TTAG Irresponsible Owner of the Day (Russian Edition)
Inexperienced shooter. Semi-automatic pistol. Lack of attentive instruction. What could go wrong? Well, let's see. Aleksandra Voronkova, 33 and her boyfriend like to shoot at the Khishchnik Club and decided to invite friends from...
Obscure Object of Desire: TP-82
If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, the Russian TP-82 is a survival firearm designed by The People's Committee on What Russian Cosmonauts Should Carry If We Can't Find Them in...
LA Gov. Haley Barbour: “Shoot to Kill” Instrux Stopped Post-Katrina Looting
Haley Barbour is running for president. And so the Republican Mississippi Governor finds himself in New Hampshire, looking to tick all the right boxes to prove that he's a "real" conservative. And presidential material. Which...
Does an 11-Year-Old Deserve a Taser Jump Start?
The details about a Prince George BC Canada Taser incident in which an 11-year-old kid got juiced are somewhat sketchy. In fact, they are sketchy enough to provoke more questions than answers about the...
Nazi Merchandise on Sale at Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot
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It matters to mediamatters.com. And those of us who've lost relatives to Nazi death camps, regardless of the source of the information.
Question of the Day: Are Gun Control Advocates Cowards?
I know that's a tad incendiary. But it could have been worse. I could've asked "Are Gun Control Advocates Delusional Cowards?" That question popped into my head yesterday, when Gunfight pinup Colin Goddard declared...
If Mexican Drug Lords Are Terrorists, American Dope Smokers Are . . .
The gun violence south of America's border is staggering, in terms of its ferocity and pervasiveness. In fact, it's time to stop worrying if Mexico has descended into a hotbed of terrorism. It IS...
HBO Documentary Gunfight: Anti-Gun Sandbag Job
Well, I gave Oscar-winning documentarist Barbara Kopple the benefit of the doubt. After watching Gunfight on HBO, I can state without equivocation that it was a heavily tilted, barely disguised polemic presenting the argument...
NYT: Gunfight Doc “Clearly Cautionary” (a.k.a. a Sandbag Job)
The New York Times has seen Barbara Kopple's HBO documentary Gun Fight, which airs tonight at 9:30 pm EST. According the Gray Lady (the Times), "The narration-free film, which combines interviews and visits to...
Violence Policy Center: The NRA is The Firearms Industry’s Bitch
Yesterday, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Average Americans from Owning Firearms---sorry, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence posted a video demonstrating how not to shoot a Glock with a "happy stick." Sorry, they...
Firearms Accidents Even Rarer Than Hen’s Teeth
Unintentional firearms deaths have been falling steadily since 1981 and fell off the table in 1993 as the graph plainly shows. The question is why? For the period 1981 to 1998 (the last year data...
Portland Gun Buyback: $4,032 per gun
Sam Adams , the scandal-plagued mayor of Portland, Oregon, is touting the 'success' of his recent anti-gun efforts. TTAG has reported on his antics previously. Last weekend's gun turn-in orchestrated by Ceasefire Oregon, prevented...