inane followers to notice, but soon a took a closer look. Look at the wording in the “ad” on WV guns for sale that their purportedly copying. When was the last time you saw “A-15″ specified and spelled out in a listing for a DPMS? How about “pistol grip” and “dust cover” specifically listed as features? How about the fact that a respondent mentions a forward assist that the OP doesn’t, or that they saw an AR that didn’t come with that fancy dust cover? Or that this post doesn’t exist on the page it’s apparently taken from. Just sayin’ . . .

By Josh Wayner

I’ll preface this by stating that I am not in any way biased in respect to the use and application of traditional length rifle barrels or associated weapons, but my area of study has been mostly in making weapons more compact and useable for real-world scenarios. If anything, I suggest that readers try out my observations for themselves and draw their own conclusions. Since my last article, I’ve received a very large number of questions and stacks of hate mail regarding rifle barrel length from many individuals as well as members of our industry and community . . .

There seems to be a great deal of Freudian angst when barrel length and bullet performance are mentioned in the same sentence. As such, I was confronted by a vast array of conjectures and speculations th

By ShootingTheBull410

Unless you’ve been in a sensory-deprivation tank for the last 72 hours, you’ve probably heard of G2 Research’s new G2 RIP 9mm bullet. Thanks to a dramatic video and some compelling performance claims, word of G2 Research’s new “wonder bullet” has spread through the blogosphere like gonorrhea at an 18th-century naval port. We at TTAG have been inundated with requests about it. On my ShootingTheBull410 YouTube channel and blog, I’ve been flooded with requests. People are obviously impressed by what the video is showing them, and they want to know — is it for real? Is this really and truly the last bullet you’ll ever need? . . .

Well, that’s what their marketing says anyway. Those are big words, certainly.

Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America (a wholly owned subsidiary of Mike Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns) reads your pro-gun rights comments when you post them on their Facebook page. And then deletes them. And bans you. For example, they sent TTAG reader Tivadar Lucas‘ comment [above] into the memory hole and hit the block button. Of course MDA has no legal obligation to publish dissenting opinions. But it is annoying that a group that

“Shots were fired Tuesday morning at a Hawaii high school, causing injuries and prompting a lockdown, authorities said. Honolulu Department of Emergency Services spokeswoman Shayne Enright said the shooting happened at Roosevelt High School in Honolulu. No additional details about the injuries or shooter were released. Police and Department of Education officials didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment from the Associated Press.” That’s from detroitnews.com.

If you’re worried about an EMP taking out the grid and taking down all of your electronics at the same time, you probably don’t have a quick-access electronic lock on your gun safe. Which means your gun safe is pretty slow to access, and pretty much impossible to open in the dark. If that description fits you, Cannon Safe Company might have just what you need . . .

Their Commander, Cannon, and Armory safe lines are now offered with their unique dual access EMP lock. As the picture shows, it combines the speedy tactile opening of an electronic lock with the EMP- and flood-proof reliability of a mechan

A regular reader writes:

I’ve been following the rockethub.com funding of 80 percent lowers for some time now.  [ED: 80 percent lowers are the unfinished lower receivers for AR-15 rifles that do not have to be registered with the federal government, which recipients complete to create a legal, unregistered firearm.] A LOT of the projects have turned into complete crap storms. Multiple projects have gone way, way over what they were trying to fund (i.e. trying to fund $10k, make $220k) and nobody has gotten anything. There are now rumors amongst funders and on forums that Rockethub is pulling 80 percent firearms projects due to the complete failure of most of the projects. Reading the “conversations” tabs on the projects – click

Billy Johnson makes the case that there are only two ways to grab Americans’ guns: 1) abandon the republican principles on which the nation was founded, or 2) voluntary disarmament. Under number one has the .gov declaring gun owners enemies of the state. A threat to law, order, peace and tranquility. And Mr. Johnson says our representatives lack the power and the right to do it. As for number two, good luck with that. Ultimately, in his view, the responsibility for holding our elected officials accountable for their RKBA infringing tendencies, something that seems to work better in some locales than others. But back to the original question. Billy is of the opinion that our government can’t disarm us. You?

I love shooting guns, but rarely does something gun-related give me the giggles. Several exceptions naturally apply. Full auto, silenced and subsonic .300 BLK shooting and Tannerite come to mind. And I’ve found another giggle-worthy item: the RADETEC LED Advisor . . .

See the video above for a demo of the product that straps to your gun and lets you know when you’re running low on lead. I can’t stop running snap caps through my pistol and giggling. It lights up! Is it worth $169? Does it work under actual shooting conditions? Will it break immediately?

I don’t know! But I’m headed to the range to find out. Watch this space to stay up to date.

Three friends were getting ready to tee off on the golf course when a single guy walked up and asked if he could join them. They agreed to make it a foursome. While waiting to tee it up on the fourth hole, a par five, one of the three asked the stranger what he did for a living. He replied that he was an assassin. They all stopped and stared at him. He told them not to worry, that none of them were his targets . . .

They asked him how he usually killed people and he pulled an AI rifle in .308 with a Nightforce scope out of his golf bag. The three admired the fine gun and Bill asked if he could look through the scope as his house was near the next green, about 500 yards away. The assassin said sure, and handed the rifle to Bill.

As

by Alan Brooks

Pistol duels have largely gone out of style in the United States. The modern version of “Sir, I demand satisfaction!” is now “You’ll be hearing from my lawyer.” And that’s probably for the best. By the end of the 19th century, advances in firearms technology had made pistol duels unsporting. Machined, multi-shot guns with rifled barrels and reliable cartridges meant that both parties in a duel stood a good chance of dying. During the heyday of duels in the United States (the 18th and early 19th centuries) dueling pistols were handmade and generally smoothbore, single-shot, black powder, flint-lock devices that were “sporting” at the typical 30-40 foot distance at which most duels were fought . . .

Often, the duelers didn’t even fir

“Perhaps it’s not about knowing who the bad guys are, but knowing ourselves, which offers our best protection. Which is, after all, the fundamental mission of higher learning. Those kinds of insights can’t really be learned at gunpoint.” – NPR host Jacki Lyden, Violence Abroad Threatens Students, As Do Guns At U.S. Schools [at npr.org}

From wect.com, we get word of some weekend Tar Heel tomfoolery: “Some quick thinking got a Wilmington man out of a tough situation early Saturday morning. Around 3 a.m. Saturday morning, the victim came home and noticed his front door was open. When he entered his home — ” Wait, what? The un-named dood rolls in at zero dark thirty, finds his front door open and…strolls in anyway? Hold on, it gets better . . .

Once inside, he found two intruders looking for easily pawnable property. Thinking fast, he did a little soft shoe.

The man pretended to be drunk long enough to get to his safe and pull out a gun. One suspect ran away and the victim held the other suspect at gunpoint outside his apartment. He then told the suspect to leave.