Every transfer, sale and shipment between licensees rests on one question: is that FFL real and current? Here is how the ATF lookup actually works, what it returns, what it cannot tell you, and how customers use it to judge your shop.
Disclosure: The Meprolight MPO PRO-F was provided to the author by Meprolight for the purpose of this review. The pistol used in testing is the author’s personally owned handgun. All opinions are the author’s. In a sea of available optics, you can find something for any budget. Howeve...
A bad decision doesn't automatically make self-defense unlawful. What the Zimmerman trial teaches concealed carriers about provocation, reasonable belief, and smart choices.
Mississippi's attorney general makes Form 4 voluntary, Maryland holds its line, and Silencer Central opens a 20,000-dealer transfer network. Plus what this week's rule changes mean for your counter.
Every pistol red dot sold today works on essentially the same plan. An LED emitter sits on a carrier plate, and screws and springs nudge that plate to adjust windage and elevation. The SIG Sauer XRAY5 drops that plan entirely and is pitched as the world's first solid-state advanced red dot. ...
Every serpent has a tell, and this one carries it right under the muzzle. The TTI Sand Viper hides a built-in bladed stand-off the company calls its fangs, a little menace on an otherwise refined 2011 from Taran Butler's Simi Valley shop. This is TFB's Photo of the Day, and it shows the...
You know why you fired. Police, prosecutors, and jurors don't. Lessons from the Zimmerman and Rittenhouse trials on evidence, memory, and your legal plan.
Fort Worth police say an armed security officer shot a man breaking glass at a La Gran Plaza jewelry kiosk. He died in the parking lot. Read the original story: Armed Security Officer Shoots and Kills Suspected Smash-and-Grab Thief at Fort Worth’s La Gran Plaza, Police Say
A machete-wielding man kicked at DeKalb County apartment doors and threatened to kill residents until a tenant shot him, residents say. Read the original story: DeKalb County Tenant Shoots Machete-Wielding Man Who Kicked at Apartment Doors Threatening to Kill Residents at 11:30 P.M., Then Broke I...
A trap gun and a sporting clays gun have different jobs. One needs to print high on rising, going-away targets, and the other needs to handle quickly on birds crossing, dropping, and quartering from every angle. Most shooters who get serious about clays eventually figure out that one gun can’t ...