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What is Situational Awareness For Self-Defense

May 5, 2022 By Joshua Gillem

Many people and “experts” within our industry speak about situational awareness as one of those things that we must all be practicing at all times. While I don’t disagree with them, I think there is a large population of people who haven’t the foggiest idea what situational awareness even is … so: What is situational […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Defensive Gun Use, Gun Info, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, guns, self-defense, situational awareness

Why You Should Get Trained, Even In a Constitutional Carry State

March 29, 2022 By Terry Nelson

All of us have an inherent right of self-defense. Concealed carry or open carry training be damned. Right? But is the trend towards constitutional carry without any training necessarily a good thing?   In all likelihood, no. Before you get a rope, please don’t get me wrong; I believe in your right to protect yourself and […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Opinion, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle, training

Training With a 22 Pistol Clone Makes Sense

March 23, 2022 By Joshua Gillem

Sig Sauer just announced the release of their latest pistol, the P322. The P322 is essentially a pistol that looks to be based on another one of their pistols. The main difference, is that this one shoots 22 Long Rifle rounds. And, as a bonus, it gives you 20 rounds of ammo in the mag, […]

Filed Under: Ammo, Concealed Carry, Gun Info, Handguns, Opinion, Survival, Training Tagged With: 22, ammo, concealed carry, guns, long rifle, self-defense, training

Five Non-Gun Defense Techniques for Daily Living

March 14, 2022 By Terry Nelson

No doubt most folks reading this are students of defensive living. Many of you are advocates of concealed carry or open carry on a daily basis, and I couldn’t agree more with that lifestyle. However, living defensively begins with practices you should develop or hone on a constant basis and none of these mandate gun […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Lady's Concealed Carry, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, guns, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle

5 Controversial Handgun Skills You Should Still Practice

February 8, 2022 By Terry Nelson

Having been a firearms and tactics trainer for decades now, you might imagine that many defensive firearms training topics and techniques have changed over the years; some are even downright controversial. In the last few weeks you may have read my articles concerning pistol training for self-defense, phase-1, phase-2, and phase-3. Interestingly there are a few concepts and […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Gun Info, Handguns, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, guns, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle, training

Pistol Training for Self Defense-Phase 3

February 3, 2022 By Terry Nelson

In my last post I discussed pistol training for self-defense-Phase 2. In this, the last of a three-part series let’s move up the scale of training to Phase-3. Understand, this is a baseline formula for teaching progressive skills to students who are serious about dedicated pistol training. It may not be everyone’s approach, but it has […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Handguns, Opinion, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, defensive gun use, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle, training

Defender’s Gun Jams After First Shot

February 2, 2022 By Joshua Gillem

Yesterday I shared an article that was a defensive gun use. The accompanying video is excellent in more ways than one. You can see the moment the defender pulled his gun and fired the shot. From the other angle you can see the bullet impacting the glass as it whizzes right past the alleged robber’s […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, defensive gun use, guns, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle, training

Does My Self-Defense Gun Need A Safety?

January 31, 2022 By Joshua Gillem

I saw a question posted recently in a Facebook gun group that caught my eye, mainly because it’s not a topic we’ve covered on this blog before. The question was something like this: How many of you have a manual safety on your carry gun? If so, why? I’ll attempt to answer this question in […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Handguns, Opinion, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, defensive gun use, guns, self-defense

Pistol Training for Self-Defense-Phase 1

January 12, 2022 By Terry Nelson

Today people are rushing to obtain their concealed carry license and purchase firearms. Concerns over the changing political climate, the right of self-defense, and gun ownership are at least in part responsible for the drive towards concealed carry and new gun ownership. This article will be the first in a three-part series of a step-by-step […]

Filed Under: Concealed Carry, Defensive Gun, Gun Info, Handguns, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, defensive gun use, guns, second amendment, self-defense, self-defense lifestyle

Improve Your Grip to Improve Your Shooting

December 21, 2021 By Joshua Gillem

There is a bunch of stuff that can go wrong when shooting a pistol if you have a poor grip on the gun. We’re going to tackle some of those issues really quick, and then go over how to grip a semi-auto pistol the way the experts are currently teaching. Having a proper grip on […]

Filed Under: Defensive Gun, Gun Info, Opinion, Training Tagged With: concealed carry, defensive gun, draw, pistol, training

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