Like pretty much everyone who reads TTAG, I like to shoot. I like to head to the range, and I find no better way to waste time and money than by turning it into noise.

With that said, I also like to try and train while I’m at the range. Test my skills a bit rather than just mag dump into the trash. I try to have a lesson plan ready when I head to the range to know what I’ll be working on.

Continue reading Things That Don’t Suck: The Range Buddy App at The Truth About Guns.

I personally sit in a weird place when it comes to guns. Going to the range and shooting the different guns made me very aware of the gun’s capacity to do a lot of damage in a short amount of time. Especially in the wake of current gun-related news, which is admittedly frightening to me. The thought that we can never have an accurate account of where guns are, or who is using them, makes me want to own one more.

Continue reading A Modern Undergrad Looks at Guns, Fear, and Race at The Truth About Guns.

Pumpkin spice and everything nice.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Welcoming The Fall Edition at The Truth About Guns.

If you’ll remember, Judge Roger Benitez struck down California’s ban on standard capacity magazines the state had arbitrarily ruled to be “high capacity.” That ruling was, of course, overturned by an en banc Ninth Circuit ruling. The case was then appealed to the Supreme Court where it sat until Bruen was decided.

After Bruen, the Supreme Court granted cert, vacated the ruling and remanded it for rehearing. Today, Judge Benitez has, as expected, struck down the ban as clearly unconstitutional.

Continue reading BREAKING: California’s ‘High Capacity’ Magazine Ban Ruled Unconstitutional Under Bruen at The Truth About Guns.

It’s entertaining when the Mexican government chirps up, complaining about weapons that flow across their northern border (frequently facilitated by US government agencies). Sure, the drug cartels that actually run our neighbor to the south find ways to move acquire firearms up here and move them south, but when your own military “loses” about one-third of their guns they’ve been entrusted with, the Mexican regime doesn’t have a lot of room to talk.

Which brings us to…Philadelphia.

Continue reading How Did Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal ‘Lose’ at Least 76 Service Weapons? at The Truth About Guns.

Plenty of folks have shoehorned the 7.62x39mm round, made famous by the AK-47, into AR-15 platform rifles. Most of those use a unique version of the AR-15 magazine rather than AK mags.

Georgia-based 21st Tec has just released an AR-10 chambered in x39 that accepts effectively every standard AK-47 magazine available. They say it’s stronger and more reliable than AR-15-based x39 guns, and it does have some unique features.

21st Tec’s press release follows .

Continue reading New From 21st Tec: AR10-based 7.62x39mm AK Magazine Rifles at The Truth About Guns.

How do you know that today’s announcement of the creation of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is a fundamentally unserious, political act intended as a sop to pay off (and shut up) Biden’s backers in the Gun Control Industry? Simple. They’re announcing the anti-gun push will be led by…Kamala Harris.

From the AP’s stenography of administration talking points . . .

President Joe Biden has asked Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the first-ever federal office of gun violence prevention, which will seek to find ways around congressional inaction to stem rising violence.

Continue reading Biden Asks Kamala Harris to Do for ‘Gun Violence’ Prevention What She’s Done for Border Security at The Truth About Guns.

[Kansas Senator Roger] Marshall and his colleagues further warn the rule will “circumvent the U.S. Congress” by working around passed and signed gun-control legislation with “administrative action,” according to the letter.

“The administration has stated its intent to ‘move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.’ But Congress has not authorized universal background checks, and the administration does not have the authority to impose this policy unilaterally,” the letter read.

Continue reading Some Senators Waking Up to the Disaster of Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Capitulation at The Truth About Guns.

These things don’t just fall from the sky, you know.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: Manna From Heaven Edition at The Truth About Guns.

[ED: This is the last in a three-part series. Read the first article HERE.]

Although most of my summer was spent doing retro or retro-inspired AR builds, I had enough time for a few more modern builds as well.

Something New

My first build started a little before the summer actually, and was the result of looking in my parts bin and figuring out what I could do with it.

Continue reading How I spent my Summer Vacation: The Season of the AR Builds, Part III at The Truth About Guns.

If I made a list of things anti-gunners didn’t understand, it would start with our basic Civil Rights and end with how to use toilet paper. Ultimately, I couldn’t list everything they don’t get, especially about guns, short of writing an entire book.

I want to cover something here that’s not often talked about and maybe even something most pro-gun folks don’t recognize as a benefit of the Second Amendment. That benefit is community.

Continue reading What the Gun Control Industry Will Never Understand About the Second Amendment Community at The Truth About Guns.

By Chuck Michel

The State of Hawaii filed a petition on Wednesday seeking en banc review of a Ninth Circuit panel’s ruling in Teter v. Lopez. While that ruling was limited in scope, declaring Hawaii’s ban on butterfly knives to be unconstitutional, the panel’s correct application of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen and the standards it set for evaluating Second Amendment challenges to gun control laws has implications that extend well beyond butterfly knife cases and well beyond Hawaii.

Continue reading Hawaii Desperate to Overturn Butterfly Knife Ruling That Threatens Gun Control Laws at The Truth About Guns.

Louisville Police released bodycam video Wednesday showing the September 7th shooting of Officer Brandon Haley.  He took a round in the lower chest after he came under fire from a residence near a traffic stop.

Police believe occupants of the house which was chock full of guns and illegal drugs opened fire on the officer in an attempted ambush.

A second officer, Colin Billotto, arrived seconds later and was also fired upon.

Continue reading Footage Shows Heroic Cop Drag Wounded Officer to Safety While Under Heavy Fire [VIDEO] at The Truth About Guns.

Police on Monday encouraged licensed gun owners to carry their weapons to synagogues over the High Holiday period, as the security establishment registered a rise in terror alerts in the lead-up to the Yom Kippur fast day.

Police said in a statement that there has been a 15 percent increase in terror warnings compared to the two months before the holidays and that security forces were at a heightened alert level due to the threats.

Continue reading Israeli Police Encourage Licensed Gun Owners to Carry During High Holidays at The Truth About Guns.

Gotta watch out for those Internet friends trying to cozy up to you.

Continue reading Gun Meme of the Day: New Friends Edition at The Truth About Guns.

This ain’t the own this moron thinks it is.
How well is an armed teacher gonna do? Better. Because they are highly motivated at the time to not die.
This is more a commentary on modern LE training and tactics than on the viability of CCW. Especially when you consider the… https://t.co/dRlQ8BaeFZ

— Larry Correia (@monsterhunter45) September 19, 2023

For those of you who don’t want to click over to Twitter (it’s still Twitter to me) to read Larry Correia’s full retort to this civilian disarmament talking point, here’s what he wrote .

Continue reading David Reidman: Some Cops Can’t Shoot, So Let’s Keep America’s Teachers Disarmed at The Truth About Guns.

The latest step in the Biden administration’s war on guns will be the establishment of something called the federal Office of Gun Violence Prevention. As Politico is reporting . . .

Stefanie Feldman, a longtime Biden aide who previously worked on the Domestic Policy Council, will play a leading role, the people said.

Greg Jackson, executive director of the Community Justice Action Fund, and Rob Wilcox, the senior director for federal government affairs at Everytown for Gun Safety, are expected to hold key roles in the office alongside Feldman, who has worked on gun policy for more than a decade and still oversees the policy portfolio at the White House.

Continue reading Biden Administration Will Establish a Federal Office of Gun Control at The Truth About Guns.

Experience the next level of innovation and performance with the Vanquish ISR. This revolutionary firearm breaks free from the limitations of conventional suppressors, thanks to our patented zero baffle design.

Gone are the days of relying on expensive, high-grain subsonic rounds for optimal sound suppression. The Vanquish features a ported barrel design that erases the sonic boom of standard 115-grain ammunition, delivering a suppressed shot that rivals the quietness of high-priced subs.

Continue reading Angstadt Arms Announces the New Vanquish Integrally Suppressed AR9 at The Truth About Guns.

Wish they may, wish they might – gun control Democrats in Congress are still holding out hope President Joe Biden will deliver their biggest wish. What they shouldn’t be holding is their breath.

More than 60 antigun Democrats from the U.S. House and U.S. Senate sent a scathing letter to the president imploring him to “leverage the full power of the executive branch” and implement more gun control.

The problem is Pres.

Continue reading It’s Impossible for Joe Biden to Crack Down on Gun Rights Enough to Satisfy Dems and the Gun Control Industry at The Truth About Guns.

Of more than 500 adult patients who had regular checkups during a one-month period, about 56% bypassed a question about firearms on a questionnaire used in many clinic waiting rooms and online portals of Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan’s academic medical center, where the study was done.

Nearly all answered the rest of the questions about other health and social topics.

A survey of 109 doctors and other providers at those clinics found 36% were uncomfortable discussing firearm-related risks with patients.

Continue reading Maybe Doctors are Hesitant to Talk About Guns With Patients Because It’s None of Their Damned Business at The Truth About Guns.