ArmsDealer.net: Google for Gun Shops
Gun stores tend to have the same advertising scheme as prostitutes: word of mouth and a sign on the street. Even here in Virginia I don't think I've ever seen a T.V. commercial for...
Teeing up the NRA
As the city of St. Louis rubs its collective hands together preparing to welcome what one local barkeep calls "red-blooded Americans with good American money," TTAG's gearing up to carpet bomb the NRA Annual...
TTAG NRA Convention is Go
I'm sitting here in the press room, watching the Gun Blast guy scarf a muffin as the creme de la creme of the firearms media gathers for the National Rifle Association's annual gathering of...
Ton is in Da House
One of my favorite reality TV shows is "Auction Hunters". At the NRA convention, Clinton "Ton" Jones was ambling his way across my path, his distinctive tattoos the thing that prompted my recognition.
With his partner Allen Haff, they...
WTF-NRA Unprepared for New Media?
OK - just a small beef - the internet in the press room is terrible. Slow, I get bumped off, and did I mention it is slow? By being here, the new media press can...
Rural Democrat (Yes, Democrat!) Pushing for Carry MetroLink
Fortunately before I came to St. Louis I checked the carry laws. I knew that MO accepted all permits, so my MN permit would allow me to carry; but I discovered that it is...
QOTD: How Do We Increase Diversity in the Gun Community?
Okay, I know that sounds like a horrendously lefty-type question, but at the barbecue strategy meeting Thursday evening, Robert brought up the question of how do we bring more minorities/"people of color" into the...
New(ish) from CMMG: Ambidextrous Upper Receiver
CMMG released this product at SHOT (yet somehow forgot to mention it to me when I stopped by their booth), but they're here and showing off some of their production models at NRA this...
New from Tapco: Smooth Sided Magazines
FINALLY! The main complaint I've had with Tapco's AK-style magazines is that they're ugly as sin. I understand why people want ridges on their magazine (grippiness and such) but I don't envision myself ever...
NRA Celebration of American Values Leadership Forum (with Fog Machines!)
Okay, I can understand having The 1812 Overture or Hooray for the Red White and Blue playing over the sound system, but fog machines?!?
Anyway, having hiked all the way out to BFE (thank G-d...
New from Colt: M2012
It seems like precision long range rifles for the commercial market is the new trend. For a long time it was only the Big Names in precision (Barrett, APO, AI...) who were making great...
Hunting . . .
Victoria Frick works for the United Sportsmen's Youth Foundation. The org teaches kids about conservation. It seeks to conserve land near school "where kids are!" And it wants to "offer all youth the opportunity...