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“We do know this: Our nation suffers from a historical myth that guns won the West and, to this day, keep us safe and free. In truth, farmers, cowboys, gold diggers, merchants, school teachers, railroad barons and all the others who settled this country (Native Americans would take exception to the word “win.”) — hardly […]

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After Maryland shooting, Pelosi draws criticism for gun control comment When you have a shooting in one of the most heavily gun-controlled states in the nation, the obvious solution is more federal legislation . . . House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday denounced Congress’ lack of effort to pass legislation on gun safety […]

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Do you number your magazines? Brian Galante does and it’s a pretty good idea. It helps you identify when you have a potential problem. The cause for the majority of misfeeds — Brian has a GLOCK 19, so that’s never a problem for him — can be traced to the magazine. If all of your […]

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By MarkPA One of the most hotly debated issues on the Second Amendment is over the right to carry firearms outside the home.  Today, each of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia authorizes ordinary citizens to carry a handgun in most public places under one of the following three regimes: Constitutional […]

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The AR-15 has only been around for about 60 years, so you can understand why no one in the mainstream media seems to know the first thing about what it does, how it works…you know…esoteric details like that. It’s why they hate it so much when gun rights supporters call them on their errors in […]

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A couple of weeks back Black Hills surprised me with their new HoneyBadger 9mm 100gr +P. I was curious when I opened the boxes, as I discovered a radical and aggressively different bullet design. Background As you probably know by now, a Honey Badger is a highly aggressive little beast. It is, by all accounts, […]

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In a bizarre incident near Raleigh, N.C., Bernard Antonio Downing, whose motoring skills are highly suspect, was driving a stolen car when he crashed into another vehicle. Then he crashed into a parked car. Then he turned around and sped straight toward the guy whose car he had just hit. The car owner drew his gun and […]

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After his police officers were publicly embarrassed for not knowing state law and mistreating a group of open carry activists over the weekend, Miami Beach Police Chief Daniel J. Oates, through Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez, claimed to the Miami Herald that he never received prior notification, either by e-mail or regular mail, from Florida Carry […]

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By Kevin P. Like a lot of gun owners, I train to shoot. Shoot fast, hit the target. In IDPA, you move, find the target and shoot it. I’m a B+ shot, usually in the top third or quarter in my pistol matches. (I do better when the really good shooters don’t show up, ha, […]

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We’re fortunate to have a few attorneys as contributors here at TTAG. Given this week’s announcement that Justice Anthony Kennedy will be retiring from the Supreme Court, I asked them to give us their thoughts on Kennedy and the future of Second Amendment jurisprudence. Johannes Paulsen: People concerned about the right to keep and bear […]

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A number of popular handguns can be equipped with an optional .22 LR conversion kit to let you also shoot the more economical double deuce. However, the cost of the conversion, depending on the gun, is frequently on the steep side. Some — again it depends on the gun — are more involved than others, […]

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Here we go again. It’s finally officially summer and that time of year when we open our pages to our knowledgable, articulate and persnickety readership, giving them the chance to share their talents with the gun world. Judging by the quality of past entries, this is going to be good. This year’s Summer Content Contest […]

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“Impossibility can occasionally excuse noncompliance with a statute. But impossibility does not authorize a court to go beyond interpreting a statute and simply invalidate it.” – California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu in Calif. Supreme Court upholds law requiring bullet-tracing technology on guns [via sfchronicle.com]

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Goodbye Justice Kennedy And Goodbye Gun Control If only . . . What this likely means is that we can expect the Supreme Court to start reviewing a few of the more important gun control cases now percolating in the lower courts. Whether the issue is the validity of bans on so-called assault rifles, the […]

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While we certainly like David’s choice of everyday carry gear, what caught our eye the most here was the EDC valet he uses to organize it all, complete with pistol pistol rack. Great for someone with no kids running around the house.

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He was shot in the head not once, but twice yet continued to fight. With his teammates under AK-47 fire and all their lives on the line, he refused to falter. It would later be said he battled the encroaching Taliban forces with an impressively calm demeanor, methodically supplying suppressive fire or precise, surgical killing […]

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As a Floridian, a gun owner, and a law enforcement officer, let me explain what lead up to and caused the recent Miami Beach incident in which open carriers were detained. Florida has been called the Gunshine State due to a popular belief that the state’s firearms laws are very liberal. The truth, however, is very […]

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Yesterday I found myself caught in a conversation I’ve had countless times over the years. A volunteer RSO at my local sportsmen’s club had shown up while I was running a few guns for work and he was more interested in talking than shooting. After awhile – I would shoot a mag, he would start […]

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East Cleveland police responded to a call of an altercation on Sunday. When they arrived on the scene, they found a woman lying on the ground, calling for help and a man who threw his shirt at their cruiser yelling at them. As bodycam video of the incident reveals, when the suspect charged one of […]

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The FBI hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory over the past decade. One of the bureau’s biggest black eyes came when it was revealed that the bureau failed to deny a firearms purchase to the Charleston church shooter who later murdered nine people with the gun. Survivors of the shooting had filed a wrongful death suit […]

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