‘Tis the season, yet again. 

It’s become kind of a tradition in this space to remind folks that the gift of a firearm is a gift of recognized responsibility and trust. 

Like every year, I invite you to share in the comments what guns or gun-related gifts you received or gave for Christmas.

In any case, all of us on this end wish you a safe and happy holiday season!

31 COMMENTS

    • That’s what I gave myself for Christmas last year. It’s a great gun, you’re going to love it. I like buying gifts for myself, too, for the same reasons that you do–no mix ups or mistakes in exactly what to order, plus which I can get it when I want it & for the best price I can find.

  5. Merry Christmas to you and the Princess, and Santa was very nice this year with a Ruger Gen 2 bolt action 308 along with a EAA 2311 and the topper of a Springfield 1911 Garrison SS 1911

  6. Merry Christmas good sir. It’s been twenty five years since I took some of your LFI courses. I still have your certificates framed. I’m getting on in years and I don’t get out much, but those were good, good times. Best to you and your family. Have a wonderful New Year.

  10. I gave myself a Mantis TitanX … and then bought another for my daughter, and another for a friend. I’m encouraging them to become better trained up.

    To further that end, I am completing an 80-hour multi-course program to end the year.
    And for 2026 I am immersing myself in instructor-training courses from Rehn, Givens, and if I can swing the dates and budget, your DFi in either CA or WA this summer.

    Thanks for your encouragement to be a stout defender.

  13. My wife and I gave each other matching Hellcat Pros & Micros. Early of course she loves them and I was born with opposable thumbs so I love what she does so we carry the same platform.
    Merry Christmas

  14. Bought myself 2 more Wilson Combat 47D magazines for my Springfield Armory MilSpec in .45 ACP. They are a little bit more expensive than others available, but downloaded one round to 7 can be loaded virtually indefinitely and have never failed me. Merry Christmas to you and the EP.

  15. This year I gave myself a Mossberg 990 Aftershock with the Crimson Trace Lasersaddle.

    MERRY CHRISTMAS & BEST WISHES FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR to you Mas, EP, & all the rest of you who make this the most interesting, informative, & entertaining blog that I know of.

    On a side note in the tradition of Christmas book recommendations, I highly recommend Mark Lee Gardiner’s newest book “Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and a Reckoning in Tombstone.” It is the most extensively researched & well written book on this subject that I have ever found. It provides more intimate details about Earp, Holliday, their lives, associates, enemies, travels, habits, personalities, relationships, & actions than you will ever find anywhere else based on legal documents, newspaper accounts, interviews with people who knew them, & other reliable resources, yet it’s extremely readable. Gardiner’s style of writing is never dry or dull, but rather very entertaining, easy reading. My local library just got their first copies in a few days ago & it’s also available on Amazon & Kindle. His other books “Rough Riders” & “The Earth Is All That Lasts” are also excellent & I highly recommend both of them, too.

    Happy Reading this winter!!!!!

    • That’s what I like to see Dave!
      Bringing in totally irrelevant side threads. 🙂
      ‘Wyatt Earp And The Cowboy Wars’ is on Netflix. At least it is here in the UK.
      And if you haven’t seen ‘Tombstone’. Do! It’s a classic.
      In the ‘Gunslingers’ episode on Wyatt (again very good series). Kurt Russell gives the Doc Holiday based advise we must all remember:
      “Don’t bring a drunk dentist to a gunfight”.
      He might also have said “don’t hire Val Kilmer if you don’t want your splendid leading performance to be forgotten”.

      • Although the side note I added to my post above is admittedly off topic, I wouldn’t go so far as to describe it as being “totally irrelevant.” We do have sort of a tradition here of offering book (& gift) recommendations at Christmastime, as exemplified by Mas’ recent recommendation for the book “First 30 Seconds”, which I subsequently bought & was grateful to discover that it is also a book that is well worth reading. The book I’m recommending is a new book that was just released in November, so it’s unlikely that many people are aware of it, & it is firearms related, as well as being the very best book on this subject that I have ever read. I believe that it undoubtedly will be of interest to many of our readers here. I want to emphasize that this book has been extremely well researched by the author with a 13 page list of his resources & an astounding 45 pages of footnotes at the end of the book referencing sources for statements made in the text itself. What every reader of this book will discover is that NONE of the films made about the Gunfight at the OK Corral are even remotely close to depicting what actually happened or the reasons why it happened. It’s a real eye-opener. At the same time, it is a fun book to read. I don’t often make recommendations like this, but I’m hoping to repay at least some of the people here that have made recommendations on this website that I have been extremely grateful to receive.

        Once again, MERRY CHRISTMAS & A BLESSED NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!!!!!!

      • Esteemed nicholas kane (try to get that spelling of a Christmas name past Spellcheck), thank you for your Tombstone-related comments. I just hope that you get the chance to visit the Arizona town of that name, if you have not already done. Please do not miss the reenactment there of the OK Corral battle (or ambush?) or a walk through the classic Birdcage Theater. Tombstone should replay alive in that saloon the whole cast of the 1880’s. What a scene of an overhead circle of “birds” that would make! I recommend arriving in Tombstone before the summer heat sets in. The pleasant Cochise Stronghold is not far from Tombstone, and well worth the visit. The late Val Kilmer’s home town of Wickenburg is now the capital of real western roping. You may have had a change in at least some worldview by the time that you return to Heathrow. Thank you all, and your forebears, for standing vs. the Nazi onslaught in WWII and incidentally buying time for the rest of the free world. May Freedom continue to survive!

  16. Merry ChristmasRabbi!
    I bought myself another Ken Null shoulder holster. That’s the 5th Null holster I’ve purchased over several year … err, decades.
    He called about the order 2 days before Christmas, all of 85 years old and still doing his craft. God bless him.
    It was a real treat to talk with him and wish him a Merry Christmas!

  17. Merry Christmas old guy and princess! i’m getting cataract surgery for post Christmas present, not really gun related but it is when it comes to sight picture…

  18. Greetings from a long-time fan, the Squeeze Cocker and pin gun days! Never felt i could afford a Python, but trying a pair of new Colt (CZ, if we call them that) Pythons to see if the computer made hullabaloo is half true. What does the following gang think?

  19. I’ve been thinking about getting a sound suppressor in .45, maybe a Banish, now that the tax stamp will cost $0 in 2026. I’d also need a good host for it, so another 1911 with a threaded barrel and tall sights. I’ll have to see how that goes as a retiree on a fixed income.

    Chris Thayer:
    Hey, I’m a stout fellow. You can tell because of all the Guinness and Obsidian stouts I’ve downed.

    Merry Christmas, all.

  20. Nothing new under tree—the closest I came was cleaning up from a hunt just concluded-successful late season antelope-my Wiseman barrel, FN Mauser ‘98 action, MacMillan stocked 280 AI built by up by Dan Dowling.

  21. Merry Christmas, Mas. I hope you and yours are well. Along with a few heartfelt and sentimental gifts, I gave my elderly mother a Ruger GP100 along with a few boxes of .38 Special +P. This was to replace the Charter Arms 5-shot .32 that she’s had for years. I definitely think that’s an upgrade. Of course the next step is proper training from a qualified instructor.

  23. Among the various gifts, I did give a Charter Arms stub-nose revolver to a good friend for Christmas (along with a pocket holster, speed-strips, and some ammo). He has a handgun carry permit but was lacking a concealable firearm small enough for pocket carry. His 9mm was just too large for that purpose being more suitable for holster carry.

    I also gave his grandson a matching (cap-buster) stub-nose revolver so that he can have a toy stub-nose similar to grandpa’s real one.

    Hopefully, the toy will inspire some love for firearms among the younger generation!

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! 🙂

  24. I got a new Holo Sun green dot to go on my S&W Model 17 K-22.. That was for Christmas and my birthday on Jan 13. Later, I am having cataract surgery on both eyes. Not looking forward to the surgery, but everybody tells me it’s not a big deal. It would be nice to be able to see without everything being blurry. Sam got a 929 for Christmas, along with competition treatment from Dave Olhaso. Should have the gun back next week. Hope you and yours have a wonderful new year.

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