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…
Safe Neighborhoods Don’t Just Happen.
Update: Hello again to all the visitors from Instapundit and elsewhere. Please take a moment to sign up for our emails, I'd really appreciate it. I've beaten the servers into submission, so hopefully this is the last time that a…
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…
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…
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:…