DEATH AND TAXES: Help Your Family Value Your Guns and Safely Sell Unwanted...
Mark Twain once famously noted that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. We’re all going to die someday, some of us sooner than others. Which is why it is important to prepare ahead of...
View ArticleOld School Cool: Smith & Wesson’s Model 645 and 745 Second Generation .45 Autos
Believe it or not, back in the day Smith & Wesson made guns that weren’t 1911s or striker fired M&Ps. Big Blue was actually pretty innovative in their designs and they had a hell of a 9mm DA/SA...
View ArticleTaurus’s New Optics-Ready G3 and G3c T.O.R.O. 9mm Pistols
Taurus®, manufacturer of premium handguns for defense, hunting, and sport shooting introduces the new Taurus G3 T.O.R.O and G3C T.O.R.O. Given the growing penchant for shooters to include micro red...
View ArticleSIG SAUER M17: 25,000 Rounds Later
DISCLAIMER: I am not the cause of the current ammo shortage. Tests like this take place over couple years or more and are not done in one sitting. There have been few handguns as controversial as SIG...
View ArticleSilencer Review: OSS Suppressors RAD 9 and RAD 45
OSS Suppressors is known for “flow-through” suppressor designs that greatly reduce backpressure for the firearm and gas blowback for the shooter. After many years of focusing on suppressing rifles, OSS...
View ArticleGun Review: S&W M&P9 Shield Plus
For nearly a decade now, Smith & Wesson’s M&P9 Shield has been one of the best, most popular micro-compact concealed carry pistols on the market, and for good reason. TTAG’s most recent Shield...
View ArticleNew From Ruger: MAX-9 Higher Capacity Micro-Compact Pistols
Competition in the 10-plus-round capacity micro-compact concealed carry pistol market just keeps heating up! Earlier today we released our full review on the S&W M&P9 Shield Plus, which...
View ArticleThe Colt Cowboy: An Example of Why the Consumer Shouldn’t Always Be Listened To
Over and over again, on various online forums, social media platforms, and in the local gun shops. We hear people constantly say, “If company X made product Y, I’d buy it!” Right now, I constantly hear...
View ArticleAsk Josh: Do I Need A Weapon Light On My Pistol?
Newbie John H. is a recent convert to the way of the gun, having only played video games and engaged in a little paintball from time to time. Now, being a new gun owner, he was surprised by how much of...
View ArticleSIG SAUER P365: 15,000 Rounds Later
I’ve had a SIG SAUER P365 on or about my person since they first dropped back in early 2018. Since then, they have become one of the hottest and most desirable pistols for concealed carry. I have put a...
View ArticleAsk Josh: Is .45 ACP Still The Best 1911 Round?
Today’s Ask Josh comes to us from Dave R., a regular at my local Cabela’s, where I run into him a lot. I somehow always run into him at Five Guys, the range, and more. The other day, Dave came at me...
View ArticleColt Brings Back the .44 Magnum Anaconda Revolver
From Colt’s Manufacturing . . . Colt’s popular Snake Gun revolver series gains a new addition with the updated Anaconda. The Anaconda is a six-round, large frame, U.S. forged stainless steel...
View ArticleColt M45A1 CQBP Marine Pistol: 15,000 Rounds Later
You’re probably wondering what I’m doing blowing through about 50,000 rounds for three posts. I recently concluded 25,000 rounds with an SIG M17 and 15,000 rounds through a SIG P365. Today we’re...
View ArticleGun Review: Ruger MAX-9 Micro-Compact 9mm Pistol
With an onboard capacity of 10+1 rounds flush fit and 12+1 rounds extended, Ruger’s new MAX-9 takes aim at the incredibly hot market for micro-compact pistols with double-digit capacities. Equipped...
View ArticleHeads-Up Comparison: P365 vs. Hellcat vs. MAX-9 vs. M&P9 Shield Plus
TTAG’s Managing Editor, Dan Zimmerman, and I took all four of the hottest, most in-demand concealed carry guns on the market — the four micro-compacts with double-digit capacity, flush-fit magazines —...
View ArticleTwo of Smith & Wesson’s ’90s Stainless Metallic Fantastics
Ahhh, the 1990s, a decade of good and bad. When The Rachel was the haircut that all the women wanted, Grunge replaced Metal in the music world, and the Clinton Assault Weapons Ban happened. Wait, err…....
View ArticleIs The Revolver Dead? Is That a Trick Question?
That was the question asked back in 1989. The Era of the Wondernine was upon us. Higher capacity 9mm semi-autos that held 15 or 17 rounds was becoming the new standard. Technological wonders from...
View ArticleGLOCK’s Forgotten Six Inchers
The GLOCK Model 17L and Model 24 are two of my favorites from that plucky little Austrian company you may be familiar with. Yet they happen to be among their lowest sellers. I think GLOCK has sold more...
View ArticleGun Review: SIG SAUER P320 AXG Scorpion 9mm Pistol
SIG’s modular P320 and the universe of options around it just keeps growing. SIG’s been releasing new variants of the P320 twice a year or so, and 2021 has seen the introduction of the SIG SAUER P320...
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The Gun That Never Went On Duty: AMT’s On Duty Pistol
Arcadia Machine & Tool was a company made famous by the hit 1980s sci-fi action/horror film, Terminator. AMT was founded in 1977 in Irwindale, California and making their claim to fame by...
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