Trump Will Get Another Warm NRA Convention Welcome
President Trump will address the NRA convention today for the third year in a row.
Some people associated with other, more strident gun-rights groups have criticized Mr. Trump over the bump-stock ban and some NRA...
Existential Threat: The Crisis at the NRA
By Adam Kraut
Over the past few months news of impropriety, questionable business dealings, lack of transparency regarding the inner workings of the NRA, and outrageous compensation have emerged. While the source for a lot...
John Wesley Hardin’s Smith & Wesson First Model Russian Revolver
The outlaw John Wesley Hardin used this revolver to kill Brown County Deputy Sheriff Charles Webb in a gunfight outside of Jack Wright’s saloon in Comanche, Texas, on May 26, 1874. Webb was attempting...
Miniature Masterpiece: 1/3rd-Scale Wilson Flintlock Pistol
Based on the Lorenzoni system from the 18th century, this miniature pistol was made by Peter Dyson. In an era of single-shot muzzleloaders, which required a great deal of time and effort to reload, the...
2018 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits Gun Collector Awards Results
The 2018 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits were held in Dallas on May 4-6. A total of 19 gun collector clubs set up exhibits on Collectors’ Row and competed for the annual awards for...
Ruger’s First Pistol Named One of 2018’s Ten Best Historic Arms
Every year, one of my favorite sections of the NRA’s Annual Meetings & Exhibits is Collectors Row. Last year, the Ruger Owners & Collectors Society (ROCS) brought a really cool gun to their display...
Washington Post: Who Are You Going to Believe, Us or Your Lyin’ Eyes?
Is it that time again already? Time to downplay the number of gun owners in the US in hopes of further marginalizing us? Apparently it is. The Washington Post ran an article yesterday intended...
Is the Ideal Conceal ‘Cell Phone’ Pistol the Second Most Hated Gun in America?
As I weaved my way through the booths on the NRA show floor heading for exit for the last time yesterday, I ran smack-dab into the Ideal Conceal booth. You probably know them as...
Mossberg’s Shockwave Now Available In Softer-Shooting .410 Bore
The Mossberg Shockwave's been a popular choice for home defense and as a truck gun. But the 12 gauge version of the non-NFA firearm, while certainly packing a punch, certainly isn't anyone's idea of...
Alyssa Milano Reads the ‘Gun Safety Bill of Rights’
Following the StudentsMarch.org rally across the street from the NRA this morning, another group, the allegedly celebrity-driven NoRA (geddit?) held a smaller, more anemic get-together a few blocks away. The headliner was Alyssa Milano...
Scenes From the StudentsMarch.org Rally 4 Reform Outside the NRA Convention
TTAG's cameras were there this morning as about 250 anti-gun activists convened in the shadow of Dallas City Hall, across the street from the convention center where almost 80,000 NRA members looked over guns...
Knife Check Greatly Appreciated on Rainy Day Trump Speech at NRA Annual Meeting
No matter what you may have read, both open and concealed carry of guns and knives was generally legal and accepted at the NRA Annual Meeting of 2018. There was one obvious exception: the...