On Situational Awareness and Dangerous Women
Making the decision to carry a concealed weapon is only the first step in a process which includes purchasing a handgun that's appropriate for one’s personality and life, training, regular practice, and adapting one’s...
Personal Defense Tip: Develop Your Own Tactical Checklist
By Sal Navarro
Being “tactical” is a way of life, not an ethereal concept or happenstance occurrence. And just for the record, it has nothing at all to do with wearing the right cargo pants...
Governor Lee Smiles: Naïve Tennessee Students Lobby Against Guns in Schools Ahead of Special...
Last week we noted that following the Covenant School shooting in Nashville, Volunteer State Gov. Bill Lee couldn't manage to get his "red flag" introduced in the legislature, let alone get it passed. The...
Personal Defense: Forty Miles of Road Rage Ends in a Dead Aggressor
Police in Minnesota ruled the use of deadly force over the weekend against a road-raging idiot was justified self-defense. For 40 miles, William Haire -- age: more than old enough to know better --...
The New Jersey Machete Attack That Wasn’t Stopped By a Court’s Opinion
The topic of arms, bearable arms, arms that are appropriate for self-defense, etc., is explored here at TTAG on a daily basis. When it comes to self-defense, though, we can't exclude improvised weapons in...
Illinois Store Employee Shoots Woman Three Times After She Pistol-Whipped a Co-Worker
An armed society is a polite society. And an order of protection is paper-thin. And the only thing that stops a bad girl with evil in her heart is a good guy with a...
Of School Bus Drivers and a Confrontation Outside of My Kids’ School
A school bus driver is solely responsible for the safety and well-being of the kiddos on his or her bus. On 99.998% of school days, it's just another day. Other times it requires thinking...
Let’s Clarify Florida’s New Permitless Carry Law for Ignorant Politicians Like Gavin Newsom
By Lee Williams
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently attacked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after a Memorial Day shootout between what the media called “two groups of youths” in Hollywood, Florida left nine people wounded.
“DeSantis signed...
My Hybrid EDC: ShaloTek Compensated P365 Slide Review
I spent much of the '22-23 winter carrying a SIG P365-XMacro instead of the original P365 that I've been carrying as my EDC since early-ish 2018. The additional capacity was great, sure, but it...
Firearms Policy Coalition Wins Injunction Against NJ Gun Control Law
Gotta love good news! Firearm Policy Coalition won a solid first step fighting back New Jersey law that made it effectively impossible to carry a concealed firearm in public, even with a license. FPC's...
New Orleans Pastor Protects His Flock by Embracing Armed Self-Defense, Firearm Training
Teaching day-long classes on firearm safety, storage, usage, tactics, gun laws, and obtaining a concealed carry permit along with providing basic shooting instruction at a local gun range, Pastor Isaiah Stewart's 20 years in...
In Praise of Robert A. Waters – Scholar, Defender of Freedom, and Chronicler of...
By Miguel Faria, Jr., MD
Robert A. Waters is author of several eloquent and brilliant books chronicling true crime stories that demonstrate how citizens have protected themselves — friends, family, and innocent people, not to...