Point shooting was long advocated by Col. Rex Applegate, world-renowned firearms expert. He describes it as “whether one-handed or two-handed, the employment of the handgun in close quarters combat…

If you think you can strap a gun on your hip and consider yourself protected, you might be in for a rude awakening. Self-defense is not about your gun, your holster, your tactical knife, your LED…

Last month, Pacifiers & Peacemakers shared some video tips for safely navigating a parking lot to find a good spot and to return to your vehicle. But I’ve also had people ask me specifically about…

This week’s video is a little different than our normal Tactical Tuesday training segment. Instead of focusing on a specific set of skills, we look at a new dry-fire training tool, the BarrelBlok. We…

If you always do what you’ve always done, you will always have what you have always had. Progress can come one tiny element at a time, or it can come through a tremendous paradigm shift. But both of…

The Drill: This drill focuses on basic marksmanship and the fundamentals of standard firearms manipulations. It takes the basic skills that every shooter should be practicing on a regular basis and…

The Drill: This week, we are joined on the range by Jason Speller, Chief Instructor of the law enforcement D.R.A.W School. Jason shared a great new drill with us that he uses to train law enforcement…

We here at the USCCA continue to promote dry-fire training and we always stress safety when training without ammo. It takes just a second for an unloaded gun to become a loaded gun and that’s when…

That’s right, I said it. The “E” word. Evil. A concept that is not talked about enough these days, even in many of our nation’s churches. The concept of evil, or an actual belief in it, began to be…

What’s the most dangerous moment of our day? Home, late at night, when lights are off and everyone, including the cocker spaniel, is tucked into bed? The office, where an angry ex-coworker could…

You know how you hear something and it just grates on you like fingernails on a chalkboard? That is exactly how I feel about this phrase: “If you mess with my kids, you will see a whole new level of…

The Drill: If you are ever involved in a violent encounter, chances are you won’t be standing still and neither will the people around you. The focus of this week’s drill is putting accurate rounds…