Author: Jack Bogart

Anti-gun politicians like to claim that when they pass restrictive gun laws, they are simply doing the will of the people they represent. However, a sharp increase in gun sales just before and after such laws are passed tells a distinctly different story. Larry Keane, senior vice president and general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the firearm industry trade association, made that point well in a recent report looking at gun sales in New Jersey and Virginia. “The clearest way to measure the will of ‘The People’ isn’t always at the polls every two or four years,”…

The gun-rights group Gun Owners of America (GOA) is blowing the whistle on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division for revealing sensitive tax and firearm information of a GOA member. According to an April 17 news release, GOA is asking the DOJ’s Office of the Inspector General to investigate what it calls a “a series of alarming breaches in which the government intentionally filed, on a public court docket, the sensitive tax returns of a GOA member, along with details of this person’s private firearm collection.” According to GOA,…

Images by the author and from stopboxusa.com Shooters today are blessed to have available to them many ways of storing and protecting their guns. From huge safes that can withstand a house fire to small, portable boxes, there have never been as many ways to keep a gun secure. A while back, I ran across an ad for a product that aroused my interest. Having a dozen grandkids makes me probably more safety-conscious than many others, although that’s an area that all gun owners need to address.  Enter StopBox. I was a bit intrigued by the concept of a reinforced-plastic…

We’ve chronicled many times in the past the gun-rights community’s love-hate relationship with the Trump Administration concerning the Second Amendment. President Donald Trump came into office vowing to protect the right to keep and bear arms, and in many ways, he has done so. However, his Department of Justice has been somewhat schizophrenic on the matter, often supporting Biden-era infringements instead of working to overturn them. In a positive move, the DOJ is now backing out of the fight over the Biden-era final rule that redefined who is “engaged in the business” of selling firearms. According to the gun-rights group…

Images by the author Holstra. This is a company name that may not ring many bells with shooters, but the Cape Coral, Florida-based company is changing that. Holsra is making a name for itself among shooters by focusing on one main product… a holster that works for appendix or behind-the-back carry, with adjustable cant, ride height, and dual clips… all for under forty dollars. Many models are under thirty. That says a lot in today’s market. I asked a company representative to provide a bit of background information about the company, as there isn’t much online, and this is what…

For many of us who started our shooting career with an air rifle, our first BB gun still holds a special place in our hearts. Mine was a Daisy, although not the fancy Red Ryder received by Ralphy of Christmas Story fame. For generations, youngsters have learned the ins and outs of shooting and gun safety by using BB guns. But those growing up in New York might just be looking at the end of a longstanding tradition. A bill under consideration in the New York State Assembly takes aim at BB guns and the youth who use those guns…

Fed up with the continued enforcement of a vacated Biden-era DOJ final rule defining braced pistols as short-barreled rifles (SBRs) regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA), 13 U.S. Senators have sent a fiery letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) demanding the government stop enforcing the rule. Led by U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, the letter, sent on April 15 to Acting Director Daniel Driscoll, reprimands the ATF for signaling in court cases that it will continue enforcement of the now-vacated 2023 Biden rule that classified all braced pistols as short-barrel rifles outlines the senators’ concerns…

When the Taurus 22TUC tip-up .22 landed in 2024, our only real gripe was the lack of a threaded barrel. Taurus just fixed that — the suppressor-host mouse gun is now real. Taurus just announced a threaded-barrel version of the 22TUC — the 10-ounce, tip-up .22 LR pocket pistol that brought back the spirit of the old PT-22 when it launched in 2024. For the subset of us who’ve been carrying a can-ready rimfire in a pocket since forever, this is the variant the platform always should have shipped with. It’s also the one TTAG specifically asked for. In our…

University of Chicago’s Dr. Anthony Douglas — architect of Illinois’ firearms tax scheme — told a legislative hearing that “poor people don’t benefit from owning firearms.” In a city where half of 911 emergency calls go unanswered, that’s not public health policy. It’s sanctioned helplessness. Dr. Anthony Douglas, a University of Chicago trauma resident and the brains behind Illinois’ Responsibility in Firearm Legislation (RIFL) Act, showed up at a legislative hearing last week and said the quiet part out loud. “I think poor people don’t benefit from owning firearms,” he told the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force. “I think…

Less than a year after promising they weren’t “coming for anyone’s guns,” Rhode Island lawmakers just filed 18 gun control bills — including one that would criminalize possession of firearms purchased lawfully before their last ban even takes full effect. Remember last year, when Rhode Island Democrats rammed through a sweeping ban on modern sporting rifles — the ones they love to mislabel “assault weapons” — and swore up and down they weren’t coming for anyone’s guns? They were just regulating future sales, they said. Law-abiding owners had nothing to worry about. Yeah. About that. At a recent House Judiciary…