Everyday People
I've seen photos of "everyday carry gear" on social media that make me wonder if people spend their time planning how to scale Kilimanjaro in the evening. Over at the Ammoman.com blog, I take a quick look inside my everyday…
Entry-Level Entry Weapon.
We are in an AR-15 glut right now. You can buy AR's for under $500 just about anywhere you look, and if you're willing to launch a few detent springs into low earth orbit, you can buy complete rifle kits…
Straw Poll.
I have a number of different water purifiers in my various bug in / bug out kits, all of which claim to cure cancer and relieve me from the heartbreak of psoriasis. But do they actually work? No, this isn't…
Castle Doctrine
There's an old joke about two friends getting chased by a bear, and the punchline is where one turns to the other and says, "I don't have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun YOU!" This is how…
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…
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…
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"…