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Otis is pleased to announce the newest edition to its cleaning kit lineup, the AR Elite Range Box.

For the AR owner who has it all, the AR Elite Range Box is the gun cleaning kit that has it all and more. This comprehensive gun cleaning kit provides proper Breech-to-Muzzle cleaning for AR-15 style rifles and includes tools to pick, scrape, and clean caked-on carbon and fouling from the bore, bolt carrier group, chamber, star chamber/locking lugs, and more.

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Today’s Ask Josh comes from Dale R. Dale asks a reasonable question after seeing some of my guns . . .

“What makes carbon fiber parts so expensive. I see you like them, but are they worth it for me?”

Dale’s question is more complex than you may think. The carbon fiber parts in question today come in the form of stocks, barrels, handguards, and accessories. This list grows all the time.

Continue reading Ask Josh: Are Carbon Fiber Gun Parts Worth It? at The Truth About Guns.

I love the current large-format pistol caliber pistols in the firearm world. That’s a helluva mouthful just to say ‘braced pistol.’ You know, guns like the Ruger PC Charger, the Micro Scorpion, the SIG MPX K, the CMMG Banshee, and all the other micro pistol caliber braced pistols. I just call them subguns and blame that on my love of submachine guns. I was a kid raised on ‘Die Hard’ and ‘Cobra’ so what do you expect?

Continue reading Things That Don’t Suck: The Lynx Defense Byte Discreet Case at The Truth About Guns.

While bulletproof vests receive NIJ laboratory-tested ballistic protection ratings and, therefore, don’t really need to be tested by your friendly neighborhood gun blog, I’m not one to pass on what’s basically guaranteed to be a fun time. So, we hit the range with a BulletSafe Level IIIA Bulletproof Vest and we shot it.

We shot it up close with .44 Magnum, +P+ 9mm, 7.5 FK, and 12-gauge 00 magnum buckshot.

Continue reading Putting a BulletSafe Level IIIA Bulletproof Vest to the Test (and then some) at The Truth About Guns.

By Bryce Booher

Over the last couple years, I’ve been on numerous hog hunting trips in Texas. Naturally, as a gun guy, I’m always interested to see what rifles and ammunition others in my group are using while on these hunts. I’ve literally seen them all, from bolt action .243’s, Ruger 10/44s, 300 RUMs, and the list goes on. Some are scoped, some are suppressed, some are heavy, and some aren’t.

My personal hog gun is a suppressed 6.5 Grendel SBR with a 1-4x optic.

Continue reading Is .223/5.56 Enough to Hunt Feral Hogs? at The Truth About Guns.

BPI picked a hell of a day to showcase their rifles. The night before the shoot, a huge thunderstorm moved through North Texas. At least one tornado touched down, golf ball-sized hail was scattered along a 50 mile area, and it was the start of three days of hard rain.

Still, along with Bergara, one of BPI Outdoors’ major brands is CVA, makers of some of the best modern muzzleloaders in the world.

Continue reading BPI Longshot Event Features Bergara and CVA Rifles at The Truth About Guns.

By Trevor Zantos On July 11th, 2006 I was involved in a fairly catastrophic motorcycle accident. My life changed in that instant and everything from that day forward, would be affected. I’m always happy to discuss my various experiences with anyone who asks, but I dislike volunteering information about my accident and the challenges I […]

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By LKB As previously reported, a TTAG contingent was at the Comp-U-Dopt annual sporting clay shoot fundraiser at the Blackwood Gun Club north of Houston on Saturday. For sporting clay fans, this is an exceptional facility, with 24 sporting clay stations set amidst a thick pine forest, which can make for many interesting and challenging […]

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By Emily Taylor The federal government collected $3.5 trillion in taxpayer money in 2019. How much of that is being spent on demonizing guns? How much is being spent on advertising campaigns and public programs that are trying to take away your Second Amendment rights? How much of your taxpayer dollars are being spent on research that […]

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The NRA has been relentless in its campaign to create an alternate history regarding guns and the myth that the Constitution somehow guarantees individual gun rights. Only a few decades ago, such notions were considered an exotic legal argument. It wasn’t until 2008 that a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller […]

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UPDATE from the Associated Press . . . A gunman killed two people at a Wisconsin casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was killed by police late Saturday, in what authorities said appeared to be a targeted attack. Brown County Sheriff’s Lt. Kevin Pawlak said investigators believe the gunman was seeking a […]

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By Brandon Curtis As your mother probably advised, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Also, keep your temper in check. Police say that 42-year-old Patrick Brown had bought a Range Rover recently, and was approached by 39-year-old Darnell Brown (no relation) who made fun of his new purchase. […]

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  As anyone who reads TTAG knows, there are millions of new firearm owners in the US. First-timers who have bought a gun in the last year or so for all kinds of reasons. While that’s made finding and affording ammunition a challenge, having more people invested in the Second Amendment is great news for […]

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By Jim Salter and Heather Hollingsworth, AP A judge on Friday denied a defense request to return to a grand jury the case against a St. Louis couple accused of waving guns at racial injustice protesters last year. A St. Louis grand jury indicted Mark and Patricia McCloskey in October on felony charges of unlawful use of a […]

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“The more Black men and women exercise their right to carry, the more police will have to get used to it,” [Narren] Brown said to a room full of NAAGA members.  Once classroom learning was over, the group moved on to the shooting range.  Julian Merritt, 36, and his father traveled with Brown to the […]

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We don’t know about what you’ve been seeing, but buckshot loads seem to be among the most difficult ammunition to find lately. The good news is that GunMag Warehouse has it in stock, at least for now. They’re selling Federal Power-Shok 9-pellet 00 loads in 5-round packs for $9.99 a box. Check their ammo page […]

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A TTAG reader writes . . . HB 1927, the Texas constitutional carry bill, passed the House on April 16. It was then sent to a Senate committee that —  after hearing a full day of public testimony yesterday–  voted to send the bill to the Texas Senate floor for a vote. Certain law enforcement […]

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From EOTECH . . . I’ve been asked to write a press release on EOTECH’s new offering of a consumer financing option on their website. Boring. It couldn’t be something cool like a new scope, or a new technology they discovered. Nope. It’s gotta be financing. Ugh. Alright. Whatever. Here it goes. So, financing. I guess it’s […]

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David Dell’Aquila is the dissident NRA donor who has been working to dislodge Wayne LaPierre from his perch atop the National Rifle Association for almost two years now. He started a movement to get the Association’s big dollar donors to withhold their cash until the scandal-plagued Executive Vice President is gone. Dell’Aquila claims his supporters […]

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From the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education . . . After more than a year in limbo, the University of Pennsylvania’s Hunting, Archery, and Shooting Club is officially a recognized student group. Under pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and with help from FIRE Legal Network attorney Patricia Hamill, the university […]

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