Classic Gun Review: Marlin Model 39 .22 Lever Action Rifle

By Chris Dumm The Marlin Model 39 claimed to be the oldest continually-produced cartridge rifle in history.  Its parent design was born during the unexceptional presidency of Benjamin Harrison, whose bust never even made it onto the Mount Rushmore Commemorative Paperweight.  Unlike that former Commander-In-Chief, this 19th Century Fox was blessed with what sales and … Read more

Detroit Concealed Carry Permit Holder Shoots Armed Attacker – Defensive Gun Use of the Day

An unidentified Michigan concealed carry license holder used his firearm outside a grocery store Sunday to defend his life and that of his cousin. Estimates of the number of annual defensive gun uses vary from as low as 150,000 to as many as 2 million per year, depending on the survey and the source. Whatever … Read more

Gear Review: Bore-Tips Cleaning Swabs

Courtesy Chris Dumm for The Truth About GunsIf you’re like me you’ve got at least two dozen bore brushes, jags and swabs rattling around in your cleaning kit, along with at least one partially shredded pillow case that you cut up for cleaning patches. This can lead to some confusion and delay at cleaning time, especially after my jumbo shooting tackle box has spent the day tumbling around in the back of my truck, tossing my carefully sorted cleaning supplies into a metallic salad liberally doused with Hoppe’s No. 9 Vinaigrette. If you feel my pain, the Swab-Its company would like to help simplify your life, or at least your cleaning kit, with their line of Bore-Tips reusable cleaning rod swabs . . .

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Gun Review: Caracal 9c 9mm Pistol w/Quick Sights

By Chris Dumm Hold the presses! There’s a new polymer-framed, striker-fired double-stack 9mm with a revolutionary design that will take the handgun market by storm! I know what you’re thinking: “How can I live without another plastic wondernine? I’ll be sure to rush out and buy it, as soon as I finish handloading a few … Read more

10 Quick Rounds With the Caracal C: Not Your Daily Dose Of Muzzle Flip

 

When Joe Grine and I shot our ‘Muzzle Flip‘ video, my old friend took some heat for the way his old-school Modified Weaver stance didn’t exactly nullify what recoil the SIG P6, Glock 17 and Steyr M9 produced.

In response to your criticism, however, I decided to shoot a quick string with the Caracal C using the more modern high-thumb Isosceles hold I’m trying to adopt. The camera does jump around a little bit, but the gun itself has almost no jump at all…

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Gun Review: SIG SAUER P250 9mm 2SUM

I’ve never owned a SIG SAUER pistol, but I’ve shot a crate of them over the last few decades. Whether I had a 220, 226 or 229 pointed downrange, I always knew what to expect from a SIG: expensive, Swiss quality all-metal pistols with absolutely unfailing reliability, bulky grips, very high bore axes and long, stacking DA trigger pulls. The P250 turns most of these stereotypes upside-down. Well, except for reliability and that bore height thing . . .

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NW Burglars Continue To Not Get It: Another Burglar Killed, More Flee

While the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin saga unfolds in Florida amid protests and death threats, a different story is quietly playing itself out in the opposite corner of the country. But you might not know much about it, because this Northwest self-defense story isn’t getting much airplay on network news. Maybe because it doesn’t play into their race-baiting, anti-gun narrative.

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