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Concealed Carry
You have just finished your CCW course and are ready to start carrying. Now what? Continuing your education and training is an essential part of your self-defense journey. That is why we have provided you with valuable content from professionals to make sure your transition is easy and you are carrying intelligently, legally and safely.
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Self-Defense: Held Up at the ATM
An ATM is a terrible place to get caught in a self-defense scenario. Kevin Michalowski, executive editor of Concealed Carry Magazine, answers a USCCA member’s question about what to do if you end up…
Continue Reading →Conflict Avoidance: Will You Walk Away?
There is an old Polish idiom: “Not my circus. Not my monkeys.” My grandmother would say it when she wanted to let people know that she was not getting involved in something that was not her problem.…
Continue Reading →Summertime Concealed Carry: The S&W Model 360 .357
I have a love/hate relationship with summer. While I love warm weather, it has some disadvantages in terms of carrying concealed. During the winter, I can easily carry any handgun I want in a belt…
Continue Reading →Give a Hand: Teaching Practical Personal Defense
Single-handed shooting is often overlooked until well into the progression of firearms training. It’s certainly easier to train and practice with two hands, but is it best to perfect two-handed…
Continue Reading →Buying a Gun Online?
If you love guns, you want to buy the gun you want when you want it. So you might turn to the web. Shopping on the internet is commonplace all over the world now. But can you purchase firearms…
Continue Reading →Firearms Face-Off: Glock 43 vs. SIG P365
When SIG officially launched its P365, my social media feed was inundated with its praises from both inside and outside the gun industry. Single-stack 9mms have certainly been front-and-center for…
Continue Reading →USCCA’s Live Self-Defense Training Just Keeps Getting Better and Better
I have had the pleasure of working with the United States Concealed Carry Association’s Live Training Broadcast (LTB) team since just about the beginning. Sometimes folks ask me: What has it been…
Continue Reading →What Happens If I’m Carrying in a Gun-Free Zone?
What Happens If I Defend Myself With My Gun in a Gun-Free Zone? The simple answer is that anytime you are carrying your gun concealed in a place that you should not be carrying that weapon, you are…
Continue Reading →Top 4 Concealed Carry Mistakes
If you make a mistake or two with your concealed carry strategy, it’s not like it carries life or death consequences, right? Oh, wait… Read below to make sure you’re avoiding these top 4 concealed…
Continue Reading →Gun Review: Glock 43 Revisited
Four years ago, I stood in a shooting lane at the NRAAM Glock media launch firing the G43 for the first time. Glock fans were simultaneously thrilled and displeased to see a single-stack 9mm released…
Continue Reading →True Stories — April 2019
No Refuge Here: South Carolina Woman Shoots Escaped Prisoner Twenty minutes after overpowering two guards to escape from a nearby jail and still wearing his orange prison jumpsuit, a man tried to…
Continue Reading →‘The Wall Drill’
The Drill: George Harris, co-founder of SIG Academy, showed me this quick five-minute drill, and it can help you develop your accuracy and marksmanship. It’s also an excellent opportunity to practice…
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