Lawful Carry: Back-Up Guns: Three New Carry Options
There have been discussions for many years on how to carry a second gun. I remember as a…
Bargain Basement Blaster: DPMS Sportical
In the AR world, $700 can buy you a pretty nice upper, maybe a nice optic set-up or…
Long Guns: Century Arms Golani
I first used the Galil battle rifle more than 25 years ago when working on a security job…
Offbeat: SureFire Pen
The SureFire Pen—the brainchild of Steve Ryan, director of SureFire’s Edged Weapons Division—is a new addition to the…
Training Alternatives: .22 Long Rifle Conversion Kits
Due to the steep rising costs of—well, everything—many shooters have been forced to invent new ways to come…
Against All Odds: Bug-Out Bags
A bug-out bag is a pre-prepared cache of supplies collected for use in times of emergency. The entire concept is to have this bag packed and ready to go at a moment’s notice. You may not have much warning and even less time to gather needed supplies.
Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight: Knives And Handgun Retention
Firearms tactics have come a long way in the past few years. The increasing use of Simunitions, Airsoft, and other types of force-on-force training has done a lot to make gunfighting training more dynamic and realistic. It has also helped shooters understand skill sets that are often hard to appreciate in sterile, square-range training—particularly skills like weapon retention.
What it Really Takes to Hit: Point Shooting Debate Continues
What will it take for you to hit and stop your assailant in a deadly force encounter? Will the assailant be under the influence of extreme rage or drugs and hard to stop? Will one shot drop the suspect or will it take an entire magazine—or more? What will that encounter look like? Will it be at close range, 50 feet or even farther?
Car Wars: Gunfighting and Vehicles
There seems to be a lot of information out there about gunfighting in general, but not much about…
Vehicle Tactics: Vital Skills in a Perilous World
Two of the things that cannot be foreseen in preparing for a lethal attack are where it is going to happen and what the threat is going to look like. Once the threat is perceived, we decide on the course of action, hope it is the correct action, and then proceed through the threat, calling on our training to guide us.