Crime Research Prevention Center Gives Update Report on Mass Shootings for 2023
Annually, Dr. John Lott at the Crime Research Prevention Center gives a report on updated statistics concerning so-called “mass shootings.” The data set that Lott used are statistics from 1998 to 2023. The FBI...
Interview with the Robot: AI’s Alarming Take on a Defensive Shooting in Oklahoma
Back in the 1990s when I worked for NRA's Publications Department, it was my job as a young editor to go through hundreds of envelopes we received each month in the mail and review...
SHOT Show 2024: Global Ordnance Unveils the Monolith
Global Ordnance will unveil the Monolith bufferless AR-style rifle series at the 2024 SHOT Show in Las Vegas this week. Here are some details from their press release:
This unique technical design of the Global...
Lessons For Gun Owners From The DOJ Uvalde Response Report
A few days ago, the Department of Justice released their report on the response to the Uvalde shooting in 2022. While we aren't all working for public safety or emergency management agencies, there are...
Mexico’s Lack Of Gun Rights Is Creating A Real Mess For The U.S.
As we all know, there's a big damned mess on the U.S. border right now. The State of Texas is trying its hardest to keep people from unlawfully crossing the Rio Grande, but to...
Johns Hopkins: More Gun Control Needed to Prevent Second Civil War
A recent report by the Center for Gun Violence Solutions, which is part of Johns Hopkins (Michael) Bloomberg School of Public Health, conflates private gun ownership with armed insurrection in order to advocate for...
Taiwan’s Civilians Prepare To Fight…With Airsoft
A recent video from The Guardian features interviews with several civil defense activists in Taiwan who want to better prepare their people for an invasion. But, Taiwan's government officials clearly need to get over...
Gun Owners From Everywhere Need To Show Up in New Mexico February 3rd
If you live in New Mexico, or even if you like to visit New Mexico, I encourage everyone who can to show up at an important gun rights rally on February 3. Residents of...
Police Need To Train For Longer Rifle Shots
In a recent article, I shared a lot of disturbing information about the Uvalde response. We already knew that the police had dropped the ball, and badly, but seeing all of the information put...
The TSA Shouldn’t Be Proud Of Their 2023 Gun Finding Numbers
In a recent press release, the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) announced that they found a bunch of guns in 2023. But, the numbers don't present the problem the agency thinks it does. If anything,...
New Analysis Of Uvalde Shooting Reinforces Need For Fast Action, Less Permission Seeking
We've written a lot of articles at TTAG about the shooting in Uvalde, Texas. But now, the better part of two years later, people are still looking at the facts from that day and...
Rise of War In 2023 Makes Gun Ownership More Precious Than Ever
A video from the last day of 2023 at the Task & Purpose YouTube channel gives a pretty good summary of the kinds of war our world saw in 2023. Not only does it...