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…
Safe Neighborhoods Don’t Just Happen.
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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…
The Florida Job.
A bills is being introduced into the Florida Senate to implement the recommendations of the Parkland commission, including allowing teachers to arm themselves. The Florida Senate is considering legislation that would add educators to the controversial school guardian program. If…
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…
Effective Safety Is Like An Onion.
It has layers. One single school resource officer from the local Sheriff's office watching over a school is NOT a layer, it's a single point of failure. And a single point of failure will fail every time. The panel investigating…
Quick, Easy And Cheap.
If you're looking for an opportunity to put your dry-fire skills in action, I wrote a piece for Beretta outlining a 100 round practice session that can be shot an indoor range, even on ranges which limit the number of…
“What Gun Should I Buy?”
Oh, the hours I spent behind the gun counter, guiding people through this decision. We keep looking for that (literal) magic bullet, the One Gun To Rule Them All, the gun that will turn us into Wyatt Earp every time…
What To Look For In A Firearms Trainer
I wrote this piece for Ricochet.com over a year ago, long before I decided to become a trainer myself. The only thing I'd add to it now, more than a year later, is to train with someone whose knowledge is…