Question of the Day: Are You Buying Guns Again?
This morning's New York Times reports that The Well-Off Are Spending Again — but Carefully. The article focuses on your usual bitchin' baubles: privates jets, big bling rocks, real estate, luxury hotels. What...
Which Gun Should I Buy: AR-15 or AK-47?
I'm in the market for a carbine. Don't need it. I've got a perfectly serviceable Remington 870 Wingmaster shotgun in .12 gauge that handles the home defense chores just fine, thank you. I'm the...
Should Gun Control Advocates Have A Concealed Handgun License?
Let's say you're a pro-mass transit environmentalist; you considered automobiles the devil in-car-nate. Chances are you'd have both a theoretic and emperical understanding of how cars work; what they can and can not do....
Question of the Day: Are Women Better Hunters Than Men?
Women hunt, too. And this is news because . . . ? Because it isn't. But why let a little thing like a worn story line and a lack of hard data on the...
Question of the Day: Is Too Little Gun Control Too Much?
This website's called The Truth About Guns. But the name is deceptive. While myself and the other writers do our best to tell the truth about guns, we are ready, willing and able to...
Question of the Day: Do Guns Have To Be So Macho?
Earlier this morning, I posted on a Huffington Post polemic by ex-federal judge H. Lee Sarokin. The New Jersey native painted gun owners as violent, pig-ignorant southerners. The portrait was unfair. Prima facie. It...
Question of the Day: Are Armed Teachers the Answer to Spree Shooters?
The "gun debate" has two sides. On one side, gun control advocates believe that eliminating firearms from society (legal or illegal) makes it safer ("guns don't kill people; people with guns kill people"). On...
Question of the Day: Are Modern Guns Ugly?
Personally, I don't think so. When form follows function, all is well. Well, except for the Stoeger Double Defense. This is not a viewpoint shared by the unnamed author of Beauty is in the...
Question of the Day: How Do You Say Hello to a Home Invader?
I'm researching "How to Defend Your Home with a Shotgun." One of the issues that gives me pause: what, if anything, do you say to the perp when you know your home has been...