Gun Review: Sig Sauer P938
In recent years there has certainly been no shortage of sub-compact, "pocket-sized" 9mm pistols to choose from. Market demand has spoken, and manufacturers have answered with available products. However, if you're a "cocked &...
Gun Review: Kel-Tec KSG Shotgun
Every now and then an invention completely redefines a genre. The iPhone. The microwave oven. Snuggies. The Kel-Tec KSG. While the 14+1 round shotgun doesn't instantly render current home defense scatterguns obsolete---wait. There's no...
Gun Review: Heckler & Koch VP9
HK is no stranger to striker-fired pistols, but it's been a while since they've designed a new one -- close to four decades. With the VP9 hot off the presses, the wait is over and...
Gun Review: GLOCK 17 Gen 4 [Updated 2018]
GLOCK 17 Gen 4 Review
GLOCK is the single most popular manufacturer of handguns in the United States. Thanks to a marketing department that could sell bayonets to millionaires and billionaires, GLOCK's brick-like semi-automatic pistols...
Gun Review: SIG SAUER P239
With all the new micro/mini/nano/sub-particle subcompact pistols on the market today one CCW option is continually over-looked - the subcompact. Large enough to soak up the recoil of its full power cartridge, yet small...
Gun Review: Glock 26 Gen 4 [Updated 2018]
When conversation turns to the subject of Gaston's creations, it seems that most people fall into one of two categories. The first are those who think that Jesus Christ (or your personal religious deity...
Gun Review: Ruger SR1911
My wife can’t stand bluegrass. She associates banjos and fiddles with inbreeding and sodomy. Sam’s from Africa; what does she know? Bluegrass is blues for white people. God knows we white folks need our...
Gun Review: SIG SAUER MPX Pistol
The SIG SAUER MPX might be the most anticipated new "rifle" among TTAG's readers. Sight unseen in the civilian market, they awarded it the highest honor last year naming it 2014's Best New...
Gun Review: SIG SAUER P229 Legion Series 9mm
SIG SAUER enthusiasts are legion. I don’t count myself amongst their number. SIG’s handguns are reliable, accurate and only slightly harder to look at than Makenzie Leigh. But I don’t get on with their...
Gun Review: GLOCK 19 Gen4 9mm Pistol
When Gaston Glock introduced his GLOCK 17 Austrian duty pistol made it to the USA, American gun-buying habits were transformed. Despite (or because of) the furore surrounding Glock's "plastic" pistol--supposedly invisible to airport metal...
The Truth About Pistol De-Cockers
by Frank Sharpe
There are a number of operating systems common to modern pistols, and we still see most on the range regularly. However, 85 percent of the guns students show up with fall into...
Guns For Beginners: The Best Carry Handgun(s) For Women
I recently came across an article at Water n' Woods called The Overall Best Handgun For Women. The post claims that a Smith & Wesson .38 special snub nose revolver is the best gun for women. Wow....