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'...
Personal Defense Weapons (PDW): A Solution in Search of a Problem?
Modern armies have faced a small dilemma: what should they use to arm personnel who are not fighting on the front line? A full-size rifle is too big to let them do...
The Massad Ayoob Chronicles, Part V
If you're just now joining the party, we strongly recommend that you go back and start at the beginning with Parts...
The Massad Ayoob Chronicles, Part IV
Okay campers, it’s time for the ‘red meat’ portion of the interview. Fasten your seat belts...it’s gonna be a bumpy flight, as we tackle Gabe Suarez, flying with guns, and self-defense products versus the...
The Massad Ayoob Chronicles, Part III
Massad Ayoob is The Man, in more ways that one. On the job with Law Enforcement since 1972, he's the go-to guy for the straight skinny on personal defense. This is the third in...
Sam vs. Joe Matafome’s Smith & Wesson Bone Collector
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8SSuFHiDmA
Sam's firing a Model S&W500 Bone Collector loaded with a 700-grain bullet at the American Firearms School, courtesy of TTAG commentator Joe Matafome. More large caliber hand cannon goodness to follow . . .
Discovery Channel “Kidnap and Rescue” Tomorrow, 9pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cimi_pk4SIQ