BREAKING: Charges Against NRA T-Shirt Wearing Teen Dropped

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Remember the teenager who was arrested for wearing an NRA t-shirt to school? You know, exercising that pesky first amendment right on school grounds? Well, turns out that the charges against him have just...

What Could Possibly Go Wrong: AK-47 Guitar Edition

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Saying the Baltimore Sun is anti-gun is like saying that Filippa Hamilton rocks the preppie look. The paper's decision to assemble a gallery of  anti-gun agitprop art comes as no surprise. But some of...

Incendiary Image of the Day: This a Graphic Image? Edition

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I think we can all agree that this photo of Trayvon Martin's body---introduced as evidence in the trial of George Zimmerman---is incendiary. But what up with all the various websites (e.g., huffingtonpost.com) putting the...

MAIG Hunter Revealed

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You may recall that TTAG offered a grand in the hand to anyone who could identify the mystery actor in the Mayors Against Illegal Guns ad pimping "universal background checks" No one collected...

Teachers & Their Heaters

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After a lengthy series of deeply depressing stories about educators and their thundering idiocy about firearms, from toy gun buybacks to expulsions of 7th graders for wearing an NRA shirt, I ran across this article on CNN.com about...

Mossberg Hearts The Boys From Duck Dynasty

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While I'm one of only a handful of people who have never seen an episode, one of the most popular "reality" series on the tube these days is apparently "Duck Dynasty." The show's ZZ...

Obama’s PAC Holds Gun Control Rally in CA, 3 People Show Up

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There's a story out of The San Bernardino Sun that Obama's political action group, Organizing for Action, held a rally at the National Orange Show Events Center. A grand total of...three people showed up....

Headline Writers Still Overwhelmingly Anti-Gun

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  usnews.com headlines their story Gun Owners Still Overwhelmingly White Males. Even though the sub-head prevaricates---"But gun groups say the demographics are changing"---that's one highly contentious, not to say racist read. What if they'd published...

Question of the Day: Is This Sexist?

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Our most recent Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day touched on the "issue" of gunz 'n girlz. thinkprogress.org is thinking along the same lines as TTAG readers who view firearms-related titillation beyond the pale. "Famously...

Santa Monica Gunman Painted As “Gun Nut”

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The mainstream media loves to re-enforce the stereotype of all gun owners being a different kind of person, not "normal." It makes gun control advocates' persecution of gun owners easier to think of them...

Movie Review: Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDziWcKQxr8 Kris Koenig's Kickstarter funded documentary, Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire, started life as a film about the state of gun control in California. But thanks to the post-Newtown gun control fervor on a national level,...

Quote of the Day: Why We Are The Way We Are Edition

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"Haw haw! We guess we do act like gun owners leave their firearms out for their kids to play with, possibly because reports in which that very thing happens are a FUCKING DIME A DOZEN IN U.S....