Chapter One: How To Defend Your Home With A Shotgun: Never Underestimate Your Enemy

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What is it with shotgun gurus and name-calling? I've yet to read a how-to manual on tactical shotgun techniques that didn't call potential aggressors "creeps" "thugs" "scum" or "crack smoking criminals." I reckon these...

Chapter Two: How to Defend Your Home With A Shotgun: Don’t Over-Estimate Your Own...

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"Spray and pray." That's how accomplished shotgun owners describe the home defense strategy deployed by "casual" shotgunners. It's the gun-active gun owner's way of sneering at people who buy a shotgun, load it, stash...

Chapter Three: How to Defend Your Home With A Shotgun: And the World’s Best...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQUw3bi66g A burglar alarm. Think of it this way: you don't want to have to shoot anyone with a shotgun. For one thing, it's a messy business. Imagine blasting someone with a cannon at short...

Question of the Day: Is Barrel Porting A Bad Idea?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58dHRmc2cB8&feature=player_embedded While researching my next gun---some sort of revolver---I stumbled upon the issue of barrel porting. The previously mentioned Gemini Customs gumsmithery uses something they call the In-Line Hybra Port, available as an in-line V4...

Die Water! Die!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtg8AjJDFgM Here's a YouTube clip featuring the same Hatsan shotgun used by Miles "the Crazy Texan" Slade (Ian Somerhalder) in The Tournament (reviewed by our own Robert Fure). Quick aside: doesn't ANYONE shoulder this bad boy (Die...

TASER XREP Is NOT A Shotgun Round. Per Se.

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According to wbay.com, the Green Bay (WI) police are adopting the TASER XREP round. I didn't see anything wrong with their story. But then I don't work for TASER's PR department. Steve Tuttle does. What's...

Remington: “10,000,000 870s sold, and still going strong”

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Getting stats on gun ownership in the U.S. is a tricky business. The FBI keeps records on the number of firearms purchase-related criminal background checks (for a while) and notes which states generate same....

Hobo With A Shotgun – New Footage Released

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k8H20SBRFA&feature=player_embedded TTAG can now confirm that Hobo With A Shotgun will, at some point, be a movie, rather than a seemingly endless series of movie trailers. How great is that?

Taser’s Brand Extensions: A Shock to the System

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I like Taser. Their non-lethal weapons offer an effective and relatively clean and tidy alternative to lethal force. (Howie Mandel's weapon of choice?) It's easy to reach Taser's PR guy; Steve Tuttle's faster than...

LA Outbids Phoenix for Stolen Guns

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Azcentral.com reports that today's the day that the city will pay its criminals $50 gift cards for each and any stolen gun they turn into the authorities. Anyone with an ounce of common sense...

Rutger Hauer is . . . Hobo With A Shotgun

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKd0JRCZi9I (Clip NSFW - Rated "R" for language & violence) "Back in 2007, as the Tarantino/Rodriguez double-feature film, Grindhouse, was being released, there was a contest challenging the public to create their own grindhouse/exploitation film trailer,"  the citizen journalists...