A Girl and a Gun. This is News?
I'm not sure that the "issue" of women owning guns isn't just a media conceit. As far as I can tell, women own guns for the same reasons that men own them---only more so...
Question of the Day: Are Gun Owners Responsible for Each Other?
Mikeb302000 doesn't like gun owners much. No surprise there. He doesn't like guns. Or, more specifically, what people with guns do with them. Some people? I'm not sure Mikeb's capable of---or interested in---making...
Castillo’s Jewelry: Anatomy of a Houston Shoot-Out
I just saw this story from Houston's chron.com...
What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Close Quarters Tactics Edition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhc-QBXZLn8
Question of the Day: What Would You Have Done?
From adelaidenow.com.au's post 'Panic room' foils eastern suburbs home raid:
The woman . . . had only just gone to bed around 9.30pm when two men used iron bars to smash through the front door. Her...
Another Example: Competition is Not Self-Defense Training
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsoabCEfQB0
"Practical shooting is a sport that evolved from experimentation with handguns used for self-defense." That's the official line from the USPSA website. It cleverly avoids the question: "Is USPSA competition applicable to real world self-defense?"...
Gun Defense. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHfDaFDktPA
It's often said that most gunfights occur with the combatants standing within a few feet of each other. Like most numbers involving the intersection of humans and ballistics, the stat is thoroughly unreliable. First,...
Thoughts on Equipment Placement, Conditioned Response, Reaction Time, Hick’s Law, the 21 foot guideline,...
The following article was written by Ben Kurata, Senior Staff Instructor at Texas' International Training, Inc. We republish it here with the permission of the article's sponsor, Action Targets
Recently, a transit Officer was convicted of...
“Most people respond to having a hole poked in them, and you can hope...
"Enter the most deadly pistol I own – The Kel-Tec P3AT. Weighing in at a whopping 8.3 oz. unloaded, carrying a total of 7 rounds of squirrel-stopping 380 ACP and a sight radius barely...
How Not to Handle a Home Invasion
Whoa! How many mistakes can you make and still live to tell the tale? One, if you know there's a threat and you have the time, call the cops. THEN deal. Two, don't deal....
How to Double Firearms Sales in Ten Years or Less
There's a new ad slogan making the rounds: "It's amazing what soup can do." The company behind the campaign has spent millions promoting its pro-soup tagline. Quick! Is it Campbell, Lipton or Progresso? Campbell....
Dear Diary: 30 Days to Conceal Carry, Day 4
Being in the midst of a big project for my day job, I had to curtail most of my plans to travel about (notably to a coffee shop) today. Frankly, most of my –...