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.
9 Tips for First-Time Shooters at the Gun Range
Previously we discussed how indoor and outdoor ranges operate and some of the rules you might encounter there. Those procedures benefit everyone. Today, let’s be selfish and share tips that directly…
Continue Reading →Two Strangers Try to Take Control of Your Campsite — Would You Know What to Do?
I just put the finishing touches on the intense new training series I’m launching this week. Take a peek at video #1: You’re enjoying a campfire at your campsite when all of a sudden, two strangers…
Continue Reading →Brad’s Story: USCCA Member Uses Pepper Spray to Deter Violent Attacker
If you’ve ever thought about having to defend…he DIDN’T even use his gun. You see, Brad is a USCCA Member from Texas. He works hard and lives a peaceful life with his wife and their two adopted dogs.
Continue Reading →Why the USCCA?
In a world full of decisions, you often have to make one choice. Such is the way when pondering where to eat or what movie to see; there are likely more than a few options, but which is the right…
Continue Reading →Survive an Attack on a Crowd
While the chances of being involved in a mass shooting are relatively slim, the danger is still very real, and your best option for survival would be effective escape. When you enter an area, MAKE…
Continue Reading →Training vs. Plinking
We recently filmed an episode of my video blog, Into the Fray, where we used the Intelligently Controlled Targeting System (ICTS). The ICTS, developed by Instructor Zero of internet training fame, basically puts targets on the end of long poles, and your training partners move the targets while you engage.
Continue Reading →Self-Defense, Not ‘Stuff’ Defense
Do not use your gun for anything except defense against an imminent deadly threat. The goal of true self-defense is to create enough dysfunction in your attacker that you can escape safely. If you…
Continue Reading →Reacting Under Stress: 3 Tactics for Stopping a Mass Shooter Threat…
Picture this: It’s Sunday morning, and you’re at church with family and friends… when all of a sudden … BANG! A man hiding a gun stands up and opens fire on the congregation! You pull your family to…
Continue Reading →Fitting Room: Zero in on the Right Gun
THE MAJORITY OF FIREARMS TRAINERS and educators do not supply firearms for their students to use. They have to work with what each student brings to class. For a seasoned student, this usually isn’t…
Continue Reading →Self-Defense? Well, Maybe Not…
An incident in my neighborhood a couple of weeks ago illustrates what can happen when emotion overrides common sense. As is often the case in such a situation, only when the details are uncovered…
Continue Reading →My $50 Charter Arms Revolver
Yep. I bought a $50 revolver. It’s a Charter Arms Undercover made in about 1969. Does that mean I think my life is worth $50? Nope. That means some crackhead might think my life is worth the $50 I…
Continue Reading →The SCCY Finale
Enough is enough. The SCCY wins. We could continue to abuse the pistol, but why? We have tormented and tortured the SCCY CPX-2 quite enough. We dunked it in mud, buried it in dirt, froze it in a…
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