Don’t Buy a Cheap Carry Belt!
Don’t go cheap when you choose a gun belt. Your belt is an integral part of your everyday carry system. A good carry belt makes your holster more secure and more comfortable. This is especially true…
Continue Reading →Don’t Buy a Cheap Carry Belt!
Don’t go cheap when you choose a gun belt. Your belt is an integral part of your everyday carry system. A good carry belt makes your holster more secure and more comfortable. This is especially true…
Continue Reading →Buyback Sleight-of-Hand
According to Wikipedia, a gun buyback is “instituted to purchase privately owned firearms. The goal … is to reduce the number of firearms owned by civilians and provide a process whereby civilians…
Continue Reading →Tell Your Kids About Gun Safety … Then Tell Them Again
We all hate reading about children injured or killed in incidents involving firearms. But this particular case of gun safety (technically, the lack thereof) has a disturbing twist. The headline tells…
Continue Reading →Why Ben Shapiro Wants You to Join the USCCA
“There’s a pretty good reason why they’re the fastest growing community of responsible gun owners in the country” – Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro is a household name to many responsibly armed Americans —…
Continue Reading →7 Essential Tips on How to Hire the Right Defense Attorney
Something has happened; you need an attorney and you need one now. You flip open the phone book, or more likely fire up your internet browser, and start searching for the person who will be…
Continue Reading →5.11 Response XR2 Dual Power Tactical/Utility Flashlight
5.11 Tactical has a reputation for being a tactical clothing company. Its pants basically started the tactical clothing revolution. However, as the new 5.11 Response XR2 Dual Power Tactical…
Continue Reading →More to Carry? This Is Important…
The list of things you “should” be carrying every day just keeps getting longer. Of course we want you to carry your gun. We also want you to carry spare ammo and a flashlight. Some people won’t…
Continue Reading →The ‘Honey-Do’ List: Spousal Privilege
In the movie Ball of Fire, a gangster attempts to force Barbara Stanwyck to marry him, with the objective of the nuptials being to prevent Stanwyck from testifying against him. The gangster could…
Continue Reading →New Twist on an Old Favorite: The Morale Patch Gift Exchange
For a recent get-together, I was trying to think of something fun for our group of women shooters to do. Of course, there’s always shooting! And, as we’ve done in years past, we did decide to have…
Continue Reading →Shoot Yourself … Go to Jail!
This type of story makes me so angry, but I use it as a cautionary tale. Don’t be like the Arizona man who SHOT HIMSELF in the groin and is now facing criminal charges. He is charged with recklessly…
Continue Reading →Making It Legal Doesn’t Make It Safe
The transgressions of our youth should probably remain in the past. (What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas and all that.) I’m thinking especially of recreational chemicals like marijuana and LSD that…
Continue Reading →Consistency Is Crucial
Consistency is the foundation of any skill and absolutely vital when it comes to carrying a firearm for personal protection. Obviously, training is a key area in which consistency is crucial, but…
Continue Reading →Shoot Yourself … Face Charges
While shopping in a local Walmart on Nov. 27, 2018, an Arizona man negligently shot himself in the groin. According to local news reports, the man was carrying his handgun in the waistband of his…
Continue Reading →Critical Thinking About Defensive Shooting
Being involved in recreational and defensive shooting and training for the past 53 years has allowed me to see a lot of different shooting techniques (and theories) come and go. Some techniques, such…
Continue Reading →Light Show: Streamlight Roundup
One of the most misunderstood and underutilized tools in a gun owner’s toolbox is the modern flashlight. For this reason, low-light/no-light training should be considered not an extra but a…
Continue Reading →Seven New Year’s Resolutions Every Gun Owner Should Make … and Keep
Ugh. I detest New Year’s resolutions. I really do. In fact, I don’t think I’ve EVER made a list of resolutions of any kind. It’s not that I’m afraid of them or afraid of not living up to them; I just…
Continue Reading →Concealed Carry in the Restroom!
Using the restroom while carrying a concealed firearm should not be a problem. But lots of people are asking what they should do with a gun when they really have to go. This whole video started when…
Continue Reading →Want to Be a Better Shooter? Grip Strength Really Helps
Do you want to be a better shooter? Of course you do. We all want to be better shooters. Well, you can follow the advice of this (as the kids call it) “dank meme,” or you can take actual steps, such as increasing your grip strength, to improve your shooting.
Continue Reading →Clearing a Home Is Risky Business
Clearing a home. Like probably many of you, I cringe whenever I see this scene depicted in movies or on TV. You know the one: A man or woman is shown in semi-darkness, suddenly awakened in bed by a…
Continue Reading →The DeSantis Mini Slide OWB Concealment Holster
Kydex is one of the most popular materials for constructing concealment holsters. Its strength, thinness and light weight combined with low cost works very well for many concealed carry applications.…
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