Guns for Beginners

Reloading 101: How to Beat the High Cost of Buying Ammunition (Part 1)

Besides being mechanically inept, I don’t have a particularly green thumb. In my 23 years of military service, tending to the greenery was a work detail, or, more often, a punishment (oops, I mean “additional…


Americans Buying Guns Because They Can’t Count on Beleaguered Police or Soft-on-Crime Pols to Protect Them

Image by Oleg Volk. Used with permission. blog.olegvolk.net In recent weeks, Americans voted with their wallets — again — and have stripped gun retailers’ shelves bare of most guns and ammo. Between the Chinese flu…





The 3 Best Handgun Calibers for Armed Self-Defense

Dan Z. for TTAG Caliber wars — gun owners arguing over the relative merits of various calibers of self-defense ammunition — are an ugly, protracted business. This article will do nothing to reduce the hostility…



4 Factors You Need Consider When Buying a Concealed Carry Handgun

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) By Tim Carroll What gun should I carry for self-defense? This question has been asked more times than I can remember during my professional training career and the answer is, well…complicated. Stopping…