WHAT’S YOUR HOME DEFENSE GUN CHOICE?

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When I was a little boy, my dad’s choice of home defense gun was “American Traditional”: a double barrel 12 gauge shotgun and double-aught buckshot. Joe Biden would have approved. The shotgun was the home...

NRAAM WRAPUP

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The 2015 National Rifle Association Annual Meeting is done.  According to The Shooting Wire, attendance – which had been estimated at 70,000 in the newspapers – was actually somewhat in excess of 78,000. Nashville, generally...

ONE MORE TIME

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Our military – not for the first time – listens to complaints about poor “man-stopping” ability with 9mm ball ammunition in combat: http://m.military.com/daily-news/2014/07/03/army-wants-a-harder-hitting-pistol.html . It seems to me that there’s little wrong with Beretta M9...

SHOT SHOW 2016, PART 6

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At industry-only-people SHOT, as at the ordinary folks-accessible NRA annual meeting, you get to talk to the manufacturers and, more importantly, the engineers who are responsible for new guns and related gear.  I’ve found...

THE COUNTY FAIR: A TRIP BACK THROUGH TIME

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The sky was darkening, and little droplets were beginning to fall when my significant other and I reluctantly left the county fair tonight. We left smiling. In a grim world...