first time gun buyers

America’s Big City Mayors Have Been Working Hard to Create Millions of New Gun Owners

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill,File) The long-term mismanagement of America’s big cities, now exacerbated by Covid and their accommodation — if not outright encouragement — of rioting and looting — has done more to create new…



First-Time Gun Buyer’s Guide, Fall 2020 Edition: NOW What Should I Buy?

Nick Leghorn for TTAG Rumor has it that “may you live in interesting times” is an old Chinese curse, and these are definitely interesting times. Between the civil unrest currently happening in various parts of…


Becoming Gun Owners: Suburbanites Discovering The Government Won’t Be There to Protect Them

Bigstock On Monday it became official: The police issued me a gun permit. Never did I imagine I’d be here. Not because I was anti-gun. My dad was a career FBI agent, so my siblings…




Democrats Betting Big That Gun Control Will Still Appeal to Middle-of-the-Road Suburban Voters

Emma Gonzalez (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP) The subhead of this Atlantic article is ‘The party is betting that support for restrictions is more likely to attract moderate voters than turn them off.’ That probably seemed…


Guns for Beginners: How to Find Quality Self-Defense Firearm Training

(AP Photo/ Rick Bowmer) Carrying a gun lawfully for self-defense can make the difference between life and death in a critical situation. Yet at the same time it comes along with risks to the carrier…