New from Trijicon: CCAS Auto-Adjusting Riflescope
I'm calling it now: this is the year of the auto ballistic compensating scope. Some, however, are smaller and more awesome than others. Trijicon's entry into the growing line of scopes, for example, appears...
Ammunition Consistency Testing: Winchester M855 and Freedom Munitions
While there may not be any 5.56 ammunition on the shelves right now, the question when it does become available again (and it will) is which type to buy. What ammo will give you...
Course Review: Mike Seeklander’s “Defensive Handgun Training Program and DVDs
http://youtu.be/Jy1nOwep6SE
Some of you may remember I spent a couple of days back in July 2012 training with Mike Seeklander. Benefitting from his teaching, and witnessing how amazing a shooter he is, helped my skills...
New from Laxco: SmartScope Auto-Compensating Rifle Scope
With computer components getting smaller and processing power increasing, it's actually surprising that more companies haven't tried to make a scope that does all the work for you. What we have here is something...
TTAG Simulated School Shooting Experiment — Results and Analysis [VIDEO]
On Sunday, December 30, 2012, The Truth About Guns joined forces with King 33 Training to perform a series of live fire simulation of active shooter scenarios. We wanted to assess the potential impact...
Pilot Shot While Flying on New Years
When you're flying a plane, there are a ton of things to worry about. Like airspeed, altitude, heading, fuel load and consumption rate, and keeping the plane from falling out of the sky. But...
Coming Soon: Rimfire Nation?
Tyler and I were recently kvetching on Google Chat about the new price of magazines (bad) and the sudden unavailability of ammo (even worse.) The coolest AR race gun I've ever seen is currently...
Video: TrackingPoint Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSBhZUeADRs
We've already had our hands on this system and tested it out, as you can read in our TrackingPoint article. But since they just released a new and quite frankly awesome video, I figured...
Video from TTAG’s School Shooting Simulation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fuEoklylko
This video, courtesy of the Record Journal, shows one of the scenarios we ran this weekend in order to gather data about school shootings and whether an armed teacher would be effective in stopping...
OMG! Teachers! Learning to Use Guns! OMG!
Holy crap...this teachers learning to use firearms thing is for real! Just like the NRA proposed! And Alexander Abad-Santos is freaking out over it! He read a Reuters report about 200 teachers in Utah...
Gun Control and the Warrior Tradition
By reader LC Judas
Everyone is worrying about the politics and possible future bloodbath potential of trying to limit scary black weapons and big magazines. That's all understandable given the current climate, but something that's...
Gear Review: Bushnell HDMR 3.5-21x50mm w/ G2-DMR FFP Reticle
Long range scopes don't really come in "one size fits all" configurations. You need to get your hands on the scope, try it out, and see what works best for your own particular shooting...