Aiming Points.
These are articles I’ve found on the web that I found interesting and useful, but I’m not seeing a way to turn them into full-fledged articles. A lot of these came via Greg Ellifritz, and it’d be a good idea…
Playing All The Greatest Hits
For four days out of seven for almost an entire decade, I carried a pocket .380 as my primary concealed carry gun. I never felt particularly under-armed when I carried around a little .380, as I knew what they could…
It’s A Family Affair.
Violent home invasions are not as common here in this quiet corner of SW Florida as they were in my former hometown of Phoenix, so when one happens here in Naples, I pay attention to why it occurred and what…
A Foolish Consistency Is The Hobgoblin of Little Minds.
Or so said Ralph Waldo Emerson. However, there is such a thing as a non-foolish consistency, as Claude Werner explains. Lack of consistency is one of the big problems that many shooters encounter. Now and again, they can pull off…
Points of Impact.
Just a few quick notes of interest ... I wrote a quick primer on night vision gear for Shooting Illustrated, laying out the differences between the various generations of image intensifiers and what thermal can do for you vs. starlight…
Why A Concealed Carry License Isn’t Enough
Remember when you got your driver's license? Remember how confident you were with parallel parking and left hand turns on yellow and staying in your lane at freeway speeds? Yeah, me neither. I was terrified my first few weeks driving…
Bullet Points.
Every once in a while, I'll run into someone who talks about the devastating power of the .45 ACP handgun they carry, or how the .40 S&W cartridge is the perfect blend of performance and capacity. Look, I have nothing…
The Teacher’s Guide To Concealed Carry, Part Three.
How To Be Ready For (Almost) Anything One of my frustrations with the firearms training industry is that we're focused on just firearms. I realize that sounds a little silly, but the fact is, a pistol solves just one problem:…
The Teacher’s Guide To Concealed Carry, Part Two.
What Gun To Carry, And How To Carry It Quite frankly, the firearms training industry would like to pretend that the "business casual" work clothes that most teachers wear doesn’t really exist. The vast majority of "how to carry concealed"…
The Teacher’s Guide To Concealed Carry, Part One
Making The Decision To Carry A Firearm GQ, of all places, recently ran an article about giving teachers the means to protect the students in their care, and shockingly, it was very sympathetic to the idea that a trained, responsible…