What We Don’t (and Can’t) Know About Defensive Gun Uses Isn’t Great For Anti-Gunners’...
After a mass shooting is thwarted by an armed citizen who wasn't wearing a badge, we often see the same debate with the same tired talking points. "Yeah, but that almost never happens!" Or,...
Does Using an NFA Item in a Personal Defense Situation Put You in More...
Does the kind of firearm you use in a self-defense situation matter? If you shoot a home invader to protect your family with a suppressed handgun, does that present legal problems you wouldn't face...
Amazon Driver Shoots a Knife-Wielding Attacker Who Charged Him Shouting ‘Knife Fight!’
Delivery drivers are at more risk than many people realize. Approaching hundreds of strangers' houses delivering anything from pizzas to potentially valuable packages can draw the attention of criminals and crazies.
That's apparently what happened...
How To Do The ‘Dicken Drill’ At Night (Long Range, Low Light With a...
While many defensive shooters have recently discovered longer range pistol shooting after the Greenwood Park Mall shooting, the one where Eli Dicken stopped mass shooter from 40 yards away, some of us have already...
Store Owner ‘Blows Off’ Attempted Robber’s Arm
Situational awareness can save lives, and an 80-year-old store owner protected himself by being vigilant and seeing the attack coming on the store's security cameras. "He shot my arm off!," screamed one of the...
We Don’t Have the Eli Dicken Drill (or Story) Quite Right (Yet)
Unless you've been under a rock in the gun world, you've probably heard of the Greenwood Park Mall shooting, and the hero who ended the mass shoooting early with a 40+ yard shot. If...
Planning on ‘Bugging Out’ In a Disaster? You Might Want to Rethink That…
Anyone who doesn’t have his or her head buried in the sand has probably considered what they would do if something happened and they had to flee their home. Sort of like when some...
Tactical Tomfoolery: Our Dangerous Obsession With Gear
By Gideon Joubert
A lot of people in the firearm-owning community seem to obsess about “tactical”…everything. But the term has so far departed from its proper use in our lexicon, that it now practically crops...
It’s Time for America’s Malls to Drop Their ‘Gun-Free’ Zone Policies
By Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman
In the aftermath of the Greenwood Park Mall shooting in which a legally-armed private citizen named Elisjsha Dicken was able to quickly take down the killer, stopping the attack and...
The Indiana Mall Shooting Proves You Can’t Rely On Luck and a Gun
If you look at the word "disaster," there are clues about what the word means to us. The beginning part, "dis-" is a Latin root for "bad" or "negative". The "aster" part means "star"....
When it Comes to Choosing Your Carry Gun and Ammo, Remember What’s Really Important
Even more inexplicable are the shooters who choose the Thor-Hammer 147-grain over the competing loads from FreedomFist and ‘MurricaHeckYeah because, according to the data on the box flap, it’s 30 fps faster at the...
No, 9mm Is Not A ‘One Size Fits All’ Defensive Caliber
There's a tendency among gun owners to follow whatever law enforcement does when it comes to selecting a firearm for defense. When the police carried revolvers, many civilians had a revolver (yes, that's mostly...