A comment on this Facebook post got me thinking... I've taken ECQC from Craig Douglas and John Murphy's Street Encounter Skills class. Both are terrific classes and both place an emphasis on a multi-spectral response to potentially dangerous situations. A…
I love doing "Mythbuster" style posts about guns and gun culture, and testing the strobe function that's found on most tactical flashlights has been one that I've wanted to do for a long, long time.
I noticed this morning that there's a rather huge gap in the firearms training world. As an armed citizen, I can take room clearing and home defense and CQB classes from any number of sources. Which is fine, but most…
I've been asked by a local business to do a woman's self-defense seminar. Wow. I mean, I kinda got started in this whole gun writing thing with an article that dared to break with the conventional wisdom that a pink-handled…
Greg and Tam both talk about how the pistol skills of "the average gun owner" compares to what cops can do. So how good is the average cop? He or she is likely much better than the average CCW permit…
“Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.” - Anon I am utterly fascinated by the lengths that people will go to in order to avoid carrying a gun on their person. I’m even more fascinated…
I was fortunate enough to go to Gunsite last year, a month or two before the world came crashing to a halt. My class was fairly large (about 20 people) and I had a blast. Everything we know about firearms…
If not more. David Yamane posted this absolute fascinating study on where people are actually killed or injured with guns. Turns out it's not all that random. He posted the details of a location-based study on violence in the inner…
Over the last year, three things have become very self-evident: Ammo can be found, but even so, it's more expensive than it was in 2019 Traveling anything more than a few miles from home is a royal pain People want…
Six men came to kill me one time. And the best of them carried this. It's a Callahan full-bore auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge thorough gauge. It is my very favorite gun. I am aboslutely besotted by CZ pistols. I…