Two Businesses That Should Always Allow Employees To Carry Concealed
The most common news story involving street-level armed robbers is usually in either a gas station convenience store or liquor store. Both are high-traffic environments that can guarantee usually at least a couple hundred in cash and some hand-carry items such as cartons of cigarettes and booze. For street-level offenders with little active experience, these…
4 Strange and Unusual Firearms
We live in an era of relative conservationism in firearms design. The AR15 in its various forms dominates the semi-automatic rifle market, Mossberg’s 500/590 and Remington’s 870 represent the bulk of the sporting, tactical, and defensive shotguns out there, and while there’s more diversity in the handgun world, let’s be honest: most of you are…
Revolver Reloads: Using Speed Strips
An obvious and undeniable limitation of the revolver, particularly the small-frame revolver, is limited ammunition capacity. The second and related limitation is the fact that it is an extremely slow gun to reload. Yes, I know, Jerry Miculek can reload a revolver quickly, but I remind the reader that even he, the modern master of…
12 New Handguns for 2017
What if you could design and produce your handgun anyway you desired, with any features and characteristics, without a price parameter? With any specifications? With any capacity? With any caliber? With any weight? With any barrel length and any overall length? What would you include on your special handgun? Would you want it to have:…
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[DVD REVIEW] PDN “Violent Criminal Actors” DVD
Once again, Personal Defense Network brings William Aprill to the screen, interviewed by Rob Pincus. Aprill is one of the foremost experts on violent criminal actors, having worked in law enforcement before pursuing a career in mental health care and research. Violent criminal actors (henceforth VCAs) are complex actors, with a wide variety of motivations,…
The Virginia Shooter: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What it All May Mean
I was caught flat yesterday by the news of the mass shooting at a practice session for the congressional baseball game. I was further surprised as details emerged and we learned more about the shooter and his motives. And I was alternately touched and appalled by the reactions I saw in various forms of media.…
Summer Concealed Carry: Hiding A Heater When It’s Hot
Summer concealed carry can be a different animal than carry during the rest of the year. It isn't as easy for a lot of people to keep concealment or carry comfortably due to the increase in temperatures and reduced layering. How do you overcome these things? You wouldn't want to stop carrying during the hot…
Vehicles Tactics: Realistic Defensive Techniques for Protecting your Children around Vehicles
Within the self-defense community when we think of “vehicle tactics” we probably think of a shooting course offered by some ex-special forces dude in which we shoot through windshields with AR15s and lay with our feet pressed against hubcaps to shoot under cars with all possible tactical pizazz. Very entertaining stuff. The only problem is…
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Sig Sauer P226 RX Elite SAO 9mm with Mini Red Dot [FIREARM REVIEW]
There are several mini red dot sights (MRDS) for your handgun available now. Some combined with a handgun as a package and some MRDS that you can buy separately and have your gun's slide milled for a custom fit. Recently, manufacturers have made MRDS more compact, lightweight, durable, and somewhat less expensive than just a…
What You Should Look For In A Gun Safe
If you own guns, you really should have a gun safe and there are so many good reasons that it isn't even worth arguing. But what to look for in a gun safe? You should get a safe that suits the number of firearms you own and the purpose - whether it's for storage of…
How to Read Media Coverage of CCW, The Second Amendment, and Self-Defense Topics
As I’ve mentioned before, in real life I’m media consultant. This means I tell people how to manage their digital footprint and online presence, how to handle marketing/PR/branding, and how to make and distribute creative content. This means, to quote one of my colleagues at USA Carry, I spend a lot of time over-consuming the…
Firearms, Self-Defense, and Natural Disaster
I’ve seen every Mad Max movie. I watch “The Walking Dead” like it’s my job. I love the fantasy of life in a post-apocalyptic setting and all the gut-punching stories you can place there. But, I also live in the real world. More than that, I’ve been in a few war zones and in some…