Gun for Beginners: The Totality of Circumstances, Reasonable Person Standard
One of the most vexing questions facing a concealed carrier: when should I pull my gun? Too early and you're looking at a brandishing charge. Too late and you're dead. Same goes for firing your...
Guns for Beginners: Move THEN Shoot
https://youtu.be/j3-XhjW11oA
This video illustrates an important indeed life-or-death point we've made in this series numerous times: moving is your first priority in a self-defense situation. If you don't "get off the X" (as the gun gurus like to say),...
Guns for Beginners: How to Defend Against A Gun – For Realz! [VIDEO NSFW]
https://youtu.be/FMObHRmVF9E
In this video - as in all of these disarm videos - the bad guy holds the gun steady, well within the good guy's reach. In this situation, even someone who hasn't studied under Wing Chun...
Noir Takes a Newbie Shooting [VIDEO]
https://youtu.be/163W9KPABBc
Gun guru and firearms fashionista Colion Noir shares the commonly held belief that hands-on experience with firearms is the key to "converting" anti-gun rights voters to a pro-gun rights position. And proves it above. Well, not entirely....
What I Carry and Why: Tyler Kee’s M&P 9
I've been writing about guns longer than I've been carrying one so most of my "What I Carry" journey has been hashed out here over the last four years. I don't have a fancy...
Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions: Why Do You Carry A Gun? Edition
It happened the other day, again, in the locker room. "Why do you carry a gun?" a random guy asked as I placed my EDC in my locker. "So that good things can happen...
Guns for Beginners: Three Things You Should Ask Yourself Before Purchasing Your First Self-Defense...
Millions of Americans are exercising their right to keep and bear arms for self-defense by buying a gun to keep and (let's hope) bear. It's not an easy transition. Newbies face a farrago of firearms choices:...
Guns for Beginners: Be Careful Out There, Especially When You Call 911
"The man who shot two alleged attackers in what Battle Creek police say was self-defense told 24 Hour News 8 that the planned Craigslist deal that brought him to the area seemed normal at...
Self-Defense Tip: Don’t Rely Entirely on Your Gun
"The 43-year-old woman said she awoke around midnight to the voice of a man in her house near 10th Street and Emerson Avenue on Indianapolis' Eastside," Indiana's jconline.com reports. " leapt out of bed, turned on the...
Advice for Instructors of New Female Shooters: Be More Patient
As a female gun writer, owner, and all around gun rights advocate, I'm constantly teaching women how to shoot. I want to help women succeed. Other than trying to cope with "excessive" recoil, new...
Guns for Beginners: Castle Doctrine and The Duty to Retreat
"A witness called police saying that someone had just shot their wife in the middle of the street," reuters.com reports, "and that he was trying to get into the house across the street. The homeowner...
Guns for Beginners: Concealed Carry Myths
Scott Polk writes:
Concealed carry is a hot topic among gun people. Mimimim acceptable caliber, recommended gun size and model, best holster type, appropriate self-defense tactics, the need for a back-up gun or spare magazines - it's...