New Jersey to Make Killing a Cop Even More Illegal-er
There's an old rule of thumb that states that any law that's named after someone is almost invariably ill-conceived and poorly written. The reason: named laws (Anton's Law or Meghan's Law) are typically enacted...
Carl’s Jr. Shooting and the Use of Force Continuum
The internet is on fire following the release of the video of a deadly shooting outside a Carl’s Jr. in East LA. Armchair commandos, Canadian car guys, average Joes, military vets and law enforcement...
Unequal Protection For The Second Amendment
South Carolina's new voter ID act has been in the news lately, with various civil rights groups and the Department of Justice damning it as discriminatory and racist. In fact, DoJ Civil Rights Division...
The Carl’s Jr. Shooting: Food for Thought
I watched the YouTube video from the fast food restaurant shooting story presented by Robert Farago and tried to digest what I witnessed - both in the video and the subsequent comments by posters...
NSW [Australia] Greens: Three Guns and Done
Never take your gun rights for granted. Never believe that "common sense" gun regulations are OK because, well, they seem to make sense. Always keep in mind that the expression "the camel's nose under the tent"...
It’s Time for State-Mandated Voter Training. Or not.
The Athens Banner-Herald published an editorial a couple of days ago that supported a bill in the GA legislature which, "would require applicants to complete a four-hour firearms safety training course from either a...
Public Service Announcement: Protect your Ears
Normally, my local range can get me a lane in less than five minutes. There are two nights where this isn’t the case. Monday is ladies night and every other Wednesday brings the Sure...
SHOT 2012: I’m So Sick of Zombies I Could Puke
If some other bloggers are calling SHOT 2012 "The Year Of The Zombie," I think they're missing something important. SHOT 2012 was really "The Year The Zombie Jumped The Shark." Zombie ammo? Check. Zombie...
A New ‘Wave’ of Constitutional Rights Violations
The latest buzz is that the NYDP is testing new body scanners that will allow New York’s Finest to stay in their cars and scan people for weapons using something called terahertz wave scanners....
Chris Dumm’s SHOT Show Wrap-Up
This week was one for the record books. End even though I'm dead on my feet I'm sorry to see it end. We've collectively walked hundreds of miles, handled hundreds of guns, and bumped...
NSSF: Shooting Industry Suffers from 40% Return/Defect Rate
Thanks in no small part to our gavel-to-gavel SHOT Show coverage, TTAG is now acknowledged as the biggest and baddest firearms-related blog out there. Nick and I were a tad surprised (and not a...
ATF Death Watch 134: Why Not Eliminate the ATF?
In what appears to be a pre-emptive move to appeal to centrist and fiscally conservative voters this coming November, President Obama has proposed abolishing and/or merging five federal agencies and the Department of Commerce. ...