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The Model 648 might be the greatest “first handgun” of all time… The news that Smith & Wesson has finally decided to bring the Model 648 back to market has already got my accountant in a cold sweat and my credit-card issuer popping champagne. This long-barreled medium-frame revolver, chambered in .22WMR, may very well be…
Oh look, anti-gunners don’t like small, local businesses either. Shocker! Gun banners have learned that most Americans don’t like the idea of making it illegal to purchase firearms, which clearly gives them a bad case of indigestion. It’s a tough onion to swallow for them. Rather than pop a Tums, they instead try to find…
It’s time to get serious with these things! Although we here at GGD have run a couple of quizzes so far–including one that will tell you which pocket pistol you are, and one that will let you know which home-defense shotgun you are, it’s been brought to my attention that some people think my quizzes…
For every hunting story you’ve read, there was at least one other one the writer couldn’t tell you… I’ve been an outdoor writer for a while, but before that I was a reader: I used to marvel at the glossy hunting magazines, the writers’ tales of derring-do in the face of rotten weather and tricky…
Shooting a Scout is like falling in love. Getting $1,100 off, however, is pure obsession… In just a little over two weeks, Steyr Arms is holding an open house and factory-direct sale at their American Headquarters, located in Bessemer, Alabama…and this one’s shaping up to be well worth a road trip! Over the last couple…
Remember these the next time a gun-banner says, “If it only saves one life…” Speaking that phrase–“if it only saves one life, won’t it be worth it?”–is quite possibly the best way to give me a pulsing forehead vein, because the fact of the matter is that bad gun laws kill good people. They don’t…
If you like to grill outside, and you couldn’t sleep at all last night, I know why… The Gravity Grill from CanCooker has already got me hangry–e.g., both hungry and angry–and I’ll tell you why. I’ve spent all of my life grilling out, from the time I was barely tall enough to see the coals…
When at first you don’t succeed, fabricate some bullpucky and see who buys it! Right now, the Board of Health in King County, Washington is conducting a so-called “gun violence prevention summit” that doesn’t include a single representative from the firearms community. There is no input from firearms retailers, gun range operators or firearms instructors;…
Just because the “Area 51 Raid” started as a joke doesn’t mean we don’t need to prepare… A few days ago, some wag made a Facebook page announcing that it was time for we, the American people, to make a raid on Nevada’s famed “Area 51” so we could finally get to meet some aliens….
This is your friendly reminder that the subject of one of these stories has been entered into a database as a “gun violence victim.” If you’re reading this, then you’re probably already savvy to the fact that being an armed citizen makes you safer than those who don’t exercise their gun rights. The problem is…
I promise I won’t shine it in my buddies’ eyes for a laugh. (Again.) The folks at Viridian Weapon Technologies recently introduced a new line of long-range illuminators that have put my poor suffering wallet on notice that I’m about to abuse it–as well as the patience of my friends–again. You’ll notice that I haven’t…
What do you do when you’re a “liberal,” but there’s a picture of you in blackface? Let us consider Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, a Democrat who was elected by the increasingly-blue parts of Northern Virginia that outnumber the rural (and very conservative) rest of the state. A few months ago, it came to light that…
