The Truth About Guns » Dan Zimmerman

A quick search of TTAG’s library of just under 49,000 published posts shows that my first article here went up back in April of 2011. It was about the first-term hire of a “gun policy” ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/moving-on/

By gender, gun ownership especially boomed among women. Between 2019 and 2021, as gun purchases exploded, about half of firearm customers were women, according to the Harvard T.H. Chan School ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/colts-maxim-wider-gun-ownership-spread-more-equality-in-2023/

We’ve know personal defense trainers who will tell you that one of the best self defense tools you can carry is a good flashlight. If you’re in a dark parking lot or garage and someone beg...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-streamlight-macrostream-usb-500-lumen-flashlight/

You never know when or where you’ll need to light up the night. And not just to illuminate a potential target in a defensive situation. Life presents its challenges. You could have a flat ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-streamlight-protac-hl-usb-rechargeable-flashlight/

If you’ve ever shot a pistol with a “gas pedal” or thumb ledge, you know the improvement it makes in controllability and quicker follow-up shots. The downside, of course, is that you’r...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/the-wing-flip-down-pistol-thumb-ledge-lets-you-use-it-with-many-stock-duty-and-edc-holsters/

Do you shoot on public lands or at ranges that aren’t “improved”? Places where there are no shooting tables or gun racks? That can present the problem of where to put all your shootin’...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-hold-up-displays-folding-gun-rack/

Gaston Glock, inventor of the GLOCK 17 handgun that won a military contract and changed the gun world in the 1980s, is dead today at age 94. He took a company that once made curtain rods and k...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/rip-gaston-glock/

Remember, no one needs more than ten rounds of ammunition to protect themselves. If you think you do, you’re doing it wrong. We’ve been reliably informed of that fact by the Civilian Disar...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/seattle-homeowner-uses-rifle-to-fend-off-4-home-invaders-in-early-morning-home-invasion-attempt/

The jolly old elf snuck into our house last night, somehow without alerting our always vigilant Labrador and waking the whole house. We probably need to work on that. Anyway, he left me a gun ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/what-gun-gear-did-santa-leave-for-you-last-night/

  OK, so those aren’t exactly the voices of Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye. Enjoy anyway. Continue reading Sing Along: Have Yourself a Merry 2A Christmas at The Truth About Guns.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/sing-along-have-yourself-a-merry-2a-christmas/

Enjoy the food, the fun, the family, the friends and everything about the day. Have yourself a merry little Christmas. Continue reading Merry Christmas from TTAG at The Truth About Guns.

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/merry-christmas-from-ttag-7/

Police are issuing a warning to parents who are buying their kids toy or airsoft guns this Christmas. Police are warning that because these toy guns look so real, they could be putting kids ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/your-annual-warning-from-police-that-airsoft-guns-as-christmas-gifts-are-dangerous/

Yesterday a US District Judge in California left no ambiguity our doubt about his thoughts on California’s efforts to limit the right to keep and bear arms by enacting SB2 following the Supr...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/federal-judge-declares-californias-bruen-response-sensitive-places-carry-ban-law-unconstitutional/

Hi, my name is Dan and I’m a knife addict. I don’t know if there’s a 12-step program for my condition, but I haven’t really hit rock bottom yet, so I’m pretty sure I can handle it. N...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-ka-bar-dozier-precision-hunter-knife/

We ran the announcement from GrovTec for their new Tri-Base buffer tube sling mount for AR-15 rifles back in February. It’s basically a clamp with three quick detach cups that fits on your m...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-grovetec-tri-base-buffer-tube-sling-mount-for-ar-15-rifles/

Most people don’t know that in addition to their popular M&P line of striker-fired pistols, Smith & Wesson also makes a budget 9mm handgun, the SD9. Our review of the SD9 from back in 2012 ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/smith-wesson-updates-the-budget-priced-sd9-with-the-new-sw-sd9-2-0/

Benchmade doesn’t make a lot of assisted folders and they’re generally not my cup of tea. Opening a knife with a flick of a flipper or thumb stud is plenty fast enough for me. But that doe...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/things-that-dont-suck-benchmade-585-03-mini-barrage/

The best part about the gun debate is that it’s increasingly just academic. Our victory is assured. Put aside Bruen, or Heller, or McDonald, or any of the other gun rights victories in c...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/cohen-the-gun-debate-is-increasingly-academic/

If you don’t know what a GLOCK switch is, you can catch up here, here, and here. Long story short, they’re illegal devices that convert a perfectly legal stock semi-automatic GLOCK pistol ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/glockswitchs-com-internet-scammer-or-atf-sting-operation/

  Laura Patterson, 47, was arrested by Port of Portland police after allegedly shooting a gun into the air near the security checkpoint for concourses D and E. She likely faces a dozen crim...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/woman-says-she-fired-a-gun-at-portland-airport-because-she-wanted-to-kill-her-texas-family-members/

he big push here is Harris asking state legislators to take up these proposals, not for the federal government. Even Harris, who adores the idea of the executive branch wielding monarchic powe...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/putting-kamala-harris-in-charge-of-federal-gun-control-shows-how-far-down-the-list-the-issue-has-fallen/

Street Howitzer. Scattergun. Coach gun. All of these are synonymous with the iconic shotgun of the Old West: the 12-gauge side-by-side. Now, you can experience what it would have felt like to ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/heritage-introduces-the-new-badlander-side-by-side-12-gauge-shotgun/

From SIG SAUER . . . Using the heart and soul of the SIG CROSS receiver, the CROSS TRAX delivers a minimalist design to the CROSS rifle, perfect for deer hunters looking for a light a...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/sig-sauers-new-cross-trax-lightweight-bolt-action-rifle/

As Hunter Biden’s lawyer notes, the standard laid out in Bruen is that any law that is “inconsistent with this nation’s historical tradition on firearm regulation” should be held to ...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/sit-back-and-enjoy-as-hunter-biden-defends-himself-by-contradicting-his-fathers-views-on-gun-control/

From SIG SAUER: Inspired by the streamlined versatility of the FOXTROT weapon light family, SIG SAUER’s new FOXTROT-EDC packs high output power into two handheld designs for any applicatio...

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/sig-sauer-announces-two-new-foxtrot-edc-flashlights/