The lone gunman squaring off in a dusty street, hand hovering over a low-slung holster, is one of the most durable images in American gear culture. Its origin lies not on the frontier but in the East, in a formal ritual imported from Europe and practiced for decades by prominent men in the young ...
Editor’s Note: Be aware of your local and state as well as federal laws and how they apply to carrying firearms and self-defense. This article does not represent training advice/guidance. Please seek training from a professional firearms trainer for your self-defense needs. You’re facing...
Ask most people whether the armed citizen should carry a handheld light (HHL) or a weapon-mounted light (WML), and you'll usually get a quick answer: pick one, or just get…
Open carry – the wearing of a holstered gun in plain view in public – has become a hot-button issue among our nation’s pistol-packers. There are, naturally, talking points on both sides of the debate. A few years ago, Mark Walters invited me to join a panel on this topic on his popular show...
With more than 21 million permit holders nationwide, John Lott says the evidence is clear: concealed carriers are among the most law-abiding groups in America. The post John Lott: Opponents Of National Carry Reciprocity Long On Hyperbole, Short On Facts appeared first on The Truth About Guns.
America’s quest for greater firepower isn’t a new phenomenon. In fact, the desire for increased firepower can be traced to the earliest days of the United States and the repeating flintlock designs of Joseph G. Chambers. Multi-shot weapons were not unheard of in the late 18th century, but the...
Ana Lucia Lopez went from leading an obscene anti-campus-carry protest to helping draft three gun-control bills for James Talarico. All three failed, but the record matters now that Talarico wants a U.S. Senate seat.
Weatherby Inc. has a long, long history of building high-end hunting rifles, but all those rifles have something in common. They’re chambered for the modern cartridges of their era because Weatherby was built to innovate from its founding. That’s changing now, kind of; Weatherby has a...
The House passed H.R. 1181 by 221–201, advancing a federal ban on firearm-specific merchant category codes. The bill would shut down MCC 5723 and override state gun-store tracking mandates.