Reader Thundervoice writes . . . Earlier this week, a B-17 Flying Fortress crashed in Connecticut, resulting in seven fatalities and six people injured. That particular plane was a historic war bird that traveled the country giving rides to individuals wanting to get some small sense of what it was like for members of the […]
John, a sheepdog from Summerville, SC sends his “Fall” submission. Via Everyday Carry. In his pocket, he wears a Streamlight Pro-Tac 1L AA flashlight. And what he says is a Kershaw Emerson Knife… Even though I think it’s just an Emerson knife. And Emerson makes darn fine blades. Throw in a Gen 2 GLOCK 19 […]
Two Texas firms are combining their talents to create mo’ bettah suppressors for ARs and other rifles. From a recent release: F-1 Firearms, LLC., the Spring, Texas manufacturer of AR-style rifles and skeletonizing features, and Crux Suppressors, which manufactures lightweight titanium silencers, have formed a joint-operating and technology-sharing agreement to supply exciting firearms-suppression devices to […]
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. On The Growing Executive, The Waning Judicial, and President Trump Last week I penned an article about President Trump’s relationship with gun rights. My friend John Boch made some counterpoints, and a lot of you might […]
The current impeachment inquiry against President Trump is based on an anonymous whistleblower complaint lodged by an intelligence officer. That complaint and the Democrats’ impeachment push that resulted may have doomed any chance they had of getting a background check or red flag bill passed. The Second Amendment Foundation looks at the anonymous complaint and […]
Matt Larosiere gets it half right in Gun Rights Aren’t Safe in a Trump Presidency. Frankly, only a fool would think gun rights are safe in any presidency. Especially while plutocrats like Michael Bloomberg, George Soros and others seem so willing to spend big dollars to sway the less-informed. Again, Matt makes some good points […]
[ED: Earlier this year, when Maryland’s legislature was considering a range of new restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms, a local group called Patriot Picket attended the committee hearings in Annapolis letting legislators know that they would not comply. Read our post on the the group and the anti-gunners’ resulting freak-out here. […]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®) today is praising a milestone achievement of a 241 percent increase of state submissions of adjudicated mental health records to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System database since the firearms industry launched the FixNICS® campaign in 2013. Just 1.7 million such records existed in the FBI’s database when NSSF […]
What to do about products and brands that oppose our Second Amendment rights By Benjamin Rist My wife and I are moving soon, and we recently began watching Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, and decided we want to (at least loosely) follow the KonMari method of de-cluttering as we pack up. One of the fundamental […]
By Dr. Miguel Faria The mainstream media (MSM) have been sensationalizing mass shootings for the last three decades, reaching a crescendo in the last several months. They sensationalized gun violence as a way to put pressure on and force Congress to pass unconstitutional gun control laws that disarm the law-abiding citizen while doing nothing to […]
Today’s issue of TTDS may trigger some of the trigger-pullers out there. We are going to be taking a brief look at what are arguably the best AR triggers on the planet from Geissele Automatics. You can certainly do worse in the trigger world, but you’d have to try real hard and squint to find […]
How do you have a conversation with those who want to take your guns? As polarized as this country has become on the Second Amendment, that’s always a heated conversation. There is only one way for us as gun owners to have a chance, and that is to be like Mike Mihalski of Sons Of […]
