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Be prepared with a variety of concealed carry and firearms tips and tactics that can help keep you and your family safe both inside and outside of your home. Find helpful articles and videos, including the Into the Fray training series, that cover everything from situational awareness and conflict avoidance to cover vs. concealment and the use of force in a critical encounter.
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Shooting Accuracy: We’re Only Human
I know it’s just a movie, but if you ever watch Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, you’ll notice that his shooting abilities are pretty much dead-on. Every time, all the time — even when the…
Continue Reading →Self-Defense Is Personal
A piece of paper won’t stop a killer. A phone call to police won’t stop a killer. YOU must stop your killer. A young woman in Utah called the police six times in the 10 days before her ex-boyfriend…
Continue Reading →How to Find the Right Concealed Carry Class
You can learn all sorts of interesting tidbits in concealed carry classes. Like, for instance, that hollow-point bullets are like “whirling fan blades of death.” Hold that thought for a hot second.…
Continue Reading →Where’s Your Gun … Right Now?
Bad things happen fast — and often when we least expect it. And if a gun is not within immediate reach, it may as well be a paperweight. Most of our regular readers already carry a firearm in public…
Continue Reading →USCCA Concealed Carry Expo: Just One Month Away
I’d like to say I invented the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo just for you. But that would be untrue on a couple of levels. Sure, I pushed forward the idea, but so many other people helped build this…
Continue Reading →Answering the ‘Why’: Part I – Sporting and Self Defense
The divide on gun policy seems to be getting starker. In one camp, we have gun enthusiasts who grew up with an appreciation for gun rights, and in the other, we have gun-control advocates who did…
Continue Reading →Gun Stance: Right Hand, Left Eye — Cross-Dominant Shooting Aim
If you teach a large number of students like I do, you will find a surprising percentage who are cross-dominant. That means they are dominant with one hand, but their dominant eye is on the other…
Continue Reading →Can You Change Your Dominant Shooting Eye?
I’m trying something that might be crazy. After 25 years of shooting a pistol a certain way, this idea was sparked by countless questions from viewers. Can I change my dominant shooting eye ……
Continue Reading →The Top 3 Considerations When Purchasing a Home-Security System
In 1988, a physician in Reynoldsburg, Ohio, installed a new alarm system at his practice. It had an exciting new feature: motion detection. This seemed like a great idea. However, it was so sensitive…
Continue Reading →Your 5th Amendment Right to Silence Is Golden
Every man and woman reading this column has most likely learned the importance of asserting your Fifth Amendment right to remain silent and wait for an attorney following a lethal-force encounter.…
Continue Reading →Do You Have Enough Ammo?
My wife and I have started watching a Netflix series about “preppers.” As it turns out, we did not fully realize the extent of the strategies and varieties of prepping before the first 44-minute…
Continue Reading →Self-Defense: Not Just a Gunfight
In a perfect world, we would get to train with our guns every day. Sadly, the world is not perfect. Come to think of it, if the world were perfect, we wouldn’t need guns. But I should not let my mind…
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