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Wailing About Guns
The world is full of professional wailers. Bemoaners, complainers and whiners. Unfortunately, many of these whimpering citizens either hold an elected office or try their darnedest to get one. The…
Continue Reading →True Stories — July 2019
Harrowing Escape: Louisiana Good Samaritans Free Kidnapped Woman Two passers-by stopped to render aid when they witnessed a man and woman struggling on the side of the road in Natchitoches Parish.…
Continue Reading →Engage the Threat or Escape Safely? One More Proving Ground Scenario
In the third and final video in this installment of Proving Ground, USCCA team member Jared faces a dynamic critical incident in a gaming store, just as Spencer did in Video 1 and MJ did in Video 2.…
Continue Reading →You Won’t Want to Miss the NSSF Range-Retailer Business Expo
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) recently unveiled an exciting, one-of-a-kind new event: the NSSF Range-Retailer Business Expo, slated for Aug. 19-21 in Denver, Colorado. According to…
Continue Reading →Target Isolation: More Scenario-Based Training
In the second video of this installment of Proving Ground, USCCA employee MJ takes a surprise trip to a gaming store and finds herself in the same target-isolation scenario that USCCA employee…
Continue Reading →Scenario-Based Training: Actions Have Consequences
In this edition of Proving Ground, USCCA employee Spencer is taken from work unexpectedly and dropped into a defensive situation directly from real-life headlines. Concealed Carry Magazine Executive…
Continue Reading →Free Scenario-Based Training: Another Successful Proving Ground
You may be aware of our scenario-based training series, Proving Ground. You may have even attended Proving Ground LIVE at the Concealed Carry Expo! Well, the next Live Training Broadcast is coming up…
Continue Reading →My Experience at the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo
What a 2019 USCCA Concealed Carry Expo! I don’t need to tell those of you who made it, but it was a great time. As usual, I showed up with a mostly empty suitcase and left with one stuffed to the…
Continue Reading →When It Comes to Guns, Children Change Everything
There is arguably nothing more horrible than to lose a child under any circumstances. But to be the one responsible for the death of that child because of an unsecured gun is simply beyond most…
Continue Reading →Let the Gunshine In!
With its concealed carry stance and acceptance of so many other state permits, Florida is a state leader in supporting and defending the Second Amendment. The Florida Department of Agriculture and…
Continue Reading →Back at the Blade Show
Earlier this month I spent a lovely weekend in Atlanta at the Blade Show. For those of you unaware, the Blade Show is the largest gathering of knifemakers and knife enthusiasts in the world. It takes…
Continue Reading →The Frightening Power of the Anti-Gun Media
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.” This quote from George Orwell’s dystopian science fiction novel 1984 is very telling,…
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