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Barracuda Door Barricade Designed to Thwart Active Shooters
While a good guy with a gun remains the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun, local laws and policies don’t always allow for said good guys to be armed in certain locations. These places are commonly ... Read More
Detroit Police Chief Credits Armed Citizens for Reduced Crime Rate
“Detroit has experienced 37 percent fewer robberies in 2014 than during the same period last year, 22 percent fewer break-ins of businesses and homes, and 30 percent fewer carjackings. (Police Chief James) Craig attributed the drop to better police work ... Read More
The Texas International Firearms Festival is Go! (sponsored content)
Hey Sharp Shots! I’m Kirsten Joy Weiss and I’m inviting you to the first Texas International Firearms Festival in Austin, Texas on November 8 and 9 at Best of the West Shooting Sports. Basically, it’s the SHOT Show media day ... Read More
BREAKING: Remington Scrubs All Traces of R51 from Websites
I called it: the R51 is a massive blunder from start to finish. We’ve seen report after report coming from end users and other reviewers that the gun has serious design issues and has been plagued by poor manufacturing processes ... Read More
Question of the Day: What’s Your Worst Range Injury?
prbrown09 writes: I went to the range last night and a .380 case pegged my son in the face about 10 feet away from the firing line. It was very weird as most of the brass my friend was slinging ... Read More
Gun Review: Ruger American Rimfire
I’m starting to feel like a real old timer with my endless rambling about the good old days of cheap and plentiful .22 LR. While some parts of the country are seeing the most popular rimfire cartridge back in stock, ... Read More
Raw Story Interviews RF: The Big Lie
“But he suggested that nothing needs to be done at all.” There it is. The lie that lies at the heart of the Raw Story article based on my interview with Tony Ortega. I did not suggest that “nothing needs ... Read More
Rolling Stone: Pistols Have Stocks…Huh?
Rolling Stone magazine is trying to dig itself out of obscurity by pushing the gun control agenda pretty hard. They published a softball interview with Michael Bloomberg, launched a slick “guns are bad” website with some laughably researched information, and ... Read More
Quote of the Day: Dude Disarmament Edition
“Fine then. Let’s go with that. All women should, in fact, be armed. Where I part ways with the right here, however, is that I think if we’re going to agree to that, then we’ll need to disarm all men. ... Read More
It Should Have Been A Defensive Gun Use: Archie Andrews Edition
“The famous freckle-faced comic book icon is meeting his demise in Wednesday’s installment of ‘Life with Archie’ when he intervenes in an assassination attempt on Kevin Keller, Archie Comics’ first openly gay character,” mashable.com reports. A story TTAG reported back in ... Read More
New From Smith & Wesson: Bodyguard Pistols and Revolvers With Integrated Crimson Trace Lasers
I have a Smith & Wesson 642-2 with a Crimson Trace Lasergrip. And I have a Kel Tec P3AT (don’t judge me) with a Crimson Trace Laserguard. So I can attest to the utility of mounting a frickin’ laser beam on ... Read More
MA Gun Law Proves All Gun Control Laws Are Bad Laws
The Huffington Post’s Mike Weisser is over-the-moon about the following provision in Massachusetts’ new proposed gun law (Bill H.4278): “The task force shall study and report on suitable and feasible options for the safekeeping of a distressed [i.e. potentially suicidal] person’s firearms ... Read More
MO Gov Nixon Vetoes Teacher Carry Bill
“Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation Monday that would have allowed specially trained teachers to carry concealed guns, asserting that the move could jeopardize student safety in public schools.” And in other news, the sun rose in the east this ... Read More
IWI Shipping the TAVOR RS Model to Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey
IWI figures there’s no reason inhabitants of states with paleolithic firearms laws should forego the pleasure of shooting their TAVOR SAR bullpup rifles. Thus, they’ve created their new RS (restricted states) model and they’re now shipping. Press release after the ... Read More
How to Beat Rolling Stone’s Anti-Gun Agitprop in Three Easy Steps
Rolling Stone is attacking Americans’ gun rights like never before. We’ve seen The Five Most Dangerous Guns In America, an epic Larry Pratt hit piece and How to Beat the NRA In 7 (Not-So-Easy) Steps. If that’s not enough – and it really is – ... Read More
Cleveland Mayor Proposes Toy Gun Ban, 90 Day Wait Between Gun Purchases
Following in the footsteps of such great violence-free cities as Chicago, Washington, DC and New York, Frank Jackson, the mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, has proposed his city enact a series of new gun laws that he claims will reduce the ... Read More
Kirsten Joy Weiss Announces the Texas International Firearms Festival
The peripatetic Kirsten Joy Weiss doesn’t let any grass grow under her feet. Beside advocating the fun of shooting and producing her signature trick shot videos, she’s also now the name and face behind the upcoming Texas International Firearms Festival. ... Read More
Question of the Day: What’s the Most Dangerous Guns in America?
Today is Rolling Stone day at TTAG. We’re running three posts (including this one) about the magazine’s onslaught of anti-gun articles. The most ridiculous of these: The 5 Most Dangerous Guns in America. The article claims to ID “the types of guns most ... Read More
Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unnamed Federal Officer
The story coming out of California is that a pro-Israel rally turned violent when a group of Palestine supporters approached a pro-Israel demonstration in Los Angeles Sunday and, well, predictably erudite discussion and debate on the situation in the Middle ... Read More
Movie Review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Call it Gorillas in the Mist – With Machine Guns! Yes, from the giant Xerox copier known as Hollywood comes Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the latest installment in the interminable Planet of the Apes franchise. Franchise. That’s ... Read More