The Truth About Guns
Exploring the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns
Updated: 1 week 4 days ago
P320 Entry: OMG! An Assault BB Gun! OMG!
By Nick J. “Why do you need that?” The question that plagues every rightful gun-owner in America, and quite likely you are thinking the same about my mall-ninja-esque Red Ryder. But it has all the evil, telltale features of a ... Read More
Quote of the Day: So Then What? Edition
“This is almost the kind of event that’s impossible to prevent and almost impossible to predict.” – UC President Janet Napolitano at Laney College in Oakland, California [via bostonglobe.com]
Daily Digest: Memorial Day Edition
For those who chose to go when most wouldn’t. For those who knew it could cost them everything. For those who believed America to be the shining city on the hill, the last, best hope of Mankind. For those for ... Read More
P320 Entry: Reflections of a New Deer Hunter
By Eric Liu “I see antlers moving between the trees” whispered my friend Bret as he gripped my arm seeming to make absolutely sure I was listening. Those very words bookend both the culmination and the beginning of my hunting ... Read More
Defensive Gun Use of the Day: “Not A Perfect Tale” Edition
TTAG reader DH emailed a link to The New York Daily News story Texas mom high on pot, PCP tried to drown kids before saved by armed son with a simple statement: “Not a perfect tale, but it’s the real world.” Ain’t that ... Read More
Passively Constructed Negligent Discharge Story of the Day: Drop Safe Edition
Man, 63, arrested after gun fires in movie theater, the foxnews.com headline announces. In case you were wondering the two events are related. As in the heater in the theater belonged to the sexagenarian in situ. “Police say no one was ... Read More
P320 Entry: Why I Don’t Want an AR, Or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Shotgun
By Ross Marshman Ever since the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq plastered the news media’s canvas with portraits of valiant deeds done by brave men and women, any viewer could not help but notice the modern lance these soldiers ... Read More
City Marshal of Ft. Worth Gunned Down
Republished with permission from rockislandauction.blogspot.com Wild Days in Hell’s Half Acre Lots of people and places of the Old West get spun into tales of “Pecos Bill” size proportions. One minute someone is a trying to make a living as ... Read More
P320 Entry: The Wake-Up Call
By weathertop9 I grew up in Tennessee, a free state. My father was a country boy, a squirrel hunter and a fly fisherman. He used to make his own flies from old flip-flops and try his luck down on the ... Read More
Three Reasons You Shouldn’t Open Carry a Rifle in the City
Click here to watch the autoplay video of a Muskegon Heights, Michigan man who carries a rifle to and from the bus stop to protect his daughter. “I’ve been doing this on a daily basis, every day she goes to school. To make ... Read More
Colion Noir Declares War on TTAG. Ish.
My last review of the Noir show sets tongues wagging inside and outside the NRA. Hey, they asked for it. Literally. And I did nothing more than tell the truth about the Freestyle show. IMHO. To commemorate that review, Colion ... Read More
P320 Entry: A Natural Right No Matter Where You’re From
By D.A. Nguyen Growing up the child of parents who relocated to this glorious country from Vietnam, life as a second generation immigrant was a lesson in learning cultural differences, acceptance, and being accepted. My family, like many that came ... Read More
Quote of the Day: How’s That Working Out For You? Edition
“We can only stop people who are dangerously mentally ill from buying guns if every gun sale includes a background check. And those background checks will only be effective if states submit the hundreds of thousands of mental health records ... Read More
Weekend Digest: Indian Country Edition
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? There was a fire in a backyard shed in Burbank, California, and during that fire, some ammunition burned/exploded/discharged. That’s undisputed. However, depending on which story you read, the ammunition either caused the ... Read More
Senator Blumenthal Waves the Santa Barbara Bloody Shirt
“I hope, I really sincerely hope, that this tragedy, this unimaginable, unspeakable tragedy, will provide an impetus to bring back measures that would keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people who are severely troubled or deranged like this ... Read More
P320 Entry: Life in a Second Amendment Dead-Zone
By Daniel Spafford I’m sitting here looking at my GLOCK 21. Simple-looking thing. If anything, it looks so standard, I can’t even say it looks as cool as a silver 1911 or as “threatening” as an AR-15. It’s only been ... Read More
Engage Armament Co-Owner: The Truth About the Armatix iP1 Backlash
Hello Mr Farago, I hope all is well. My name is Andrew Raymond and I am the co-owner of Engage Armament. I am the guy who agreed to sell the Armatix pistol and all that madness. I’ve been trying to ... Read More
P320 Entry: Learning to Duck Online ‘Projectile Vomit’
By Clint When I was young, my interest in guns was as any other child’s was. Namely an interest in the idea that guns made you strong. As I got older, I grew out of that, they weren’t strength, they ... Read More
Question of the Day: What Should a Gun Candle Smell Like?
So I saw an article on “man candles” at grandviewoutdoors.com. As the candles aren’t exactly gun-oriented - On Tap smells like “the cool, golden aroma of a freshly poured draft beer” and Camouflage smells like “a natural, woodsy blend of fresh air, ... Read More