The firearms industry: business, insurance, and policy
Reporting on the business and politics of the firearms industry: how companies get financed, insured, sued, and regulated, and what that means for the guns that reach the counter. Coverage includes the shrinking market for firearms-industry liability and property insurance, where lawfare and lender pressure have driven most carriers out and prices up for the manufacturers, ranges, and dealers that remain.
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Inside Commercial Firearms Insurance and the Fight for AmericaThanks to lawfare and ignorance, few insurance programs remainShooting News Weekly- Combat Medic: What To Do When Someone Else Is ShotRead the first of this two post series here. Being shot and having to treat yourself isn’t ideal. I went over the basics of what to do if you are ...The Truth About Guns
- Combat Medic: The Life-Saving Work That Starts Once You’re ShotRead the second post in this two-post series here. The best medicine on any battlefield is fire superiority. That simple mantra, or some version of it, is written in just ...The Truth About Guns
- What Gun, What Ammo, and What to Do Now[ED: We originally ran this post in March of 2020. You’ll probably remember what things were like then. COVID is no longer the issue it was and ammo is far ...The Truth About Guns
- John Linebaugh, RIPThe shooting and hunting world has lost a true pioneer. John Linebaugh passed away, surrounded by his family in his home on March 19, 2023. It is impossible to overstate Mr. ...The Truth About Guns
- River & Ranch Provisions in Georgetown, TexasIf you’re a hunter or fisherman and you’re around central Texas, you need to check out River and Ranch Provisions in Georgetown, Texas. The first thing you’ll notice when you ...The Truth About Guns
- 9/11 And The Importance of Being ArmedTwenty-one years ago today I was riding my motorcycle to work, a little late, but almost there. My boss, Governor Rick Perry, called me along the way, and I ...The Truth About Guns
- Uvalde Shooting Update: Tragedy, Good Work, and Unimaginable ErrorEarlier today Texas Department of Public Safety Steve McCraw gave an update on the timeline and chain of events of the recent school shooting in Uvalde. His statements were, to ...The Truth About Guns
- Bill Wilson Purchases Lehigh Defense: Interview with Bill WilsonWilson Combat announced today that Bill Wilson has purchased the popular ammunition company Lehigh Defense, best known for their line of copper projectiles. As soon as I read the news, ...The Truth About Guns
- Lessons Learned from the Shooting of Officer Nathan HeidelbergLast week, a jury acquitted David Wilson of murdering Midland police Officer Nathan Heidelberg. That Wilson shot and killed Officer Heidelberg was never in doubt. Officer Heidelberg hadn’t fired at ...The Truth About Guns
- Hodgon Announces Closing of Their Camp Minden, Louisiana Black Powder PlantIt’s not the end of the world, but I can see it from here. Hodgdon Powder Inc. has announced that, effective immediately, it will cease all manufacturing at their Camp ...The Truth About Guns
- The (Current) Truth About Afghanistan and Americans Who Have Been Left BehindDespite what some TTAG staff and members of my own family may have thought, I was not in Afghanistan and I haven’t been there in a decade. I wasn’t part ...The Truth About Guns
- DIY Home Build Number 4 – The 80% Arms AR-9 and Freedom for Rich White DudesOver the last year, I’ve made a solidly-performing 9mm polymer framed pistol, a fun AR-15 style rifle and a great “parts-bin” AR10 in 6.5 Creedmoor based on kits from 80% ...The Truth About Guns
- BPI Longshot Event Features Bergara and CVA RiflesBPI picked a hell of a day to showcase their rifles. The night before the shoot, a huge thunderstorm moved through North Texas. At least one tornado touched down, golf ...The Truth About Guns
- Update: 80% Arms AR10 Lower Receiver Complete BuildLast month I completed three different AR platform lower receivers using the 80% Arms Easy Jig Gen 3 Multi-Platform 80% Lower Jig. The Easy Jig is a great product, and ...The Truth About Guns
- An Old Redneck and the Bullet He Loved – The 175gr Sierra Match KingJWT for TTAGI am interested in guns. I am fascinated by cartridges. I like the Winchester “Improved Mauser” action. I am enamored with the 7mm-08. That’s probably why during a ...The Truth About Guns
- Shooting to Wound and Non-Lethal Threat Responses…Why They Don’t WorkI often hear good legal advice about armed, non-lethal responses when faced by a lethal threat to yourself or others. Some of these options include displaying your firearm prior to ...The Truth About Guns
- The Truth About The Effects of Twist Rate and Gun Barrel LengthWith the welcome deluge of new gun owners, and especially the new rifle shooters, TTAG has been getting a lot of great questions. Some reoccurring themes include queries about the ...The Truth About Guns
- Dueling Ruger New Model BlackhawksThis year I’m trying my hand at cowboy action shooting. Cowboy action shooting is at least a four gun sport; two revolvers, a shotgun, and a pistol caliber carbine. This ...The Truth About Guns
- What I’m Carrying Now: Custom Browning Hi-Power and a Butterfly Knife[This post is part of our series, What I’m Carrying Now. If you’d like to submit a photo and description of the gun, holster and gear you’re carrying in the new ...The Truth About Guns
- JWT: The Guns I Used in Combat in AfghanistanThe Colt M4 rifle and Beretta M9 handgun were the primary guns I used when I was in Afghanistan. The M9 was the standard-issue pistol. The M4 had an EOTech holographic red ...The Truth About Guns
- Personal Defense: Minuteman Ammunition’s Pure Silver Werewolf Defense Ammunition in .45 ColtEarlier this month, I was once again hunting wild pigs at night with a suppressed AR-15 chambered in .458 SOCOM. I was heading into some thick brush, following what sounded ...The Truth About Guns
- The 3 Best Handguns for Concealed CarryI’ve concealed carried most every day for about 25 years. The only exception: when I was in uniform. Most of that time I openly carried a firearm or two. In ...The Truth About Guns
- Hands-On With Beretta’s New 92X Full Size, Centurion, Compact and Performance ModelsThe pistol I shoot the best is a Beretta 92 series. It was the first pistol I ever hated. When I was first issued the gun, I was horrible with ...The Truth About Guns
- GLOCK Performance Comparison: The New G43X and G48 Slimline PistolsThe G43 was by no means the first GLOCK I owned, but it was the first GLOCK I wanted to own. Small, concealable, and controllable, the G43 makes an ideal ...The Truth About Guns
- 12 Hundo In Hondo Team Endurance Rifle MatchUnlike many other areas of the country, Texas is still blessed with lots of open land. For shooters, that means lots of opportunities to reach out a little farther with ...The Truth About Guns
- NationalGunTrader.com to Launch January 1, 2019The People of the Gun have been bemoaning the lack of a large scale, professional online marketplace for firearms and gear. We’ve been clamoring for someone to step in and ...The Truth About Guns
- Wilson Combat Releases the Paul Howe Signature GLOCK 19 and GLOCK 26Earlier this year I got a sneak peak at the Paul Howe Package GLOCKs customized by Wilson Combat. Wilson embargoed any stories at the time, but I got to shoot ...The Truth About Guns
- Combat Medic: Shoot the Heaviest Rifle Round You Can, Shoot What You Can Hit, Then Shoot it Again[Ed: The subject of “stopping power” is a never-ending debate amongst gun guys and gals. JWT, a former combat medic, wrote this back in 2014 and it’s well worth sharing ...The Truth About Guns
- GLOCK 21SF .45 Super Conversion: 1,000 Rounds and a Bunch of Pigs LaterThere’s been a bit of a .45 Super resurgence of late. I carry a pistol every day for self defense, but I also hunt quite a bit, and very much ...The Truth About Guns
- My “Last Rifle”: DeliveredLast year, I wrote about growing up with the single-shot rifle, hunting around the world, and the commissioning of The Last Rifle I’ll Ever Need. John Stewart at Kiote Rifles ...The Truth About Guns
- Navajo Nation’s Cash Offer to Purchase Remington Outdoor is Rightly RejectedAccording to the New York Times, the Navajo Nation has made an offer to purchase the Remington Outdoor Company, which recently emerged from bankruptcy. The offer was for approximately half a ...The Truth About Guns
- JWT’s “Last Rifle” Update: The Ruger No. 1 Is Almost HomeMy dream rifle, the “Last Rifle I’ll Ever Need” is almost complete. I just got these photos of the Ruger No. 1 and it looks amazing. Owen Armstrong of Rifles ...The Truth About Guns
- Cimarron Firearms Uberti 1860 Henry in .45LCThe 1860 Henry wasn’t the first repeating rifle. That would be the 1848 Volition Repeating Rifle. Nor was it “the gun that won the West.” If any single repeater has ...The Truth About Guns
- Gear Update: KCarry Shoulder System Potential Safety Issue FixedLast month I reviewed the KCarry Shoulder System. And found it wanting. I had a few issues with how the KCarry holster was set up, and specifically how it compared to a ...The Truth About Guns
- Whose Job Is It to Stop School Shooters? Question of the DayMarjory Stoneman Douglas High School students have been all over the airwaves and the internet with a great point: it’s not their job to stop mass shooters. After all, they ...The Truth About Guns
- FBI on Parkland Shooting: We Were Warned, Did NothingThe Federal Bureau of Investigation has admitted that they were imminently warned, directly, of the Parkland, Florida shooter’s motive, opportunity, and means to commit his crimes. In a Press Release ...The Truth About Guns
- Jon Wayne Taylor’s Kiote Corp. “Last Rifle” – UpdateLast year I asked John Stewart of Kiote Corp to start work on my dream rifle, the “last rifle I’ll ever need“, a highly customized Ruger No. 1 in .375 ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Zev: Trigger Parts and AR10 Receiver SetsZev Technologies is the King Kong in a tux of the GLOCK upgrade world. Top shelf GLOCK part? Zev. Zev? Top shelf GLOCK part. Only in 2017, the Oxnard, California-HQ’ed company ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Cimmaron Firearms: New Revolvers, Pocket .380ACPTexas-based Cimarron Firearms has released some beautiful new pistols for 2018. The Wild Bill 1851 Conversion above comes in .38 Special, while the Buffalo Bill Conversion is chambered in the ...The Truth About Guns
- New for 2018: Les Baer Premier II 5″ in 10mmShowing us all a little 10mm love, Les Baer has released their Premier II 5″ in the almost magnum automatic. The 10mm Premier II features a fully supported chamber at ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Ki`ote Rifle: LRP and Overwatch ModelsTTAG is proud to have published head gunsmith John Stewart’s series on what to expect from a custom bolt action rifle. For 2018, the King of Ki`ote Rifle has released two ...The Truth About Guns
- New from STI: DVC OmniI got so tired of writing the same thing for STI — great accuracy, spectacular reliability, smokin’ fast, five stars (or thereabouts) — I quit reviewing them. Copy and paste ...The Truth About Guns
- Team 5 Foundation Auction: Guns, Knives and ClassesThe Truth About Guns
- New From Hudson: H9A (Aluminum Frame) and Threaded BarrelsTTAG has been all over the Hudson H9. We’ve reviewed the gun extensively, and TTAG readers got their chance to compete with H9s during the last TTAG get together at ...The Truth About Guns
- Hands on with the GLOCK 19XI finally got my hands on the new GLOCK 19X. It’s a GLOCK 19 slide atop a GLOCK 17 frame. So how does it shoot? I’m glad I asked . ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – ReceiversThe Truth About Guns
- New from Henry Repeating Arms: Henry U.S. Survival PackA couple of years ago I reviewed the time tested Henry AR7 Survival Rifle, and loved it. Then I reviewed the Henry Survival Kit, and I liked it enough to ...The Truth About Guns
- New from Wilson Combat: YouTube Master ClassNew shooters never had it so good. Before the World Wide Web and web videos most of us learned from anybody we could. The varying styles were great, but we ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look For in a Custom Rifle – Chambers and ThroatsThe Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – The Barrel CrownAs part of an ongoing series on what to look for in a custom rifle, gunsmith John Stewart tells us all a little more about the barrel crown. John Stewart ...The Truth About Guns
- What to Look for in a Custom Rifle – The TriggerJohn Stewart of Kiote Rifles is a gunsmith. I’ve handled his rifles. I’ve seen them shoot 1/2 MOA ten-round groups at 300 yards with factory ammo — and that ...The Truth About Guns
- Taylor’s & Co. Firearms Compact 1911 in 9mmAt fist glance, the Taylor’s and Co. Compact 1911 closely resembles the WWII-era Government models. Only three-quarters the size. The Parkerized finish, the GI thumb safety, the sights and mostly bare ...The Truth About Guns
- Grizzly Custom Guns 1895 Outback Guide Gun in .45-70 GovernmentWith whitetail season coming up in Texas, I’ve welcomed a slew of lever-action rifles for review. This season, I feel sorry for every lever gun that follows this one. Grizzly Custom ...The Truth About Guns
- The Truth About .30-06A gunsmith friend of mine recently told me he was considering not renewing his NRA membership. It wasn’t because of the NRA or NRA-ILA’s political posturing. He was reacting to ...The Truth About Guns
- SIG SAUER Stops Production of P320, ‘Voluntary Upgrade’ Details on MondaySIG SAUER has stopped production of their P320 pistol. Responding to “drop safety” issues, the New Hampshire gunmaker has halted production of one of the company’s most popular handguns until they can ...The Truth About Guns
- Living the Dream, Or the Last Rifle I’ll Ever NeedI had a pretty awesome childhood. As young as eight years old, it consisted of days, and often weeks completely on my own, wandering thousands of acres of Texas hill ...The Truth About Guns
- Metro Arms American Classic II: UPDATEIn my last review of the Metro Arms American Classic II, I noted numerous first-round failures to feed FMJ ammunition, using multiple magazines. The value-priced made-in-Manilla 1911 had a lot ...The Truth About Guns
- What Bullets Do (And Don’t Do) to BodiesDr. Leana Wen, physician and Health Commissioner of Baltimore City, recently wrote an article for the New York Times. What Bullets Do to Bodies explained her experience with the unimaginable horrors of ...The Truth About Guns
- Congressional Baseball Shooting: A Belt Is Not A Tourniquet“Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding of a staffer shot early Wednesday during a congressional baseball game practice,” thehill.com reports. “I took ...The Truth About Guns