The Truth About 6.5mm Ammo
Ask anyone. Look on internet forums or in print magazines. Strike up a conversation at your local gun store. You'll hear it everywhere: the 6.5mm family of rounds are like a mystical laser beam. Efficiency? Lethality? The...
Gun Review: Thompson Submachine Gun
There are very few truly iconic firearms, ones that the lay public as well as gun nuts can identify at first sight. Not only are those instantly recognizable guns a perfect representation of the...
Student Loans, Fiscal Incompetence and Firearms: A Thought Experiment
Here's a little thought experiment. To be clear, I'm not proposing that this actually be done, but it might be worth discussing it with anti-2A types. It also makes a good talking point.
No doubt...
Competition Shooting 101: USPSA / IPSC
All right class, settle down. It's time to start the next lesson. First we looked at 3-gun competitions, king of the shooting sports. Then we looked at CMP / NRA High Power, the classiest...
Integrally Suppressed Sub-2000 From Liberty Suppressors
It seems like the small and quiet firearm is all the rage these days. I love my suppressed 10/22 takedown, but there's something to be said for applying the same treatment to a 9mm...
Frank Williams’ Bullet Backstop
Reader Frank Williams writes:
I live in a part of Cobb County, Georgia that is unusual in that it lies in between three towns, yet none of them have tried to annex this area. (Yet.)...
Do Silencers Reduce Muzzle Flash?
I was hanging out with the guys behind Dead Air Armament a week or so ago and while we may have been sleep deprived and slightly intoxicated, we had an idea. Silencers work great...
Gun Review: Cabelas Dual 10/.22 ‘Gatling Gun’
I like to shoot. A lot. Sometimes I like to shoot very quickly, but full-auto? Meh. I live in a state which prohibits machine guns, and I don't have literally tens of thousands of...
Ask Foghorn: What Are Offset Iron Sights For?
There's been some discussion about "offset iron sights" on a gun and why they're useful, so I figured that while I'm stuck on this airplane heading to Las Vegas for SHOT 2012 I may...
The Top 6 Firearm Choices for Gun Hipsters
I posted the above photo of my 1980's Cobray Pocket Pal on TTAG's Facebook page. The caption read, "Do I load my EDC with 3 rounds of .380 or 5 rounds of .22? Decisions,...
Turning Ploughshares into Swords: Man Builds AK-47 from Shovel
There's an old saying about turning swords into ploughshares. It's from the book of Isaiah in the bible actually, talking about a time when weapons will no longer be needed and the tools of...
Gun Review: M79 Grenade Launcher
There are guns, and then there are grenade launchers. Technically the same concepts apply, but one is exponentially more awesome than the other. So when Kevin pulled a pair of M79 grenade launchers and...