Question of the Day: Would You Make a Citizen’s Arrest?
Jeff Fletcher just wanted to snag some cash before he and a friend headed to a local casino. But as they pulled up to an ATM, a gunfight broke out nearby between two...
Safety Tip: Don’t Catch a Falling Gun. Again.
Plaxico Burress has landed on his feet. His former team, the New York Giants, released him when he was convicted for carrying a concealed weapon in the ostensibly gun-free zone of Manhattan. And shooting...
The Myth of Situational Awareness
I swear the entire world thinks situational awareness is the most important element of self-defense. This list includes our friends at STRATFOR, who devoted an entire article to situational awareness' central role for both individual...
Self-Defense Tip: Sit Down
I’m a police FTO (Field Training Officer). Before trainees arrive on my patch, they receive rigorous firearms training at the Police Academy (insert joke here). For one week, for 10 hours a day, they...
Question of the Day: What Gun(s) Would You Use to Fend Off Rioters?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7H02HSip_c
Scenario A: you're in your own home, a single family dwelling in a high density neighborhood. 10pm. Roving gangs are cruising the streets looking for "targets of opportunity." Your family is inside your redoubt....
Ruger Introduces Ultra Pepper Spray System
In its ongoing and largely successful effort to be the only profitable company in America (excluding Apple, which is now worth more than Belize), Ruger is introducing yet another self-defense weapon: the Ultra Pepper...
Question of the Day: Is .380 a Suitable Self-Defense Caliber?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEQkvw3EkzY
"Raven Smith doesn't usually take a gun to Applebee's," tampabay.com reports. "But something made him reconsider Sunday night as he held his .380 caliber weapon in his hand, about to leave it behind as...
Time to Prepare Your Castle Doctrine Checklist!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ytn8uplERY&feature=related
PA State Rep. Tim Mahoney penned a Castle Doctrine for Dummies guide for heraldstandard.com. Bottom line: residents no longer have a duty to retreat from an attack. Of course, Mahoney is a pol. So...
Gun Review: Ruger LCP Take 2
Our department never allowed us to carry a back up weapon. Many of us could never understand why. Guns are tools. Tools can fail. If my firearm failed in the middle of a gun...
Self-Defense Tip: Three Ways to Avoid Firing Line Hypnosis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SK-3ovW8H7U
I reckon most people who go to gun ranges on a regular basis suffer from borderline OCD. Every time they practice, the use the same lane, same guns, same drills, etc. Routine keeps them...
Norway (and Her Tourists) Exercise the Right to Arm Against Bears [Amended post]
The recent spree-killing in Norway taught us---again, still---that bad things happen to defenseless people. Here's another reminder . "The four British campers who were attacked by the bear in Svalbard are recovering after surgery...