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...
How do you travel with a gun? What are the rules? How do you protect yourself while traveling? Whether you’re flying, driving, or taking the train, the rules are different about what you can and cannot do. Let’s break them down one by one, so you’ll be prepared. Road Trip! Driving cross-country isn’t...
Reduce the chance of a deadly encounter with good information management. Defense works best in layers. It doesn’t matter if we are talking about home defense or digging in a fighting position and protecting an airbase. A layered defense involves a variety of different components. When we talk self-defense, we often involve defense...
What’s in your EDC? Do you have everything you need all the time? It may come as a surprise that everyday carry doesn’t just mean only carrying a firearm. In fact, even before legal carrying age, most young adults should have some form of “non-lethal” protection on them. If you remember nothing else...
How to identify, hide behind, and shoot from barriers. If you’re ever in a gunfight – and we sincerely hope that never happens, but we also hope you’re prepared if it ever does – you will need to get off the X and find cover or concealment. It’s a valuable life-saving skill that...
They are very different and should be treated that way. In most states, concealed carry permit applicants must not only take a class ranging from as few as four to as many as 16 hours (yes, Illinois, we’re looking at you here), they also have to put rounds down range to demonstrate at...
