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Ever since I was a kid, I geeked out on precision rifles. I would take my Marlin 880 SS .22LR out almost every day and focus on tight groups and crazy shooting positions. I got pretty good considering it had a terrible trigger and I shot the cheapest ammo available. I remember getting frustrated when […]

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It’s always a good idea to approach in-person sales transactions with strangers with caution. A Chicago woman found out why when she met with a 14-year-old girl to complete the sale of an item (police didn’t reveal what the item was). When the two met up, the girl pulled out a pellet gun and hit […]

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When my 7mm Remington Magnum came down from its recoil, my first-ever feral hog was down, too. However, before I could bring the rifle back on target, the boar had struggled to its feet and made it into the palmetto-hardwood forest bounding the Gum Log Plantation food plot. Though I would have to track ‘my’ […]

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New Zealand’s banned gun confiscation program has been a rolling dumpster fire since Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern rammed the law through following last year’s mosque shootings in Christchurch. The “buyback” became a national joke, marked by pathetically low participation rates and police begging gang members to please turn in their guns. Now, according to the […]

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By Gretchen Ehlke and Ivan Moreno, Associated Press A police officer shot an armed male student in a classroom at a suburban Milwaukee high school Monday morning after the teenager pointed a gun at officers, a police chief said. Officers performed life-saving measures on the 17-year-old Waukesha South High School student, who is in custody […]

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If Gabrielle Blair didn’t exist, the pro-rights movement would have to invent her, if only for the comedic relief. She approaches gun people control with all the expertise of an interior designer. Ms. Blair achieved her bit of internet fame the other day with a simple(-minded) tweet. There are far better ways to protect your […]

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Want to stuff somebody’s stocking who concealed carries? Put something they’ll love under the tree? There’s plenty of absolutely great gear out there, and some that lots that will fit almost any budget. While the obvious seem to be guns or ammo, not every state is friendly towards that. So we’ll mostly stick to awesome […]

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The quote of the day is presented by Guns.com. There are few things that terrify a New York-based member of the media more than the idea of normal people out in America doing normal things. Things like plinking and having a little fun with a firearm. So you can imagine the level of alarm that resulted […]

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We’ve all been there. We try to commit to memory some basic facts about guns in our society to keep at our fingertips should the need arise. We want to be ready if we find ourselves challenged by someone who can’t understand why anyone needs a gun. For instance, there’s the fact that your child […]

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Gun control advocates love to claim that the Founding Fathers couldn’t possibly have conceived of repeating rifles when they drafted the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights. The history of Joseph Belton, an inventor and gunsmith from Philadelphia, and his correspondence with the Continental Congress proves otherwise. Belton claimed to have devised a new […]

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Another school shooting, another call for more gun control laws. This time, in the state with more gun control laws than any other. It won’t — can’t — work. The only way to end “gun violence” is to forcibly confiscate and destroy every single firearm in the country. Not just privately owned weapons; everything. Then […]

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By Austin Knudsen For those TTAG readers who have read any of my previous reviews on this site, you know I like to acquire and review affordable, “value” guns in order to find our readers the best bang for the buck. But for this article, I tread into new territory and make the following admission: […]

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The inventor with his eponymous weapon. AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin   By Richard Gunderman, Indiana University What is the deadliest weapon of the 20th century? Perhaps you think first of the atomic bomb, estimated to have killed as many as 200,000 people when the United States dropped two on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki […]

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If you’re thinking a watch isn’t really gun-related, you’re right. But if you’ve been a reader of our pocket dump posts, you know that like a good knife, a lot of gun owners consider a watch to be an important part of their everyday carry gear. One of the biggest trends in watches — particularly […]

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There are quite a few pieces of my shooting and hunting gear that, because of their constant use, I would only notice if they were absent. A case in point are the Cabela’s silicone-treated gun socks that I use every time I go to the range or out to hunt with a long-gun. For example, […]

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Press release . . . Milton, Pennsylvania – Keystone Sporting Arms LLC is excited to announce the launch of our Mini Mosin Nagant 9130 Special Edition, a youth sized .22 caliber single shot firearm with authentic features and details found on the real Mosin. This new model will be a hit with any new youth […]

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Moms Demand Action recently held a Firearms 101 Presentation in the great state of New Jersey. The New Jersey Second Amendment Society helpfully documented some interesting apparent law violations that the Moms’ firearms expert committed during the educational event. It’s almost as if guest speaker Scott Pappalardo wants to go to prison for the rest […]

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Gun gurus spend a lot of time and effort training gun owners to shoot their firearms safely and effectively in defensive situations. But the reality is you’re more likely to need first aid — either for yourself or for someone else — than engage in a defensive gun use. Setting aside everyday emergencies like traffic […]

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The sky could have been bluer. It had that steel-gray look that in a different setting might have been called ‘sullen’. But, clouds notwithstanding, I experienced nothing sullen during the recent South Fork Hunting Preserve continental pheasant throw. Not only was this my first ‘throw’, but the event is a driven shoot, making it European-esque […]

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I’m not sure when Battle Belts came back in fashion, but I remember when I first saw widespread use of them. On my first deployment, we went from the massive Modular Tactical Vest to much smaller Eagle Plate Carriers. Less room meant less MOLLE. It wasn’t long before we started removing the belt from our […]

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