A family friend was shopping at the Memorial City Mall in Houston, Texas, on Sunday, Aug. 11, when a faux shooting took place. The panic, so soon after shootings in El Paso and Dayton, can be…

Concealed Carry Magazine Senior Editor Ed Combs discusses overpenetration in this assessment of Federal’s Hydra-Shok 147-grain 9mm jacketed hollow-point. What does he think after testing? Best-Known…

Back in the 1960s, when I was a kid, you could find advertisements for inexpensive Japanese-made Italian-style pocketknives in various magazines. These knives were smaller-scale replicas of stiletto…

Your long hard day of cooking and serving pizzas has stretched well into the evening. But business is good, and the customers are happy. As you work the counter taking money, making change and…

When you are looking to hire a concealed carry instructor — and you should look at it that way, as a hiring process — you need to investigate his or her training background. From where and with whom…

The key to buying a gun on a budget is knowing where you can cut corners and where you can’t. Fortunately, the list of functions where you can’t cut corners is short: Reliability. Since we’re talking…

An attacker screaming “Drop dead!” and “DIE!” recently murdered 34 people and injured three dozen more in a brutal attack. This terrible tragedy occurred only a few months after another rampage in…

As a responsibly armed American, you already know how challenging it can be to stay up to date on gun laws. Idaho gun owners, you’re in luck. We’ve gathered some of the most frequently asked firearms…

We are getting into uncharted territory here. This is something I have never tried — something I have never trained to do — and I honestly am going into this basically blind. Reloading a Revolver…

Your firearm may be manufactured with plastic or wooden parts, but it certainly has metal components. And most metal is prone to oxidize or rust if left untreated. Rust on the metal of a firearm is…

If you remember only ONE thing I say in this post, I want it to be this: When we (the police) respond after you have used deadly force in your home, we are going to be “amped up.” Someone has fired…

*This is the final article in a five-part series about dressing for concealed carry. Click below to get the FREE full-color, printable PDF! The Ultimate Guide to Dressing for Concealed Carry ⇐ Claim…

No one is perfect. It’s not inconceivable that, even as a law-abiding citizen, you might get pulled over some day. If you’re a responsibly armed American, you probably have some questions about how…

Domestic Dispute: Indiana Woman Shoots in Self-Defense An Indianapolis woman resorted to a pistol when an argument with her boyfriend turned violent. When the boyfriend pointed a pistol at her, the…

I’m a fan of Justified, the six-season FX series based on the work of deceased Michigan writer Elmore Leonard. The series’ executive producer and principal star is Timothy Olyphant. He portrays…

The city where I live in North Central Florida is well known for its extremely low crime rate. Even in the criminal world, it is well known that gun ownership in my area is substantially above the…

In this edition of the USCCA’s Gun Vault, Concealed Carry Magazine Executive Editor Kevin Michalowski recaps the SCCY CPX-2 9mm and puts it to the ultimate test by literally dragging it through the…

Is firearms training based on dogma? Let’s ask one simple question and see if you have an open mind when it comes to firearms training and practicing the much-needed skills that will keep you alive…

I recently wrote a piece (as part of the Home Defense Weekly Tip series) about staging firearms. After writing that though, I was working in the yard and had more thoughts on the subject. I had…

Which came first, the firearm or the bullet? Historically speaking, the advent of firearms came centuries after bullets had already been in use. Our ancestors used sling bullets cast from clay, stone…