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Why Range Ammunition Is A Bad Choice For Your Self-Defense Gun

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Don't use range ammo as self-defense ammo. There are a number of good reasons why it's a bad idea. Range ammunition -- meaning full metal jacket or fragmenting ammunition in center fire rifles and pistol,...
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What’s the Difference Between Rimfire and Centerfire Ammunition?

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Are you a newbie when it comes to shooting? There are millions of new, first-time gun owners out there who have come to own a firearm in the last three-plus years. Are you confused...
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While More Americans are Armed, Don’t Expect That to Affect the Parties’ Stances on...

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By Rob Morse Our society is changing and those changes have resulted in many of us choosing to buy a firearm. We see crime rising around us. We notice that criminals are no longer routinely...

AR-15 Rifle Basics: Understanding Iron Sights

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There is literally no end to the number of items that can be mounted on an AR-15 rifle in some fashion, whether it's a high-end $4,000 scope designed for extreme range shooting or a...

The Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Smear American Firearm Makers While Carrying...

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There’s peril when media sets out to confirm a narrative instead of reporting facts. Whether it’s criminal violence in America perpetrated by a deranged lunatic, or by violent drug cartels in countries beyond our...

Gun-Free Zones Kill: Data Shows Armed Citizens Stop Mass Killers Most of the Time

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By Rob Morse We live in a media-driven culture. We also have government agencies putting out biased reports that serve their political masters. And it's rare that the media even question those agencies' reports. That wouldn’t...
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Politics is Downstream of Culture: Let’s Look at Single-Parent Homes and Homicide Rates

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Here's a fun fact using data published recently in an article at stacker.com listing states with the most single-parent households. As always, correlation is not causation. That said, not one state of the ten ranked...
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Faulty Data: CPRC Finds FBI Data Wildly Understates the Number of Active Shooters Stopped...

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The FBI defines active shooter incidents as those in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area. But it does not include shootings that are deemed related to other...
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Refuting the Left’s Favorite Lie: No, Guns Don’t Kill More Children Than Cars

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In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms...
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Ask TTAG: Why Does X Gun Cost So Much More than Y Gun?

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Why do some guns cost substantially more than others? That's a question many of our readers have and you see it reflected in the comments, particularly when we review a more expensive gun. TTAG reader...

Let’s Compare Homicide Rates in Medium Size Red and Blue Cities

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Let's talk about homicide rates in red cities vs. blue cities of similar size. The biggest cities in America are almost entirely Democrat-controlled. Of all cities with over 500,000 people -- 36 in total --...
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Almost Three-Quarters of Gun Owners Cite Personal Defense as the Reason They Own Firearms

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Gun owners in the United States continue to cite protection far more than other factors, including hunting and sport shooting, as a major reason they own a gun. And while a sizable majority of gun...