When you’re ready to carry concealed, getting shots on target isn’t the only aspect of defensive firearms training you should consider. Practicing to clear your firearm from a holster is an important…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is Part 1 of a four-part series on domestic abuse and self-defense. This article explores the physical and psychological trauma experienced by domestic abuse victims. Part 1 |…

There are a lot of moving parts after a self-defense shooting. The incident will be investigated top to bottom and end to end. And there’s always the chance of a trial too. If your shooting was found…

What does the Second Amendment cover when it comes to felons protecting their lives and the lives of those they love? A viewer wrote to the USCCA explaining that he is a felon and knows he is not…

There’s one thing you can do to increase your chances of surviving a gunfight. It’s not shooting a gun. Avoiding a gunfight should always be your first course of action. But if you are forced to…

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…

If someone you know and love is getting up at 5 a.m. to hit all the best Black Friday sales, please tell him or her to be careful. There might be an argument over whether or not noted bank robber…

The legendary lawman Wyatt Earp used to say, “fast is fine, but accuracy is final.” Being able to quickly get a shot off will mean little to nothing if that shot misses. Drawing on Earp for…

Cover and concealment are not the same things. Concealment hides you. Bullets can pass through. Cover, on the other hand, stops incoming rounds. It prevents the bullet from hitting you, but it can…

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…

Popular cartridges have become so due to good performance. For more than 100 years, the standard self-defense cartridges have been .38 Special, 9mm and .45 ACP. Concealed carriers are looking for…

Research shows us that we can usually get a realistic “first impression” of someone within the first eight seconds, thanks, mostly, to nonverbal communication, like eye contact, gestures and facial…