Last month, Pacifiers & Peacemakers shared some video tips for safely navigating a parking lot to find a good spot and to return to your vehicle. But I’ve also had people ask me specifically about…

If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always have what you have always had. Progress can come one tiny element at a time, or it can come through a tremendous paradigm shift. But both of…

I have really taken to Swab-its Cleaning Foam Swabs since I evaluated them in October 2016. At that time, I worked with their Bore-Sticks, Bore-Tips and Gun-Tips swabs. These remarkable cleaning aids…

You probably could not escape the wall-to-wall coverage of the Charlottesville, Virginia violence that erupted between about 200 people protesting the removal of a Confederate war memorial and an…

Every now and then I tire of plastic, single-stack nines and go for this aluminum alloy-framed Colt Defender. It’s 1911 thin — always has been — and weighs only 24 ounces unloaded. Loading it with…

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The Drill: This drill focuses on basic marksmanship and the fundamentals of standard firearms manipulations. It takes the basic skills that every shooter should be practicing on a regular basis and…

The Drill: This week, we are joined on the range by Jason Speller, Chief Instructor of the law enforcement D.R.A.W School. Jason shared a great new drill with us that he uses to train law enforcement…

We here at the USCCA continue to promote dry-fire training and we always stress safety when training without ammo. It takes just a second for an unloaded gun to become a loaded gun and that’s when…

The ubiquitous ammo can: Most of us have one sitting around somewhere, storing something, in classic olive drab with a yellow stenciled label. It’s sort of useful, but we probably hang onto it more…

Most people know that if you are charged with a crime, you have a constitutional right to a trial by jury. Even if the charge is a petty misdemeanor (shoplifting $5 worth of candy), as an American,…

That’s right, I said it. The “E” word. Evil. A concept that is not talked about enough these days, even in many of our nation’s churches. The concept of evil, or an actual belief in it, began to be…

What’s the most dangerous moment of our day? Home, late at night, when lights are off and everyone, including the cocker spaniel, is tucked into bed? The office, where an angry ex-coworker could…

You know how you hear something and it just grates on you like fingernails on a chalkboard? That is exactly how I feel about this phrase: “If you mess with my kids, you will see a whole new level of…

In today’s information age, we are inundated with opinions, general misinformation, outright untruths and sometimes even some facts. We usually take the broadcast media, internet, print media and…

The Drill: If you are ever involved in a violent encounter, chances are you won’t be standing still and neither will the people around you. The focus of this week’s drill is putting accurate rounds…

I had the opportunity to speak about women’s personal protection and self-defense at a Bama Carry meeting not too long ago, and I was able to take some questions toward the end of the presentation. One of those questions really hit home for me. It was powerful. It was poignant.

The Drill: This week on Tactical Tuesday, we’re joined by Jason Speller, Chief Instructor at D.R.A.W. School. Jason shared with us a great drill he has used to train law enforcement involved in…

Lately there has been lots of talk about safeties on firearms. Some people even claim pistols like the Glock or Kahr Arms have no safety and are therefore not safe to carry with a round in the…

In a recent column, I opined that “everyday carry” is just good sense. My focus in that piece was on urban threats, where simply going to a movie theater or a nightclub can become an exercise in…