Practical Advice for Quarantined New Gun Owners
By Joe Bartozzi
Exact numbers from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System won’t be available for at least another week, but by all indications, there are potentially hundreds of thousands of new gun...
Why You Need to Carry a Gun at Home…Even in the Shower
By Joseph Nizzari
In my 18-plus years of teaching firearms professionally, I have encountered contrasting perceptions regarding various methods of carrying a handgun. These modes include inside or outside the waistband, appendix carry, small of...
One Weird Trick That No One Teaches You About Concealed Carry
What's the number one thing that most people new to the world of concealed carry don't know, and that most training courses -- whether state-mandated or not -- fail to address? It isn't basic...
What’s the Worst Self Defense Advice You’ve Ever Heard?
Between gun stores and the internet, gun owners both new and old can learn a lot. Great information is widely available about gun ownership, maintaining firearms and their use in competition, recreation and self-defense....
DriFire Laser Firearm Training System Lets You Improve Your Shooting Affordably at Home
Getting to the range takes time, effort and money. Those are things lots of gun owners don't have nearly enough of. So if you can't get to the range as often as you'd like,...
Schools Should Continue Lockdown Drills Without Traumatizing Kids
Jaclyn Schildkraut, State University of New York Oswego
Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, an advocacy group, has joined with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Educators Association, the nation’s two biggest teachers...
Rule #5: Take the Shot
TTAG reader Cliff H writes . . .
Colonel Jeff Cooper was a very smart man. He wrote a lot of books, had a storied career as a Marine Corps officer and established the Gunsite...
Forget the Spare Magazine, Give Me a ‘New York Reload’
The line has been drilled into everyone who carries a firearm and otherwise prepares for violence coming from the Earth's dominant apex predator species: "Two is one and one is none."
When people invoke this axiom...
Will Smith Demonstrates Safe Gun Handling for 3 Million Instagram Viewers
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It’s BAD Boys. Not UNSAFE Boys. 🤦🏾♂️
A post shared by Will Smith (@willsmith) on Jan 14, 2020 at 4:19pm PST
Well, 3 million so far. The post's been up for...
Rob Pincus Publishes ‘My Daddy Has a Gun…and My Mom Does Too!’
Lots of parents look for help in introducing their children to firearms. They want an interesting, engaging way that emphasizes both the fun and the responsibility of being around and using guns. With more...
How I Overcame My Fear of Guns…Thanks to a Desert Eagle
By Meghan N.
My entire childhood was filled with four irrational fears: bees, spontaneous house fires, drowning, and guns. Bees (and, honestly, any stinging insect) is easily explained as I stepped in a well-concealed underground...
GTI Precision Rifle Course, Part 2: 10 Stories High
Read Part 1 here.
Day two of the Government Training Institute - Legion's Precision Rifle With Elevated Shooting Course began, as with Day 1, in the classroom. The lessons reviewed stock and body positioning -...