Self-Defense Tip: Dry Fire Practice
Regular practice plays the crucial role in creating and maintaining life-saving proficiency with a deadly weapon. Especially when you train without bullets. "Dry firing" your gun can help you achieve many of the life-saving...
Heller’s Attorneys Awarded $1.1 Million for DC vs. Heller Work
Who says the wheels of justice grind slowly? OK, in this case it's the determination of legal fees that took three and a half years, and no one's going to cry a river over...
It’s 5 pm: Do you know where your guns are?
Within just the past week, Colorado has seen two terrible gun-related tragedies involving children. The worst part in all instances like these, is that they were wholly preventable. The first incident happened on December...
December Another Record NICS Month, but There’s Still Time!
Record NICS volume - again - in December, both nationally and all around the country. Must be keeping the gnomes at the FBI hopping. As Ron Parrish of Powers Firearms so eloquently put it,...
First Time CHL – The Odyssey Begins
Nick’s First Time Hunter series was so goshdarned popular, I thought I’d do a little series of my own. But this time, instead of focusing on our favorite city slicker spending some time in...
NY Times Proves Concealed Carry License Holders More Law-Abiding Than the Population. Unintentionally.
The New York Times published an article yesterday about concealed carry permit holders in the state of North Carolina, painting them as drunken drug addicts who used their guns irrationally in the heat of...
Self-Defense Tip for Women: Carry a Gun
Whenever I debate gun control, I wait until I've backed the anti-gunner into a corner. I listen for the moment when their flawed logic collapses under its own weight (or lack thereof) and they...
It Turns Out Getting Shot Can Be Good for Your Health
Developing non-original equipment holes in your body is typically a bad thing. You tend to leak a lot. Organs can get rearranged, if not altogether shredded. Especially when the shooter uses big boy rounds...
Ask Foghorn: Best Self Defense AR-15?
A reader asks:
I am a Vietnam Airforce Vet and would like to buy a very nice to excellent AR15 for tactical and self defense. Would you mind sharing with me your top 3 choices/picks...
What Was That About Stopping Power?
Trillions of electrons - and tens of thousands of gallons of ink, before that - have been spilled in the never-ending debate over stopping power. People have nearly come to blows over which caliber...
Focusing Excessively On Guns As A Survival Element
We should probably put mikeb302000 on retainer since he seems to stimulate so many of my posts. And this is one reason I love hearing contrary viewpoints; they allow us to refine our arguments,...
Have a Happy, Tactical Holiday Season
By Lt. Salvador Navarro (Ret), CEO & President, Montana Tactical Firearms Instruction
With the Christmas season, thoughts tend to turn to...the tactical? Well, yes. You may be wondering how focusing on tactics and Christmas are...