Eighteen years ago today I was riding my motorcycle to work, a little late, but almost there. My boss, Governor Rick Perry, called me along the way, and I had to pull over to get the phone out, take off my helmet, and answer him. He asked me if I still had family in New […]
By Larry Keane NASCAR is waving a caution flag on guns. In fact, it looks like it’s a pit stop when it comes to firearms advertising. The sport borne of bootleggers and popularized by drivers running just on the inside edge of being out of control is now cautioning team owners that the ads on […]
If you were among the thousands who attended the three Texas Firearms Festivals that TTAG put on in years past, you’ve been to Best of the West Shooting Sports in Liberty Hill, Texas. It’s located bout 40 minutes northwest of Austin. Best of the West is one of the best public ranges in the area […]
Hurricane Dorian is bearing down on Florida. The latest word is that it will make landfall somewhere on Florida’s Atlantic coast late Sunday night or early Monday morning as a category four storm. If you live in the southeast, you likely already have a disaster preparedness plan for just these kinds of situations. Let’s hope […]
A reader who prefers to remain anonymous writes . . . As I sit here writing this, I am forced to decide what firearm I should sell to come up with the extra money to pay some bills. It pains me to sell any of them, not because they are high end, not because they […]
By Larry Keane As the argument surrounding gun control and the Second Amendment occupies daily space in the mainstream media, anti-gun zealots must resort to increasingly outlandish claims in order to get the attention they seek. Most recently, U.S. Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-La.) compared the current campaign to force new gun restrictions through Congress to efforts by […]
By Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D. Mass shootings are a heinous crime, and for the victims and the rest of the population, a tragedy. That should not detract from the fact that many, if not most, of the culprits are deranged malcontents, who in many ways are aberrant products of the times in which we live. Nor […]
By now, the arbitrary and capricious use of opaque site policies, terms and “standards” by various internet platforms to de-fund, suspend and ban firearms-related publications and businesses is old news. But sometimes the pasty-faced techno-wizards who run the dominant social media sites manage to surprise even us. The latest victim of the ban hammer is…The […]
In response to the El Paso shooting, Texas Governor Greg Abbott created something called the Texas Safety Commission. According to KXAN . . . This commission is tasked with developing an immediate action plan for the state in the wake of the El Paso shooting that killed 22 people. According to a press release from the […]
By Warren Lind On July 9th the U.S. Secret Service released a report on mass attacks. Here are the key findings, followed by my analysis: One-third of the attackers who terrorized schools, houses of worship or businesses nationwide last year had a history of serious domestic violence, two-thirds had mental health issues, and nearly all had made […]
The anti-gun furies are out in full force after three mass shootings (four, if you consider Brooklyn, which no one seems to) in a space of less than ten days. It’s the perfect opportunity to politicize mass murder, call for someone to do something and assign blame to politicians that the anti-gun left doesn’t like. […]
Reader Cliff M. writes: The gun rights crowd is overrun with freedom freeloaders: Folks who refuse to participate in gun rights groups, communicate with their representatives in government, or even vote. We used to get away with this, but Bloomberg’s years of spending are changing this rapidly. Let’s take a look at this weekend’s Bloomberg-financed […]
