Which of the following statements about summer concealed carry is true? Concealed carry in the summer requires a different approach to handgun and holster strategy. Concealed carry in the summer…

How we train is just as important as how often we train. Defensive shooting requires techniques that are fundamentally different from those used by casual or recreational shooters. This is one of the…

It’s noon on a beautiful spring day. Over your lunch hour, you decide to run some errands and end up at a nearby big-box store to buy badly needed toilet bowl cleaner and a piñata for your nephew’s…

When it comes to the concealed carry of a handgun, we love on-body carry — a gun holstered and affixed to a gun belt inside or outside the waistband. We also love our shoulder holsters and ankle…

Solutions to gun violence are often discussed in terms of what can be done at the institutional level. But to make a significant dent in mass shootings, we’re going to need to change public policy.…

Once again, my home state of Alabama attempted to get votes for constitutional carry (otherwise known as “permitless carry”). But, sadly, once again, it died in committee. If that’s not enough to…

Have you thought about the best way to protect your gun? What have you done to learn the basics of weapon retention? Check out this video of an armed security guard being brutally attacked by two…

The U.S. is a “common law” country. This means judicial decisions from a previous case can be cited as precedent for rulings in a current presented case. Hence the related term “case law,” wherein…

As you read this, we are likely getting ready to open the doors to the USCCA’s 5th Annual Concealed Carry Expo in Pittsburgh. Well, maybe we have already opened them. We may have already let the…

Red-dot and reflex sights allow for very rapid target acquisition, even in low light. It is one of the reasons that the military has widely used them for decades. But many of the most popular red-dot…

I remember years ago (in my 2A infancy) when my husband and I had a Springfield Armory XD … and that was about it. One handgun. I didn’t think much of it at the time. Having a gun for home protection…

I hit the switch on the new Streamlight ProTac HL 5-X USB tactical flashlight and said, “Holy smokes!” I was standing on my front porch in total darkness. But as I unleashed 3,500 lumens of white LED…