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About Brett Solomon

Brett Solomon got his first taste of the magazine world covering car electronics for CarSound & Performance Magazine. He landed the job by being noticed for designing high-end car audio systems. Which was fine by him because there was no way he was going to pass the third level of calculus toward an electrical engineering degree at University of Delaware. Not with those DuPont scholars around campus, he’ll take Journalism over Engineering, thank you very much. He has since written for a number of publications (think in-flight journalism) that lack the chutzpah of Robert Farago, and having all of those milquetoast reviews pent up in his system now allows his pen to spit fire. We’ll, he is just not that mean but happy to tell the truth…and the truth is most firearms are fun!

Gun Review: HK P30LS in .40 S&W

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Brett Solomon

At first I was going to succumb to the Glock gods and indoctrinate myself like the tens of thousands of others who buy a reliable polymer pistol. But if the Glock 23 is the Toyota Camry V6 of pistols, I … Continue reading →

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The Beretta Gallery or Brett Does the Upper East Side

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Brett Solomon

Yesterday my family and I took a stroll around the Upper East Side. I happened to get a parking spot in front of the Beretta store on Madison Ave., a place I’d always wanted to check out but hadn’t had … Continue reading →

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Pistol Training: MDTS Combative Pistol 1 and 2

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Brett Solomon

Tyler Kee is in the middle of his series on getting his CCW training in Texas and I saw how much he liked his instruction. So when I read about MDTS after hearing only good things locally, I signed up. … Continue reading →

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TTAG Turns Two: Solomon Edition

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Brett Solomon

When I discovered TTAG after only a few months of being alive (not me…but TTAG), I had always wondered where Farago had washed up after that whole TTAC thing. But the coincidence that I had just finished filling out the … Continue reading →

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LIFETIME FITNESS BANS GUNS ON THESE PREMISES

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Brett Solomon

RF invented the acronym OFWG (Old Fat White Guy) for a reason: a lot of Caucasian firearms fans would rather practice pushing their defensive handgun gun away from their body after a holster draw than push away from the dinner table. Speaking from … Continue reading →

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Posted in Concealed Carry, Gun Control, Gun Nation, Law and Order | 22 Comments

SAT Cheaters and Pinned Stocks? Really?

Posted on January 2, 2012 by Brett Solomon

Last night’s edition of CBS’s 60 Minutes featured Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice. She was peacocking for the cameras after prosecuting an SAT cheating ring to the fullest extent of the law. Years ago she was also featured for prosecuting … Continue reading →

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Posted in Crime and Punishment, Gun Control, News | 23 Comments

Gun Review: CZ 455 Lux

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Brett Solomon

Of all of the firearms I come across, bolt-action .22LRs always have a special place in my heart. It was the first gun I ever held and fired, in a Pennsylvania summer camp before mixing rifles and children was demonized … Continue reading →

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