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Earlier this year I spent some time in Utah shooting handguns and rifles in the dead of night at different distances using Armasight night vision gear. It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it. We used everything from their CO-Mini clip-on which works great in combination with a red dot, up to their new, not-yet-announced all-in-one night vision kits.

Armasight has finally dropped the veil on these and they’re calling them their Ultimate Night Vision Kit.

Continue reading Armasight Announces New Pinnacle Premium Night Vision Kits at The Truth About Guns.

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Launching my first ad today, “Lawman.”

SHARE today to help spread the word – Russell Coleman for Attorney General pic.twitter.com/oTlIsM0rAQ

— Russell Coleman (@RCforAG) October 6, 2023

In Malcolm Gladwell’s latest season of “Revisionist History,” a podcast, he focuses on Americans’ fascination with firearms and our pop culture obsession with iconic TV lawman Matt Dillon of “Gunsmoke,” a symbol of morality, law and order.

Continue reading Carter: Politicians’ Second Amendment Posturing in Campaign Commercials Is Insulting at The Truth About Guns.

This scenario has happened at this house many, many times LOL

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Workout Included For Free Edition at The Truth About Guns.

It was so light I thought Wilson Combat had sent me an empty soft case.

Unzipping the rifle case I realized what was inside, the newest addition to the Wilson Combat line, a precision .308 Winchester bolt action rifle weighing in at just 4lbs., 15oz. Wilson Combat has released the Wilson Combat NULA Model 20, and it’s everything I’d imagined it could be.

I’ve been hoping for this review ever since I read that Wilson Combat had purchased New Ultralight Arms (NULA) from its creator, Melvin Forbes, about a year ago.

Continue reading Gun Review: Wilson Combat NULA Model 20 Bolt Action Rifle at The Truth About Guns.

It all went down on August 8th, 9th, and 10th in Cheyenne, Wyoming at Thunder Beast Arms’ facilities. The 2023 Silencer Summit, the first of what will likely become an annual event (perhaps a traveling one), was effectively a silencer decibel measuring drag race. Suppressors from dozens of manufacturers — over 185 silencer/gun combos! — were tested with the best dB measuring equipment positioned in three metering locations and run by the sound testing experts at B&K.

Continue reading The 2023 Silencer Summit Was a Big Success at The Truth About Guns.

Nothing’s been hotter in the accessory market over the last couple of years than pistol red dots and as a subset of those, the hottest hotness has become enclosed emitter red dots. While they’re bigger and boxier than standard reflext sights, they keep dirt and the elements out of the works for more reliability in more conditions.

Riton Optics has just announced their new 3 TACTIX EED (enclosed emitter dot). We have one on the way for a full going over, but in the mean time, here’s their press release .

Continue reading Riton’s New 3 TACTIX EED Enclosed Emitter Red Dot Sight at The Truth About Guns.

Ricky Gomez began pounding on the door of a home in central Phoenix at about 11:00pm last Thursday night. He pounded long and hard enough that he broke a window in the door and then let himself in. That was a mistake.

As a next door neighbor notes, the area has a crime problem. From Fox10 . . .

“The light rail is right up there,” said [neighbor Roger] David.

Continue reading Defensive Gun Use: Phoenix Man Shoots and Kills Home Invader Who Threatened His Family at The Truth About Guns.

Before starting these armed response teams, what was your experience with firearms? Did that influence your feelings about the program?

I’m not even a gun person. When I first did this in 2013, the most I ever shot was a BB gun. I’m not a member of the NRA or anything like that. This all started with just sitting down with our sheriff and talking about the needs. We watched some film of some active shooter situations and I thought to myself, “My goodness gracious.

Continue reading Superintendent Who ‘Isn’t a Gun Person’ Has Trained Armed Response Teams in Two Ohio Districts at The Truth About Guns.

Seems legit.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Trans Guns Edition at The Truth About Guns.

The left coast is where gun rights go to die — at least until they can be challenged and overturned in the courts — and California is its epicenter. It’s the Mordor of civilian disarmament.

It isn’t widely known, but the California capitol building doesn’t have a dome over it like most state capitols. Instead, it has a tower with an all-seeing eye that scan’s the landscape, tirelessly searching for new and more innovative ways to infringe on citizens’ Second Amendment rights.

Continue reading California Legislature Passes an Anti-Gun Bill That’s Too Extreme Even for Gavin Newsom at The Truth About Guns.

By Lee Williams

The enemy is at the gate. One need only look at the Iranian-backed genocide in Israel to see what they have in store for this country if their plans succeed.

Clearly, Joe Biden helped get us into this dire situation.

Biden allowed millions of military-age males to enter this country illegally, including hundreds on the terror watch list. You could see them rallying yesterday in major cities across the United States, celebrating the terrorist atrocities in Israel.

Continue reading Calling Forth the Militia: Armed Americans Need to Make Ready to Defend Themselves at The Truth About Guns.

This really should be the end of the gun control debate in the United States.

— Randy Barnett (@RandyEBarnett) October 8, 2023

Over the weekend, Georgetown Professor Law Professor Randy Barnett reacted to the reports of terrorist attacks and slaughter in Israel with the tweet above regarding the never-ending debate over gun control in America. After hundreds of defenseless citizens died and thousands were injured, Israel relaxed its regulations on civilian gun ownership.

Continue reading The Israeli Terrorist Attack Should End the Gun Control Debate in the US…But It Won’t at The Truth About Guns.

In our post this morning, we predicted that following the atrocities committed by Hamas terrorists across southern Israel this weekend, the government, which has kept a relatively tight hold on gun ownership by Israeli citizens, would relax that policy. Huddling in safe rooms, waiting for hours for help from police and the military while murderous Palestinians go house to house cutting down men, women, and children tends to drive home the benefits of an armed populace.

Continue reading Horse, Barn Door – Israel’s Minister of National Security Announces Relaxed Rules for Civilian Gun Ownership at The Truth About Guns.

With all those moving parts, what cracked open the ending [to Breaking Bad]? And when did it become apparent that Gretchen and Elliott Schwartz would play a key role in the final two episodes?

The biggest single fear we had was what to do with that damn machine gun. At the beginning of the final run of 16 episodes, we had Walt buy a machine gun in the trunk of a Cadillac.

Continue reading What Do You Do With an M60 Machine Gun? Vince Gilligan Finally Figured it Out at The Truth About Guns.

Continue reading Halloween Hell, Defensive Gun Uses are Downright Terrifying to All the Right People, All Year Long at The Truth About Guns.

Here’s a blistering hot take: gun control isn’t even close to a sufficient substitute for a healthy moral and civil society, and it never will be. Limiting individuals’ civil liberties erodes their rights for no defensible purpose or lasting societal gain.

People like to talk about Europe a lot for comparisons to the US where gun crime is concerned, but several European countries which are the most respectful of gun rights also have lower homicide rates than their far more restrictive neighbors.

Continue reading Gun Control Can’t Take the Place of a Healthy, Cohesive Civil Society…And It Never Will at The Truth About Guns.

The Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) finally got their way. A local city council has voted 4-1 to adopt a resolution to declare that elephants aren’t just animals and instead deserve “the legal rights of a nonhuman animal.”

This has been a long-term effort by NhRP, one during which they’ve been smacked down by courts several times. They’ve been on the receiving end of irritated and annoyed judges who were forced to listen to their arguments.

Continue reading Full California: City of Ojai Recognizes the ‘Personhood’ and Legal Rights of Elephants at The Truth About Guns.

Function over form. Well…I suppose there are limits. I ain’t gonna wear this tactical chest purse for men.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Fanny Pack Edition at The Truth About Guns.

Much is being made of the US v. Rahimi the Supreme Court case that’s set for oral arguments on November 7. If you listen to the media and the gun control industry, you’d think the case is about making America safe for domestic abusers and subjugating women. Or something.

What the case is actually about is due process and determining if and when it’s constitutional to deprive an American of their civil rights — any of them — without their being convicted of a crime.

Continue reading Alabama Woman Opens Fire, Repels Home Invader Before He Torched Her Home at The Truth About Guns.

LOLOLOL. Today’s gun meme is a first! This is a REAL product that the company has launched as a meme to poke fun at the industry. The Atibal Optics STD (Same Tactical Dot) is making fun of the fact that a bunch of different manufacturers seem to have “caught” this optic and are all selling the exact same product just with their own logo on it. While most are selling it for over $300, Atibal priced it at an also-humorous $123.45 and they’re donating a portion of the proceeds to charity.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: STD Edition at The Truth About Guns.