Sooner or later you will have to talk to your non-gun-owning friends about why you carry. You might be asked not to carry at someone’s house. Or you might be grilled on gun safety at your house when p[…]

…it could happen in your state. Sometimes a minor incident turns out to be the “canary in the mine shaft” in that it serves as a warning of a much bigger problem for gun owners. That[…]

You may have heard that if you customize your defensive pistol, some shameless attorney will drag you into court claiming you “made that pistol even more deadly.” This, so the story goes, will lead to[…]

One of the great things about carrying a small concealment handgun—such as my Smith & Wesson 642 .38 Special Revolver—is the myriad of ways that it can be comfortably concealed. While mid- and eve[…]

» QUESTION: A few years ago, when I decided to join the ranks of responsible citizens owning and carrying handguns, the rage was high-capacity handguns with calibers starting with a 4 as a minimum to […]

The shooting tragedies that have occurred at the hands of evil at U.S. schools and universities in recent years have brought the issue of firearms on campuses to the forefront. Many people claim that […]

No, you will not be teasing your dog or cat with a laser pointer. The Laser Ammo company offers their SureStrike Laser Cartridge and the Personal Electronic Target. Combined, these two products will g[…]

Yippee! Vacation. We live in one of the most magnificent countries on Earth. We have wild mountains to climb and deserts, sugar sand beaches, world-class museums—all within driving distance of thousan[…]

We at the USCCA relentlessly pound on readers about how quickly things can go really, really badly, usually with little or no warning. We were reminded of this just a couple of weeks ago when the kind[…]

Let’s talk about safety. Some people will point to that little lever on the side of a pistol and call that the safety. It is not. That is the safety lever. Big difference. Recently I had a long conver[…]

It would likely be a safe bet to say that most people who own a dedicated home defense firearm would like to have a weapon light of some sort mounted on that firearm. And yet, many cannot afford one—a[…]

» PERHAPS THE BIGGEST DRAWBACK to carrying a full-size Model 1911 for personal protection is not its size but its weight. Let’s all be honest: By bedtime, it feels like an anchor tugging on your belt […]