Guns for Beginners

The final curriculum for an optional class on firearms safety to be taught in Virginia public schools has been approved. It has some serious flaws. For starters, in talking about firearms safety, it raises...

  For most shooters, regular live practice is impractical. Range fees, travel time, ammo cost and wear and tear on equipment render daily live fire practice economically impossible. Whether we're talking about a firearms owner focusing...

Third-Party Defense Things become more complex when a defender attacks an aggressor to protect a third-party. In some states, the defender stands in the shoes of the defendee. If the defendee is, for example, an...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPUMzssAZPE The last time we checked in with Jim Green, the mustachioed proprietor of Down East Gunworks had a client elbow-deep in bear guts. Jim's just sent me a link to his latest video, after...

Glocks are safe. Of course they are. If you keep your finger off the trigger, a Glock will not fire. Never. Not once. Ever. Adhering to that simple rule, you could carry a Glock...

  The world is demonstrably dangerous. Any possibility of a threat of harm to my children is reason enough for me to be willing and able to defend them. As for my wife, I believe...

Thanks again to Aaron Spuler for sharing this contest list with TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia. Please click on weapon-blog.com to show Mr. Spuler a little link love. Handguns Sig Sauer 1911 Ultra Deadline: September 30, 2011 http://www.sigsauer.com/TeamSig/Sweepstakes.aspx Smith & Wesson Engraved Model...

In the course of reviewing the Timney Trigger on my Ruger 10/22, I had a fairly major failure. A case ruptured and sprayed my shooting booth with shrapnel and debris. Just like every negligent...

The M16 A4 is the U.S. Marines' standard-issue combat rifle. RCO stands for Rifle Combat Optic. Trijicon manufactures the AN/PVQ-31A for the Marines' M16 A4 rifle. In case that's not enough to decipher...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E3TLUEVHXo I'm relatively new to the gun world. I've just completed a half-day of instruction with Dave Starrin at Gunsite. We started with dry fire practice and progressed to controlled pairs at three and seven...

It seems like every major gunmaker--and several dozen lesser ones-- is now selling a .22lr version of their AR-15. The American Tactical Imports VK-22 gives you an M4-styled flattop .22lr upper mated to a...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg9Mkns_hXw TTAG Commentator Aaron Woodin writes: “There are a lot of tactical training schools and instructors out there. How do you know before, during and even after the class if these people are worth the time...