We stopped by the Hodgdon booth at the SHOT Show this morning to talk with Chris Hodgdon, who told us his new mission is to get more shooters into reloading. He said founder Bruce Hodgdon got the powder company up and running, in part, by partnering with component and press makers to set out on […]
With the introduction of their value-priced VX-Freedom line and additions at the high end like the excellent Mark 5HD, Leupold’s been going great guns. So to speak. Things are so good, in fact, that the Beaverton, Oregon company has announced that they sent a new record for the number of scopes built in 2018. Here’s […]
EOTech branched out into magnified optics back in 2016 with the creation of their Vudu line of rifle scopes. Now they’re revealing bigger plans. The Ann Arbor-based maker of holographic weapons sites, owned by L3 Technologies, is splitting the business into three separate verticals. EOTech will continue to make the holographic weapon sights and magnifiers […]
We’re fans of Boyds Gunstocks‘ laminated At-One adjustable stocks (see our review of the version for the 870 shotgun here). They give you an affordable way of adding length of pull and comb height adjustment to your long gun without expensive stock work by a gunsmith. Now Boyds is adding a thumbhole version of their […]
As hectic and overwhelming as SHOT Show is, your TTAG crew absolutely loves finding new products. Yes, after all these years, we still geek out and get excited sometimes. In this case not only are there two new products to share in the following press release, but they’re from a brand new company called Black […]
Looking for a more secure way to pay for firearms purchases? One that doesn’t discriminate against gun owners? GunBroker announced today that they’ll be accepting payments via FreedomCoin cryptocurrency. Here’s their press release . . . GunBroker.com Introduces FreedomCoin at SHOT Show 2019 Exclusive cryptocurrency empowers merchant communities to pay and be paid their own way […]
As we and others have frequently complained, the Supreme Court has been notably reluctant to take Second Amendment cases in recent years. That reluctance has let a number of lower court rulings that directly conflict with the Heller and McDonald decisions stand in a number of districts. Those cases include an “assault weapons” ban in […]
We’re fans of Real Avid’s gun cleaning and maintenance tools. Their latest brain storm is the Master Cleaning Station Universal. It combines an oil-resistant cleaning mat with a complete kit to clean and maintain guns in every popular caliber. As Real Avid describes it, the kit is . . . Designed for comprehensive cleaning of […]
Another new gun that lots of SHOT Show attendees wanted to get a look at today is Mossberg’s new MC1sc sub-compact 9mm pistol. From Mossberg’s announcement, everything seemed well thought out with a couple of unique features. The first item that caught the eye of gunnoisseurs (besides the clear magazines) was the unique (for a […]
One of the first stops at today’s SHOT Show range day was the GLOCK bay, where everyone wanted to get their hands on the latest Slimline pistols, the G43X and the G48. Just to refresh your memory, the recently announced G43X is basically a G43 single-stack 9mm with a longer grip, allowing 10+1 round capacity. […]
If you hunt, particularly if you hunt at night, you know the importance of being able to find your prey after the shot. That’s not always easy. But the advance of lightweight thermal imaging gear has made it much more do-able. Leupold’s LTO Tracker handheld imagers let you quickly locate game and blood trails no […]
The gun industry, gun rights orgs and America’s 100+ million law-abiding gun owners know that teaching children how to safely handle firearms is the surest way to prevent accidents and tragedies. While the goal, as always, is to prevent unauthorized access to guns, as rational, thinking adults, we know that no everyone is as careful […]
