Firearm Maintenance: A Few Thoughts From the Armorer’s Bench
Memorial Day weekend was upon us not too long ago and like many of us, I took the time to grill and chill. One thing that was bugging me, though, was that I had...
Is Your Gun Failing to Feed? Check Your Magazines
In our post earlier today on gift ideas for your favorite gun-owning father, Sam Hoober suggested buying pop some quality magazines. He correctly pointed out that a semi-automatic handgun's most common failure point is...
Gunsmithing Tools You Need: Left Hand Drill Bits
I was once stopped by a cop on my way to the ranch because of burnt out tail light. When I made it out to the ranch, I discovered that the head of one...
How To Custom Dye Your Polymer Gun Parts
Over the last couple years I have featured a couple of AR builds here at TTAG and elsewhere that had Russian Bakelite colored stocks and mags. Some people really loved the look of them...
3 Weird Tricks to Make Your 1911 .45 ACP Pistol More Reliable
The 1911 .45 ACP combat pistol, invented by John Moses Browning, set the groundwork for most modern pistols. It's a trusted combat handgun that has been used in more theaters of combat than any...
Are 80% Frames, 3D Printing, and the Ghost Gunner Now Obsolete?
The Bakersfield Police Department is reporting that they arrested a felony parolee who was "in possession of an airsoft gun that had been converted to fire .357-caliber ammunition and had six live rounds of...
When a Good Gun Goes Bad – Excerpt from ‘Gunsmithing Modern Firearms’
Gunsmithing Modern Firearms, A Gun Guy’s Guide To Making Good Guns Even Better, is Bryce Towlsey’s newest gunsmithing book. Towsley is a firearms expert who has spent his 38-year career writing for many of...
Accuracy Testing Your Rifle — Excerpt from ‘Gunsmithing: Rifles, 9th Edition’
Gunsmithing: Rifles, 9th Edition is the latest edition of Patrick Sweeney’s long-running gunsmithing book series.
Do you have a rifle that just won’t group, no matter what you try?
From hunting rifles to tactical and benchrest...
Under Pennsylvania’s New 80% Lower Standard, Virtually Anything Can Now be Defined as a...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro has issued a legal opinion that reportedly rules "80%" receivers and frames are now considered to be firearms.
Oh, no. As usual, it is much worse than that.
Any attempt to...
SHOT Show: All the Stippling Tips You Could Want
If you love the smell of burning plastic (in a properly ventilated room, of course), then the OTDefense line of stippling products will be as familiar as creatively shaped polymer.
Tyler Kee used an OTDefense...
SHOT Show: Universal Field Sight Pusher by RST
I recently bought a sight pusher for a GLOCK 17 to drift out a standard rear sight and install a new Ameriglo replacement. The tool was an MGW309 GLOCK Sight Adjustment Tool, Brownells #584-045-017,...
When CAD Software Is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Design Aircraft
I've questioned New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal's intelligence and sanity since he sued a California company last year under the novel legal theory that a nonexistent New Jersey law applies to a California...