Ian from Forgotten Weapons puts a B&T stock on a SIG P320 and takes it to takes it to Desert Brutality 2023. https://youtu.be/1Nf4rk6Dai0 A few thoughts: His experiences at this match sorta matches my own results: A standard, service-sized pistol…
I wrapped up a two-day Urban Rifle class this weekend with John Farnam, one of the originators of the idea of the close-quarters AR-15. That class marks the end of my training for 2022, and what a year it’s been.…
Everything we do in the personal defense world is based on having a backup plan. You were expecting that living in a “nice neighborhood” and “not hanging out with the wrong crowd” would keep you safe from harm. It didn’t work:…
Just came home from teaching the classroom portion of my Florida concealed carry class, and for the first time ever, I really felt I nailed laying out the reasons why you want to carry your gun everyday and some of…
We were talking amongst ourselves at the shotgun class this weekend, and I realized that the difference between the students I have who take advanced classes and the ones who just go to a concealed carry class comes down to…
I will be shamelessly lifting ideas and concepts from Ed Monk putting on an Active Shooter Awareness class on Tuesday, October 18th at 6:30pm at the Ave Maria Master Association.
It’s a classic movie trope: The hero of our motion picture begins the last oct of the movie with a dramatic montage of him collecting various bits of equipment to take on the main villain. We’ve seen Arnold Shwarzengger do…
Earlier this month, I had a chance to talk at length with Michael Bane about any number of topics. Not surprisingly, the topic of firearms training came up quite often. In talking with Michael, I was able to get a…
“Vulnerability.” We don’t like to talk about it, because pretty much the entire firearms and self-defense industry is built around eliminating vulnerabilities in our lives. Can’t defend yourself against a bad guy with a gun? Take a class (preferably one…
My friend Peter had a very insightful post on Facebook about the (partially successful) mass shooting in Indiana this week, which I will shamelessly copy here. So every gun toober and their monkey are posting videos of the Eli Dicken…