25 Rounds Or Less
Times are tough, and dedicating 100 or more rounds to a training session seems like a waste of precious resources. Which is why I'm compiling a list of low round count pistol drills to help keep you on your game,…
New Class: Welcome To The Armed Lifestyle
Buying gear doesn’t give you confidence. Pressure-testing your abilities and knowledge gives you confidence Thousands of Floridians go through the process of getting their concealed carry permit, but only 1 in 8 find a way to be armed on a…
And So It Begins
The first good rainstorm in two months is pelting the outside of my home right now, reminding me that hurricane season starts here tomorrow. I wrote about the experience of having Hurricane Irma roar over my home over here, and for…
New Class: Intro To Home Defense
There are 2.5 million burglaries annually in the United States. Only one in eight are ever solved. In just over two hours, you’ll learn proven methods of protecting your home against burglary, robbery and home invasion. There is also an…
Qui docet doctores?
"Who teaches the teachers?" I created a poll in a Facebook group that caters to people who get paid to teach people how to shoot. The question was simple: What did you do before you made firearms training your full-time…
Welcome To A New Way Of Thinking
I firmly believe that the future of gun rights in America doesn't reside in the hands of big nation-wide activist groups. Rather, it resides in the hands of actual activists. This is why I decided to start up Quietly Armed.…
The Heretical Alternative
A lot of my fellow gun writers / applied violence nerds went pie-eyed over the Smith & Wesson M&P Shield 380 EZ (Geez, guys could you have made that name a little longer? I digress...). On paper, it has all…
No Assumptions
There was a bad accident in my town, where a little girl on her bicycle tangled with an SUV. The girl was dragged by vehicle for a short way, and the driver of the SUV (a woman in her 20’s)…
The Spaces Between The Shots*
Update on this post. Rather than saying "Just buying a gun doesn't turn you into a gunfighter anymore than buying a musical instrument turns you into *insert name of musician here*," we should be saying, "Just buying a gun doesn't…
Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition.
There's a concept that's been percolating inside my skull for a bit: Therapeutic Moralistic Self-Defense. This is the idea that people a) Need to feel safe and b) Don't want to actually permanently injure or kill somebody in order to…