Be prepared with a variety of concealed carry and firearms tips and tactics that can help keep you and your family safe both inside and outside of your home. Find helpful articles and videos, including the Into the Fray training series, that cover everything from situational awareness and conflict avoidance to cover vs. concealment and the use of force in a critical encounter.
Video Hotwash: The Value of Recording Video-Based Training
One of the latest teaching methods in college and university speech and communication departments is to videotape students while they’re giving speeches. The purpose is to show them what they did…
Continue Reading →The Simple Things Are Tough: Grasping Trigger Discipline
Many students ask what is the single fundamental they should practice in order to improve marksmanship. Although there are many building blocks necessary to formulate a good shot, the one fundamental…
Continue Reading →RV Security: Defense in a Motorized Home
After many years of talking about it, I recently joined the world of RV owners. While my wife was busy planning what household items we would need to buy to stock it, I looked at it from a…
Continue Reading →The Road Less Traveled: Backroads During Riots and Mass Evacuations
Whether because of rioting or mass evacuations caused by natural disasters, law-abiding citizens need to be prepared to exit danger zones by utilizing backroads to find safety. It doesn’t matter if…
Continue Reading →‘Police! Don’t Move!’: Avoid Being Mistaken for a Criminal
If you ever hear the command “Police, don’t move!” or “Police, stop!” spoken in a loud and authoritative tone, know that you could be seconds away from losing your life if you fail to react…
Continue Reading →Wrist Takedown to a Control Hold
What does “a portion of the person” mean? It means utilizing joint manipulations by adopting locking techniques that control your attacker’s leg, ankle, wrist, fingers, elbows or other parts. Add…
Continue Reading →The Most Effective Knife-Defense Tactic
The best defensive weapon against a knife attack is your legally carried and concealed firearm. However, as is emphasized often in this series, you might sometime find yourself disarmed by…
Continue Reading →Tips to Open Your Pocketknife Faster
One of the most neglected aspects of defensive knife training is the skill necessary to actually get your knife into the fight. Just like drawing a handgun, you must be able to draw your knife…
Continue Reading →Attempted Vehicle Break-In: Should I Shoot?
You’ve lived in your quiet house on your quiet country road for nearly 15 years. It used to be that you never had to lock your door, lock your car or make sure your lawnmower was secured in the…
Continue Reading →Clear Indicators: 7 Signs You’re Going to be Attacked
At the end of delivering a 40-hour train-the-trainer program in Quantico, Virginia, I asked the newly trained federal instructors if there were any questions. One student asked a question about…
Continue Reading →Guns, Coffee and Veterans: Black Rifle Coffee Company
Coffee has been the American soldier’s most valued ration for more than 150 years. By 1832, President Andrew Jackson, a former soldier himself, ordered that it replace rum, whiskey and brandy in each…
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…
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