Inheriting JR’s Gun
By Steve Wilson
We like to describe our guns as tools, implements to complete a job. This is true at face value. However for many of us, shooting runs in the family whether it be...
Texas Firearms Engraver Otto Carter Completes Aesthetic-Style Cabot 1911 TTAG Project Gun
The art of engraving dates back to the dawn of human history. Archeologists have unearthed engraved stones from the Serengeti Plains of Africa carved some 500,000 years ago. Since that time, as civilizations rose and fell, artisans...
English Gun Law: a Colonial Import
Gun control -- restrictions on gun ownership -- was not a common or popular phenomena in Europe until after the First World War. One of the most influential gun control laws was instituted in England and...
Obscure Object of Desire: The Howdah Pistol
Underneath our post Palm Beach Zoo Tiger Kills Keeper: It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use, TTAG commentators theorized what pistol they'd carry as a zookeeper working around tigers. A couple of clued-in pistoleros...
Mormon Leader Brigham Young’s Colt Pistol for Sale
Rock Island Auctions Press Release
Direct descendants of early Mormon Church leader Brigham Young will place the patriarch's personal Colt revolver up for sale as the flagship item at an Illinois firearms auction held...
A [Very] Brief History of the AR-15
Tom McHale writes :
According to the news media, an AR 15 Rifle is any gun that someone uses in the act of doing something bad. What is an AR-15 really? Technically speaking, AR-15 is a...
Oklahoma Senate Nears Vote on RKBA Reform Bill
Oklahoma Second Amendment supporters, particularly OK2A, have been pushing for a reform of the state constitution's weak protection of the right to keep and bear arms. A bill currently under consideration has strong support,...
Northern Mariana Islands Set to Replace Unconstitutional Gun Laws with More Unconstitutional Gun Laws
The United State District Court for the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) recently ruled that the island chain's gun laws -- written by a peace corps volunteer in the 1970's -- are unconstitutional. The House and...
Gun Review: Purdey 1883 English Sporting 12 ga. Shotgun [Content Contest]
By Gabriel Carter
One gun that I'll never sell or give away -- except to my son -- belonged originally to my great great grandfather, Weetman Pearson. It's a Purdey side-by-side in 12 ga., one of...
Obscure Object of Desire: The Ithaca Auto & Burglar Gun
While in central Oregon looking at some properties recently, I stopped by a buddy's house to drop off some ammo and a jug of his favorite hooch. After catching up on our jobs, lives and...
Gun Review: Brethren Armament BA 9mm Compact Pistol (MP5K)
The MP5 was the apex predator of its day. Here on the 50th anniversary of the very first production run military and law enforcement organizations around the globe continue to deploy the gun. That said, the firearms...
Eliminate the Carry Ban at U.S. Post Offices
Donald Trump is the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Despite previous support for an assault weapons ban, Mr. Trump has adopted an irreproachable Second Amendment platform. (His son and surrogate, Donald Trump Jr., is pro-2A through-and-through.) Trump's only...