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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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Will Recoil Make You a Better Shot?
In a recent episode of my weekly video blog, Into the Fray, I suggested that using the SureStrike laser cartridge from Laser Ammo would help improve your shooting accuracy. At least one person responded that such training would not improve shooting skills because it did not include training with recoil.
Continue Reading →Gun Owners: How NOT to Act on Social Media
Let’s be realistic, folks. You’re not going to “blow some m&%ther#@ckers head off” because he asked your wife, “What the f&%k are you looking at?” You can’t just shoot people for being rude. Nor…
Continue Reading →The Meopta MeoSight III: Red Dot Reflex Sight for Home and Property Defense
Red dot reflex sights are modern high-tech wonders. Lightweight and compact, they provide a single point of aim in the form of—you guessed it—a red dot that simplifies and speeds the aiming process.…
Continue Reading →Is Your Shooting Stance All That Important?
Typically, shooting instruction includes strong emphasis on where the shooter should place his or her feet in order to ensure accurate shot placement. You’ve heard it all before: feet shoulder-width…
Continue Reading →The Perils of Pursuit
Just last week, one of my USCCA colleagues discussed the issue of whether or not it is advisable for a civilian who is legally carrying a firearm to intervene in a potentially threatening situation…
Continue Reading →Are You a Gambler?
You may come to think this particular column is a cheap trick, though not the rock band of the same name. Who wrote these lyrics? (Hint: It wasn’t Rick Nielsen.) “You’ve got to know when to hold ‘em,…
Continue Reading →GEAR REVIEW: Urban Carry Total Concealment Holster
Typically there is not much new to report in holster design, but Urban Carry has come up with a simple yet brilliant idea to keep your firearm totally hidden, yet completely accessible: the Total…
Continue Reading →Don’t Be a Ballistic Gelatin “Junkie”
These days, do a web search for any particular caliber (i.e. “9mm ballistic tests”) and you will get page after page of results, both text and video. The methods for determining the effectiveness of…
Continue Reading →You Are Not a Cop
You have your concealed carry permit or perhaps live in a constitutional carry state that does not require one. You have received some training as well. There are hundreds of excellent instructors in…
Continue Reading →Everyone Should Know How To…
There are some universal truths in this world; things everyone needs to know. Every adult should know how to change a tire, build a fire, stop bleeding, grill a steak, and unload a gun. Can you guess…
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 →Customizing Your Defensive Pistol
You may have heard that if you customize your defensive pistol, some shameless attorney will drag you into court claiming you “made that pistol even more deadly.” This, so the story goes, will lead to your immediate incarceration or the loss of all your worldly goods in a civil suit.
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