We all have an EDC or Everyday Carry, the collection of items we carry with us on a regular basis. Even average people who don’t think about self-protection carry many of the same things every day: wallet, keys, cell phone, etc. It’s the stuff that lets us live our lives away from home, things...
Carrying a concealed gun every day requires a particular set of gear. Concealed carry is different from just owning a gun. It’s like the difference between owning a car that sits covered up in your garage except to drive it on nice days versus the car you drive to work and back, school and...
Sometimes the best self-defense is avoiding the situation in the first place. But how? You have a concealed carry permit and a gun, which means you’re ready for anything, right? Wrong. While those two items are a must for everyone who wants to protect themselves, they are just the start. You could argue...
Responsible gun owners never stop learning. Improve your skills with continuous education. Colonel Jeff Cooper, the founder of Gunsite Academy in Arizona, famously said that owning a gun doesn’t make you able to defend yourself any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician. While he wasn’t downplaying the significance of that...
A clean gun is essential. But how often do you need to clean it? Certain questions in the gun world get asked all the time, especially by new gun owners. For example, what gun should I get? Should I carry with one in the chamber? What is the best holster? (This one is...
Do you run a red dot? Should you? Let’s look at the goods and bads to pistol red dots. Like it or not, there has been a trend in the gun industry for a few years now to add red dots to pistols. It started by some creative pistol owners strapping a small...
