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The Truth About Guns

Type of site	Blog
Available in	English
Created by	Robert Farago
Editor	Dan Zimmerman
URL	thetruthaboutguns.com
Registration	Optional

The Truth About Guns is a weblog about firearms which launched in February 2010. The blog posts cover a wide range of topics including: Gun Politics, Firearms products and accessories, Current events relating to Firearms, Firearms business, ethics relating to firearms, firearms culture, firearms technology, and other firearms related articles. The staff updates the site with about 15 or more article's per day, with reduced updates on weekends.

History

Robert Farago founded The Truth About Guns in February of 2010 to "explore the ethics, morality, business, politics, culture, technology, practice, strategy, dangers and fun of guns" after founding the popular website The Truth About Cars in 2002. The website has grown in staffing and now includes a total of 3 full time staff members and 2 to 3 regular part time contributors along with other associated staff and is now the most popular firearms related blog in the world. In April of 2013 the website was approaching nearly a million dollars in revenue per year which comes mostly from ad revenue and donations.

Political Activism

The Truth About Guns blog has been highly vocal in its opposition to gun control measures that have emerged since its founding such as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013, the Connecticut Assault Weapons ban of 2013, the New York SAFE Act, and numerous other gun control measures on the local, state, and federal level. They recently held a campaign on their website called "Stand Strong Connecticut" in which readers of the website sent in pictures of themselves and a sign that said Stand Strong Connecticut in support of gun owners in Connecticut who were beginning to receive letters from the Connecticut State Police stating that they were no longer legally entitled to own some of their firearms which were banned under 2013 Gun Control Legislation. Since early 2013 the blog has been at odds with Moms Demand Action whose founder Shannon Watts called the blog members "Gun Bullies" and Robert Farago called the group "our most formidable adversary" and proponents of "anti-gun agitprop".

Staff

References

1. "thetruthaboutguns.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-06-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
2. "About Us". The Truth About Guns. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
3. "Staff Descriptions". The Truth About Guns. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
4. "This gun rights backer, armed with his Glock and his blog, is always on alert". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
5. "Could Restraining Orders Help Prevent Gun Violence?". KQED. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
6. "New Yorkers Moving to Texas Because of Gun Control". New Republic. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
7. "Those who missed gun registration deadline getting letters from state police". Guns.com & Journal Inquirer. Retrieved 2014-06-09.
8. "What's an Olivette man doing running pro-gun website?". St. Louis Dispatch. Retrieved 2014-06-09.

External links

• Official website
• The Truth About Guns on Facebook
• The Truth About Guns on Twitter

• Blogs
• American blogs
• 2010 establishments in the United States
• Organizations established in 2010
• Firearms-related organizations
• Gun rights advocacy groups in the United States