Question of the Day: Facing an Armed Assailant: Who Can Resist?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c06mH6x2Ntc
TTAG commentator Aaron is not sure he'll...
The Incredible Importance of Re-Holstering
I am always amazed at the number of people I encounter at gun ranges who practice their draw. Excluding law enforcement officers, the current count stands at one. One young, Army-bound kid who'd been...
Obscure Object of Desire: Defender by US PALM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRawHbC1vc&feature=player_embedded
I keep a set of active ear protectors near my home defense long guns. I know it's seems a bit ridiculous. Why would I take the time to put on the cans before communing...
TTAG Commentator Buuurr: What You Need to Survive a Gunfight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IHQqW8zOSk
For me, Robert, I think that anyone that has not been in a fight will not do well at all in a gunfight. It may sound silly but after that first crisp jab to...
The Last Word on Home Defense
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7neKZSRLo
Unless you're trying to dial 911 while holding your shotgun. Or you're not actually walking around the house with a Saiga shotgun when the attack occurs. Or you're worried about the location of friendlies....
Question of the Day: Will You Be Able to Think in A Gunfight?
Props to the straight man. Dean Martin. Moe. Bud Abbott. Without a great straight man, the funny guy isn't nearly so funny. Although the relationship between the two trainers at firearms.atactv.com is extremely tight, it must...
Springfield XD-M Cracks Under Pressure. What Now?
The most common reason semi-automatic handguns suffer catastrophic failure: hand-loaded ammo. The main reason they have an FTF (failure-to-fire)? Magazine-related issues. Then it's operator error, including poor maintenance. After that we're into the realm...
Three Ways to Fight a Home Invasion
You want irony? Here's irony. "Santa Clara County sheriff's detectives are searching for three men who are accused of breaking into a Gilroy homeowner's home," mercurynews.com reports. "Tying him up, beating him and making off...
Armed Encounter: Denver’s Kung Fu Clerk Comes a Cropper
Wait! Don't watch the video yet. What's wrong with this sentence: "Being trained in martial arts, Edri tried to disarm the robber." I mean, if that's all you knew about the story, would you...
Weatherby Chambers Mark V Accumark & TRR in Lapua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhuEWEUzACw&feature=player_embedded
How can something be "almost iconic"? Isn't that like being "almost pregnant"? Regardless (ir redacted for pedant's sanity), young master Weatherby's not wrong about Dad's Mark V Accumark rifle. And if he is---if the...
The Massad Ayoob Chronicles, Part VI
Well, campers, all good things must come to an end, and I'm afraid this is final installment of our first interview with Massad Ayoob. On a personal note, I can tell you that this...
The Taliban Confirm It: Folding Firearms Are the Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8k9neqVZYs
C.J. Chivers is the best thing to happen to the New York Times since Neil Sheehan, the reporter who broke his promise to military analyst Daniel Ellsberg and went public with the Pentagon Papers. Chivers'...