Choosing a Handgun, Part II: Form Follows Function
There's an old saying in the gun world: the best gun is the one you have. That's nonsense. Well, kind of. Plenty of new handgun owners buy an overly powerful, over-large or ill-fitting handgun....
Reader’s Gun: Smith & Wesson Model 410 Pistol
Having grown up around numerous firearms (most every member of my extended family is a gun owner), it was never really a question of if I would purchase my own gun, but when. Even...
Chicago Mayor Daley: Why Can’t I Bring a Gun to the Supreme Court?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is staring down the barrel of a Supreme Court decision throwing out The Windy City's gun ban. This does not please Hizzoner, who is not used to people telling him...
Hollywood Versus Handguns
Films and firearms. Even before movies had sound, directors, producers and studios discovered that a lot of action, a bit of violence, and a whole lotta shootin' puts bums on seats. Then as now,...
TWHN BS: Nice Shootin’ Edition
I've been studying for my Rhode Island handgun permit. It's all basic stuff---provided you know a crashing bore from a dog muzzle (or something like that). As a long gun guy and recent convert...
Campaign to Arm and Train American Worshippers Continues
Dr. Ignatius Piazza is like a dog with a bone. When he finds a media meme that justifies his "most everyone should be armed and extremely well-trained," the Front Sight Firearms Training Institute founder...
Choosing a Handgun, Part III: Shooting from the Hip. Or Not.
“Hands up!” Let's be honest. At least once in your adult life, you've fantasized about saying those words (or words like them) as a cowboy/private detective/action hero to save the day in your...
Shooting Times Celebrates 50 Years of Handgun Innovations
It's hard to believe Shooting Times is about to pass the half century mark; I'd just turned zero when the mag was born. Bart Skelton marks the occasion with an article celebrating handgun innovation...
Random Notes from a Distant Friend: What The Snub Knows
Don’t spread it around, but, in 1979 I was a Civil Rights Observer with the Nashville police. I went out for eight-hour shifts and rode in the back of the squad car. The people...
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the U.S. Border Patrol’s Firearms. Well, Almost
I love gung-ho articles about law enforcement weaponry---especially pieces that read like a lecture from Sergeant Joe Friday. ("Maybe you think you're not hurting anyone by smoking marijuana, but you never saw a kid...
Choosing a Handgun, Part IV: Practical Practice
Buying a handgun for self defense is like a dog chasing a car. Unless the dog knows what to do with it once he's got it, it's not gonna do him a lot of...
Choosing a Handgun, Part VI: Stopping Power
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIayrDbVdJ0
Before I started down the road of responsible gun ownership, my perceptions about guns were shaped by Hollywood. Like most people that accept what they see on TV or sliver screen as gospel, I...