Question of the Day: Got Wood?

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It must be said: that's a lot of "l"s in until. And how is this SIG SAUER promotion extended to March 16th if the deal's only available to the first 250 callers? Quibbles. SIGs...

Gander Mountain Virtual Shooting Range: Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4WnxcSmbs Take a gander at this: a 360 degree shoot, no-shoot sim for self-defense-minded gun owners. Or non-gun owners. While the training benefits of Gander Mountain's Virtual Shooting Range are obvious, its drawbacks are equally...

Question of the Day: What Weapons Would You Use to Defend Your Mega-Yacht from...

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According to icc-ccs.org, here's where we stand in terms of piracy on the open seas off the coast of Somalia, as of March 1 . . . Incidents Reported for Somalia: Total Incidents: 61 Total Hijackings:13 Total Hostages: 243 Total...

Question of the Day: Are Guns Your Hobby?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y76u3IbtKy4 Gun control advocates view videos like this one with revulsion. It's not just the porno movie music that sets them on edge. Whenever they see civilians running around armed to the teeth, they wonder...

Question of the Day: Could You Handle Shooting Another Human Being?

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The one question that the rabbi asks before he gives any of his students instruction: could you kill another human being? I know that some members of TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia have been there, done...

Question of the Day: What Are Your Top Criteria For Picking A Top Ten...

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Yesterday, RF linked to a Top Ten List of Handguns and asked TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia for their picks. Missing from the original selection and this website's second guessing: any criteria for making that selection....

Question of the Day: What Are Your Top Ten Handguns?

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Jeff kindly sent me a link to the handgun page at top-10-list.org. There's something missing from their list: the selection criteria. On what basis (other than potential advertising) does the expensive, strangely-chambered, questionably lethal, snout-safetied...

Question of the Day: How Important is Marksmanship for Self-Defense?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTNmQtJiHoI I went shooting with an old high school acquaintance. The guy's a born marksman. His first time shooting the Performance Center Smith & Wesson 686, he stacked three shots on top of each other at...

Question of the Day: Does Open Carry Makes Cops’ Jobs More Dangerous?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngYwlwxMWwM I find it odd that law enforcement officials don't support the idea of open carry. If I were snorting---I mean patrolling the thin blue line, my firearm fear would focus on concealed carry. To...

Question of the Day: Why Not Make CCW Permit Holders’ Info Public?

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MikeB30200 wants to know: what do gunloons (a.k.a. responsible gun owners with a concealed carry weapons permit) have to hide? In anticipation of a Rhode Island law making that information private, our favorite gun...

Follow-Up on “Experiments with Firearms?”

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I recently posted a Question of the Day asking TTAG's Armed Intelligentsia to suggest some firearms-related experiments. After looking over the responses both here on the blog and via email, I decided to use a...