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Safety for Your Home, Car and RV — The Life Jacket Security Case
Vacation and travel season is ramping up. When planning your next trip, don’t forget about your away-from-home security. It’s important that you travel with the means to defend yourself and your…
Continue Reading →Hold Parents Responsible
If we’re forced to surrender our firearms one day, it won’t be from one big gulp but rather the endless tiny bites of unlimited lawsuits, political backstabbing and extreme social challenge. It will…
Continue Reading →Train With Your Portable Safe
Gun owners are constantly looking for the right balance between security and rapid access. The world is full of trade-offs, and you can’t get something for nothing. The same is true with secure…
Continue Reading →Carolina Custom Foam: Functional Custom Art for Firearms
I try to do Christmas shopping all year round, and I’ll purchase a little something here and there whenever I stumble upon that perfect gift or an awesome sale. But I also typically start officially shopping for the holidays as soon as the kids go back to school in August.
Continue Reading →ZØRE X Core: Have Your Gun Lock … and Access It Too
The Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show is often an ideal place to see, try and test out new products. One of those new innovations actually caught my eye months before this year’s show, and…
Continue Reading →Going Up: Second-Story Safe Considerations
I remember well when I purchased my first safe — a Browning — back around 1992. I wanted to put it — of moderate size and not firelined — on the second floor of the three-story condo in which I lived…
Continue Reading →Never Underestimate Nature
All gun owners should be practicing safe handling and storage principles when it comes to guns in the home, especially if children are present. But what I’m talking about are the additional measures…
Continue Reading →Safety On: A Firearms Safety Book for Kids … and Families
I enjoy reading, and I definitely love to get my hands on books about firearms, training, safety, drills … you name it! So I was pleased when Yehuda Remer asked me to read his new children’s book,…
Continue Reading →Can Man Custom Gun Case
The ubiquitous ammo can: Most of us have one sitting around somewhere, storing something, in classic olive drab with a yellow stenciled label. It’s sort of useful, but we probably hang onto it more…
Continue Reading →Do You Need a Manual Safety?
Lately there has been lots of talk about safeties on firearms. Some people even claim pistols like the Glock or Kahr Arms have no safety and are therefore not safe to carry with a round in the…
Continue Reading →Lock ‘em Up!
Relax, I’m talking about your guns, not politicians! A recent string of thefts and misplaced firearms has reminded me how easy it is to have a momentary lapse in your personal security protocols lead…
Continue Reading →The GunBox 2.0 Electronic Lock Box: Hide and Secure Your Handgun in Plain Sight
I recently completed a review of a few portable gun lock boxes for Concealed Carry Magazine, USCCA’s print magazine for members. While writing the article, which will appear later this year, I…
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