A new survey puts the number of privately owned firearms in America at 461 million. More interesting is how closely its results track more than a century of federal firearms data. The post Two Numbers, One Story: 461 Million Guns in America appeared first on The Truth About Guns.
Spend enough time around gun counters or internet forums and you’ll eventually hear someone grumble about “video game guns.” Usually it’s from shooters who grew up watching westerns, war movies, or cop shows instead. The reality is every generation has had something that s...
The Palmetto State Armory Jakl is a well-known commodity within gun culture at this point. The long-stroke piston rifle built around the AR15 is no stranger to love and hate; thus, the same is true with bullpups. This article looks to cause a ruckus and bring together two paradoxical and controve...
The Stowaway series from Dark Mountain Arms embraces a philosophy that predates modern tactical doctrine: sometimes, capability means having it with you, and knowing where to hide it until you need it. The focus in this Photo Of The Day is a 2.8-pound rifle that collapses to 16.65 inches, p...
In general, Bosnian defense manufacturers are not very well known in the US. But there is one important exception – AC Unity, a company from the town of Goražde, known to US and international customers for its polymer magazines for AK, AR-15, and MP5s, which TFB reviewed several years ago.
Episode 69 was filmed August 28th, flying American Airlines from Chattanooga to Charlotte and on to New Orleans. Easy process, but the wait worked differently than I’m used to. Check-In at CHA Declared firearms. Agent asked about battery-powered devices and tobacco products — none. I open...
After a procedural freeze lasting more than thirty years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially transformed the federal pathway for restoring Second Amendment rights from statutory theory into an active, functioning reality. Following the finalization of its administrative rule under 28 ...
William English estimates that Americans own 461 million firearms. A separate calculation using more than a century of federal production records produces nearly identical handgun, rifle, and shotgun ratios.
Welcome to today’s Photo of the Day! Here we have a Model 1841 that somebody went after with a saw during the Civil War. The 1841 picked up its Mississippi Rifle nickname from Jefferson Davis and the 1st Mississippi at Buena Vista in 1847, and it was a good gun. 54 caliber, brass mounted, p...
Adjusted firearm-related NICS checks reached 1.115 million in August 2026, up 2.2% from last year, while NFA checks more than tripled.