Saturday night I was at a Mardi Gras party. No, it wasn’t a wild and crazy party. It was a party hosted by one of my neighbors, and the family are good cooks, so obviously that was my incentive to attend. (My wife’s incentive was that she loves to socialize and mingle, which I do [...]
Defensive Intelligence™: Connecting the Dots (Continued)
A laboratory rat was subjected to electric shock accompanied by an audible tone. Very soon, after repetitive tone/shock cycles it displayed obvious fear to the tone, even without the shock. This is a simple example of an auditory association. But even after the auditory cortex was removed from its brain, effectively rendering the rat absolutely [...]
Wayne LaPierre at CPAC 2012
“The fight is on and the NRA is ALL IN!” says NRA CEO and EVP Wayne LaPierre at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C. “When the sun goes down on election day,” he says, “Barack Obama will have America’s gun owners to thank for his defeat.”
No More Seedy Hotel Rooms For Me
Several years ago, when I was a lot younger, and had very little money, I ended up in Newark, New Jerseyfor business. If you’ve never been to Newark, it’s a lot like Baltimore City. And if you haven’t been to either, both places are pretty much dumps and you’re not missing much. When I got [...]
How to Become a Firearms Instructor
I get a lot of folks asking me how they can become a firearms instructor, so today I’m going to tell you exactly what I’d do if I were you. Obviously, it helps if you have prior experience such a police or military, but I know plenty of instructors who don’t have either. However, they [...]
Defensive Intelligence: Connecting the Dots
I had just come to a stop when they pulled into my driveway directly behind me. Their headlights were set to high beams and I couldn’t see them for the glare in the rearview mirror. Chris was always showing up in a hurry, vehemently telling me to “get ready, we’re going out”. By the time [...]
6 Flashlight Shooting Techniques You Must Know
The majority of self-defense shootings occur during low-light or the night time. The exact statistics are all over the place, but I’ve most frequently seen them as saying 60% to 79% of shootings occur in these conditions. It’s for this very reason that I recommend you have a flashlight and carry it with you. At [...]
Front Sight, Squeeze, Follow Through
This sounds like very basic instruction for a novice shooter. You may expect to hear this in a concealed carry class or a basic firearms familiarization course. What many fail to understand about this saying, this concept, is that it applies to every level of shooting. There is a plaque at the U.S. Training Center, [...]
Why I No Longer Hate Starbucks
I am not a trendy person. I hate anything that’s trendy and that used to include Starbucks. I’ve probably been their less than five times in my life and that was when my wife or a friend would drag me there. First, I don’t drink coffee. Second, I could never figure out why it was [...]
Defensive Intelligence, The Foundation
If you “Google” self defense in your given city, you’re probably going to see a list of martial arts schools. Rarely will you see a school that blends unarmed and armed tactics with a firearm. I know you can get training at a dojo for nunchaku, swords, etc. But those are not things you are [...]
What I Learned from Shot Show, Besides Not to Move to Australia
I’m typing this from 30,000 feet on my way home from Vegas and Shot Show 2012. If you’ve never been to Shot Show just pick your favorite thing in the entire world (golf, shoes, video games, chocolate) and imagine an almost never ending array of that item. That is what Shot Show is like. Call [...]
They Don’t Feel Safe
I am in a position that doesn’t lend to making friends at work. Because of what needed to be done, I fully expected this and this is what I do. I don’t claim to be perfect, but I have experience understanding what it takes to make a place profitable and a major part of that [...]
SHOT Show Day 3 Video Roundup and Products from Pelican, EOTech, Nikon & More!
Day 3 of SHOT Show was fantastic. A TON of great new products were shown, and they cover a wide variety of uses, from keeping your gear safe to taking accurate shots both near and far! We’re going to have exclusive video interviews that showcase the products below, but I want to give you some details [...]
SHOT Show Day Two New Products from Weaver, BlackHawk, SOG & More!
Yesterday was crazy. We saw a ton of awesome new products, and there’s a lot of exciting things to talk about. SHOT Show has been a major success so far, and I can’t believe I’m going to get to see more of many of these products at OpticsPlanet over the next year! But enough about [...]
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