AR-15 Rifle Basics: Understanding Iron Sights
There is literally no end to the number of items that can be mounted on an AR-15 rifle in some fashion, whether it's a high-end $4,000 scope designed for extreme range shooting or a...
The Media Will Go to Any Lengths to Smear American Firearm Makers While Carrying...
There’s peril when media sets out to confirm a narrative instead of reporting facts. Whether it’s criminal violence in America perpetrated by a deranged lunatic, or by violent drug cartels in countries beyond our...
Gun-Free Zones Kill: Data Shows Armed Citizens Stop Mass Killers Most of the Time
By Rob Morse
We live in a media-driven culture. We also have government agencies putting out biased reports that serve their political masters. And it's rare that the media even question those agencies' reports.
That wouldn’t...
Politics is Downstream of Culture: Let’s Look at Single-Parent Homes and Homicide Rates
Here's a fun fact using data published recently in an article at stacker.com listing states with the most single-parent households.
As always, correlation is not causation. That said, not one state of the ten ranked...
Faulty Data: CPRC Finds FBI Data Wildly Understates the Number of Active Shooters Stopped...
The FBI defines active shooter incidents as those in which an individual actively kills or attempts to kill people in a populated, public area. But it does not include shootings that are deemed related to other...
Refuting the Left’s Favorite Lie: No, Guns Don’t Kill More Children Than Cars
In further evidence of Americans’ waning attention spans, the once annual ritual of gun control activists and their media lackeys manipulating CDC fatal injury data to push a misleading factoid about children and firearms...
Ask TTAG: Why Does X Gun Cost So Much More than Y Gun?
Why do some guns cost substantially more than others? That's a question many of our readers have and you see it reflected in the comments, particularly when we review a more expensive gun.
TTAG reader...
Let’s Compare Homicide Rates in Medium Size Red and Blue Cities
Let's talk about homicide rates in red cities vs. blue cities of similar size.
The biggest cities in America are almost entirely Democrat-controlled. Of all cities with over 500,000 people -- 36 in total --...
Almost Three-Quarters of Gun Owners Cite Personal Defense as the Reason They Own Firearms
Gun owners in the United States continue to cite protection far more than other factors, including hunting and sport shooting, as a major reason they own a gun.
And while a sizable majority of gun...
Book Review: ‘A Pipe Hitters Guide to Small Arms & Weapons’ by Nicholas Orr
Some say a "pipe hitter" is member of a US military special ops branch. Think CAG, SEALS, Green Berets, Rangers and the like. Others use the term to describe anyone who's willing to go...
Wrong Again: Kamala Harris Prescribes a Public Health ‘Solution’ to ‘Gun Violence’
Vice President Kamala Harris believes gun control is a public health issue, giving Americans more reasons to be wary of gun control efforts.
The problem is, crime isn’t a disease, as much as gun control...
Why Aren’t the Killers in City Hall Ever Arrested, Charged, and Prosecuted?
By Rob Morse
Suppose a criminal commits a crime a gun. Go a step further and suppose he does something truly awful and shoots several people in the process. If you’re an anti-gun politician, the...