It’s your gun and you own every bullet you fire. If you carry a gun for self-defense, you can’t slip up on the firearm safety rules — not even one time. I recently got wind of a story about a woman…

So you haven’t used your pepper spray in a decade or two? Guess what? It very likely still works and my guess is that it’s still throwing some serious Scoville units. Pepper spray is made from…

You are responsible for every round that comes out of the muzzle of your firearm. A warning shot does nothing to help you stop the threat and will very likely give prosecutors a reason to claim that you were either not in imminent danger or acting in a reckless manner.

I believe in the axiom that a firearm is “a piece of emergency lifesaving equipment” and should be treated as such. If a gun is to be used only to stop an imminent deadly threat, then, when faced…

If you carry a gun for personal protection, regular practice is essential. In addition, a commitment to ongoing training is, or should be, an integral part of your schedule. For most of us, it is.…

After we talked about using combative skills and attempting to move away from an attacker, many older readers reached out to say they were not fit enough or flexible enough to move like that. Some…

By the time I started my law enforcement career in 1980 with the Licking County Ohio Sheriff’s Office, I already had a healthy interest in guns and shooting, ignited by my father and fueled by many…

In a recent edition of my video blog, Into the Fray, I suggested that you should keep track of all your training and create a file with the training certificates you have earned over the years. It…

Don’t make the use of a tourniquet too complex. Find where the blood is leaking out of the body. Place the tourniquet between that place and the heart. Tighten the tourniquet until the blood stops…

Last week we showed you a short video that gave really good information about how many times you might need to shoot someone to stop a threat. But there was a lot more to that video that some of you…

No fanfare. No flashy celebrations. But can you believe that I have been doing this for 200 consecutive weeks? When I started Into the Fray nearly four years ago, we were filming against a canvas…

Do you remember the rule? How many times should you shoot an aggressor? One shot? Double tap? Mozambique Drill? How good are you under extreme pressure? Do you know if your bullets are hitting the…