Trap Shooters: Stop Resting Your Shotgun Barrel On Your Foot! [NSFW Image]
As much as we try to minimize risk as gun owners, the shooting sports can still be dangerous. Accidents happen -- I've treated at least one gunshot wound at a shooting competition, and can...
A New York Hospital System is Building a Gun Owner Registry One Patient At...
Northwell Health, New York State's largest healthcare provider, is beginning a pilot program ostensibly intended to determine their patients' "risk for firearm injury."
Starting later this month, Northwell staff at two Long Island hospitals and...
Another Challenge To Georgia’s Suspension Of Weapons Carry License Applications
In response to Georgia's suspension of the processing of carry permits, yet another lawsuit has been filed. This latest, House and Georgia Carry v. Kemp and Brackett, filed in the Superior Court of Union...
Combat Medic: The Life-Saving Work That Starts Once You’re Shot
Read the second post in this two-post series here.
The best medicine on any battlefield is fire superiority. That simple mantra, or some version of it, is written in just about every tactical medical manual...
Self-Defense Tip: How To Treat a Gunshot Wound
https://youtu.be/vBWWleBSW6A?si=Y-IWUIWD2Cq-JNnu
TTAG reader and YouTuber Greg Davis writes:
In the last year, I've seen two shooters put extra holes in their body - one is a very experienced and competent IDPA shooter (a 20,000 rounds per...
A Question of Balance: In Praise of the Manual Safety
By John Sprague
There is a large contingent of gun users -- many of them here -- who are adamant that the only safety a gun needs is some self-control over the use of your...
Mike Rowe’s Unintentional But Valuable Range Safety Tip
Mike Rowe, the well-known dirty job do-er, work raconteur and mover of the book markets, did a safety video that has application to shooters.
In the video, below, Rowe describes how he and his crew...
Combat Medic: What To Do When Someone Else Is Shot
Read the first of this two post series here.
Being shot and having to treat yourself isn't ideal. I went over the basics of what to do if you are shot in a previous TTAG...
When It Doesn’t Go Bang: Misfires, Bloopers and Hangfires
If you shoot often enough, you will have misfires. They're most common in .22 rimfire. The priming process for .22 sometimes results in a missed spot on the rim of the .22 cartridge. When...
Safety Tip: Don’t Try to Catch a Falling Gun
https://youtu.be/JeXsLHjuodw
Some things seem so obvious they don't need saying. But when it comes to guns, they do. For example, "always keep a firearm pointed in the safest possible direction." "Make sure your gun is completely...
Big June Sale from Liberty Safe or: Here’s a Way for Me to Show...
Scrolling Instagram, an ad for Liberty Safe's big June sale appeared. 10 percent off site-wide plus 18-month interest-free financing. I figured, heck, I'm nearing completion of an entire room more or less built around...
GATORZ Eyewear OPz Lenses Are Polarized But Work With Digital Screens
I don't love copying-and-pasting press releases, and I certainly don't recall ever doing it for something as "simple" as sunglasses. However, having dealt with the difficulty ("first world problems" difficulty as it is) of...