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Making Your Home a Less Attractive Target: Reducing Criminal Curb Appeal
If you want to sell your home for top dollar, you might need to increase its “curb appeal.” That means that your place has to be spruced up with improvements to make it say “come in and live here” to…
Continue Reading →Home-Defense Guns: How to Choose a Home-Defense Gun
So you’ve committed to defending your home, and a firearm seems like the best choice. There is a lot to consider. First off, make sure that if you are considering a firearm for home defense, you are…
Continue Reading →Stay Safe for Halloween
My kids are getting excited about trick-or-treating for Halloween. And I am busy scouring social media advertisements for school fall festivals, Halloween events at local parks and trunk-or-treat…
Continue Reading →Kids and Guns: Home Defense With Children
There’s no doubt that our personal residences are where we like to relax, get comfortable and try to set aside some of life’s challenges for a little while. Those familiar walls around us hold more…
Continue Reading →Home Defense: Plan, Prepare and Practice
Protecting a home from unwanted visitors is a serious concern no matter where you live, and it requires appropriate training. Unfortunately, there is a lack of home-defense-specific training. But…
Continue Reading →Staging Firearms for Home Defense
Staging firearms for home defense raises a number of important concerns that go well beyond the basic issue of defending oneself. One such issue is that of weapon security. A number of jurisdictions…
Continue Reading →Home-Defense Options: When ARs & AKs Are Scarce
The coronavirus panic started us down this path in March. The fear of this new and unknown virus was hyped to such extremes that people feared more of a “zombie apocalypse” scenario in its aftermath…
Continue Reading →Double-Barreled Shotgun vs. Handgun for Home Defense
Home-Defense Gun Series NOTE: Find more articles in our Home-Defense Guns Series below: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4 | Article 5 | Article 6 Home-Defense Question: My significant…
Continue Reading →Home-Defense Guns: Buckshot For Home Defense
Home-Defense Guns Series NOTE: Find more articles in our Home-Defense Guns Series below: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4 | Article 5 | Article 6 The shotgun is regarded as the “ultimate…
Continue Reading →Home-Defense Guns: Best Firearms Options at Home
Home-Defense Guns Series NOTE: Find more articles in our Home-Defense Guns Series below: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4 | Article 5 | Article 6 Concealed Carry Magazine focuses on the…
Continue Reading →Beginner’s Guide to Best Home-Defense Rifles
The handgun is the most common home-defense firearm. The second most common choice is the shotgun. And last but not least is the rifle. Some consider the rifle to be too powerful for home defense.…
Continue Reading →Fighting a Home Invader
How would you handle a home invasion? Do you carry your EDC gun in your home? Are you ready if someone breaks in? I know a lot of people who are not ready. Here is why I think that it’s a mistake to…
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