Ode to Browning
By William C Montgomery on April 13, 2010
John Moses Browning was the most influential gun designer. Ever. John C. Garand, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Hiram Maxim, Georg Luger, Dr. Richard J. Gatling, Benjamin...
Wilson Combat: Black Rifle Market On the Brink of Collapse?
"During the pre-Obama surge, black gun dealers way over-ordered," John May tells TTAG. "There are lots of deals out there right now. Plenty of dealers are selling AR-style rifles at cost, trying to clear...
Editorial: Gun Grab Fear Driven by Firearms Industry
Donal Fagan constantly reminds the TTAG team to look for the truth beyond the official version of a story. Specifically, beneath the main text. And so we scan the comments section under posts like...
ArmaLite Truckload Sale: 168 Guns and a Free Truck
A truckload of rifles? Why do I suddenly imagine a young but old looking Clint Eastwood driving these beasts to Verdun with a bunch of raw recruits and/or grizzled combat veterans? Maybe it has...
Survey: 8,868,085 People Shot a “Modern Sporting Rifle” in 2009
That's an "assault rifle" to gun control advocates and our friends in the media. Mind you, we're not talking about 8,868,085 owners of AR-style rifles; the black gun-owning population may be smaller (one owner,...
Taser’s Brand Extensions: A Shock to the System
I like Taser. Their non-lethal weapons offer an effective and relatively clean and tidy alternative to lethal force. (Howie Mandel's weapon of choice?) It's easy to reach Taser's PR guy; Steve Tuttle's faster than...
A Pain in the Bass Pro Shops
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9j8t4G0ZN8
A gathering of the clans today, northbound and down for Bass Pro Shops. This monument to retail-tainment lingers in the shadow of the Patriot's palace (football, not Congress). I made the pilgrimage to watch...
Gun Nuts Nuts About Custom Rifles
When last we heard from the self-proclaimed Gun Nuts, they were telling the world that they accidentally on purpose forget to review crap guns. With their lack of credibility firmly established, they've moved on...
Remington: “10,000,000 870s sold, and still going strong”
Getting stats on gun ownership in the U.S. is a tricky business. The FBI keeps records on the number of firearms purchase-related criminal background checks (for a while) and notes which states generate same....
Pot Growers in Shotgun Shakedown
Chieftan.com reports that three shotgun-wielding robbers invaded the home of a Pueblo, Colorado man and stole prescription medicine, money, a purse, a laptop, a cellphone and a marijuana plant. Yes, well, there is that....
Uncle Sam Collects $2,035,154,440 in Firearms Taxes (2009)
That's a lot of money. O.K., it used to be a lot of money, before Uncle Sam decided to max out his (our) metaphorical credit cards. And then some. Still, the National Shooting Sports Foundation...