The U.S. Concealed Carry Association is now offering even greater benefits for no extra cost. That’s right. Upgraded benefits for members for no additional charge. Read on to find out what they are.…

November is National Family Stories Month, which makes now a good time to reflect on parts of our family and personal heritage that involve firearms and the shooting sports. Here is part of my story.…

In 1816, 23-year-old Eliphalet Remington II crafted a gun barrel from scrap metal in his father’s blacksmith forge. The next day, he left the family farm and headed to Riley Rogers’ gunsmith shop in…

I sometimes find options for comfortable and effective concealed carry of large, high-capacity pistols or all-steel revolvers are limited. Often I end up carrying my handgun on my strong side hip in…

Dr. David Yamane is a liberal sociology professor at Wake Forest University researching and writing about gun culture in the U.S. He is trying to understand the shift from Gun Culture 1.0 to Gun…

The Center for American Progress (CAP) recently published an article claiming Wisconsin’s concealed carry law has led to an increase in gun violence. The article’s authors maintain that the available…

Sometimes just having a gun and ammo may not be enough to deal with emerging threats. If you’re looking for protection to take with you all day, body armor may be called for. And 221B has just the…

Lately, we here at the USCCA have been hearing the old axiom, “I’d rather be judged by 12 than carried by six.” These words have been tossed around during interactions with our customer service teams…

NOTE: USCCA Customer Engagement team members get a lot of questions, and they pass a good number of them along to Concealed Carry Magazine Senior Editor Ed Combs. If you have a question, you can…

Are you legally allowed to shoot an unarmed attacker in self-defense? As with most questions dealing with deadly force, there is no clear-cut answer on whether or not you can shoot someone who is…

Unless you have been living under a rock, you know the cupboards are bare when it comes to ammo. Shelves are empty. Online orders sometimes take months to fill. Ammo prices are much higher than…

I can’t help but notice the portable or automated external defibrillators (AEDs) I see hanging on the walls at malls and stores. Some of these devices look as though they have never been touched, while others appear to have been either used or removed and stuffed back into their boxes.