Firearms Training: If You Have a Bad Experience, You Gotta Get Back Out There
By Mark Houser
Most of us have been told that firearms training is important and valuable. Maybe even essential.
But my own early experiences with formal training were...disappointing.
In fact, I found that there was a significant disconnect...
Always Be Thinking: Put That Gun Away, ASAP!
Any firearms instructor worth his or her salt will try to teach their charges to break tunnel vision during a criminal attack. Heaven knows police officer trainees have “scan and assess the scene" drilled...
Personal Defense Lessons: The Story of Joe Morelock
I serve as the Executive Director of Guns Save Life, a successful and aggressive regional grassroots gun rights group that meets in six cities each month in Illinois. Each month, our meetings feature a...
Man Shoots Himself in the Face After Hot Brass Ejected Into His Shirt [VIDEO]
If you shoot often at all, especially at an indoor range, you've probably experienced it. A hot empty case ejects from your pistol, bounces off the lane divider and right back at you. Usually...
Good Guy With a Gun Mistakenly Shot and Killed By Phoenix Police [VIDEO]
A recent officer-involved-shooting in Phoenix presents a host of lessons we can all learn from. A responding police officer there mistakenly shot a good guy with a gun as he held a pair of...
Runenation: No One Is Coming To Save You [VIDEO]
Angstadt Arms has launched a new video series they're calling At The Ready, profiling people of interest to gun owners and those interested in firearms, training, and armed self defense. As Angstadt describes the...
Training: The Fine Art and Critical Importance of Chilling Out
I've been in some combat. I performed my role adequately, but I was by no means a super soldier. What I can hang my hat on: I gained the respect of the men on...
Learn These 4 Key Handgun Shooting Fundamentals
By Nancy Thorne of the National Carry Academy
There are a variety of factors that go into shooing a handgun well. The stance, grip, aim, sight alignment, trigger control, follow through and keeping your feet...
ASP’s Red Gun Rifle: Dummy Gun Training for Dummies
By Jim Davis
Why use a dummy gun? The reasons are many, but this question is probably the most significant.
“Is it unloaded?”
Your partner assures you that it is. Do you trust him? I mean, really...
Chicago’s Gun Camp, Lead and Taught By the Fastest Rapper Alive
By Waysun Johnny Tsai
GROWING UP IN CHICAGO WITH MUSIC, GANGS AND GUNS
I grew up piss-poor with my mother in some of the worst neighborhoods in Chicago. The gangs were so bad where we lived...
EDC Philosophy: In Defense of Israeli Carry
By Doc Duracoat
I'm amazed by how much hate I get when I admit to carrying my concealed weapon “Israeli style” with a loaded magazine and an empty chamber. Any safety, if present, is set...