USCCA Firearms & Self-Defense Blog
Self-Defense
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.
Recent Self-Defense Articles
Skip the Bang!
Typically, new shooters must learn to overcome report and recoil while building their marksmanship skills. Now, Ultimate Training Munitions makes report and recoil a thing of the past when it comes to[…]
Continue Reading →What’s Your Excuse?
Back in the early days of my career, I was the outdoor reporter for a small daily newspaper in South Dakota. I actually got paid to go hunting and fishing every day. Can you believe that? Now, I get t[…]
Continue Reading →Training in the Double-Action Mode
If you carry a revolver for self-defense, you need to be training to shoot accurately and quickly in the double-action mode. Trying to manually cock the hammer on a revolver means you have to change y[…]
Continue Reading →Training Drill for a Carjacking Attempt
Last week we showed you a surveillance video of an attempted carjacking that ended badly for the criminal. I suggested there might be a better way to get the drop on the bad guy by pretending to surre[…]
Continue Reading →Conflict Avoidance Will Keep You Safe
You’ve heard us say it before: The best fight is the one you are not in. If you can avoid a fight, you should make every effort to do so. But the question is often asked, “How can I avoid […]
Continue Reading →I Don’t Want a “Help” Button; I Want an Equalizer
The sun had barely started to wake, and I was shuffling through the dank parking deck with my mother, both of us distracted by thoughts of my oldest daughter’s upcoming surgery, just a few hours[…]
Continue Reading →Carjacker Picks Wrong Guy!
Would you know how to fight off a carjacker? Is there a better way than just frantically slapping at his gun while you reach for your gun? What should you do after the shooting stops? These are all im[…]
Continue Reading →Being a Good Shot Does Not Make You a Good Fighter
You’ve heard the old cliché: Even if you are on the right track, you will still get run over by the train if you stop moving forward. What have you done lately to move your personal defense trai[…]
Continue Reading →Ultimate Firearms Training!
Would you like to build a combat training range in your own home? Would you like to train with your own gun, safely and without the restrictions commonly found on most public ranges? Would you like to[…]
Continue Reading →Common Sense in Concealed Carry
I recently studied a news item from Miami in which a woman raced home when her alarm system sent her an alert. She called 911, and subsequently caught a 17-year-old burglar by herself. In the ensuing […]
Continue Reading →10 Things to Think About AFTER You Decide to Carry Every Day
Whether you live in a constitutional carry state or a state that requires navigating multiple layers of bureaucracy before you can get a concealed carry permit, you need to think about more than just […]
Continue Reading →Coming Home to Beretta: Many Soldiers Choose Familiarity After Service
It is only natural that military men and women cling to their service pistols. » THERE ARE MANY implements of war. The halberd is long gone, but the rocket launcher and line-of-sight range finders are[…]
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