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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?
The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...
Reader’s Gun: 1903 Colt Automatic Pistol
We begin this series with a 1903 Colt Automatic .32 Hammerless Pistol owned by Steven Michael Fusco, proprietor of Estates Unlimited, Inc. in Cranston, R.I. Mr. Fusco showed me this beautifully preserved piece---which he...
Gun Bribes Highlight Afghan Corruption
And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn. I'm going to Afghanistan. A country whose rigged elections and endemic corruption was the focus of...
How Not to Review a Gun: Taurus Judge
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