Incendiary Image of the Day: The Truth About Our Home Defense Edition
My sister lived just outside the tornado's path of destruction in Tuscaloosa. A...
If He Wasn’t Paranoid Before . . .
From eastoregonian.com:
A Pendleton man at 3:43 a.m. called 9-1-1, whispering he is in a house across from an upholstery shop on Southwest Court Avenue and some guys are trying to break in. The caller...
Self-Defense Tip: Always Keep Your Weapon Pointed Downrange
In today's IGOTD, Daniel Zimmerman offers a refresher course on the four main rules of gun safety. First and foremost: muzzle control. If you avoid pointing your weapon at something you don't want to...
Home Carry Saves Lives
There's no real downside to home carry. Safety first. As long as you put your Home Carry gun in a safe when you're showering or answering the call of nature, the weapon is always under...
Munchkin’s Home Defense Weapon Selection Decision Tree
Let's get started by looking at some pros and cons regarding different active home defense issues.
1. If you are the "primary" weapon carrier, when you leave the house, is there a "secondary" means of defense that...
Self-Defense Tip: Carry Your Spare Magazine in A Pouch
Here's an email from John Farnham describing a bizarre set of circumstances leading to a magazine failure . As John Prine sang, same thing; same thing happened to me. I'm still not entirely convinced...
Three Steps to Equipping A Gun Aversive Significant Other with a Home Defense Handgun
Let's get this out of the way: the idea that you, a man, should choose a firearm for a woman who's never had one is sexist and disrespectful. Women are fully capable of making...
Question of the Day: Do You Have a Shotgun for Home Defense?
I keep a Benelli M2 as a gun to fight my way to. You?
Gun Review: Kimber Custom II vs. Smith & Wesson M&P Pro 9
I’ve been carrying a Smith & Wesson M&P 9 Pro for years. I stake my life and my family’s life on the polymer pistol. And yet, like most “old timers,” I never felt...
Esquire Story on Petit Family Massacre Avoids the “G” Word
"At night, Petit sleeps only because the pills make him sleep. Sometimes even with the pills he lies awake, thinking about the same questions. Working slowly and without rest, he has built ramparts around...
Did a Pork-Coated Bullet Kill Bin Laden?
I held off on this post for weeks, until the Daily Mail let the pig out of the blanket. Now seems as good a time as any to reveal that "The makers of Silver...
Ben Tupper: Sanity is a Warm Gun
Ben Tupper was deployed to Afghanistan. He's written two books about his experiences: Greetings from Afghanistan: Send More Ammo and Dudes of War. Like many a returning vet, adjusting to civilian life hasn’t been without...