Author: Jack Bogart

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…

I recently got some bad news from the owners of a well-established pro-gun website. They can no longer publish stories from the Second Amendment Foundation — or from any other pro-gun group, for that matter. The reason? Google. Their site now takes a “hit” from Google’s algorithm whenever it publishes non-original content, they told me. So from here on out, they can only run stories they’ve written themselves and that have never appeared anywhere else. The days of sharing SAF reporting — or reporting from any other Second Amendment outlet — appear to be over. At least for now. One…

Beretta has just announced the official release of the newest family member of the rapidly growing 80X line. The new 80X Cheetah Tactical Special Edition is a dual-tone update to its compact .380 ACP SA/DA pistol that is intended as a dressed-up, yet more competition/tactical-friendly variation of the already popular modern 80X. The model pairs a black slide, barrel, grips, and magazine base pad with a bronze anodized aluminum frame, black G10 grip panels, a fiber-optic front sight, a blacked-out serrated rear sight, and a two-slot Picatinny rail. The barrel is threaded ½”-28 and comes with a single-port compensator mounted…

The wishy-washy nature of the Trump Administration’s handling of Second Amendment issues remains on full display as the saga of the Biden-era frame & receiver final rule continues to unfold. As we reported less than a week ago, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) recently decided to keep in place the arguably unconstitutional “Frame & Receiver” final rule put in place by the Biden Administration. At issue is the final rule, sometimes referred to as the “ghost gun” rule, that redefined important legal terms dealing with guns, including “firearm,” “receiver,” and “frame,” making the longstanding American tradition of building…

When Democrat Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently vetoed two pro-gun measures, lawful gun owners in the Bluegrass State were hopeful that pro-gun lawmakers in the state legislature could garner enough votes for an override. Gov. Beshear vetoed House Bill 78, which would provide critical liability protections for firearm industry members against third-party misuse of the products they manufacture and sell, and House Bill 312, which would create a provisional concealed carry permit for lawful young adults ages 18, 19, and 20. On April 14, the state legislature convened for a veto override session and successfully overrode both measures. The override vote totals for HB 78…

Arguments by the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice for continuing the registration portion of the National Firearms Act (NFA) now that the tax has been eliminated have drawn the ire of a major gun-rights group. Congress killed the $200 tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs), short-barreled shotguns (SBSs), and any other weapons (AOWs) when it passed President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill last summer. Gun-rights groups immediately filed a handful of lawsuits challenging the remainder of the NFA, and the DOJ is unexpectedly fighting those lawsuits, despite the administration’s promise to battle anti-Second Amendment laws. In one of the…

When things go wrong at 2 a.m., hearing protection is likely the last thing on your mind. You’re not reaching for earmuffs. You’re reaching for your firearm. That’s exactly why a suppressor on your home defense pistol or carbine makes more practical sense than most people realize. And in 2026, with the $200 NFA tax stamp eliminated, there has never been a better time to take the idea seriously. Why 9mm Makes Sense The 9mm cartridge is the most common handgun round in the world, and it’s also one of the most suppressor-friendly. Why? Because 147-grain subsonic loads are widely…

I have been running the standard Smith & Wesson Bodyguard 2.0 as my deep-concealment carry gun for a good stretch now. Out of the last couple of years, it has hands down been my new favorite concealed carry piece in my current rotation. It disappears under a t-shirt better than just about anything else in my collection. When Gideon Optics released the Pebble reflex sight built around this exact pistol, I decided it was time to see if a dot could make the little .380 more than a last-ditch contact distance weapon. The S&W Bodyguard 2.0 The Bodyguard 2.0 itself needs…