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The Palm Pistol Rises Again!
From Ammoland comes news that, after fits and starts, the Palm Pistol is baaaaaaack! [Press release after the jump.] The question that’s dogged the company since its inception is still out there,...
View ArticleA Guy Walks Into a Gun Store . . .
And wonders why this gun doesn’t work. [h/t You Know Who You Are]
View ArticleShooting Illustrated, The Remington R51, and the Erosion of Journalistic...
“It’s hard to classify the Remington R51 as anything other than the best new compact 9 mm handgun on the market.” That’s the official word from Richard Mann, reviewing the R51 in Shooting Illustrated...
View ArticleOMG! Someone Dropped a Gun! In an Elementary School! OMG!
Richard Repetti [above] is a school photographer. Mr. Repetti went to P.S. 60 in Woodhaven, Queens to take pictures. “A .38-caliber handgun fell out of his ankle holster in the lobby,”...
View ArticleCity Marshal of Ft. Worth Gunned Down
Republished with permission from rockislandauction.blogspot.com Wild Days in Hell’s Half Acre Lots of people and places of the Old West get spun into tales of “Pecos Bill” size proportions. One minute...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Should Prosecutors Punish Negligent Discharges?
We’ve had a spate of gun owners dropping guns that somehow manage to “go off.” Yesterday, we offered a fairly plausible – if entirely inexcusable – example: a dropped derringer that discharged...
View ArticleWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong? Neck Holsters Edition
You gotta think that hanging a .22-caliber pistol around your neck with the muzzle pointing under your chin is a bad idea. In their defense, the folks at LIVESAY NORAM aren’t the only ones to whom it...
View ArticleWhat Could Possibly Go Wrong? Bag Carry Edition
“Students who have taken my knife fighting class will likely remember ‘The Bag Trick,’” Greg Ellifritz writes at activeresponsetraining.net. “I demonstrate it in every 2-day class I teach. My...
View ArticleWinner of TTAG EDC T-Fit Ankle Holster Contest: 79Slider
Aside from the Batman camera angle, this picture is more than slightly queasy-making. The ankle rig in question – which belongs to TTAG reader 79Slider – takes a tough extraction issue and makes it...
View Article“Handgun Malfunction” at Gun Range Wounds Two OK State Troopers
“The Oklahoma Highway Patrol report two of their own were shot,” koco.com reports. “OHP says the accident happened during a training exercise. It’s suspected a handgun malfunctioned.” It’s suspected by...
View ArticleSelf-Defense Tip: Make Sure the Right Gun Safe is in the Right Place
A handgun is for fighting your way to your long gun. Nowhere is this more true than at home, at night, with kids. In that horrifying situation, you want to call the cavalry, put the good guys behind...
View ArticleLady Gear Review: G42 and Carry Options
For some reason, Farago takes it personally that my wife doesn’t EDC (everyday carry). So every time we see each other, TTAG’s jefe slips me a small gun and one or two holsters for her to try out...
View ArticleNH Gas Station Chain: “We do respect the constitutional right to bear arms....
“Shannon ‘Bea’ Cothran was working at a Shell station in Nashua early Monday when a man approached him with a knife. Police confirmed that the would-be robber fled after Cothran pulled out a gun,”...
View ArticleSelf-Defense Tip: Carry Enough Gun
“Montana wildlife officials say a hunter who was attacked by a grizzly bear over the weekend is hospitalized in serious condition but didn’t suffer life-threatening injuries,” foxnews.com reports. “The...
View ArticleNew From Heckler & Koch: VP9 9mm Striker Fired Pistol
As we mentioned on the Book of Faces yesterday quoting a post from GearScout, HK’s announced their new VP9 striker fired pistol. Fifteen rounds. Four-inch barrel. Fully ambidextrous. Takes P30 mags...
View ArticleKC Dealer Paid $1m in Bribes to Two GLOCK Execs for LEO Guns
Anyone who’s read Glock, The Rise of America’s Gun knows that the Austrian firearms company has been swirling in scandal since the plastic pistol first hit our shores. We’re talking cocaine, hookers,...
View ArticlePassively Constructed Negligent Discharge of the Day: Flashlight Edition
As Matt in FL reported in Monday’s Daily Digest, there are mounting suspicions (so to speak) that guns owners wielding flashlight-equipped firearms are more likely to discharge their gun negligently...
View ArticleCuffed Meth Addict Shoots at Cops with Pistol Hidden in His Butt
Truth be told, we’ve already run a story about a woman who secreted a firearm in her vagina. In that case, Jennifer McCarthy was hiding her gat from her boyfriend. In today’s tale (so to speak), a meth...
View ArticleFX Hummel is FN Funny
TTAG’s organizing a reliability showdown between the GLOCK 19, FNS-9, and Smith & Wesson M&P. Ten thousand rounds per gun. Even if we get an ammo company to help with the gun food expense and...
View ArticleGun Sales Slowing. A Bit. For Now.
If you combined the entire U.S. firearms industry into one company, its turnover wouldn’t match the money generated by any one of the top ten companies on the Fortune 500 list. If you want to invest...
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