For this past Christmas, I purchased what I thought would be a fun/funny gift for my husband. It’s a BUG A-SALT 2.0 Insect Eradication Gun. A friend of mine happened to mention this toy gun one day…

After we talked about using combative skills and attempting to move away from an attacker, many older readers reached out to say they were not fit enough or flexible enough to move like that. Some…

By the time I started my law enforcement career in 1980 with the Licking County Ohio Sheriff’s Office, I already had a healthy interest in guns and shooting, ignited by my father and fueled by many…

If a slim nine just doesn’t cut it for you as a self-defense gun, perhaps a chunky nine will do. Don’t get me wrong: Slim nines are great. But sometimes you want more heft, more grip and more capacity. And you’ll give up some measure of concealability to get it.

In a recent edition of my video blog, Into the Fray, I suggested that you should keep track of all your training and create a file with the training certificates you have earned over the years. It…

Last week, we reported on some of the more onerous new laws affecting California gun owners and how such bad legislation that begins there often insidiously spreads to the rest of the country. Things…

Dateline: Detroit, Michigan, October 9, 2017, 6:58 a.m. A 53-year-old woman named Patricia Cosby is walking on the 9500 block of Goodwin Street sidewalk near Westminster, in her own neighborhood,…

Transaction Declined: Wisconsin Man Defends Against Rock-Wielding Robber A 51-year-old Milwaukee man got money from an ATM and proceeded to walk home. That’s when a man who had seen him at the money…

Don’t make the use of a tourniquet too complex. Find where the blood is leaking out of the body. Place the tourniquet between that place and the heart. Tighten the tourniquet until the blood stops…

In the midst of a struggle, the assailant shot JC in the hand. He then shot JJ in the leg. Before the incident, JC and JJ had been absorbed in working on a car that Saturday evening at Jake Klein’s garage at Route 66 Auto Repair in Alberquerque, New Mexico.

Last week we showed you a short video that gave really good information about how many times you might need to shoot someone to stop a threat. But there was a lot more to that video that some of you…

Colt’s Lightweight Commander, an iconic handgun if there ever was one, is no lightweight. Fully loaded and resting on my digital scale, I get a reading of 34.6 ounces. Most carry guns weigh…

A recent assignment by one of my editors at Concealed Carry Magazine gave me the opportunity to work with a variant of Ruger’s fine concealed carry revolver — the LCR (Lightweight Compact Revolver) — in a caliber I hadn’t worked with before: 9mm Luger, a rimless semi-automatic pistol cartridge.

Are you aware of the recent case of the Good Samaritan who jumped into a brawl to help a cop? Sometimes good intentions … well, here’s the story. It’s the last Friday night before Christmas and the…

Being from Alabama, I can honestly say that I don’t wear jackets very often. I don’t own many jackets in the first place. And I don’t really think about this type of outerwear all that much, either.…

No fanfare. No flashy celebrations. But can you believe that I have been doing this for 200 consecutive weeks? When I started Into the Fray nearly four years ago, we were filming against a canvas…

Do you remember the rule? How many times should you shoot an aggressor? One shot? Double tap? Mozambique Drill? How good are you under extreme pressure? Do you know if your bullets are hitting the…

We, most of us in the concealed carry community, quietly think of ourselves as Wyatt Earp or Annie Oakley. It’s like having a secret friend. We’re confident, perhaps overconfident, that in a time of…

As of January 1st, California residents may now legally buy and use marijuana for recreational purposes. In three other states — Alaska, Colorado and Washington — the sale and possession of marijuana…

We see magnets playing more of a role in everyday firearms use, from unique mounting and storage solutions to holster closure systems. The former has created the ability to quickly and securely store…