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…
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…
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:…
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"…
Making The Decision To Carry A Firearm GQ, of all places, recently ran an article about giving teachers the means to protect the students in their care, and shockingly, it was very sympathetic to the idea that a trained, responsible…
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…
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…
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…
Well, here's one good reason why. A public library on a Sunday morning pretty much personifies the idea of an idyllic, pastoral setting, and yet here we have a homocide happen in just that situation mere minutes from where I…
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…
At some point in your journey through the armed lifestyle, you're going to realize that there is more than one way to be your own first responder. We carry a gun because we know there won't be a cop around…