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What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Atypyk Ruler Gun

Carry a gun at school! That’s the suggestion on Atypyk’s site, kind of like the old back-of-the-comic-book X-ray glasses ad pitch (Surprise your friends with “X-ray” sight!). Atypyk, the brainchild of...

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Gun Review: Taurus 738 TCP

  By Jeremy S. Summer’s coming this weekend. You know what that means. Shorts. T-shirts. Lighter clothes. And concealment issues. The time of year when even the most ardent caliber warriors make...

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NJ Cops Take 10 Rounds to Shoot Two Dogs [NSFW]

Our gun-aversive friends at nj.com have all the details of the gruesome attack above. A TTAG reader emails: “Just a thought…but if the ‘trained’ police had to shoot these dogs a total of 10 times, how...

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Gun Preview: Dan Wesson ECO 9mm

Click here to view the embedded video. The Grants give the Dan Wesson ECO 9mm officer-sized 1911 a go. Full review to follow.

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DoubleTap Is Shipping Guns. Really.

If you’ve followed the long and winding road from the first announcement of the unique little DoubleTap pocket pistol through their shit-canning their original manufacturer, Heizer Defense, and...

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Question of the Day: How Do You Pool Carry?

Reader Christopher B. writes: I am a devoted TTAG reader. Your site has had more influence than any other person or media source in transitioning my position on firearms from: OLD – “Yay guns, but...

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OMG! A Kid at School with a Gun! OMG!

Click here to view the embedded video. I know I’m going way out there into OMG territory with this one. An 11-year-old special needs student packing heat is a bad, bad thing. No question. A...

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Video: Assembling Defense Distributed’s Liberator Handgun

Click here to view the embedded video. For those of you who haven’t downloaded the files and played around with them, this video gives a pretty good overview of how Defense Distributed’s Liberator goes...

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New Colt M45 CQBP Passes MSW’s Secret Test

Click here to view the embedded video. Tim Lau at modernserviceweapons.com has no illusions about the real-world reliability of a 1911. “Those of us who’ve been around the 1911 platform know it is a...

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OMG! MD Gun Sales Without Background Checks! OMG!

  The term “mainstream media” is misleading. Yes, Big Media’s audience is “mainstream” (i.e. it’s consumed by lots of ordinary folks). But the stories themselves are well outside mainstream experience....

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Question Of The Day: How Do You Handle a Negligent Discharge?

  It finally happened to me this past weekend. Well, it happened in front of me, to be more accurate. I wasn’t the guy accidentally pulling the trigger, but I was less than three feet from the muzzle...

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Pro Tip: Avoid Misfires, Keep Your Gun Clean

Don’t let the heartbreak of a public failure to fire happen to you. We’ve all experienced the embarrassment of hearing that impotent ‘click’ at the range. The inability to perform on command can be...

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The 1911 Is Finicky? I Got Your ‘Finicky’ Right Here

Reader Dyspeptic Gunsmith can always be counted on to provide well-reasoned, thoughtful input around these here parts. And some of his retorts are gems worthy of posts in and of themselves for all the...

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Gun Review: Walther PPX

The Walther PPX for this review was provided by The Kentucky Gun Company.  Walther is a company on the rise. As you can probably tell by all of the press attention, the venerable old German arms maker...

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Question of the Day: Advice for a First Time CCW’er?

This came in as an Ask Foghorn question, but I’d like to open it up to for wider discussion . . .  I just turned 21 and bought a new handgun and applied for a CHL in the great state of Georgia. I...

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TTAG Content Contest: Win A Free FNS-9 Handgun!

TTAG has a lot of time for FNH USA. As regular readers no doubt know, the Belgian-born gunmaker’s embedded our man Leghorn in their 3-Gun team. RF calls his SCAR-16 and SCAR-17 his favorite outside...

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The Galaxy S4 Drone Strike That Wasn’t

Click here to view the embedded video. “ClearPlex, engineered for both windshields and touchscreen devices, is the clearest, smoothest and STRONGEST protection in the world! Maybe nextime we will use a...

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Congressman Engel Tries to Ban FN FiveseveN. Again.

  Ah, political grandstanding. Where would we be without it? More specifically, where would the civilian disarmament movement be without pandering to people’s irrational fears? [NB: The NRA's alarmism...

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Question of the Day: Do You Have a “Small Arsenal”?

Report: Attorney accused of trying to kill wife had small arsenal in home. That’s the headline from California’s turnto23.com. So . . . what’s a small arsenal, then? “Police said when the first...

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Obscure Object of Desire: Tanfoglio MOSSAD

By Jeremy S., AKA “The Notorious M.O.T.” I truly do not understand how so many members of my tribe – that is to say, Jewish folk – can say and mean “Never forget,” and simultaneously push for civilian...

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