Count the folding knives you own and carry on a regular basis. You’ve probably got at least three, right? One of them is a beater knife, able to be abused … and if it breaks? No big deal. One of them…

SO, LAST AUTUMN, Ruger invited several of us gunwriters to an event at the scenic FTW Ranch in the Texas Hill Country, west of Saint Tony. The purpose was to give us a preview of the handguns they’d…

While teaching a ladies’ class that was focused on one-handed firearms training, I got into an interesting discussion with my students as to what to do with “the other hand” — first and foremost for…

Remember, the root word of gunfight is fight, not gun. In a close quarters battle, reaching for your gun might not be the best choice. This is just one tactic. It can be applied with the Sharkie we…

In one of my recent columns, I reported on an incident which originally seemed like a case of legitimate self-defense, at least according to the officers who first came on the scene. This was the…

Quick Summary The 9mm round may be more popular, but .38 Super has some great advantages as a defensive load. The average velocity of the .38 Super from a 3.6-inch barrel was 1,280 feet per second…

I just rolled in following the 2017 USCCA Concealed Carry Expo in Fort Worth, Texas, where I spent an amazing long weekend with 7000 of my closest friends. Our video wizards, Tyler and Daniel, drove…

The more you know, the farther you go. If you are not carrying your gun, it can’t help you. So that means you need to know when and where it is legal to carry. Currently, the national patchwork of…

The BLACKHAWK! Omnivore represents a total departure in design from most of the secure, synthetic handgun holsters available on today’s market. Thanks to the Blackhawk design team, one holster can…

You don’t have to look very far to find a discussion on defensive handgun ammunition. Just last week, on a local website dedicated to the carry community, I observed a heated, almost endless…

We’ve heard it for years: Gun holsters are supposed to be comforting, not comfortable. But these days, gun holsters are getting more and more comfortable. And every now and then I find a holster…

I’m man enough to admit I’m scared of the dark. Bad things happen in the dark. As a kid growing up in rural Wisconsin, I engaged in the ritual backyard camping as a summertime tradition. I think my…

»CHAMBERED FOR THE POTENT 9MM OR .40 S&W, Walther’s new PPS (short for “Police Pistol Slim”) M2 might have “police” in its name, but this little pocket-sized semi-auto is a good choice for today’s…

According to Colonel Jeff Cooper, universal gun safety rule number two tells us to “NEVER let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.” As much as we teach (and repeat) this safety…

The Drill: The focus of this drill is the smooth, effective engagement and transition between multiple targets. We all know that bad guys like to work in groups of two, three or more. Therefore, when…

A gunfight is not like a day at the range. A gunfight is fast. It is unexpected and, as you can see in this surveillance video, you will rarely have the benefit of a perfect shooting stance or even a…

Concealed carry knives pre-date concealed carry guns. And back when the West was being won, a boot knife had its place in a cowboy’s every day carry. A short, fixed-blade knife proved a very useful…

I just love old sayings. This is one of my favorites: If guns are involved, one had better be yours. Think about this for a minute. These words go right along with what some people call The First…

One of my sons is a commercial pilot, and one of the first sayings he was taught as a novice in flight training was, “Remember, altitude is your friend. More is better.” It’s simple physics: The…

The Smith & Wesson M&P (Military and Police) was introduced in 2005 to directly compete against Glock’s line of polymer-framed semi-automatic pistols that had taken the law enforcement world by storm…