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Gun Trust: Everything You Need to Know
Before getting to the ins and outs of a gun trust, let’s start with what is a trust. Trusts are essentially “legal buckets” that hold property. And if that property makes money, the trust is taxed on…
Continue Reading →Ask Ed: Concealed Carry FAQs — June 2021
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…
Continue Reading →Basic Concealed Carry Laws: Rhode Island
Carrying a firearm for self-defense comes with a lot of responsibility. Knowing the laws where you carry is just one important task you must undertake as an armed American. To help with that, we will…
Continue Reading →Jumping on the Red Dot Bandwagon
I was working for a writer and photographer around the time digital cameras became popular, and my mentor was absolutely adamant against digital photography. I mean … no one wants to jump on board…
Continue Reading →Ask Ed: Concealed Carry FAQs — May 2021
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…
Continue Reading →Ask Ed: Concealed Carry FAQs — April 2021
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…
Continue Reading →The Gun Outlaws When They Outlaw Guns
When they outlaw guns … will you be a gun outlaw? Uncomfortable conversation or not, I think all responsible gun owners need to come to terms with some important truths. We’ve been told for a long…
Continue Reading →Basic Concealed Carry Laws: Alaska
Carrying a firearm for self-defense comes with a lot of responsibility. Knowing the laws where you carry is just one important task armed Americans must undertake. To help with that, we will be…
Continue Reading →My Evolving Everyday Carry Handgun
I’ve carried quite a few handguns throughout the past 40 years of my concealed carry lifestyle. Being trained in public safety, I’m not one who wishes to feel helpless. So I keep a carry gun with me…
Continue Reading →Family Defense: Firearms Show Love, Not Hate
It’s amazing the kinds of things you sometimes hear — or even overhear —in conversations. Sometimes the most shocking dialogue comes from fellow Second Amendment supporters. Maybe they just haven’t…
Continue Reading →Ask Ed: Concealed Carry FAQs — March 2021
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…
Continue Reading →2A Reading Roundup
Since today, March 2, is National Read Across America Day (inspired by the birthday of the beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss), I thought it might be fun to do a book roundup for gun owners and 2A…
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