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The USCCA Critical Response Team: What Happens AFTER A Self-Defense Shooting
Responsible gun owners shouldn’t have to worry about the consequences of a self-defense shooting… The USCCA Critical Response Team is available to USCCA Members 24/7/365 to help guide them through…
Continue Reading →True Stories — May/June 2018
Wrench in His Plans: South Carolina Armed Citizens Stop Customer’s Rampage When a disgruntled customer of a Rock Hill auto dealership took up a pipe wrench and began threatening to kill customers and…
Continue Reading →Pay Attention and Always Be Armed
Let’s take a look at what can happen if you are oblivious to the world around you. In this video retrieved from a home security system, we see the dangers of not being situationally aware. The…
Continue Reading →Think Before You Lash Out!
I got an email the other day. Now, that’s typically not big news. I get hundreds of emails each day. A lot of you would call them spam, but I actually go out of my way to get on email lists because I…
Continue Reading →You, Dear Readers, Just Got the Greatest Compliment!
At a recent gathering of gun enthusiasts, a vendor approached me with the finest compliment I have yet to receive — and it was all about you, the readers of this column. This vendor, who sells his…
Continue Reading →What They (Really) Want
Are you prepared for the day that your state legislature outlaws semi-automatics? I am not optimistic. I feel like it is coming in my lifetime. I do not believe that the USCCA, NRA and our other…
Continue Reading →13RW
It wasn’t easy being a teenager with a World War II Pacific combat navy hero for a dad. His silent anger made growing up miserable. I suppose millions of other children felt the same way when their…
Continue Reading →Bad Dog? No, Bad Dog Owner …
An incident in my Florida neighborhood this past week caused quite a ruckus. An elderly woman had been walking her dachshund when two very large, 100-pound Alaskan huskies attacked her pet. She had a…
Continue Reading →Keep Fighting!
What does a person usually do after getting shot with a pistol? The same thing he was doing before he got shot with a pistol. So, if you get shot, keep fighting until you win. In this video, the…
Continue Reading →My Bank
Do you remember your first banking experience? I recall pedaling my two-speed J.C. Higgins bicycle to the Fernandina Beach, Florida, savings and loan association one Saturday morning. I had saved 5…
Continue Reading →True Stories — April 2018
Pillow Fight: Indiana Homeowner Foils Home-Invading Duo A Calumet Township man and his fiancée were watching TV one evening when they noticed their outside front light going off, then their doorknob being jiggled. Suddenly, their Chihuahua dog began barking fiercely, followed by sounds of their back door being kicked in.
Continue Reading →‘Violence of Action’ Defined
In a fight, violence of action typically wins the day. You need to become violent enough fast enough to end any fight as quickly as you can. The longer a fight goes on, the greater the chance that…
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