In their 2023 year-end review, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) reported stopping 6,737 firearms (93% of which were loaded) from entering secure airport areas. This figure surpasses the previous record of 6,542 firearms detected in 2022. The TSA...

The Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) and Gun Owners of America (GOA) have teamed up to challenge firearms restrictions with lawsuits filed against a pair of Virginia cities. In a lawsuit filed today in Roanoke, Virginia, the plaintiffs challenged that city’s...

SAN ANTONIO, TX – A late-night robbery attempt at the Purple Dragon cannabis dispensary on West Hildebrand Ave turned into a shootout, leaving both a security guard and a robber injured. The owner of the dispensary emphasized the necessity of armed security to protect...

WOOD RIVER, IL – Charges have been filed following a Dec. 26 shooting in Wood River, where a domestic battery incident escalated into a violent confrontation. The suspect, a 28-year-old male, faces serious charges including aggravated battery with a firearm and...

Nathan Wade, the Fulton County Special Prosecutor targeting President Donald Trump has a whole bevy of problems lately, many of his own making. Then, when seen in public Thursday for the first time since news of his affair with the Soros-funded Fulton County...

Yes, there is an old expression that a man’s home is his castle. Then there’s the “Castle Doctrine” that allows homeowners wide latitude to use force to defend themselves and their homes against intruders. Some who don’t know better think they also have a blank check...

Illinois gun control jihadists passed the so-called “Protect Illinois Communities Act” in the dead of night last January. The bill banned all manner of popular self-defense, magazine-fed, semi-automatic firearms, but it provided that existing owners could keep them if...

SOUTH BEND, IN – In an incident that occurred last month on Beale Street, the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office has determined that no charges will be filed against a homeowner who shot a man threatening him with a chainsaw. The decision comes after a thorough...

SEATTLE, WA – Last night in Seattle, a violent encounter left a 20-year-old man seriously injured and resulted in the arrest of a 37-year-old suspect. The incident unfolded in the 700 block of 5th Avenue around 10:00 p.m., shortly after the victim exited a Metro bus...

A double homicide police are investigating in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, has turned out to be at least one part justifiable as the second homicide was committed in self-defense. More astonishingly, the defender was a child, protecting two women apparently...

NY Attorney General hates the thought of everyday Americans owning firearms.  She works tirelessly to attack gun owners at every turn, including trying to run the NRA out of business. As if her current civil corruption trial of Wayne LaPierre isn’t enough, on...

Los Angeles CA – How long until cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago finally say enough is enough when it comes to hate crimes like defacing national cemeteries? On Sunday, pro-Palestinian demonstrators vandalized the Los Angeles National Cemetery, which is...

Albuquerque, NM – An alarming incident unfolded in an Albuquerque restaurant when a negligent discharge of a firearm resulted in the injury of a fellow diner. The event took place in the dining area of Duran’s Central Pharmacy. The incident, captured on security...

PHOENIX, AZ – A Phoenix woman had to resort to using her firearm when an intruder attempted to forcefully enter her apartment in the early hours. The incident occurred when she heard a man aggressively trying to break down her door. After briefly coming face to face...

CHICAGO, IL – In a response to an armed carjacking incident in Chicago early Tuesday morning, a man, after being forced out of his car at gunpoint, quickly entered his home and armed himself. He then confronted the carjacker, reclaiming his vehicle and held the...

A man in Chicago on New Year’s Eve decides he’s going to get out of his car on one of the busiest roads in the city and starts shooting into the air, but no one appears to care about it. He is firing shots on Lake Shore Drive, which is located right in the middle of...

New York, NY – Today, an outraged driver gets out and pushes protesters blocking the Williamsburg bridge during rush hour traffic. The driver says, “You’re disrupting traffic idiots, you can’t do that, it’s against the law,” and multiple people are yelling, “Run them...

Virginia gun owners just can’t seem to get a break. After beating back a ban on common semi-automatic rifles back in 2020, things seemed to be looking up in the Old Dominion. But with the Democrats winning a slim one-vote majority in the state House of Delegates in...

FoxNews brought Governor J.B. Pritzker’s inept “leadership” to the national stage, reporting on the mass non-compliance with the measure by Land of Lincoln gun owners. While 29,257 gun license holders registered their self-defense guns for Da Gov, 2.4 million...

The “Newtown Action Alliance,” yet another gun control shill group funded by dark money came out minutes after news of the Perry, Iowa, mass casualty incident. The turn to their well-worn playbook to screech, “if Congress just passed a ban on popular self-defense...

The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced today that Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre announced he is stepping down from his position as chief executive of the organization, effective January 31. Long-time NRA executive and Head of General...

Today the National Rifle Association publicly announced that long-time Executive Vice-President Wayne LaPierre will formally step down from his leadership position at the end of January.  The embattled leader has faced all manner of criticism for a number of years...

A new study conducted by the Center for Justice Research in partnership with Bowling Green State University found contrary to concerns by left-leaning politicians that gun crime has indeed gone down—not up—in six of the state’s eight largest cities since the state...

PITTSBURGH, PA – In a harrowing incident in Pittsburgh’s Terrace Village neighborhood, a woman was forced to defend herself against her ex-boyfriend. The confrontation occurred around 10:30 p.m. Sunday at her home. Local media reported that earlier that day, the pair...

About a year ago, a man in Houston made an extremely dumb decision: to pull out a realistic looking but fake gun and rob people eating at a local taco restaurant. He didn’t know that one of the diners had a pistol, and the moment he turned his back to threaten other...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN – An Indiana homeowner was forced into a life-threatening confrontation on Tuesday evening, just before 7 p.m. The homeowner faced a masked intruder who forcibly entered his home initiating an attempted robbery. The intruder pistol-whipped the...

CHICAGO, IL – Early this morning in Chicago’s Woodlawn neighborhood, a dramatic encounter unfolded at V’s Convenience Store located at 460 East 61st Street. Three male suspects shattered the store’s front door window around 4:35 a.m., initiating a burglary. Vanessa...

Last month, in  Carralero v. Bonta, a federal judge in Orange County declared it unconstitutional to prohibit guns in a host of places California had designated gun-free. Those spaces include not just quintessentially sensitive places like banks, playgrounds, and...

In what is a case of “should’ve seen this coming,” a former mayoral candidate in Soso, Mississippi, who was going through a bitter divorce was shot outside his ex-wife’s home the day after Christmas, the Laurel Leader-Call reported. Jason Adam Marshall, 41, was...

Darren Bailey says enough is enough. Not only is he like 99.4% of Illinois gun owners not complying with Governor JB Pritzker’s new gun registration mandate, but he’s publicly posting his refusal. Bailey, the former Illinois State Senator and current Congressional...

While they are often billed as “common sense” and “public safety,” the gun laws passed by our government rarely achieve either. In fact, more often than not, they are merely another step toward oppressive governmental control designed to disarm a law-abiding populace...

A road range incident in Ft. Wayne, Indiana last fall escalated to shots fired, with the primary aggressor punching out another motorist’s driver’s side window. As the hot-tempered window puncher wound up to continue the attack upon the red van’s driver, that driver...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals cleared the way just before the start of the new year for a California law that will ban the legal carrying of guns in many public places. The law is set to go into effect today (January 1). The court suspended the injunction...

Try not to laugh at the new(ish) Chicago mayor’s “grand plan” to reduce violence crime in America’s Murder Capital. In a bid to tamp down the rampant violent crime that has only accelerated since his election, Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes using the “full force of...

California courts are known for performing all sorts of legal contortions in order to perpetuate the state’s complex and extensive regulation of guns and how they can be owned and carried. In a recent example a “liberal” federal judge decided that past racism should...

In the past couple weeks we’ve been following the story of a New Mexico gun control group that broke a number of state and federal gun control laws. You can find details on the violations in our other coverage (see here), but here’s a quick example that illustrates...

The State of Illinois pays millions to Chicago “violence interrupter” programs that supposedly stop violence among gang members before it happens. In reality, it’s little more than paying career violent criminals to pretend to behave. Felons like Gregory Sherman, 45,...

This is not an article on how to form a mutual assistance group. It’s a discussion of the things to consider before trying to form such a group. When things are tough, it’s usually better to be a member of the pack than a lone wolf. That would seem to be true for a...

CHICAGO, IL – A carjacking in West Garfield Park, Chicago erupted in gunfire during the early morning hours of Dec. 27, according to the Chicago Sun Times , when the would-be victim started shooting at the carjackers and they returned fire. The incident occurred just...

The Democrats who run Illinois decided long ago to blame gun owners for the results of the woke, soft-on-crime policies that have led to proliferating crime in the state. Instead of targeting the relatively small number of violent gang members who make Chicago live up...

Gaston Glock, the renowned Austrian engineer and businessman, passed away on December 27, 2023, at the age of 94. Born on July 19, 1929, in Vienna, Glock’s early career was marked by his conscription into the Wehrmacht towards the end of World War II. Following the...

The scant details of a late November shooting read almost like a Western – a lot of them were titled “The Man From…” – but seem to indicate an unstable drifter who got himself into trouble. Police responded to a Nov. 27 call in Vanderburgh County, Ind., according to...

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GRANADA HILLS, CA – A homeowner was recently the target of an early morning armed robbery on Dec. 4, but he fought back, shooting two and killing one. The robbery occurred before 5 a.m., so it’s probable that the break-in and ransacking of the home woke the homeowner...

GARDENDALE, AL – A jewelry store owner in Gardendale, Ala. (roughly 10 miles from Birmingham) shot a robber on Dec. 6, stopping the robbery attempt in its tracks. In an interview with AL.com , store owner Jeff Dennis said that the robber – one Heather Denise Wright,...

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 Disarmament Industrial Complex and all of the smartest people for years now on a...

KNIGHTDALE, N.C. – It pays to take good advice, as a home intruder learned to his cost recently when a homeowner armed himself and gave him a warning. Just before midnight on Nov. 29, a homeowner in Knightdale, N.C., was alerted to a man breaking a window, trying to...

[Bainbridge, GA], [December 22, 2023] – Taurus, a renowned name in the firearms industry, is proud to announce the highly anticipated launch of the Taurus TH10, a cutting-edge addition to its exceptional lineup of handguns. The TH10 is set to make its debut this...

Fairfax Co, Va. – A lady nearly ripped off an officer’s car door during a traffic stop on the interstate west of Washington, DC, in November. An officer was performing a traffic stop when a woman driving on Route 28 did not pull over or even try to slow down. As the...

Pictured are unwanted firearms from one household in Farmington, NM. Our gun buyback was cancelled by the City, but local residents asked us to show up anyway. So, we spent today dismantling guns house by house. #GunsToGardens @vivarioarriba pic.twitter.com/YlgwT9qaxV...

HOUSTON, TX – A man attempted to rob a Dollar Store, arming himself with an Airsoft gun only to be show by an employee with a real gun. Shortly after 1 PM yesterday, a man parked his car in front of a Dollar Store in Houston, TX. After arming himself with an Airlift...

From NRA-ILA . . . Recently, we reported on the establishment of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, an effort by the Biden Administration to funnel taxpayer dollars to the partisan project of gun control. Whatever else can be said of the office, it is...

WASILLA, AK – A home burglar is dead after the homeowners came home and caught him in the act. A husband and wife found a 22-year-old man in their home around 9 AM this past Sunday. The suspect was burglarizing their home when a confrontation ensued. The suspect...

From the Second Amendment Foundation . . . The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging that state’s law requiring firearms dealers to video record all transactions, calling it a violation of First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and...

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott is suing the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for data about where guns used in city crimes originate, the latest move from city leaders to address the proliferation of firearms plaguing Baltimore. Everytown for...

By David Trahan As a Mainer, a law-abiding citizen and compassionate human, I know I speak for my Board and members when I say how sorry and sad, we are for those killed and wounded during the recent tragic shooting in Lewiston. To their families and loved ones, we...

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 is one of the most-read reviews at TTAG. Now Smith has updated the SD9 with the...

Ruger just updated their popular American line of rifles with the American Rifle Generation II. Upgrades include a three position tang safety and a more rigid and ergonomic stock. The tang safety harkens back to the old Model 77 that I grew up with, being forward to...

Last week, the Supreme Court declined to step in and block enforcement of Illinois’ “assault weapons” ban and magazine capacity limits while the full case works its way through the courts. This isn’t the bad news that many gun rights supporters think it is. More...

Congress heard directly from women on the need to empower women by protecting Second Amendment rights in a hearing at the U.S. House of Representatives. The hearing gave voice to women, including domestic violence survivors, of how gun control measures often make it...

The FDA reported an adverse incident report recently for an event that occurred in June – the report is available on the FDA website – but wasn’t reported (or for that matter, picked up on) until recently. The patient was concealing a semi-auto pistol and was going...

It was an unprecedented decision when the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced  it was “pausing” all new firearm export licenses to most countries for 90 days. The consequential edict was “made public” only through an inconspicuous...

“As Catholic Sisters and women of faith who believe in the sanctity of life, our hearts ache at the exponential rise in gun deaths and mass shootings in our country that have ravaged the lives of so many children, women, men, their families, and communities....

Back in September, the White House announced that they were establishing a new Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The stated goal? To advocate for and carry out Biden’s executive orders on gun control. But the executive branch already has armies of bureaucrats to do...

PANORA, IOWA – Authorities responded to a call for service near Panora, Iowa, the scene of a hunting accident near the Bays Branch Wildlife Area. The victim, 26-year-old Seth Egelhoff of Chesterfield, Ill., was shot in the face by another hunter as both were out for...

By Lee Williams Gary v. Glock is a 24-year-old lawsuit that refuses to die. Attorneys for the Brady gun control operation filed the lawsuit on behalf of the City of Gary, Indiana in 1999. At that time, more than 40 cities filed similar lawsuits, which sought to hold...

California is trying to sneak in a ruling that will exclude almost everyone except law enforcement from teaching a concealed carry class. The California Department of Justice sent out a notification on Monday about some proposed changes in California’s concealed carry...

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 application. Available in both a Compact or Full-Size configuration, each FOXTROT-EDC...

Florida’s permitless carry law has been in effect for almost six months now. It’s too early for statewide data, but I looked up a couple of cities that report their data regularly. At this time last year, Miami had 84 homicides. This year it is at 74. For...

By Lee Williams Whenever Bloomberg Businessweek writes about firearms or the Second Amendment, it’s forced to disclose to its readers that the publication is owned by a rabid anti-gunner. No one has spent more of their personal wealth to infringe on Second Amendment...

If you’re on the right side of the political spectrum, you probably don’t think much of the ACLU. After all, they’ve gone to bat for all manner of unpopular individuals including including nazis, satanic churches, and even child molesters. One the most notorious cases...

From Colt . . . Colt proudly introduces the CBX Tac Hunter—a bolt-action hunting rifle loaded with accuracy-enhancing features, making it the perfect companion for avid hunters. The rifle is meticulously crafted to deliver tight groupings and reliable performance,...

Many conservatives consider Ronald Reagan to be one of their great heroes. For some, he’s like the Chuck Norris of presidents, a great yardstick by which to measure current and future presidents. But as Doug Larson said, “Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough...

Kettering, OH — A Lyft driver tried to pull her firearm during a fight between her and a passenger last Thursday morning. It started when a male Lyft passenger began saying things that made her uncomfortable while she was taking him to Meijer. It started when the...

CHICAGO, IL – In the early hours of Saturday morning, a confrontation unfolded in Chicago’s Humboldt Park area that ended in gunfire. Around 1:17 A.M., Chicago police were called to the 1600 block of North Hamlin Avenue. There, they discovered three individuals...

NEW ORLEANS, LA – A New Orleans man tried to stop another man from burglarizing his vehicle, but the suspect had a firearm and was apparently willing to use it instead of getting caught. We don’t have many details about this incident, but around 3:30 AM this past...

The prevalence of the self-defense narrative is part of what sets apart the gun rights movement in the US from similar movements in places like Canada and Australia, according to Robert Spitzer, a professor at SUNY Cortland who studies the politics of gun control....

At the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, machine gun conversion devices have become one of the top enforcement priorities. An ATF report on guns used in crimes found that the number of machine gun conversion devices seized by law enforcement...

Congress and a string of presidents for nearly 30 years have been pushing federal law enforcement to reform and become more transparent. But those four agencies overseen by the Justice Department, among the most prestigious in the country, have been slow to adopt...

Yesterday, researchers from Johns Hopkins said gun-friendly states have the highest rates of gun deaths. The problem with this statement is that ten of the fifteen states with the lowest homicide rates are constitutional carry states. In a constitutional carry state,...

MONTEBELLO, CA – In the early morning hours of Nov. 26, a man went to investigate and confront a man on the roof of his business on the 3300 block of West Beverly Boulevard in Montebello, Calif, according to the Whittier Daily News , arming himself with a revolver...

One of the provisions of New York’s Bruen response law enacted after the state’s may-issue carry permitting scheme was struck down last year was a signage requirement. Unlike most states, rather than property owners posting that concealed carry was prohibited,...

SANFORD, MAINE – On Dec. 1, a man with a knife started walking in and out of traffic, yelling at cars and passersby, eventually making his way over to a food truck on the other side of the street, according to WMTW , and getting into an argument with the operator. The...

MEMPHIS, TN – The police were called after a man with a rifle was spotted walking down the street in Midtown, a neighborhood of Memphis, TN. A man had recently been spotted carrying what news outlets are reporting as a “pistol-calibered rifle” down the street, which...

Wiser politicians and diplomats realize that Otto Von Bismarck was right when he said, “Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable-the art of the next best.” Instead of wasting time on stupid stunts and games, true public servants use their time pursuing...

KNIGHTDALE, N.C. – The shooting happened late last Wednesday when 35-year-old Juan Acevedo tried to break into a house. The homeowner warned Acevedo when he was trying to get in through a window, and he ignored the homeowner’s warning. The homeowner, a legal gun...

BREAKING SHOOTING: Active shooter reported on campus of Nevada University, Las Vegas (UNLV), police say there appears to be multiple victims pic.twitter.com/ooLalfmoZf — Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 6, 2023 Multiple victims have been reported in a...

LAS Vegas, NV – Police and SWAT teams are actively responding to an active shooter situation on UNLV campus. At Dec. 6, 2023, 11:54am, UNLV posted the following on their alert page: University Police responding to report of shots fire in BEH evacuate to a safe area,...

TULSA, OK – A break-in in Tulsa resulted in shots fired and one dead in the early hours of Nov. 13, according to the Tulsa World . An intruder alerted the dogs at the residence of the Gattis family, and their barking woke up the residents, which include two elders –...

Janice Tosto never thought she would become a gun owner, especially now at age 58. But over the last year, she began feeling a growing sense of lawlessness and danger in the city and particularly in her Germantown neighborhood. Now, she’s applying for a permit to...

It’s a sad day and marked the end of a nearly two-century era in New York. Add another tally on the board for a hostile gun control Blue state in the Northeast suffocating and pushing out a storied, tradition-rich firearm manufacturer that decided enough was enough....

By Chuck Michel CRPA filed suit against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s office challenging the “constitutionality of (its) carry permit issuance policies and laws that make it extremely difficult, if not outright impossible or impermissibly time consuming” to get a...

Arlington, VA – On the left side of the screen, you can see the armored vehicle approaching the house to serve the warrant when the house explodes. The only information available is the PD’s following statement: “POLICE ACTIVITY: ACPD is in the 800 block of N....

One of the (not so) dirty little secrets about the noise reduction numbers suppressor makers use to sell their products is there’s no real standard for how to measure their performance. If you’ve ever shot with a can on your pistol or rifle, you know that using a...

The National Supermarket Association, which represents roughly 600 independent grocers, estimated a quarter of its members in the [New York City] are packing heat, compared to 10% pre-pandemic. “You see the necessity because the city is getting out of hand with the...

Detroit, MI – A prosecuting attorney found that a gas station clerk who shot and killed a man was acting in self-defense. On November 25, around 1 in the morning, Yaqoub Nagi, 17, walked behind the counter of a Citgo gas station in Detroit. Nagi was holding something...

A gun control group in New Mexico recently announced yet another gun “buyback” event. This time, though, there’s a twist: no 3D-printed guns are allowed. We’ve seen this before, but this time the group managed to paint themselves into a corner when they refused to...

Overall, [the Crime Prevention Research Center’s John R. Lott] said, there are 21.8 million permits issued. That’s a decrease of 0.5% from last year. But that’s not bad news for proponents of the Second Amendment and concealed carry laws. Lott explained that the...

A town in Michigan has dubbed itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary” and founded a militia over gun control laws being passed in the state. Holton Township passed the resolution in response to a Michigan red flag law that would allow courts to remove weapons from those...

For decades, a disturbing trend has been afoot. Instead of treating teenagers mostly like adults and then giving them their full rights at age 18, people have been taking the rights of young adults away, citing a variety of excuses, many of them politically motivated....