Personal Defense

Trick or treat, smell their feet cash. The Bloomington, Illinois Police Department will be hosting a “gun buyback” this Sunday, October 29th. They're seeking "unwanted" or unloved guns and they're paying a premium price...

A TTAG Reader writes: Innumerable articles have been written about the defensive use of firearms, especially handguns. Due to the high number of current and former combat veterans, much of the self-defense literary efforts seem...

Israel Loosens Strict Gun Control Laws To Arm Citizens https://t.co/8Ux3yJTGre — Leon W Todd (@leontodd) October 19, 2023 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Citizens in two countries are reminding Americans that Second Amendment rights and a robust firearm and ammunition manufacturing...

The original assassins had hashish, the Moros in the Philippines used a native opioid, the Somali pirates and terrorists chew khat, and now there is a new terrorist drug of choice...Captagon. Numerous dead Hamas...

noted that some 100,000 people had applied for weapons in the last two weeks since the October 7 Hamas attack. She asked for “patience” given the massive load on the firearms licensing department....

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2hn6AVCVro Movement is a topic that's mostly misunderstood and rarely practiced. As a foundational skill, it should be part of every competent gunman's skill set. Why is movement so important? Because a moving target is...

You've heard it dozens of times. No one needs more than 10 rounds in a magazine. If you can't stop a threat with 10 rounds, you're doing it wrong. Woolly-headed utopian anti-gun activists justify...

If you haven't thought about what to do and say after a use of force incident, you really should. After all, you don't want to avoid victimization by a criminal attacker only to be...

The annual State Fair of Texas is currently under way at Fair Park fairgrounds just east of Dallas. It's big -- as you'd expect the Texas state fair to be -- with lots to...

There's a Substack colum that I read occasionally called Weapons and Strategy and it's written by Steven Bryen. And in his commentary on the Israeli attacks, the very end of his commentary, he came...

The Land of Lincoln's mandatory gun registration scheme kicked off on October 1st. The Illinois General Assembly has burdened the state's residents with both the SAFE-T Act (otherwise known as "no cash bail") and...