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Home Protection
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Recent Home Protection Articles
What Happens If You Miss? Home-Defense Caliber Comparison
What happens if you miss the bad guy? Well, you’ll likely hit something else. If that something else is a wall, what is the likelihood your chosen home-defense caliber will go through it? USCCA Direct[…]
Continue Reading →Book Review: ‘Strategic Relocation — North American Guide to Safe Places’ 4th Edition
When I first heard about the book Strategic Relocation — North American Guide to Safe Places 4th Edition by Joel M. and Andrew Skousen, I was intrigued. I thought it would contain some interesting ins[…]
Continue Reading →Stay Safe for Halloween
My kids are getting excited about trick-or-treating for Halloween. And I am busy scouring social media advertisements for school fall festivals, Halloween events at local parks and trunk-or-treat opti[…]
Continue Reading →Kids and Guns: Home Defense With Children
There’s no doubt that our personal residences are where we like to relax, get comfortable and try to set aside some of life’s challenges for a little while. Those familiar walls around us hold more th[…]
Continue Reading →Staging Firearms for Home Defense
Staging firearms for home defense raises a number of important concerns that go well beyond the basic issue of defending oneself. One such issue is that of weapon security. A number of jurisdictions n[…]
Continue Reading →Home-Defense Options: When ARs & AKs Are Scarce
The coronavirus panic started us down this path in March. The fear of this new and unknown virus was hyped to such extremes that people feared more of a “zombie apocalypse” scenario in its aftermath t[…]
Continue Reading →Double-Barreled Shotgun vs. Handgun for Home Defense
Home-Defense Gun Series NOTE: Find more articles in our Home-Defense Guns Series below: Article 1 | Article 2 | Article 3 | Article 4 | Article 5 | Article 6 Home-Defense Question: My significant othe[…]
Continue Reading →Buckshot For Home Defense
The shotgun is regarded as the “ultimate problem-solver” when it comes to personal and home defense. There is no denying its wound potential or hit potential. However, the shotgun is underutilized b[…]
Continue Reading →Dickinson Arms XX3D-M-2 Marine Tactical Shotgun
Like probably most of you, I carry a handgun daily. Its rests at my bedside at night. This isn’t the worse plan in the event of a home invasion, but a better option is to have a shotgun on hand. Why S[…]
Continue Reading →Make the Right Call: What a Cop Sees When Responding to a Home Invasion
Imagine you are a police officer. You are six hours into a 10-hour shift. You have already been on a domestic violence call, three cold harassment calls and an injury accident. You’ve just cleared fro[…]
Continue Reading →Well-Armed Neighbors Make Good Neighbors
Before all the quarantines, lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, my husband and I had a very exciting day at the shooting range. No, we didn’t get perfect zero-down targets for an entire IDPA match. No,[…]
Continue Reading →Creating a Safe Neighborhood
I read an article recently that said most people cannot even name one of their next-door neighbors. Note that this was not New York City residents who live in high-rise apartments and condos. Even sub[…]
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