Shotguns

So it looks like I'm in the market for some parts for the venerable 870. No problem...Midway USA to the rescue. But not so fast, buck-o. The Mighty Wingmaster is apparently the shotgun version of a Jeep Wrangler - or what the AR-15 is to carbines - a platform that allows, nay encourages you to modify it in almost any way you can imagine.

Surprised? I don't think so. Those of you allergic to bureaucracy are about to get a back attack of paperworkitis : On November 12, 2008, Guidos filed paperwork to get her five guns back...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKd0JRCZi9I (Clip NSFW - Rated "R" for language & violence) "Back in 2007, as the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-feature film, Grindhouse, was being released, there was a contest challenging the public to create their own grindhouse/exploitation film trailer,"  the citizen journalists...

Azcentral.com reports that today's the day that the city will pay its criminals $50 gift cards for each and any stolen gun they turn into the authorities. Anyone with an ounce of common sense...

I like Taser. Their non-lethal weapons offer an effective and relatively clean and tidy alternative to lethal force. (Howie Mandel's weapon of choice?) It's easy to reach Taser's PR guy; Steve Tuttle's faster than...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k8H20SBRFA&feature=player_embedded TTAG can now confirm that Hobo With A Shotgun will, at some point, be a movie, rather than a seemingly endless series of movie trailers. How great is that?

Getting stats on gun ownership in the U.S. is a tricky business. The FBI keeps records on the number of firearms purchase-related criminal background checks (for a while) and notes which states generate same....

According to wbay.com, the Green Bay (WI) police are adopting the TASER XREP round. I didn't see anything wrong with their story. But then I don't work for TASER's PR department. Steve Tuttle does. What's...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtg8AjJDFgM Here's a YouTube clip featuring the same Hatsan shotgun used by Miles "the Crazy Texan" Slade (Ian Somerhalder) in The Tournament (reviewed by our own Robert Fure). Quick aside: doesn't ANYONE shoulder this bad boy (Die...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58dHRmc2cB8&feature=player_embedded While researching my next gun---some sort of revolver---I stumbled upon the issue of barrel porting. The previously mentioned Gemini Customs gumsmithery uses something they call the In-Line Hybra Port, available as an in-line V4...

Chieftan.com reports that three shotgun-wielding robbers invaded the home of a Pueblo, Colorado man and stole prescription medicine, money, a purse, a laptop, a cellphone and a marijuana plant. Yes, well, there is that....