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One is None -- Thoughts on the Backup Gun
Michael Tan
There are many reasons to feel guilty: Have you done live-fire drills in the last two weeks? No? Your skills are getting rusty from disuse! Have you field-stripped and cleaned your primary carry gun over the past two range sessions? No? Your guns may be getting rusty from sweat and neglect! Have you formally learned and practiced empty-hand combatives? No? Your personal skill set is incomplete! Ah, the many things that evoke a twinge of guilt. Here's another potential source of guilt: Are you carrying a backup gun, knife, and light? No? . . . keep reading

Street Tactics: The Devil is in the Details
Gabe Suarez
Many CCW operators spend a great deal of time selecting their gear and a few even spend the same amount of time organizing their training to develop fast reflexes and accurate shooting. Very few, unfortunately, spend any time outside of this type of preparation. I would submit that the gunfight that is avoided is far better than the gunfight that is won. Why? Because gunfights primarily cost a good amount of money. Even in the most conservative and pro-CCW areas, a good guy who has won a gunfight would be foolish to not involve his lawyer, and as we all know, lawyers are not cheap. Moreover, gunfights are chaotic, and the simple fact that you might not win must always be considered. An old gunman once told me, "It is not the bullet with your name on it that should bother you; it is all those addressed 'To Whom It May Concern.'" Indeed. Now, avoidance does not mean . . . keep reading

CCM Profile: Pastor Bryan Strickland -- "God is Protecting Christians Every Day"
Bryan Strickland, pastor of the New Covenant Church of God (Cleveland) in Roseland, Louisiana, is no stranger to firearms. "I kind of grew up around guns," Bryan admits in his soft southern accent. His father retired out of the Marine Corps after 26 years, and Bryan found it natural to follow in his father's footsteps and enter the military at age 18. After a 7-year tour of duty that included work as a Combat Engineer in the 1st Infantry Division during Desert Storm, Bryan left the military and turned to a different type of service. He became a pastor, later leaving his first church in order to attend college in Tennessee where he majored in Pastoral Theology. Eventually, Bryan and his . . . keep reading

Instructor's Notes: Training a Handicapped Shooter
Alan Mullineaux
With the exception of when moving may actually threaten our survival, the number one rule in a defensive situation is to move away from your attacker. Creating distance between you and the bad guy or "Getting off the X" as they say, is the name of the game. Whether you strike and move or just move, the point is you are moving. For many people that simply is not an option. They must deal with their attacker to the best of their ability right where they are. While this may not be ideal, it can still be accomplished quite effectively. Who would not be moving to create distance with their attacker? . . . keep reading

It Doesn't Have to Make Sense - It's Just the Law: Boobytrap Law
KL Jamison
An Iowa farmer spent ten years trying to prevent break-ins at an old farmhouse used for storage. Boards were nailed across windows and doors and "no trespassing" signs were put up to no avail. Tired of being tormented, the farmer set a 20-gauge shotgun to fire when an interior bedroom door was opened. On his wife's suggestion he lowered the barrel from stomach level to leg level. The gun was not visible from outside the building and no warning of the trap was given. On July 16, 1967, Marvin Katko broke into the old house to steal antique jars and similar items. He had broken into the house before without injury and seems to have considered this a precedent. Mr. Katko opened the bedroom door, triggering the shotgun. Time magazine, not a bastion of ballistic reliability, reported that the gun was loaded with buckshot. Whatever the load, the results were . . . keep reading

Pro Ears Gold: Hearing is Believing
Kathy Jackson
The Gold series of electronic muffs from Pro Ears provide top of the line quality hearing protection. At upwards of $300 per set, they are obviously not the choice for the budget-minded. But for frequent shooters, firearms instructors and others who truly need the durability and other features that a high-end pair of amplified muffs can provide, they may be just the ticket. First, a little about amplifying muffs in general: if you teach firearms classes, you truly need some type of active hearing protection while you are on the line. There are two reasons for this. First, being able to hear what your students are up to -- wherever they stand on the range -- is an important element of safety. I know more than one instructor who, while wearing active hearing protection, have heard beginning students on the off relay doing something . . . keep reading

Pistol Reloads -- What You Need to Know
Heath Gunns
Do you carry a gun for self-defense? If so, the speed reload is one of the most important skills you can master. Not because so many rounds are fired in the fight -- although often that is exactly the case -- but because the reality is that all pistols malfunction eventually. The good news is that when using quality equipment, malfunctions don't happen often. The bad news is they do happen sometimes. Regardless of your brand of blaster, what you feed it, or how clean it is, it will malfunction. Whether it's because you . . . keep reading

Armed Senior Citizen: The Code of the Armed Senior
Bruce N. Eimer, PhD
Recently, at a Phillies baseball game in Philadelphia, an argument began between two groups of men over some spilled beer. The argument grew into a melee, and security guards threw everyone out. Afterwards, in the parking lot, three men from one of the groups jumped one man from the other group who was trying to leave the angry and violent scene. The three men beat, kicked and stomped the other man to death. By the time the police arrived, it was too late. The victim suffered severe head trauma and was pronounced dead right there by medics. All I could think of after reading this headline news story in the Philadelphia Inquirer was that if the victim had a gun on him, he might have been able to save his life. This would have been a clear case of the justifiable use of deadly force in self defense. The three murderers started the violence, escalated it, and had a marked disparity of force in numbers and size over their victim. . . . keep reading

Sig Sauer P239 CCP: High Quality Carry Gun
Duane A. Daiker
We all tend to have biases in our gun preferences. Personally, after learning to shoot on revolvers, my first serious semiauto shooting was with a first generation Smith & Wesson autoloader. As a result, I have always been comfortable with traditional double-action auto pistols. But for some reason, I never acquired, or even fired, a Sig Sauer pistol. When the chance came to evaluate the Sig Sauer P239 Concealed Carry Package (CCP), I was eager to give it a try. In a short time, I came to understand . . . keep reading

Big, Tall, and Armed
Larry Correia
I can best be described as a large man. I'm six feet six inches tall, or a little more when I wear hiking boots, which is always. Mid-thirties and broad shouldered, I weigh in at a once-muscular three hundred pounds. I have a fifty-six inch chest, twenty-inch neck, and a forty-two inch waist, and I look a bit like a younger Tony Soprano. Like most American men, I also have a belly that has started creeping over my belt, but unlike most Americans, it's a gun belt. I carry a concealed firearm every day. CCM Editor Kathy Jackson asked me to write this article, partly because I'm the largest concealed weapons instructor she knows, and secondly because she is so petite that she does not understand the plight of the large folk. For the record, Kathy weighs as much as one of my legs. . . . keep reading

Ballistic Basics: Bullet Flight Times
Dennis Cantrell
A bullet's speed, or velocity, is nearly always reported by a cartridge maker. Using Speer's online ballistic tables as an example, we can see that their standard pressure .45 ACP cartridge propels its 230 grain bullet from the muzzle of a five-inch barrel at 890 feet per second (fps). That sounds impressive, but we're accustomed to thinking of speed in terms of miles per hour (mph). Fortunately, the conversion is easy: multiply feet per second by 0.6818. In this case, 890 fps equals 607 mph. That's still impressive. Another way to evaluate a bullet's speed is to calculate its flight time. This is equal to twice the distance traveled (expressed in feet, not yards), divided by the sum of the muzzle . . . keep reading

Another Pro-Gun Mayor Wises Up to Bloomberg's "Mayors Against Guns" Charade
Chad D. Baus
For the past several years, Buckeye Firearms Association has published a series of articles entitled "All Politicians Are Not The Same," highlighting elected officials who have proven strong support for the Second Amendment. Today, I believe we can add two more names to the list: Ohio State Rep. Josh Mandel and Village of Walton Hills Mayor Marlene Anielski. Pro-gun voters in Ohio are already be familiar with Rep. Mandel's Second Amendment credentials. As a freshman representative in the Ohio House he co-sponsored . . . keep reading

A Protest to Remember: the 9/12 Tea Party
Christopher James Galosi
On Friday, September 11, 2009, while I was driving up to Washington D.C. to participate in the 9/12 Project Tea Party, I saw numerous tour buses and vehicles with signs on them proclaiming "Washington or bust," "9/12 is here," "Tea Party 2009," and my personal favorite, "It's Time To Party Like 1773." There were a host of other signs proclaiming the signmakers' disgust with the current administration and Congress with their handling of the economy, runaway spending, gun control, and health care. The license plates passing by said it all: Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, Texas and Mississippi, to name just a few. That night while laying in bed, I could not help but wonder . . . keep reading

The Ordinary Guy: "Nothing Catches God By Surprise"
Mark Walters
"JORRICK!" The shotgun wielding thug moved to the rear passenger door, forced it open and slid into the back seat of the Landry family SUV. Sitting on the back seat was Zachias, seven years old, and now being forced over to the other side of the seat by a shotgun toting madman. "Kids? Let me see some mother%$& kids," yelled 18-year old Jabray Davias Jones from inside the vehicle. Sitting up front in the passenger seat was Jorrick Landry, and alongside him in the driver's seat was his wife Vernalise, cradling their two-year old daughter, Anaiyah. . . . keep reading

Gear Review: Milt Sparks Executive Companion
Tony Walker
I do like the finer things in life: the Porsche 911, Veuve Clicqot champagne, suits from Savile Row, and handmade shirts from London's Jermyn Street. Add to this the occasional Cuban cigar (only when I'm in London), and I'm a contented man or at least I would be, if only I had the money to buy these things. However, when it comes to gunleather, . . . keep reading

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