What Makes A Round “Less Lethal?”
Kinda proud of this series. I'll be shooting four different "Less lethal" shotgun rounds through my beloved Mossberg 500 to see what they actually do in an industry-standard penetration test. Stay tuned.
Getting Back To Your Roots
“From the first moments of class time Monday to the graduation ceremony on Friday, staff repeated the word ‘family’ over and over again. This sense of belonging, of understanding that there is more to taking a firearms class than just…
Enough With The Ammo Already!
We're facing a possible pandemic as well as an upcoming national election, an election where at least two of the candidates seem quite willing to disarm the American populace. In these trying times, how much ammo is "enough ammo?" What…
Draw Skippy!
Getting your gun into the fight is an essential part of carrying a defensive firearm. If you don't have the ability to use your gun when it's needed, you're carrying a gun just to make yourself feel safe. Your actual…
Start By Starting
I know SO many people who own guns, but don't carry concealed on a regular basis. Look, I get it. We are not used to carrying 2-3 pounds of gear on our belts that we probably won't ever need. I…
Condition Three Carry Is A Bad Idea
Every once in awhile, I'll meet someone who still carries their defensive firearm with a magazine inserted, but no round in the chamber. Let's be clear, this is a bad idea. We will not be to dictate what my happen…
The Non-Gun Owner’s Guide To Gun Gifts
There were times during my career as a professional photographer where I'd have to smile politely and thank a relative for their Christmas gift of a dozen rolls of 24 exposure color negative film. "Kevin's a photographer," they'd think to…
Have Yourself A Gunny Little Christmas.
Even though it's been years since I tripped the shutter for a living, I still get asked about what camera is a good buy. The same is true know that I write about guns. Let me put it out there,…
Kills Bugs Deads. On Humans, No Effect.
When you first start out on this journey of safe and secure armed self-defense, you'll occasionally hear someone recommend wasp spray as an effective less-lethal tool. And just to be clear, wasp spray is very effective. On bugs. Anything else,…
A Primer on Primers
This one was a bit of a slog: Finding ammo that we knew for a fact had sealed primers on it, and then testing it so only the primers were affected took the better part of four months to figure…