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How Safe is Your Safe?
Quality craftsmanship is something to be admired, whether it’s to be found in a vehicle, a clock, a firearm or a safe. And I have been nothing but in absolute awe of the beauty and the quality of our…
Continue Reading →Prosecuting Parents?
Shoot your neighbor during a violent argument and you could conceivably get the death penalty. Kill or maim your neighbor or your spouse accidentally and you could go to jail and pay a huge debt of…
Continue Reading →How To Properly Store Your Firearms
How do we store guns and keep our children safe? Balancing between having a gun available when you might need it and keeping guns and ammo safely stored is not an easy task. And from a legal…
Continue Reading →A Few Words About Safeties…
A safety on a firearm is simply a mechanical device. Whether you see a lever on the side of your pistol or not, that firearm still has some sort of safety mechanism. Modern firearms without active…
Continue Reading →Let’s Talk About Firearms Safety
If you have not seen my weekly video blog, Into the Fray, I would ask that you please take a look. I have more than 100 episodes covering everything from shooting positions to the effective use of cover to what common firearms terms really mean. I also talk about safety.
Continue Reading →Talking About Gun Safety
Sooner or later you will have to talk to your non-gun-owning friends about why you carry. You might be asked not to carry at someone’s house. Or you might be grilled on gun safety at your house when…
Continue Reading →Safety is NOT a Device … It’s an Ideology
Let’s talk about safety. Some people will point to that little lever on the side of a pistol and call that the safety. It is not. That is the safety lever. Big difference. Recently I had a long…
Continue Reading →Take Control of Your Personal Safety
The shootings in Kalamazoo, Michigan will no doubt be the topic of conversation for quite some time. You can bet that the anti-gun crowd will use the actions of this killer as a reason to continue to…
Continue Reading →Your Child’s Doctor Wants to Know: Are There Guns in Your Home?
What do you say when your child’s pediatrician asks if there are guns in your home? If it hasn’t happened to you yet, be ready. As our government gets more and more intrusive into our lives, it’s important that you are prepared to answer. According to an article by Dr.
Continue Reading →Hornady RAPiD Safe: Gun Storage Technology of Tomorrow, Here Today
I realize that all the hype right now is about Star Wars. Believe me: I get it. (I just haven’t braved the movie-theater crowds…yet.) But I am, admittedly, a “Trekkie.” I got hooked on Star Trek: The…
Continue Reading →Workplace Safety: Concealing a Gun in the Office
There are plenty of great options for concealing a firearm in an office setting. Here are just two: a briefcase and a day planner. If you carry a gun in a briefcase, remember that the gun must be…
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