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home | Advanced Concealed Carry

Welcome to the Advanced Concealed Carry portal. If you want to take your personal protection to the next level, this is the place to start. This area will challenge your perceptions and leave only the tried-and-true. This area is for those who are willing to practice, and to do whatever it takes to make it home. Not for the weak hearted!

Good luck with your research and
please STAY SAFE!

Take care,

Tim Schmidt
USCCA Founder

RECOMMENDED REVIEWS:
1. How to Prepare to Get the Most
Out of Your Training School Trip
2. Fitness for the Gunfighter
3. Force-On-Force: Gun Grab
4. Point Shooting Versus Aimed Fire?

Snap Caps Versus Dummy Cartridges
Dennis Cantrell

Attempting to troubleshoot a faulty handgun by cycling live rounds through it may result in a call to 9-1-1. But a couple of inexpensive snap caps or dummy cartridges will help you to safely identify the problem by dry firing the gun--cycling the action manually without live ammunition. They also have other uses. . . . keep reading

Practical Shooting Sports: Sharpen Your Self-Defense Skills
Caleb Giddings

If you're one of the many Americans who have made the choice to carry a firearm for self-defense, you've also probably realized that just buying the gun and carrying it around on your hip isn't enough. You need something more, and that something is training. One option is to go to "gun school," where top instructors will provide you with the . . . keep reading

Hands Vs. Guns
Gabe Suarez

When we work the Zero to Five Feet material, we place our students in their CCW kit, facing an adversary (later more than one adversary) who is also armed. . . . keep reading

Point Shooting Versus Aimed Fire?
Gabe Suarez

Now that one should stir some controversy right? What would you say if I told you that they are not . . . keep reading

Louis Awerbuck: The Exception to the Rule
Michael Tan

When I first met Louis Awerbuck I wondered if I had made a big mistake... We were in a deserted parking lot in front of a public . . . keep reading

Force on Force Notebook: Revisiting the 21 Foot Rule
Jack Rumbaugh

A very large volume of information arrives in my e-mail inbox every month and an article by Bob Irwin . . . keep reading

Long Range Pistol Shooting
Gabe Suarez

I know all about how pistol fights tend toward being close and fast. However, there have been several instances where a long shot . . . keep reading

Force-on-Force Notebook
Jack Rumbaugh

Kobayashi Maru. The no-win scenario. That was the first thing that came to mind when I read the following post from the Force-on-Force Notebook forum . . . keep reading

Beyond The Concealed Carry Gun: Arming for Home Defense
Duane A. Daiker

Concealed Carry Magazine focuses on the needs of private citizens who choose to lawfully carry concealed weapons as they go about . . . keep reading

10 Seconds to Fight
Armando Basulto

Some coaches subscribe to the old saying: "Pain is the best teacher, but nobody wants to go to his class." Though it should be obvious that . . . keep reading

Safe Rooms
Jerrod S. Smelker

The phrase safe room has been around for a long time and it seems that everyone has their own definition of what a safe room is or should . . . keep reading

"Street Tactics:" On Fitness for the Gunfighter
Gabe Suarez

I spoke with a man today who wanted to attend classes, but said he was too old (55!) and out of shape to do anything but "target . . . keep reading

God Bless the Warrior
Ken Hanson, Esq.

I worry about my children. I am only 37 years old, yet I am already worrying about what kind of adults my kids' generation will be. . . . keep reading

"Street Tactics:" - The Elements of the Combative Technique of the Pistol
Gabe Suarez

All gunfights are situations where one is either launching an ambush, or responding to it (sometimes by preempting it) . . . keep reading

"Force-On-Force Notebook:" Volume 5
Jack Rumbaugh

This month I'd like to examine an event that happened recently in Central Florida to a couple that are friends of a friend of mine living . . . keep reading

"Street Tactics: Reality Based Gun and Knifefighting" - Gutter Medicine
Gabe Suarez

The body of knowledge available to the CCW person is growing daily. Because of the non-dogmatic methodology of . . . keep reading

"Force-On-Force Notebook:" Gun Grab
Jack Rumbaugh

Over the past month or so there has been a fairly active thread on the forum about gun disarms and grabs. The initial post by forum . . . keep reading

Can We Make Our Schools Safer?
Robert Childers

With the end of the summer vacation season and arrival of autumn, American schools are again open. Instead, rather than cooler . . . keep reading

"Street Tactics": Fighting Triad
Gabe Suarez

The Combat Triad has been a pillar of the modern technique since its inception by my late friend, Jeff Cooper. This is made up of three . . . keep reading

"Force-On-Force Notebook": Virginia Tech
Jack Rumbaugh

Everyone has experienced this phenomenon: Something important happens and you know exactly where you were and what you were . . . keep reading

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